--- On Thu, 8/19/10, Ivo <[email protected]> wrote > > ****What is funny is that Santosh does not understand that according to >the > Constitution of India, alluded to by Mohan Singh, all religions are >equal > under the Law; therefore, all have to be equally respected. It > does not mean that all religions are equally good. >
The above statement is pure nonsense. According to the Indian Constitution, as repeatedly interpreted by the Indian Supreme Court, all religions are equally good. Please see the following excerpt from a scholarly article by Justice Gulab Gupte on the supreme law of the land in India, published in the Central India Law Quarterly: QUOTE Art. 25 of the Constitutional creed is the bed-rock of secularism and is based on the belief that all religions are equally good and efficacious pathways to perfection of God-realization.1 In its positive sense, it is the cornerstone ot an egalitarian and torward-Iooking society, which the Constitution seeks to establish.2 Though secularism is not defined in the Constitution, the Supreme Court has, from time to time, explained it in several contexts. In S.R. Sommai Case3 Justice Jeevan Reddy held it to be more than a passive attitude to religious tolerance. It is, according to him, a positive concept of equal treatment of all religions. UNQUOTE .....Justice Gulab Gupte Here is the link to the entire article - http://www.indiankanoon.org/cached/1736032/ Cheers, Santosh --- On Thu, 8/19/10, Ivo <[email protected]> wrote > > ****What is funny is that Santosh does not understand that > according to the > Constitution of India, alluded to by Mohan Singh, all > religions are equal under > > the Law; therefore, all have to be equally respected. It > does not mean that all > > religions are equally good. Even atheism, agnosticism, > marxism, which are > > "quasi-religions", in the expression of Paul Tillich, are > to be respected. It > > does not mean that theism and atheism are equally good, > because, being > > contradictory terms, they would destroy each other, and > nothing would have > > remained... Both cannot be equally good. This is illogical, > irrational, absurd. > > Let Santosh not repeat the blunder again and again... > > Regards. > > Fr.Ivo * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Goa-launch of the well-received *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho on Aug 29, 2010 (Sunday) at 11 am at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao. Meet the author, buy a signed copy (only Rs 295 in Goa till stock lasts). http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
