The Whirlwind Wrote:
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Prabhupada was not omniscient with respect
> to the material world and all that goes on in it,
> and he never claimed to be.>
> Just because he had some opinion about this, that,
> or the other matter pertaining to the material
> world and what goes on in it, this does not mean
> that I have to conform my opinion to his. This
> does not mean that I have to conform all of my
> opinions about any given topic, to those of
> Prabhupada.
Prabhupada was born in Bengal in 1896, in Victorian-era India. He was educated by Westerners, Europeans (Scots to be exact). He came from a very different place, in a very different culture and time than what we see in the 21st-century American/Western world. Of course he had ideas and opinions that might seem shocking, offensive even to people who live in today's world. The world he was born into, and was raised in was so different from today's, that he may as well have come from another planet.
My point is that I do not think it fair to judge him negatively, according to present-day Western/American standards. That's called "presentism", and it's a logical fallacy.
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