I know there is so much going on here - the whole Sarah Palin thing, the crash of financial giants that has become almost an everyday occurrence. But I am going to write today on another kind of madness that seems to get people all riled up - the perceived intrusion of new religions on "their" turf.
Perhaps because I have the eye of an outsider here (despite years of living here and being very fond of the country and the people), I am more sensitive to the way that outsiders are perceived and treated everywhere. Call it the immigrant syndrome. Anyway, in just the last two days, the Washington Post's section on religion has reported that Hindus are persecuting Christians in India, Christians are harassing Muslims in Italy, the construction of a Hindu temple in suburban Washington D.C. is causing strained relations with the community, and that anti-Semitism is on the rise among Europeans .
I am less than convinced that any one religion holds the entire truth in its meager pouch. Events around the world have left me more convinced than ever that while religious traditions inspire much beauty (I can write pages and pages on the beauty inspired by religious devotional traditions), the practitoners of religion can do more harm to the reputations of their own faiths than any so-called "outsider religions."
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That angers me big time when a political party uses religious differences to try to snag a few more votes. The burning of Churches in the State of Kranataka is more or less supported by the chief minister and his part which angers me even more. When a religious majority attacks a religious majority by burning places of worship down or plants bomb to hurt a minority, this is brushed asside and called democracy or protection of free speech, when I minority plants a bomb in a place of worship this is called terrosism! I for myself do not see the difference between a and b and do not tolearate any of it, and am outraged to see hindu extrimists act in all impunity simply because the party in power gives them immunity! :-(
Isn't that the truth?!! This seems to be the pattern with these guys when they come to power in the states - wink and nod and encourage their fascist-like stormtroopers to attack those whom they consider the enemy.
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