_ the Bible or Old Testament as the Book and Moses as the Prophet. Talmud is the book of revelation according to them. According to Muslims the holy Koran is the Book and that is the basis of their philosophy. According to them Mohammed is the last Prophet, and the instructions he received in Arabic are Koran and they cannot be changed even by a word by anyone. No one can change even a letter of it. There cannot be any commentary on Koran. All philosophical thought and the behavioural prescriptions must be followed as per Koran. No other Sat has even a right to exist.
All these Semitic religions have their basic tenet as Bible, or Koran and its un-changeability and acceptance of Moses, Jesus or Mohammed as the prophet as a bedrock of their philosophy. The basic postulates in the societies from the West have been codified in those books, namely Bible or Koran or Talmud. All of them accept God and the individual as distinct duality. They are Dwaitis ¢dit. They are conditioned by their Greco-Roman background of dividing the issues between, Yes/No, True/False, Justice/ Injustice, etc into defined categories. Again the answers are expected to be according to the answers in those basic Books. That is the basis of their social thought. It is called Morality and it’s a basic postulate for them. They have been fixed and rigidly conditioned by the enforcement of those ideas of their Books.
In the nineteenth century Marx as an economic philosopher declared that all these old books are like opium of the masses and his Book contains the scientific history of humankind. His Book has answers for all social problems according to his followers, who are spread all over the world as they are here in India as well. Majority of the people in India, however, are not Kitabi in any sense.
How to avoid the rigid unchangeable framework of religious dogma, of eternal views on morality, .of The Book, of a single philosophy? Society cannot exist without a framework or frame of values. It cannot be value-free, Rigid insistence on following certain values can be different. Social pressures can differ but no society can work without a value system. The Semitic religions did not insist only on the values prescribed by their religions, but insisted on every letter of their book as unchangeable. Theirs was the truth. Accepting any change was treated as attack on those Books. It became necessary for their societies to align their method of worship, social mannerisms and all norms of social behaviour to conform to those words in the books. Religion or Organised religion created a rigid framework. As a reaction to this rigidity, emphasis was lead on breaking those Frames. However, in order to function, they had to set up their own Frames to replace the broken ones. No effort was made to establish new values or frames to replace the old rigid ones by Indian leaders. Nobody bothered to establish this new system or norms and the people went for
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