Real Revolution — Page 131
131 has fulfilled this mission. . Undoubtedly Christianity has spread all over. Europe it has spread into India, China and Japan; it has in tact penetrated to many places which Islam never reached. But the question is how far the primary aim of the mission has been achieved?. According to the Christian claim, the aim of this teaching was to eliminate separatist tendencies from international relations; to reduce nationalism to proper proportions, and to unite the whole human race under one banner, on the basis of equality and brotherhood. But the fact remains that no other teaching has so much furthered the growth of a blind, hidebound, unscrupulous nationalism as has been done by Christianity, there being not as much as one single country where it can be said to have established equality, either as between man and man, or between nation and nation. On the other hand, there is not one single country which came under the Islamic influence but failed to work out human relations on the basis of equality. Today we find the British are deeply hostile to the Germans, while the Germans reciprocate the feeling with equal intensity, if not more. . Both stand ready to strangle each other the moment they get an opportunity to do so. Air armadas are being built for this purpose, and other weapons for long range striking power are daily being developed