FMT - How preacher Zamri got into hot soup ..... (extracts)
PETALING JAYA: Muslim preacher Zamri Vinoth is in trouble with the law apparently because he made a passing reference to what he described as “illogical” Hindu practices in a talk that was largely critical of Muslims.
The leader of the group that made the first police report against him, Arun Doraisamy, told FMT Hindus were offended by a remark about their worship of a multiplicity of deities.
In that segment of the talk, Zamri said one of the reasons he left Hinduism was that he couldn’t make sense of a belief in “330 million gods” and the “worship of stone objects to which food is then offered”.
The deities of the Hindu pantheon are indeed many, and so are those of the Chinese, ancient Greek, Norse, Celtic, North American, South American folk religions. And who can prove they are wrong?
Indeed, who can prove their religion is the correct one, without bearing arms, violence and intimidation?
I learned that when one claims one's god is infallible, one paints oneself (or his/her god) into a corner, as for example, where was god during the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami?
Saying He was then punishing sinners (as espoused by the clerics of the Gulf States and some Western nations) won't satisfactorily explain to the families of Muslim Indons and Hindu-Christian Indians and Sri-Lankans who were annihilated by the hundreds of thousands.
