On My Religion
I chanced upon a
Facebook discussion elsewhere, in which among others, the nature of my
religious beliefs was discussed. Since
there seem to be some misunderstanding on the said topic I take this
opportunity to lay the matters to rest.
I was a baptized
Anglican Christian belonging to the Church of Ceylon. It is certainly true that
at up to a certain period in my life I held on to my religious beliefs at least
in theory rather than practice. A major influence in that regard was my late father,
who did the same in the face many trials in his life. At a time when a certain
segment of Sinhala Buddhist nationalists were haranguing other religions via
social media, I fought back in the name of my religion. But this was more of a political rather than
a purely religious gesture. It was based on the need of an identity and need
to fight the fundamentalist forces holding sway at that time.
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