Bhagat Singh was born on 27 September 1907.
Indian revolutionary and a major figure in the Indian independence movement of the early Twentieth Century. Singh was active in revolutionary struggle from an early age and he was briefly affiliated with the Mohandas Ghandi’s “Non-Cooperation” movement, although Singh would break with Ghandi’s philosophy of non-violent resistance later in life.
Singh embraced atheism and Marxism-Leninism and integrated these key components into his philosophy of revolutionary struggle. Under his leadership, the Kirti Kissan Party was renamed the Hindustan Socialist Republican Organization. As Singh and his organization rose to new prominence in the Indian independence movement, they became the focus of public criticism from Ghandi himself, who disagreed with their belief that violence was a necessary and vital component of revolutionary struggle.
Singh’s secularism was perhaps his most important contribution to the socialist and independence struggles. During those turbulent times, British Imperialism used every tactic to create antagonism among the different religions of India, especially between Hindus and Muslims. The Sanghatan and Shuddi Movements among Hindus; and tableegh and many sectarian movements in Muslims bear witness to the effects of this tactic. Bhagat Singh removed his beard which was a violation of Sikh religion, because he did not want to create before the public the image of a ‘Sikh’ freedom fighter. Nor did he want to be held up as a hero by the followers of this religion. He wanted to teach the people that British Imperialism was their common enemy and they must be united against it to win freedom.
On April 8, 1924, Baghat Singh and his compatriot B. K. Dutt hurled two bombs on to the floor of the Central Delhi Hall in New Delhi. The bombs were tossed away from individuals so as not to harm anyone and, in fact, no one was harmed in the ensuing explosions. Following the explosions, Singh and Dutt showered the hall with copies of a leaflet that later was to be known as “The Red Pamphlet.” The pamphlet began with a passage which was to become legendary in the Indian revolutionary struggle:
“It takes a loud voice to make the deaf hear, with these immortal words uttered on a similar occasion by Vaillant, a French anarchist martyr, do we strongly justify this action of ours.”
Singh and Dutt concluded the pamphlet with the phrase “Long Live the Revolution!” This phrase (translated from “Inquilab Zindabad!” became one of the most enduring slogans of the Indian Independence Movement.
Singh and Dutt turned themselves in following the bombing incident. Following the trial, they were sentenced to “transportation for life” and while imprisoned, Singh and Dutt became outspoken critics of the Indian penal system, embarking on hunger strikes and engaging in agitation and propaganda from within the confines of the prison. Shortly after the commencement of his prison sentence, Singh was implicated in the 1928 death of a Deputy Police Superintendent. Singh acknowledged involvement in the death and he was executed by hanging on 23 March 1931.
Bhagat Singh is widely hailed as a martyr as a result of his execution at the hands of oppressors and, as such, he is often referred to as “Shaheed (Martyr) Bhagat Singh.”
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According to the will, the son gets 2/3, the daughter gets 1/3, and on average the widow gets 1.5/3 ([1/3+2/3]/2). That's a total of 4.5/3, so the new denominator should be 4.5, or 9 for an integer. To keep it close to the will, I'd give the son 4/9, the daughter 2/9, and the widow 3/9.
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Have there been any antivax Christians who have linked covid to the rapture? Just a thought that entered my head, but I was just reading a hermancainaward post where this guy was talking a lot about the end times - microchips, Antichrist, all that revelations stuff, and he mentioned the rapture. He didn’t make the link himself, but I thought, is there anyone out there who is so deep in the antivax stuff, so deep in the qanon stuff, so deep in the American evangelical stuff, that they’ve concluded that covid is God taking back Their children?
Idk too much about these people’s beliefs, but I know generally about the rapture, and that there seems to be a consensus we’re in the end times, and they believe they are God’s chosen children, and right now there are a ton of them dieing. Seems like a way to explain away the death of loved ones, and continue justifying not getting the vaccine is to say your loved ones have been raptured. And that would be real death cult hours
Some evangelicals are trying to bring about the rapture in order to summon the second coming or some shit so it's not hard to believe that some people think covid is part of gods plan.
The scary part is some of these people are in fairly powerful positions in government and business.
Yes my parents are saying that its coming soon and the vaccine is the mark of the beast.
Edit: theyre not saying the dead have been raptured, theyre saying that covid is proof the world is starting to end and thus the rapture will happen soon
Yeah that's what this guy was saying before he died. But I thought it wouldn't be too hard to make the leap that covid actually is the rapture itself. But I don't actually know enough about their belief systems or anything to know if that makes sense. Just seems like a good way to explain away covid, why your friends and family are dieing, and why its actually good to continue not getting the vaccine. Especially if the vaccine is the mark of the beast, I'm sure getting the mark precludes you from being raptured.
But idk, is it that they recognize it's mostly poor communties, Black/brown communities, and those in the Third World that have been hit the hardest by this, and surely those people can't be God's chosen? idk idk, just a thought I had based on limited knowledge
When the rapture happens everyone who is going to heaven leaves the earth at once and theres no bodies left. It doesn't happen gradually
Edit: actually there is a period right after where you can repent and go to heaven but the majority of people would be going when it starts
ok, thanks, i thought maybe it was something like that. Is there any room for interpretation though, or is it pretty well agreed upon this is how the rapture has to be, just one and done?
It's pretty agreed upon, some people don't even think you can repent after it. There might be some people with extra brain worms who think covid is the rapture happening but they'd be seen as weird even in the Christian community
For the record, this is a "premillenial dispensationist" eschatology that many would argue lies on flimsy theological ground. It's primarily popular among American Protestants, especially after the publication of the Left Behind series (though it was around before that).
That makes sense, i just remember what my religious community told me and the movies they made me watch
Yeah I hear that, when I started to have a stronger desire to actually understand the world better, theology was my first stop. As I'm sure you know it's pretty anti-intellectual in practice (especially within American religion), and 99% of pastors aren't going to bother putting things like that into the context of a discussion. "Bible says rapture etc... Etc..." Cause biblical literalism and all that.
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Yeah they also think it was designed to kill off the elderly so the government doesn't have to pay social security anymore
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