The first time I read Oscar Wilde’s epigram, ‘Every saint
has a past and every sinner has a future’, I was a young student and didn’t
give much thought to those words then.
However today I have come to understand that the world in
which I live feeds on ‘isms’ like Hinduism, Islamism, Zoroastrianism and the
likes which include in their religious diet a serving of the not required
fanaticism. Our world is today sadly experiencing the effects of extremism. How
horribly judgement we have become like the characters in the story of the blind
men describing an elephant! To one, the animal is like a pillar, to another,
like a fan and yet to another like a wall; and each sadly believes that his
elephant is the right one.
An intellectual believer could probably with the mental
edifice of his collected knowledge condemn one and glorify another but then
Ravana too was an intelligent demonic king, Lucifer too was an angel who fell.
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