blazeofglory
08-24-2008, 11:35 AM
This is a question that has been haunting me for long. I do not know whether we need identity. There are too many identities. I am a Hindu by birth and as such I assert it and negate the rest of other religions.
But there is no point in affirming one and interrogating others. Every culture has values, virtues and vices. In Hindustan there are issues of castes, creeds and questions of the untouchables.
Likewise in Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Judaism we see elements of corruptions, and on the surface they appear to be benignly good and remove the layers and we will arrive at the core which are corrupting in nature.
Indeed reform is essential in religions. In many religions in their ancient and untarnished forms there are things of virtuosity. Hinduism and Islam in their pure forms, or untarnished or altered in due course could be better but later on elements of fundamentalism and fanaticism got their roots in these religions.
Here I am not all set to critique particular sets of beliefs or particular cultures with a purpose to hurt their sentiments. I respect their sentiments all the time. I esteem people of all religion and apologize to them if I am averse to or antagonize to their ways or customs.
What I write is a general statement and by virtue of the fact that I am at liberty to express all that I want to for long.
I often got censured when I commented on a particular set of beliefs and I suppose here I generalize.
Yes, I do not think you need to assert your root or for that matter your identity. Man's real identity is characteristic of his patterns of behaviors not his birth or the society he was born of.
What advantages can I have other than lobbing or grouping to stir a cause which is violent and pernicious in nature? I do not like to side with any ideologists.
But there is no point in affirming one and interrogating others. Every culture has values, virtues and vices. In Hindustan there are issues of castes, creeds and questions of the untouchables.
Likewise in Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, Judaism we see elements of corruptions, and on the surface they appear to be benignly good and remove the layers and we will arrive at the core which are corrupting in nature.
Indeed reform is essential in religions. In many religions in their ancient and untarnished forms there are things of virtuosity. Hinduism and Islam in their pure forms, or untarnished or altered in due course could be better but later on elements of fundamentalism and fanaticism got their roots in these religions.
Here I am not all set to critique particular sets of beliefs or particular cultures with a purpose to hurt their sentiments. I respect their sentiments all the time. I esteem people of all religion and apologize to them if I am averse to or antagonize to their ways or customs.
What I write is a general statement and by virtue of the fact that I am at liberty to express all that I want to for long.
I often got censured when I commented on a particular set of beliefs and I suppose here I generalize.
Yes, I do not think you need to assert your root or for that matter your identity. Man's real identity is characteristic of his patterns of behaviors not his birth or the society he was born of.
What advantages can I have other than lobbing or grouping to stir a cause which is violent and pernicious in nature? I do not like to side with any ideologists.