Tuesday, May 28, 2019

P.M Modi - Sir, Please do not turn a book into an idol

I disagree with blind faith, obsequiousness to any individual, organization or even the constitution.

P.M Modi may have his reasons for his symbolic gesture of bowing before the book in Parliament. Governments certainly need to adhere to a constitutional framework.

However, the Indian constitution is not an
“immutable” book ... containing “divine revelations” ... like the Abrahamic “scriptures” claim to. It is not beyond critical examination.

To a large extent, it is a copy/paste job that includes many serious flaws - both in the original document and accumulated/forcibly inserted over time by Nehruvian Stalinists - that merit constitutional reform, not blind devotion.

A leader riding to power on the back of a
civilizational victory should not turn a 
book into an idol.

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