PASSAGE - II
The two dominant features of our age are the science and democracy. They have come to stay. We cannot ask educated people to accept the del i verances of f ai th wi thout rat i onal evidence. Whatever we are called upon to accept must be justified and supported by reason. Otherwise our religious beliefs will be reduced to wishful thinking. Modem man must leam to live with a religion which commends itself to his intellectual conscience, to the spirit of science. Besides, religion should be the sustaining faith of democracy which insists on the intellectual and spiritual development of every human being irrespective of his caste, creed, community or race, Any religion which divides man from man or supports privileges, exploitation, wars cannot commend itself to us today.
In the passage it is said that democracy
[ A ] Should aim at intellectual development
[ B ] Should strengthen religion
[ C ] Should work for spiritual development of very human being