[Reader-list] Your views on the book "Satya Darshini" by christian missionaries

[Murali V]

Dear Rakesh JI,

I am sure I need not mention that unless one understands the bad, one
cannot assimilate the good. To highlight the bad is also ones moral
responsibility.

Regards,
V Murali

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Rakesh Iyer<rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Murali ji
>
> There are many things I wonder about the religions which we follow, and
> these are great indeed. What is important to note is to look at positive
> sides of these and not on the negative side. What is required is to learn
> good out of things, not bad.
>
> Gandhi did many bad things as well. So must have Muhammad.. Even Ram and
> Krishna can't be spared. And Christ may also have done some as well. What we
> must do is to learn good from them, good being good for the people entirely,
> not just for us alone. Not bad things like marrying a girl of my daughter's
> age without her understanding what marriage is all about, or having 1,000
> wives, or attributing an earthquake to the practice of untouchability. (all
> of which may have contexts, but to be just replicated from that life as it
> is into today's times would be wrong. And even the particular act in that
> own context may be wrong)
>
> So therefore, I may believe in some Ram, but only with the intention of
> taking good from Ram's life, not certainly bad. And all that good has to be
> based upon reason and social good and freedom as well.
>
> So Al-Qaeda or RSS, both are the same to me. Al Qaeda believes in Islamic
> nationalism, RSS  believes in Hindu nationalism (which they equate with
> Indian nationalism). But they can't and shouldn't be given the right to
> enforce their lifestyles or values they believe in, on others. Their culture
> seems to be a copy of what the British Raj was all about: 'civilizing those
> being ruled by us'.
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
>
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