Comments on: St. Bonaventure: A Franciscan Heart https://www.franciscanmedia.org/franciscan-tradition-and-resources/st-bonaventure-a-franciscan-heart/ Sharing God's love in the spirit of St. Francis Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:27:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Santanu Goswami https://www.franciscanmedia.org/franciscan-tradition-and-resources/st-bonaventure-a-franciscan-heart/#comment-14834 Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:00:24 +0000 https://freedom.franciscanmedia.org/uncategorized/st-bonaventure-a-franciscan-heart/#comment-14834 We Indians, being born in an easy climate and land, cherish life less when compared to people of hostile climate. They cling to life both physical and spiritual with greater tenacity.

But, we Indians almost seek suicide as manifested in our worship of suicidal kings, who are worshipped as God. It’s said that you become like what you worship. In other words our worship reflects what we seek.
Actually majority Indian intelectuals rejected the idea of a supreme God. It amounts to rejection of discipline and unifying trends as the idea of God unifies. So atheist buddhism and Jainism got popular. They both legalized suicide but in a disciplined way. But suicide is the gravest sin against self and life. During exorcising we directly see the terrible suffering of suicidees.

On the other hand the comparative inhospitable climate of Europe automatically culled careless persons with less life urge. Suicidal mentality is abhorred by society there too. Church also declared it as greatest sin.
But in India religious people rejected discipline. Their unguarded scriptures were corrupted by cunning people like sexy Vyasa and exbandit Valmiki who upheld the suicidal war-heroes of their epics. They legalized suicide by that way. So India became weak with fragmented weak society and morality, whose suppressed sections invited invaders and supported them.

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