DEPLORABLE,DESPICABLE AND DIVISIVE-DIVINE STYLE !
After the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, an intermittent fratricidal war ensued, followed by the American invasion in 2001. That was the beginning of the so-called ‘war on terrorism.’ The tragedy is that none of those Afghans who are being killed or maimed had anything to do with terrorism and many of them would not have ev
After the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan, an intermittent fratricidal war ensued, followed by the American invasion in 2001. That was the beginning of the so-called ‘war on terrorism.’ The tragedy is that none of those Afghans who are being killed or maimed had anything to do with terrorism and many of them would not have ev
en hurt an ant.
To cut the story short, the Afghans have not seen peace for the last four decades. Does any non-Islamic religious leader ever even think of, let alone sympathize with, the millions of those suffering men, women and children of that country? I am yet to hear any non-Muslim religious leader expressing a word of sympathy for those innocent people of Afghanistan.
And no god seems to have been offended by the atrocities heaped upon those poor people! Incidentally, Afghanistan always brings to my mind the poignancy and pathos that pervades Rabindranath Tagore’s short story, Cabuliwallah. I see Afghanistan not in the warlords and religious bigots that dominate that country today but in the Pathan from Kabul that Tagore portrays in that story.
Well, all those gods and religions have only helped man to look at each other with animosity and hatred. They have made man ruthless and insensitive to the feelings of fellow beings. Even poor animals that do not espouse any religion were, and still are, sacrificed on the altar of various religions to propitiate the bloodthirsty gods of human beings.
So I do not find fault with Pope or his god for their narrow outlook. Leaders of all religions and their gods are as much characterized by sectarianism as Pope and his god are. Every religious leader expresses sympathy only when some calamity befalls those who espouse his religion and is totally indifferent to whatever happens to those of other religions. That is deplorable, rather despicable.
To cut the story short, the Afghans have not seen peace for the last four decades. Does any non-Islamic religious leader ever even think of, let alone sympathize with, the millions of those suffering men, women and children of that country? I am yet to hear any non-Muslim religious leader expressing a word of sympathy for those innocent people of Afghanistan.
And no god seems to have been offended by the atrocities heaped upon those poor people! Incidentally, Afghanistan always brings to my mind the poignancy and pathos that pervades Rabindranath Tagore’s short story, Cabuliwallah. I see Afghanistan not in the warlords and religious bigots that dominate that country today but in the Pathan from Kabul that Tagore portrays in that story.
Well, all those gods and religions have only helped man to look at each other with animosity and hatred. They have made man ruthless and insensitive to the feelings of fellow beings. Even poor animals that do not espouse any religion were, and still are, sacrificed on the altar of various religions to propitiate the bloodthirsty gods of human beings.
So I do not find fault with Pope or his god for their narrow outlook. Leaders of all religions and their gods are as much characterized by sectarianism as Pope and his god are. Every religious leader expresses sympathy only when some calamity befalls those who espouse his religion and is totally indifferent to whatever happens to those of other religions. That is deplorable, rather despicable.
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