"Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel were witnesses to the untiring aggression against Hinduism by Christian missionaries, they deemed Christianity a serious problem, and so they took aim at Christianity. Not some mysterious force behind Christianity, but Christianity itself. They adopted the typically modern rejection of Christianity as exemplified by Bertrand Russell's book Why I Am Not a Christian. Their criticism focused mainly on three points: (1) the irrational basis of Christian theology; (2) the largely fabricated basis of early Christianity's sacred history as related in the New Testament; (3) the intolerant and inhumane record of Christianity in history. This has nothing whatsoever to do with "postmodernism" but is purely and consistently the modern approach to the Christian belief system and Church, in the footstep of the criticisms developed by Western secularists since the 18th century... The next one among the errors in this paragraph: Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel wrote in defence of Hinduism, never of "Hindutva"."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Return of the Swastika, Koenraad Elst: chapter 3. Hinduism, Environmentalism and the Nazi Bogey, A Preliminary Reply by Dr. Koenraad Elst to Ms. Meera Nanda.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voice_of_India
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Voice of India
24 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Voice of India →
Related Quotes
"Our only weapon is truth."
"In 1982, Ram Swarup (1920–1998) established Voice of India, a publishing house that over the next decades published a…"
"Gandhi can be credited with having established and/​or popularized many of the basic arguments against conversion to …"
"The epochal 1980s up to the fall of the Babri Masjid and later is also notable for a resurgence that’s truly breathta…"
"The Voice of India authors deliberately avoid the term “Hindutva”, a clumsy neologism combining the Persian root Hind…"
"What counts as “extreme” and “controversial” in India is Voice of India’s criticism of religions. There is nothing “R…"
"It is remarkable that all the writers who have published contributions to Hindu thought in the Voice of India series,…"
"The importance of Sitaram Goel's and Ram Swarup's work can hardly be over-estimated. There is no doubt that future te…"
"In sharp contrast with the repetitive-nationalistic and Indocentric approach of Golwalkar and the RSS, Goel and Shour…"
"Conversely, banning this book would send a signal that the present establishment will do what it can to prevent Hindu…"