FREEDOM OF THOUGHT MAKES INDIANS AMONG LUCKIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

For tens of thousands of years freedom of thoughts has prevailed in India.

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It is the very foundation on which the Sanatan civilisation stands.

Challenging the status quo and the accepted wisdom is not only tolerated but welcomed. While most civilizations, cultures and societies have imposed on people whatever the current orthodoxy was, India has remained a place where freedom to live and think independently has remained sacrosanct.

Going back tens of thousands of years when the belief in God was universal there were scholars and thinkers who were passionately atheistic. Indeed, the Charvaka school of thought completely rejected the idea of a God. In fact the agnostics and atheists are included in the sacred scriptures.

The sexual tendencies of people who feel trapped in the wrong bodies has caused immense trauma in Western societies and the Abrahamic religions. However, in India, for thousands of years they have been accepted as part of the social fabric of life. They have not been thrown off the buildings or sent to gas chambers as happened in Germany under Hitler. Hitler too was deluded in thinking that his ideology would create a superior race of people.

His wars led to millions of deaths and a genocide of the Jewish people.

Ever since the advent of Abrahamic religions, hundreds of millions of people have been killed in pursuit of a goal to turn everyone into believing a God that they thought was a true God. The Spanish conquistadors wiped out entire cultures and destroyed Mayan cities and temples.

Books containing precious knowledge were destroyed.

For the Spanish they were books of 'heathens.' This fundamentalism also meant that freedom of expression or freedom of being different did not exist.