HPB-SB-14-127

H. P. Blavatsky Scrapbooks

from Adyar archives of the International Theosophical Society

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vol. 14, p. 127	volume 14, page 127 vol. title: vol. period: pages in vol.:
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< Tit for Tat. (continued from page 14-125) >

The Anti-Christian.

son is the only atonement for the crimes of myriads, you who read in your religious books, stories like that of Lot and his daughters, of the debaucheries, treacheries and heinous crimes of God and his chosen prophets, you need not be ashamed of Hindu idolatry. You who believe in walking serpents and talking asses, (Gen iii, Num xxii) You who do not laugh at Daniel in his lion’s Den, and Jonah in his whale-belly-home, you should laugh at nothing else. Your ideal God, associated with manslaughter debauchery, injustice, war, tyranny, cruelty, vindictiveness, wrath, jealousy, revenge, drunkenness, slavery, et hoc genus omne, is far worse than an inert wooden or brass doll used as a symbol of divine personation.

If idolatory is an evil, the mental idolatory of the Christians is not less so. Well says the Italian proverb—(E meglis cader dalle, finestre che dal tetto.)—It is better to fall from the window than from the roof.) And we should rather choose the least of two evils. Strange that a Christian should shudder at the description of “the horrid and bloody Kali, with her protruding tongue, her necklace of skulls and her girdle of Giant heads!” The follower of a God who commanded his chosen people to kill “every man his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbour”—(Ex. xxxii, 27)—has nothing to shudder at. Being himself the slave of grossest superstitions, how dares Mr. Hastie propose to reform others whom he has been pleased to speak basely of. Not content with misleading statements, he comes forth to insult our nation, and had he power he would have done more. “If the Christian Missions have done nothing else”—says this reviler of our race—“they have at least established the universal spirituality of human nature by a practical demonstration of raising even the most debased savages in a single generation from the grossest idolatry up to the purest worship of God as a spirit, in spirit and truth.”

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Yes, here in India, the missionaries have converted lots of vulgar people, who can neither understand what Christianity<... continues on page 14-128 >

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