"Faith of any hue and region has to be respected unquestioningly. It is faith that makes people live and die for a cause, and not political jugglery."
Are you serious, Mr. Vijay? Yours is the recipe for civic apocalypse. A blind belief in any faith - Hindu or Mormon - is a surefire way to sign away all agency and powers inherent to one's civic selves. To die for a cause? Let me see you live for one first.
There is no need for my gods to have birth-certificates, I agree with you. There is, equally, however, no need for me to see my gods making bridges, dams, or industries for me. A government that I vote into power will do that for me, and my eyes will be open to its policies much as they will roll when I hear someone tell me to be Hindu means to blindly worship stock and stone. My faith does not die or weaken because Ram was mythical; it gains by the fact that I am required to make that imaginative leap in reason. Ram's birth-certificate is irrelevant not because Ram was real and you tell me so, but because I know I dont need it for my faith.
RE:Are you serious, Mr. Vijay?
by edwin on Sep 16, 2007 09:25 AM Permalink
High class thinking. Faith is for self, influenced only with my personal experiences. Rallies and protests can never induce faith, they are for politcal mileages. Or for a civic transform. Fortune teller for the future, Fate for the present. Fictions for the past. All religions have fictions,But they have corrected. why your faith should be contemporary. All these spiritual leaders lived as humbles, and they did not have any ego. On learning about thier life we keep them one step above the role model. The difference being you follow the model and the model follows and guards you, as he has been made eternal. That is how dharma works. Or any divine providence works.
