The world’s two largest
religions by population grew large and mighty under persecution. Both Christianity and Islam suffered much
persecution in their toddler years.
Religion has a peculiar ability to convert torture into a virtue for the
believer. That’s why persecution is not
the way to eliminate any religion. Just
the opposite.
That’s why BJP and its
allies are making a terrible mistake in India.
They are persecuting the minority communities in a variety of rather
unimaginative ways like cow protection and women protection (anti-love
jihad). Neither the cows nor the women
are protected and that’s not the purpose either. The goal is to victimise certain communities
of people in the name of cows and women.
The ultimate goal is
Hindu Rashtra.
Is the strategy good, however? History shows it is not. The Right wing in India should invent more
imaginative and effective methods for achieving their objective.
During a free period
today at school, I was reading a book by a Catholic priest, Fr Sebastian
Kappen. I showed the following paragraph
to one of my colleagues.
From 'Ingathering' by Sebastian Kappen |
After reading it my
colleague who is a Christian said nonchalantly, “Do you think the new generation
bothers about sin and such things?
Religion is merely practical affair for them just to belong to the community
and little more.”
That’s how the world has
changed. Religion is merely about a
sense of belonging to a community. Gods
and sins, rituals and idols hardly mean anything to the younger
generation. But that sense of belonging
may mean something to them. And that
sense usually grows stronger under threat.
Hence the Right wing should stop the air of threat that they have created
in the country if they want to weaken the perceived enemies.
Take away fear and you'll find religions weakening, as Kappen says.
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