Vivekananda Mailing List-10/13/03

[Guest guest]

Of the principal religions of the world we see Vedantism, Buddhism, and

certain forms of Christianity freely using images; only two religions,

Mohammedanism and Protestantism, refuse such help. Yet the Mohammedans

use the grave of their saints and martyrs almost in the place of

images; and the Protestants, in rejecting all concrete helps to

religion, are drifting away every year farther and farther from

spirituality till at present there is scarcely any difference between

the advanced Protestants and the followers of August Comte, or

agnostics who preach ethics alone.