There are those modernists who think "the baby needs to be tossed out with the bathtub", and there are also rationalist explanations of terror. For some, some sources are sufficient in terms of explanatory power-in-and-of themselves.
The obvious problem with a purely rationalist view of what the sources of terror are in Mumbai in India-whether political, religious, cultural or economic-is that the issues of politics, economics, society, culture and religion are not "un-wind able".
For most of us, this approach would be like separating the heart and head (or hands or legs) etc. and only later systematically trying to put an entire body back together.
What's the point of dissecting the parts if one misses the living whole?
We find in the Indus Civilizations lands which gave birth to two great world religions nearly 3 or more millennia go: Buddhism and Hinduism.
Ideas from Buddhism eventually made their marks on Greek civilization which thus then had its toll on Middle Eastern Western Civilization.
Likewise, less than two millennia ago both Christianity and Islam moved eastward and have left their imprint on India .
(In fact, India has also given birth to both Bangladesh and Pakistan -two large Muslim states-as well as to India and other kingdoms, including Bhutan .
While, on the one hand, the state of Goa remains mostly Catholic to this very day-even as Kerala and Mumbai have continued to have their Christian and Jewish roots to this very day.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1041834.html
IS THEIR HOPE SPIRITUALLY FOR OUR WORLD?
At times, I have wondered if all the spiritualists of the different global and regional faiths could come-time-and-again to dominate their faiths whether it isn't possible that we spiritualists couldn't once again make progress on peace in the Asian sub-continent and elsewhere to a degree not witnessed for millennia.
Verses 25 to 31 of Isaiah 40 continue speaking to Israel at the time of Buddha and the rise of Buddhism concerning the Godhead or ultimate:
"'To whom will you compare me?
Or who is my equal?' says the Holy One.
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob,
and complain, O Israel,
'My way is hidden from the LORD;
my cause is disregarded by my God'?
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