POSITIVE RATIONALISM,
Many years back, during interaction on then contemporary issues,one of my leftist friend characterized George Bush as devil [शैतान] ,but when poked by me to characterize Bin Laden too with identical "honor",he was not only non committal but bluntly refused to do so.There lies the problem of being selective with prejudice. Ironically enough,in this part of globe,there are "progressive secularists" whose secularism is based on opposing one brand of fundamentalism/obscurantism while supporting or being silent on another shade of fundamentalism/obscurantism.These very people are again selective for human right violations -following the dictum that all people are equal but some people are more than equal.I strongly believe that at least our rationalist friends,following supremacy of reason and logic ,should be sincerely wise enough to address any contemporary sensitive subject without flinching from the truth and commenting with jaundiced out look.They should be realistically bold enough to condemn both Hindu and Islamic fundamentalism c obscurantism.Any idea or hypothesis which is in gross violation of humanism and simultaneously cannot be scrutinized under supremacy of reason has to be condemned and opposed without fear or favor. Undoubtedly,negation of "god" and associated religiosity is one significant aspect of rationalism but it is to be followed with rationalistic practice and perception in all socio political aspects of our day to day life ,without any mindless equivalence.
Many years back, during interaction on then contemporary issues,one of my leftist friend characterized George Bush as devil [शैतान] ,but when poked by me to characterize Bin Laden too with identical "honor",he was not only non committal but bluntly refused to do so.There lies the problem of being selective with prejudice. Ironically enough,in this part of globe,there are "progressive secularists" whose secularism is based on opposing one brand of fundamentalism/obscurantism while supporting or being silent on another shade of fundamentalism/obscurantism.These very people are again selective for human right violations -following the dictum that all people are equal but some people are more than equal.I strongly believe that at least our rationalist friends,following supremacy of reason and logic ,should be sincerely wise enough to address any contemporary sensitive subject without flinching from the truth and commenting with jaundiced out look.They should be realistically bold enough to condemn both Hindu and Islamic fundamentalism c obscurantism.Any idea or hypothesis which is in gross violation of humanism and simultaneously cannot be scrutinized under supremacy of reason has to be condemned and opposed without fear or favor. Undoubtedly,negation of "god" and associated religiosity is one significant aspect of rationalism but it is to be followed with rationalistic practice and perception in all socio political aspects of our day to day life ,without any mindless equivalence.
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