Word: hinduism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mohammedanism sets up one God, one Prophet; Hinduism worships a great pantheon of gods. Hindus worship images, and fill their temples with ikons, which offend Moslems deeply. Their mosques must depend on color, material, texture for their beauty, and all decoration is pure geometry. To the Moslem a pig is unclean, and by throwing in a slice of bacon, a Hindu can defile a whole mosque; but a Moslem eats and sacrifices cows, which are sacred to Hindus. Hinduism is passive ; Mohammedanism is proselytizing - which perhaps accounts for the fact that in most Moslem-Hindu clashes, Moslems usually seem...
...world's history has organized lying been practiced so shamelessly. . . . Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." First step in the right direction, says Huxley, is to stop whoring after the false gods of Fascism and Communism, heed those of Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity (except in its "extravagant asceticism .. . brutally cynical forms of realpolitik"). Most modern morality and social philosophy will have to go. In their place, men shall substitute such proverbs as: "All that we are ... is the result of what we have thought. . . . Most ignorance is vincible ignorance...
Thereupon the 10,000 adopted a resolution advising India's Untouchables-some 60,000,000-to desert Hinduism en masse. Then a mob of Untouchables made a mighty bonfire of the most sacred Hindu books they could find. At Lucknow volunteers were solicited to force entry into Hindu temples, from which Untouchables have been barred since time immemorial. At Barabanki 28,000 Untouchables shouted their support of Dr. Ambedkar, laid plans for an All Indian Untouchable Conference. Millions of leaflets bearing Untouchable Ambedkar's message began fluttering out over India...
...pointed out in answer that, so far as the Methodist Episcopal Church was concerned, our watchword was this: 'Nothing that has to do with human welfare is foreign to Methodism.' This seemed to please him. . . ." Of Hinduism the man whom Editor Hartman calls "India's Lincoln" said: "Hinduism is not a religion; it is a disease...
Editor Hartman's interview concluded thus: ''This much is settled,' he said to me, 'we are through forever with Hinduism. We are going somewhere, but are not ready yet to say in what direction 'Yes,' I answered, 'you are not strong enough yet to announce a decision. If you compromise with the Hindus, all is lost; if you choose Mohammedanism, the Hindus will crush you; if you go Christian, both the Hindus and the Moslems will be on your back...