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A UNIQUE PHENOMENON |
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catholicity of outlook is, of course, not a peculiarity of Hindus.
Other ancient civilizations - Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Egyptian,
Iranian, Minoan, Greek, Celtic, Chinese, Mayan and Aztec - are known
to have been informed by a similar spirit. None of them is believed
to have engaged in proselytization and heresy hunting. Both these
began with Yahweh's contract with Moses with the dual proclamation
of a chosen people and a jealous God, and achieved their acme under
Christianity and Islam since Judaism came to be identified with a
specific racial group and not only ceased to be a proselytizing
faith but instead became a persecuted one. (With the exception of a
brief respite after the Babylonian captivity in the sixth century
B.C., when Jews are known to have lost the memory of even their
language, they have faced persecution throughout their history,
culminating in Hitler's final solution in which six million
Jews are known to have been murdered).
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