On 30 May 2014 16:05, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > The political discourse matters, and explains a good deal. But > there's something beneath it, something we don't want to look in > the face: namely, that in India, as elsewhere in our darkening > world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion > intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating > around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable > language of "respect". What is there to respect in any of this, > or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around > the world in religion's dreaded name? How well, with what fatal > results, religion erects totems, and how willing we are to kill > for them! And when we've done it often enough, the deadening of > affect that results makes it easier to do it again. So India's > problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in > India has happened in God's name. The problem's name is God. > --- Salman Rushdie 2002 >
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