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"Can
you imagine what our world would have been if the fans of Newton threatened
Einstein with murder when he found deviations from his theory? Or the fans of
Einstein threatening Neils Bohr, when his ideas of quantum physics clashed with
Einstein’s vision of the universe ? People with old ideas burning people
with new ideas! We would have been a spiritually enlightened specie without
light and electricity!" - Kamal Hassan
Communal
tensions ascertain that various religious communities live in disparate clusters. Religion to maps populations - it creates secular borders so
secularism is nothing but a marketing convenience in elections.
(If you have not read Part 1 and Part 2. Read them here:
&
A
diffused society that is tolerant is difficult to manipulate.
Secularism cannot be a one way street - imagine
a thought experiment where
a bunch of non-believers team up and start threatening violence against
release of films based on mythology and scriptures because they propagate
unverified claims that can influence young children in undesirable ways. Films
that insult people’s intelligence.
Would
the Indian govt. be prepared to ban those films ?
So,
if you allow films that propagate unverified religious claims, it’s only fair that you allow films that might touch upon religion/religious people.
Some
people find solace in religion, some in reason, some
in mythology, some in films and fiction, some
people find peace in worship, for some work is worship.
If
we don’t threaten you at your places of worship, for your own God’s sake,
please keep away from the theaters where people like Kamal Hasan’s fans go to
worship!
If believers insist on the cliché of not hurting sentiments, why don’t they take a lead by ceasing from chanting prayers at 4 am, disrupting the sleep of others?
If
you really believe God lies within, stop using loudspeakers to reach out to
him because if
God can see everything, surely he is able to hear everything.
Stop
building places of worship in the middle of the road. If you are so religious
buy a property to worship and stop encroaching on public property. Better still, ask your Gods to build houses of worship for you!
Because
frankly your religious sentiments cause traffic jams that hampers normal activities.
But
if we don’t demolish those places of worship despite the inconvenience, it’s
only fair, you also keep your hands off movie theaters and art galleries.
Because for a lot of artists those places are sacred!
Read part 4 here:
INDIA'S SECULARISM LEFT NON BELIEVERS OUT (PART-4)
Read part 4 here:
INDIA'S SECULARISM LEFT NON BELIEVERS OUT (PART-4)
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