Monday, February 26, 2007

The Trinity of religious intolerance

Judaism, Christianity and Islam were the pioneering Trinity with religious intolerance as their hallmark, what with their "My religion only true religion" stand.
History overtook Judaism and scattered and isolated it into small communities across the globe till it was almost extinguished by Hitler. The Christians, with a heavy guilty conscience, relocated them in their original homeland and saved them. Today Judaism is an harmless entity in the world of religions.
Christianity, in the name of religion, wiped out the culture of indigenous communities around the globe, right till the Red Indians and upto our Nagas. However, the historical de-linking of the Papacy from politics eventually brought about democratic and largely secular Christian communities and except for the missionary with his conversion agenda, Christianity is no longer a threat to the world. In any case, in spite of the Church, it always had the saving grace of Jesus Christ, whose message was spirituality though he did not teach the techniques leading to it. The Christian communities are now ripe to see the Vedantic light of Hinduism – that there are many ways to divinity.
Islam, on the other hand, is still under the delusion that it is on the brink of conquering the world, without being aware that the ground is slipping beneath its feet, as testified by the Avenger Ali Sina.

May the world be rid of narrow-mindedness. May the world be engulfed with love and harmony, peace and understanding.