This time around, I owe Marshall a big gratitude. The author of the longish essay posted by him perfectly echoes what I have been saying always, and what a few others have consistently chosen to deny. That Christian fundamentalism is as dangerous as Hindu fundamentalism or Islamic fundamentalism.
All fundamentalists are basically birds of the same feather.They have zilch love for humanity. Remove their mask and you won't be able to tell one from the other. While Marshall has reproduced only those paras that suit his convenience and show one side of the picture, I shall reproduce below the other paras to make the picture complete. Cheers Sandeep ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The missing extracts from the Essay The ironies, of course, are laughable. Both classical Hinduism and its many tribal and pagan versions have traditionally placed the female principle, Shakti, with all its complex attributes — its capacity to be accommodating, absorbent, argumentative, anarchic, both compassionate and capable of brutal action — as its organising genius. Rejecting this, Hindutva "defenders of tradition" now want to remould Hindu society along much more prudish and homogenising lines, imitating aspects of Protestant Christianity and Islam — cultures it, ironically, professes to hate. Set aside the Hindutva experiment and you have the equally damaging contemporary Islamist project — mobilised around a desire for purity and a loathing of other cultures. Replace the Islamist project, and you have the Christian proselytiser urging straying sheep to the one true God. The props might change, the brain-map wouldn't. Here's the entire story on Tahelka: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=Ne140209coverstory.asp -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
