“Modi’s BJP is a tragic affront to India’s secular beginnings. Hinduism is at least as ridiculous as Islam. Between them, these two idiotic religions have betrayed the ideals of Nehru and Gandhi.” If one reads this tweet from Richard Dawkins, without knowing the context, one would assume that an act of cataclysmic proportions has been committed by Hindu zealots, similar to 9/11 or worse, to invite such damning terms as “ridiculous” and “idiotic” for their religion — Hinduism. Ironically, Dawkins was reacting to an editorial in Nature magazine, which claimed that the topics of the Periodic Table and Charles Darwin’s…