Real Revolution — Page 139
139. These factors have ruined morality and the spirit of real sacrifice, causing a gross and vulgar disfigurement of all forms of religion. If to day. European nations attach any importance to religion, it is only to the extent to which doing so seems to be helpful for their aims in the field of their political hold on the people. The Indian mind cannot pro⚫perly grasp this point, but this is what actually happens. For instance, if there is a revolt, say, in Germany, and the Church feels that the Christian teaching does not give them strength enough to control the situation, they quietly remove inconvenient portions from that teaching, and proceed to propound altogether a new philosophy, and then all hasten to agree that this in fact was their religion. For example, suppose there is a Muslim who desires to have a hundred wives, and finding that the Holy. Quran did not allow more than four, he proceeds to alter the text to suit his purpose, then marries a hundred wives, and continues to claim that he is a very good Muslim. Now to the mind of a Muslim any such thing is grossly impossible. This however, is what has been done in Europe more than once. When the European people see that the observance of some part of the Christian teaching would cause harm to national interests, they do not scruple to change the teaching to suit their requirements, glibly claiming the new view to be the essen-