Religious censorship crushes creativity. So is it ever right to ban art?

by Jeet Thayil
Guardian (UK)
August 11, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/2884/religious-censorship-crushes-creativity-so-is-it

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Like everyone else, I've heard of the Christian right, though mostly in connection with the US. In India, Christians are painfully aware of their minority status and, as a result, they are low-key, if not subterranean, at least when compared to other religious groups. The idea of militant Christianity here is as odd as the idea of militant Buddhism, or militant Zoroastrianism, or militant Animism, though why this should be the case I have no idea. Historically, Christians and Buddhists have been as enamoured of bloodshed as anyone else.

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