Re: [tied] Digest Number 2804

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Koechlin <d.koechlin@...> wrote:

>
>Having frequented many devout Hindu intellectuals, it seems to me that
>mkelkar's posts contain themes that are associated with Hindu
>"fundamentalism" (ie. a belief that Hindu sacred scriptures are
>literaly
>true and an obsession with demonstrating this through "scientific"
>research). Fundamentalism is a consequence of India's exposure to

modern

>scientific ideas and the 'revivalist' reaction it has caused among

those

>hindus who do not want their faith to be subjected to the cold scrutiny
>of modern methods of investigation. To learn that their cherrished
>sacred scriptures were composed at a recent date and incorporate
>religious beliefs that are not native to mother India comes as a
>terrible shock to their identity. but hey, Copernicus and Galileo had

to

>go through that as well...

Daniel, if there is 'an obsession here' is your obsession against 'the
fundamentalism'. This kind of obsessions is a more 'dangerous
fundamentalism' than that ones that you acussed here.

I prefer the persons that have a strong faith (even their faiths could
lead something to wrong conclusions at least every one here knows Mr.
Kelkar's position) than the persons that try in any occassion to
destroy the faiths of the others...


Best Regards,
Marius