On 1 Sep 2006, at 5:47AM, Ritu wrote:
William T Goodall wrote:
In rural India little girls are still sold to temples as sex slaves
In rural India little girls are sold as maids/bonded slaves,
Devadasis are well documented. See here for example
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/
2071612.stm
sex slaves
to European paedophiles [a British guy was the latest one to be
convicted]. Obviously, all Europeans are evil and must be eradicated.
There's lots of evil in the world. I'm talking about the part that's
caused by religion.
and women still throw themselves on their husband's funeral pyres.
Throw *themselves*? For shame! In the three documented cases in the
last
couple of decades, the Indian authorities have assumed that the fact
that these women struggled and were forced back on the pyres actually
meant that their in-laws compelled them to commit Sati. That is what
these families were prosecuted for.
Jumped or thrown makes no difference to my argument. It's still
religion that killed them.
That's religion despite the British Empire's attempts to suppress it.
British Empire *never* tried to suppress religion. It was very much an
evangelical Empire, and the incessant attempts to get the heathens to
convert into Christianity were part of what sparked the Mutiny. I
guess
you are not terribly interested in India History, but you can try
reading Flashman. Fraser's research is excellent, and after reading
his
books you'd never again make claims like 'British Empire tried to
suppress religion'.
I was referring to the Empire's actions to suppress things like
Thuggee, Sati and child prostitution that are the symptoms of the
pernicious obnoxious evil of religion.
As for Indian history - I have read _Midnight's Children_ :->
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William T Goodall
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the arbitrary proclamations of invisible demons.
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