Indian leader tells interviewer God ‘just keeps making me do things’ but that he ‘cannot dial him directly’
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has said he believes he has been chosen by God, as the multi-stage Indian electionnears its completion.
“I am convinced that ‘*Parmatma’ *(God) sent me for a purpose. Once the purpose is achieved, my work will be one done. This is why I have completely dedicated myself to God,” he told NDTV news channel on Sunday.
Modi, who is hoping to win a third term when the results of the general election are announced on 4 June, said that while God guided him to do a lot of his work, he did so without revealing a larger scheme.
Why are insane authoritarians still popular?
They’re all the weak man’s idea of a strong man
They give simple answers to difficult questions, and many people that have a pretty black-and-white view of reality really like that.
Same reason far-right is rising in Europe. Most of us are just morons.
Sounds familiar.
George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month.
Mr Bush revealed the extent of his religious fervour when he met a Palestinian delegation during the Israeli-Palestinian summit at the Egpytian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, four months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
One of the delegates, Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian foreign minister at the time, said: “President Bush said to all of us: ‘I am driven with a mission from God’. God would tell me, ‘George go and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan’. And I did. And then God would tell me ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq’. And I did.”
Mr Bush went on: “And now, again, I feel God’s words coming to me, ‘Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East’. And, by God, I’m gonna do it.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa
I hope Modi won’t have a comfortable retirement where he paints shitty pictures and ends up actually paying for his crimes… because decades of war and millions dead was what resulted from Bush thinking he was chosen by his god.
And that purpose? Murdering or expelling all Muslim Indians.
… sigh, I wish he’d lost.
Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes ! 😋
(( “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” mentions a trilogy of books written by Oolon Colluphid. One of these books is titled “Where God Went Wrong,” followed by “Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes” and “Who is this God Person Anyway?” ))
Sorry for the inconvenience
I thought hindus had like a thousand gods. Anyway I just wanna say Modi is a piece of shit and fuck BJP.
It is my understanding that all gods (and, in fact, all things) are aspects of one thing- Brahman. Some Hindus (not all) worship that as a god. I’m guessing that’s what he’s meaning here.
They do but he is generalising here, anyway fuck BJP
This God stuff is getting old.
