TO THE CHRISTIANS ... 1---

TO THE CHRISTIANS ... 1

a) You must see God here and now in your own soul and not in heaven hereafter.

b) You must not think that your faith is the best and other faiths are inferior. Such a supposition is based on spiritual and factual ignorance, intellectual inferiority itself where you repudiate unreasonably the inferiority of other more philosophical faiths and dharma traditions. 

c) You must not fear hell nor aspire for heaven, knowing these to be the figment of your archaic imagination fraught with tribal superstition as of yore.

d) You must study the Upanishads of the Hindus and revisit your faith in that light.

Written by Sugata Bose

TO THE CHRISTIANS ... 2

Is it not fanaticism to declare by way of doctrinaire creed that Jesus Christ is the 'Only Begotten Son of God'? Does it not thereby cut off all other claimants to such divine status? Is it not utterly an exclusive posturing on prophets and messiahs by one faith granting its founder sole propreitorship of the sonship of the Divine? Does it not sow the seeds of religious intolerance, fanaticism and violence? Has the history of the Christian Church in its many denominations not amply testified to it? 

Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake for heresy by the Catholic Church and was canonised 500 years later. What right did the Catholic Church have for declaring her a saint when it had executed her as having been deluded by the Devil? Such historical happenings doubtlessly have had political motivations inducing action but can the Catholic Church absolve itself of its earlier sin thus by sanctifying the 'fallen blasphemer'? Much more may be said, for the Fire of the Inquisition claimed many more lives in the Middle Ages for which no posthumous atonement will suffice. 

Written by Sugata Bose