The Atheist Leader of a Religious Country
Jawaharlal Nehru felt that religion made people passive and stopped them from thinking. “Religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror,” he wrote in his autobiography, “and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it.” Instead, he supported total religious freedom within a secular state.
Eleven years after writing that, Nehru was the first prime minister of a newly-independent India.
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