George Bernard Shaw (Quote)
"The
apparent multiplicity of Gods is bewildering at the first glance; but
you presently discover that they are all the same one God in different
aspects and functions and even sexes. There is always one uttermost God
who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant
religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all
possible Gods… Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the profoundest Methodist and the crudest idolater are equally at home in it.
...What I may call Manifold Monotheism becomes in the minds of very
simple folk an absurdly polytheistic idolatry, just as European peasants
not only worship Saints and the Virgin as Gods, but will fight
fanatically for their faith in the ugly little black doll who is the
Virgin of their own Church against the black doll of the next village...
There is actually a great Hindu sect, the Jains, with Temples of
amazing magnificence, which abolish God, not on materialist atheist
considerations, but as unspeakable and unknowable, transcending all
human comprehension."
George Bernard Shaw (Quote)
"The apparent multiplicity of Gods is bewildering at the first glance; but you presently discover that they are all the same one God in different aspects and functions and even sexes. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible Gods… Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the profoundest Methodist and the crudest idolater are equally at home in it.
...What I may call Manifold Monotheism becomes in the minds of very simple folk an absurdly polytheistic idolatry, just as European peasants not only worship Saints and the Virgin as Gods, but will fight fanatically for their faith in the ugly little black doll who is the Virgin of their own Church against the black doll of the next village...
There is actually a great Hindu sect, the Jains, with Temples of amazing magnificence, which abolish God, not on materialist atheist considerations, but as unspeakable and unknowable, transcending all human comprehension."
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