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very term Hindu is offensive to those who think that there is
nothing valuable in any Hindu point of view, which by its very name
sounds primitive and communal. But this book, though perhaps among
the first by a Westerner to strongly articulate a Hindu critique,
will not be among the last. Hopefully it will help engender a new
mode of thinking to remove present distortions.
There are those who may accuse me of
creating intolerance for questioning the view that all religions are
good and, in particular, for criticizing Islam and Christianity from
a Hindu point of view. True tolerance, we must note, should be able
to accept criticism. What attempts to blot out criticism or stifle
differing points of view is intolerance and nothing else. Why should
modern religious tolerance be based upon a refusal to question
religious dogma?
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