In the West, secularism implies pinpricking religious fraud and arrogance, but in India, secularists are the most eloquent defenders of myth and theocracy. (Koenraad Elst)

In the West, secularism implies pinpricking religious fraud and arrogance, but in India, secularists are the most eloquent defenders of myth and theocracy.

Koenraad Elst

Related topics

arrogance fraud india myth religious secularism theocracy west

Related quotes

It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious. View quote
Ram Dass
The religious ideal of Israel was the theocracy. But the theocracy meant the complete penetration of the national life by religious morality. It meant politics in the name of God. View quote
Walter Rauschenbusch
If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been, had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
The pathology of Islamophobia is growing throughout the West - it is taking its most lethal form in India. View quote
Noam Chomsky