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Post by Guest Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:05 am

As became a philosopher, he was profoundly interested in religion. His careful reading of the Mahabharata, and his intimacy with Hindu poets and sages, lured him into the study of Indian faiths. For a time, at least, he accepted the theory of transmigration, and scandalized his Moslem followers by appearing in public with Hindu religious marks on his forehead. He had a flair for humoring all the creeds: he pleased the Zoroastrians by wearing their sacred shirt and girdle under his clothes, and allowed the Jains to persuade him to abandon hunting, and to prohibit, on certain days, the killing of animals. When he learned of the new religion called Christianity, which had come into India with the Portuguese occupation of Goa, he despatched a message to the Paulist missionaries there, inviting them to send two of their learned men to him.

Later some Jesuits came to Delhi and so interested him in Christ that he ordered his scribes to translate the New Testament.105 He gave the Jesuits full freedom to make converts, and allowed them to bring up one of his sons. While Catholics were murdering Protestants in France, and Protestants, under Elizabeth, were murdering Catholics in England, and the Inquisition was killing and robbing Jews in Spain, and Bruno was being burned at the stake in Italy, Akbar invited the representatives of all the religions in his empire to a conference, pledged them to peace, issued edicts of toleration for every cult and creed, and, as evidence of his own neutrality, married wives from the Brahman, Buddhist, and Mohammedan faiths.

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Post by Seva Lamberdar Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:13 am

Would you consider American President Trump and Mughal Emperor Akbar ahead of their times?
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Post by Vakavaka Pakapaka Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:53 pm

Seva Lamberdar wrote:Would you consider American President Trump and Mughal Emperor Akbar ahead of their times?
I am sure, there are "scholars" who are writing glowing articles on the greatness of Trump just as we have Sikular perverts who write about the greatness of Aurangajeb, Babur, Humayun and Jalaluddin. Pretty soon, Trump will be given the title "Akbar" by some tea-party morons.

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Post by southindian Fri Feb 10, 2017 1:07 pm

"Mughal Emperor Akbar, the great Lover of Hinduism and other religions"

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