The most common scare tactic employed by western media and their Indian marionettes, includes the notion that a Hindu rastra would be a theocracy and would destroy the secularism inbuilt in the constitution of the Indian republic. The trope is that India has been a bastion of tolerance and religious harmony for the better half of a century until it was destroyed when the "fascists" that run the RSS took over the levers of the Indian state.
In my previous article on Hindutva and atheism, I already briefly outlined how reclaimation of ancient Hindu shrines being a key objective of the Hindutva movement is one that not only a religious Sanatani can take part in, but also all other Hindus- Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs, Nastikas and even culturally rooted christians and muslims.
To determine whether Hindutva accepts atheism, we must first define Hindutva, Hindu and Atheism.
There is a whole internet community of self proclaimed atheists, primarily of the ex-christian and ex-muslim varieties displaying fanatical fervor of the same nature as that of the faith based homes they have abandoned.
Hindu atheists aren't regarded as "real atheists" by the self-righteous prudish atheists that constitute the neo-atheist orthodoxy. Not because we make claims that do not correspond with modern scientific temper or that we somehow secretly worship Hindu Gods and Goddesses, or some other bizarre accusation.
To many in the atheist community, and to many in the Hindu community, the notion of Hindu atheism sounds like an oxymoron.
