AN UNTRUTH DOES NOT BECOME A TRUTH BY ITS REPETITION;
May be,we had a great past but all that was old,was not gold. A good deal of it was base metal.Ancient religious 'wisdom' was associated with fantasies,idiosyncrasies and apartheid against dalits and women in particular too.
Mr Modi is rumoured to favour the dismantling of India’s essential scientific temper in favour of religious revivalism. He should hear the BBC’s Alistair Cook in one of his inimitable Letters from America. It took the Pope 400 years to pardon Galileo for having claimed it was the earth that revolved round the sun, and not, as the scriptures said, the other way around, Mr Cook informed us. It would hopefully not be so inordinately long before Mr Modi finds out that placing the source of the Ganges in Lord Shiva’s mythical tuft was an aspect of religious tradition.
May be,we had a great past but all that was old,was not gold. A good deal of it was base metal.Ancient religious 'wisdom' was associated with fantasies,idiosyncrasies and apartheid against dalits and women in particular too.
Mr Modi is rumoured to favour the dismantling of India’s essential scientific temper in favour of religious revivalism. He should hear the BBC’s Alistair Cook in one of his inimitable Letters from America. It took the Pope 400 years to pardon Galileo for having claimed it was the earth that revolved round the sun, and not, as the scriptures said, the other way around, Mr Cook informed us. It would hopefully not be so inordinately long before Mr Modi finds out that placing the source of the Ganges in Lord Shiva’s mythical tuft was an aspect of religious tradition.
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