No Religion is Culpable but people who (mis)practice are

Submitted by Guevara G (India), Dec 15, 2007 at 23:12

No Religion per se teaches anything outrightly Bad. It is the people who (mis)practise it who interpret them as though they are the custodians of it.

- Whether it is the Extreme Mullas who preach violence

- The Holy pundits who interpret the Vedas and Upanishads

- The Christian Missionaries who do conversions for numbers and put it up as achievements

.. etc ...etc...etc...

It is sane and pluralist like us who get whipped up in the frenzy and while trying to salvage our religious pride by attacking others end up losing our value system.

A simple example is the discussion between Moni and Anupama to prove my point.

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