Why do the Abrahamic faiths not admit this simple truth that they are all exclusive and to the extent they are so, they are all terribly violent? Intolerance being inherent in these faiths, how on earth can these religions ever be agencies of peace? No wonder so much historical violence has been done in the name of these exclusive 'revelations' of 'God'.
It is time to review the role of these religions in the modern world, how far they are any more relevant to thinking humanity and to what extent they can reform themselves to suit the requirements of enlightened living in a modern society that is increasingly questioning the validity and utility of these exclusive doctrinaire cults for all their supposed truths and claims to redemption, salvation et al. If these faiths have to survive, they will have to die first and be reborn in the mould of the Indian dharma traditions with emphasis not on unique revelation but on individual realisation possible for all, not on blind unquestioning faith but on reasoned, cogitated acceptance or rejection of principles, free of human imposition or divine injunction to abide by. Else, these Abrahamic faiths will all die their natural deaths in the coming decades and centuries. In their place humanity will accept the grand Vedanta which raises and deifies man itself.
Written by Sugata Bose
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