If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.