While browsing on the internet I chanced upon this website which featured numerous essays and articles on religion and how it is affecting political thought and directing the course of US. One of the articles on this website is an obituary to Tony Snow, a catholic journalist. In the article the writer clearly appreciates that the numerous obituaries written in daily newspapers about Snow included religion because he was a devout christian.
It is interesting to note that people of non-Hindu origin wear their religion on their chest, head, sleeve and everywhere and proclaim it proudly. And I have found that several, in fact the vast majority of Hindus are usually ashamed to call themselves that and at the first opportunity try to denigrate their faith or distance themselves from it. This especially happens when one is educated in the Western system of education which glorifies newer Christian civilizations and derides the older and more enduring Hindu traditions.
In my experience of reading newspapers and journalistic styles, it is often not only non-Hindus who write voraciously, attacking Hindu faith and its peaceful followers but also people of the same religion. This is a concept that continues to confound, frustrate and agitate me to no end. I am still yet to find the answer as to why people take up arms against the faith they are born in and claim to profess. Is it because there is so much flexibility in the religion; is it because they don’t care; or is it due to ignorance? I still don’t know.
