When is the charge of hurting religious sentiments untenable?
…Each one may publicly preach what he thinks to be true. Each one should have the right to make a reasoned argument against a practice that is anti-people or based on falsehood and say so. So long as that argument is civilized and inspired not by hatred but by good wishes, so long as it does not result in willful humiliation, then it should not be considered to have hurt religious sentiments. (Vidnyannishtha nibandha or pro-science essays, Samagra Savarkar vangmaya, Vol 3, p.430) A refutation of the charge that “your social thoughts are demoralizing” Time and again, Shalya chastised Karna to demoralize him. But Karna’s opponent Partha was also chastised by his charioteer (meaning Krishna). The cause and effect of the two chastisements was different. So too the cause and effect of the criticism of missionaries and the criticism of those who defied death for the sake of this Hindu Nation has to be necessarily different. (1934, Vidnyannishtha nibandha or pro-science essays, Samagra Savark
