Apparent Hindu tolerance may really be indifference indistinguishable on the surface.
Evidence
If this is a true picture, one does not know what to say of this capacity to bear loyalties to gods and goddesses whose attributes are so antagonistic that no honest man can be a devotee to all of them. The Hindus rely upon this extraordinary phenomenon as evidence of the greatest virtue of their religion—namely, its catholicity, its spirit of toleration. As against this facile view, it can be urged that what is toleration and catholicity may be really nothing more creditable than indifference or flaccid latitudinarianism. These two attitudes are hard to distinguish in their outer seeming. But they are so vitally unlike in their real quality that no one who examines them closely can mistake one for the other. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1250
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes toleration from flaccid latitudinarianism as two attitudes alike in appearance but unlike in quality.
- XREF: connects to: Hindu tolerance may actually be mere indifference or flaccid latitudinarianism; Hindu tolerance is really weakness or indifference, not virtue; So-called Hindu tolerance is actually weakness and indifference caused by caste. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 896 (+5 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Hindu tolerance may actually be mere indifference or flaccid latitudinarianism; Hindu tolerance is really weakness or indifference, not virtue; So-called Hindu tolerance is actually weakness and indifference caused by caste. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 896 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Hindu tolerance may actually be mere indifference or flaccid latitudinarianism
#expands(0.98) - Hindu tolerance is really weakness or indifference, not virtue
#expands(0.97) - So-called Hindu tolerance is actually weakness and indifference caused by caste.
#expands(0.95) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 896 - Contact with minority religions raises tolerance even as regional political sorting sharpens Muslim attitudes
#complicates(0.74) — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 38 - Hindu refusal to spread its faith is meaner than missionary coercion.
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