A Paragraph I liked today:
1. “The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organized religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.”
2. “We talk about secular India … Some people think that it means something opposed to religion. That obviously is not correct. What it means is that it is a State which honors all faiths equally and gives them equal opportunities; India has a long history of religious tolerance … In a country like India, which has many faiths and religions, no real nationalism can be built up except on the basis of secularity.”
Nehru as cited by Dawkins in ‘The God Delusion’, pages 45-6
1. “The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organized religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.”
2. “We talk about secular India … Some people think that it means something opposed to religion. That obviously is not correct. What it means is that it is a State which honors all faiths equally and gives them equal opportunities; India has a long history of religious tolerance … In a country like India, which has many faiths and religions, no real nationalism can be built up except on the basis of secularity.”
Nehru as cited by Dawkins in ‘The God Delusion’, pages 45-6
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