Activism, monotheism and intolerance
Updated On: 17 October, 2021 09:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Devdutt Pattanaik
Can it be argued that monotheistic religions are essentially intolerant as they cannot endorse anyone replacing what they feel is a true god?
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Have you noticed that academicians who say Hinduism is casteist, and promotes inequality, rarely talk about intolerance of monotheistic faiths like Christianity and Islam which dominate the world? Monotheist religions endorse the worship of ‘true’ God and oppose worship of ‘false’ gods, especially idolatry. What is a false god? Anything that does not make sense to the monotheist. Thus, monotheism
encourages intolerance.
Can it be argued that monotheistic religions are essentially intolerant as they cannot endorse anyone replacing what they feel is a true god? That is why the opposition to science amongst Evangelists and Islamists, and opposition to democracy amongst believers of the Caliphate. How can we expect religions that are essentially intolerant to co-exist with other faiths?
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