Christ vs Krishna

CHRIST vs KRISHNA - RE-READING SAKES
M. M. NINAN
credulity of the ignorant. The tacit observance of those innovations by the more
enlightened classes, is the wise observance of the good old adage, "leave well alone."
Religious toleration is the safest for all Governments. The Hindoo Sovereignty was lax
and pusillanimous. This pusillanimity encouraged the priesthood, who eventually
usurped sovereign power under the cloak of religion. The Brahmins to keep the people
in love of them, and to ensure submissiveness from the Sovereign as well as the
people, imposed human* sacrifice as the most acceptable to their gods, as performed
in the temple at Kamaroopa Kamykha on the occurrence of any severe visitation from
their gods.
Whether men, women or children wore immolated in the temple of the goddess Kutcha
Khity (or the goddess who desireth not a burnt sacrifice), the offering was considered
accepted when it disappeared from the temple at a given period, otherwise the offering
was returned to the sacrifices, and a more acceptable one demanded in its place. This
would appear to be priest-craft, for the gain of the temple, and to strike terror,
according to the necessity of the case, by naming the particular sacrifice of his fondest
hopes, which may be a child, or the favoured prop of the family as a punishment, to
appease not the gods, but the priests under whose displeasure the unfortunate person
had fallen.
The priests being emboldened gradually introduced other forms of massacre at their
festivals. Besides the offering of goats, sheep, doves, pigeons and buffaloes, they
introduced human sacrifices such as the roasting of persons in the abdomen of Rawan
in the Ramleela, and those wholesale massacres under the wheels of the great car of
Juggurnauth ; not to mention Suttee, and the indiscriminate destruction of female
children at their birth as the exclusive right of the Rajput class, which they imposed as
religious rites and to which the Sovereign had to submit. They thus raised their own
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