4.02.2005

Selective Tolerance

This article in the CS Monitor is not worthy of that paper's august pages, and is a prime display of the selective tolerance of post-modern humanism. The article is critical in tone and content of Indian Christians who seek converts. It gives a pass to the Hindu caste system, and speaks in neutral tones about Hindus' own convert-seeking among tribal pagans. It does not even seem to occur to the author that Christianity could be a legitimately better option - even in a worldly sense - than being a Hindu dwali, or "untouchable". And the possibility that the evangelical Christians could be anything other than totally self-deceived is completely outside the author's metanarrative.