INTRODUCTION

After seeing with mental eye the scenes of horror, reverberating with lamentation of the sufferers, I then thought that it is imperative to look at the things dispassionately and objectively. Does not fair verdict rest on fairer observation of both reverse and obverse of the coin that argument is, and fairest it turns out, if the circumstances leading to such calamities arc given due weight. So let us examine things point by point. The atheists which term includes all those who oppose deism and theism do not believe in God, of supernatural agency. 

As they rely on sense organs,  they want the theists to show to them God in flesh, and blood, in His splendour as described tier a face to face dialogue. And hear His words. Like scientists, they demand diIitmus paper' results in all exactitude at it. Nothing less, nor more. In the absence of such proof, they hesitate not deriding the believers, denigrating the objects of worship and finally demolishing the shrines installed with image, luring the credulous. Making the Brahmins as their target is understandable; for, they are the primary cause for the thriving of theism in the beginning. It is a fact that
being learned and vest ed with unlimited sway over spiritual affairs, they monopolized religion and shamelessly paved way for its extinction, by abusing the power and the sacred lore, by crafty manipulation and brazen subversion undoubtedly. Hasn't this given rise to Jainism and Buddhism in the past? History embodies the havoc they wrought on the spiritualism. 

Certain they are responsible for the fall of religious values and decadence permeating that whole region. But not the whole community is instrumental for such sorry state of things. The malefactors and the chief villains should be stigmatized and punished, but not with demolishing of their houses and divesting them of the honour by nefarious means and unfair ways. It is neither legal,  commendable. Is it wise to set fire to the house to rid of rat menace?

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