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...advent of British rule, the Mughal empire was in decline, and most of the subcontinent was under the sway of the Hindu Maratha empire. After World War II, the Indian independence movement was led by Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu, and supported by people of all races and creeds. When independence was finally achieved, the new nation's founding fathers were predominantly Hindu. To their great credit, they made India's constitution a secular one. This allowed people of any race or creed, including Muslims, to call India their own and enabled disparate social groups to work together for national peace...
...reality revealed by photographs another seductive deceiver, a trick the mind plays on the eye, like the persistence-of-vision trompe l'oeil that makes the consecutive images clicking through a movie projector at 24 frames per second seem like one continuous moving image. Antonioni, true to his creed, won't say - unless we are to take Blowup's last shot as the answer to this larger question. Thomas is seen from a distance alone on a green field. And then he disappears, as Anna had in L'Avventura. This is the anticonjuror's dogma: not seeing is believing...
Democrats have simply lived by Abraham Lincoln's creed that one's religion is a personal matter and not an indicator of political capability. Our nation's faithful have never been ignored. They just didn't realize it because no one ever used their religion as a litmus test to get elected...
...theocons deny the vitality of Western culture by assuming that Muslims are impervious to the European values (temptations?). Such self-doubt is unjustified: European values (decadent capitalism and post-Enlightenment liberalism) are likely to persist, no matter how demographic changes alter Europeans’ creed or color...
...liberal, pluralistic ideal of a society where everyone is free to participate equally, regardless of race or religion or creed, has advanced admirably in the West, while in certain areas of the world homosexuals are still hanged, rape victims stoned, and women forbidden to drive a car or receive an education. It would be a mistake, in this précis of progress, to omit the cultural accomplishments that bestowed our civilization its sublimity. From Einstein’s almost mystical insights into the four-dimensional structure of space and time to the discovery of the universal template of organic...