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Thinking Aloud
The news of Man's successful landing on the moon and the retrieval of lunar rock samples during subsequent exploits in outer space hit the headlines in a big way world over; it created quite a commotion in religious circles too. The traditionally credulous amongst religious orthodoxy also began to question the validity of its archaic contentions in cosmology in the light of incontrovertible evidence presented by such scientific expeditions. To placate their perturbed minds and to cover up the credibility gap thus opened in their orthodox beliefs, the spokesmen for the 'establishment in the religious order kept on mumbling such namby-pamby explanations as "the story of man on the moon is just another hoax played by the scientists'. How can such naivete wash with the intelligentsia today?
If the veteran loyalists of religious orthodoxy find their faith rudely shaken today, what chance does the younger generation stand ? As it is, the youth have always been blamed for ridiculing religion and rebelling against established order by defying traditional thought. However, there is a class of young men and women today who have healthy regard for religion and open-minded inquisitiveness towards fundamental spiritual truths. But, they are so over-awed by modern scientific achievements, that they hesitate to place their trust in the eternal wisdom and traditional lore of the scriptures. There is yet another section of youngsters mostly students at schoolcollege level who do believe in the words of the luminaries of the mystic path, but are wary of expressing their convictions in the open for fear of being alienated or banished by the general mass holding sway at these educational institutions. Their herd-instinct gets the better of their spiritual stirrings and impels them to fall in line with the brute majority and join the blasphemous cacophony considered so 'intellectual' and
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