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The doctrine of racial superiority that the Europeans used to justify their colonial rule is gone, but the attitude of Christian religious superiority continues. Such religious exclusivism is backward and prejudicial, just like racism. 

This chapter is in no way anti-Christian but rather anti-conversion. It provides information about the insidious campaign that is taking place to reduce and wipeout Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and other Vedic traditions that are followed by large sections of humanity in India and around the world. 

Introduction
Conversion: A Fraud on Humanity - Spiritual  Colonialism?
Thoughts on Conversion and Christianity by Intellectuals
Background information on Religious Conversion
Christian Missionaries and British Imperialism in China
Exploitation of Caste System by Missionaries
Adivasis, Tribals and Christian Missionaries
Social Work as a guise for Conversion
Religious Apartheid  
Converting Mahatma Gandhi  
A Parody of Christian schools  
Tolerance in Hinduism
Questions to Ponder

The rest of the chapter continues - Conversion II

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Introduction

"The Bhagavad Gita, with a clear grasp of the historical, warns us against taking away the psychological comfort of people by unsettling their faith." 

According to the Bhagavad Gita, even those who worship other gods (anyadevatah), ancestral deities, elemental powers, if they do so with faith, then their faith is justified, for the Divine accepts every form conceived by the worshipper.

Toleration is the homage, which the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the Infinite.

(source: Eastern Religions & Western Thought - By Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan  p.316 - 328).

Watch video on Christian aggression in Cauvery Layout, India and Watch The Bible is Bullshit - Penn & Teller examine the Bible.

Destroying Nepal's Ancient culture - Refer to Former Hindu kingdom gets its first bishop

Refer to Petition: Christians against proselytism and Watch Christian Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - A British scientist interviewing Rev Ted Haggard.

Refer to Hinduism under Threat

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"Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it." -  Charles Dickens (1812-1870).

" A creed religion like Christianity... is constantly competing against all other religions — and, what is more, doing so on their own home grounds. Its success is measured in terms of the number of converts it makes."  

                                         - Michael Arnheim author of Is Christianity True (Skeptic's Bookshelf Series). 

"Onward Chartered Soldiers, on to heathen lands,
Prayer books in your pockets, rifles in your hands.
Take the glorious tidings where trade can be done,
Spread the peaceful gospel --- with a Maxim gun.

Tell the wretched natives, sinful are their hearts,
Turn their heathen temples into spirit marts.
And if to your teaching they will not succumb,
Give them another sermon with the Maxim gun...

When the Ten Commandments they quite understand,
You their Chief must hocus, and annex their land;
And if they misguided call you to account,
Give them another sermon --- with a Maxim from the Mount."

  - When Cecil Rhodes embarked on war with Lobengula in Matebele, his troops used a new "secret weapon:" the Maxim which could fire 500 rounds a minute. In 1893, in the battle of Shangani River , 1,500 Matebele warriors were killed while only four British died. The English Liberals penned a bitter satire on the victory, which Rhodes ' men the Chartered Company Volunteers then cynically adopted as their anthem.  

Refer to What Every "Ugly American" Must Know about the "Civilized British - www.larouchepac.com and USA - What does the Constitution say about religion? - WBIR.com 

Refer to The Dead Sea Scrolls - An Eastern View of a Western Crisis - By N. S. Rajaram - burningcross.net. Refer to Bishopaccountability.org. Refer to Refuting Evolution in USA and Christian Fascism - By Carolyn Baker. Watch video on Christian aggression in Cauvery Layout, India

Refer to Bush-sponsored Evangelisation of India -I  - By V Sundaram
Refer to Bush-sponsored Evangelisation of India -II – By V Sundaram
Refer to Bush-sponsored Evangelisation of India -III – By V Sundaram

Refer to Holy warriors in the US armed forces and Christian embassy and Officers Christian fellowship and Ambassadors for Christian Dominion in Uniform

Refer to Religious Freedom Report as a Political Weapon - According to the report, there seems to be mainly one discriminated minority in India : the Christian missionaries. 

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Conversion: A Fraud on Humanity - Religious Colonialism?
Are majority religions by the power of their numbers and economic clout going to smother Vedic religions?

"Evangelical Christianity, born in England and nurtured in the United States, is leaving home."

                    -  Paul Nussbaum, author of Evangelical Christianity shifting outside West - Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb 20, 2006. Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about Christianity. Refer to Also refer to USA - What does the Constitution say about religion? - WBIR.com 8 December, 2007.

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Among the major religions, Christianity and Islam actively seek converts. The missionaries believe that only people who accept Jesus as Savior will be saved and go to heaven. The doctrine of racial superiority that the Europeans used to justify their colonial rule is gone, but the attitude of Christian religious superiority continues. Such religious exclusivism is backward and prejudicial, just like racism

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was among India's most fervent nationalists, fighting for Indian independence from British rule. 

He was a Hindu to the core. 

He said:

" I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living."

(source: Young India 1-12-26). For more refer to chapter on Quotes).

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"Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find."

(source: The Essence of Hinduism - By M. K. Gandhi p. 205). Refer to Christian Atrocities and Inquisitions - The Burning Cross and Insults to the Mahatma, ignored by India - rediff.com. Refer to Bishopaccountability.org.

Protests against Sonia Gandhi representing Mohandas Gandhi  

Endorsed by Forum for saving Gandhi Heritage consisting of Mahatma Gandhi International Foundation, Indo Caribbean Council, Kashmir Pandits Association, Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue (Christian against Proselytization) & Foundation of Nepalis in America & others.

Refer to Petition: Christians against proselytism. Watch The Bible is Bullshit - Penn & Teller examine the Bible.

Refer to Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities Introduction - By Sita Ram Goel - voi.org.

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Refer to Pointers on Witnessing to Hindus - By Gurudatt Shiwdat and Jared Jenkins - hinduministeries.org.

Watch Christians Reconvert Back to Hinduism - youtube.com. Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about Christianity.

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"Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul.

"Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God"  and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.” 

(source: Young India, 24/11/1924 p. 390-396 and  The Discovery of India - By Jawaharlal Nehru. Oxford University Press. 1995. pg 75). Watch An Invasion through Conversion - videoyahoo.com

" I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism." 

(source: Outlines of Hinduism - By T. M. P. Mahadevan - p. foreword). 

Destroying Nepal's Ancient culture - Refer to Former Hindu kingdom gets its first bishop

The Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee was appointed by a Resolution of the Government of Madhya Pradesh No. 318-716-V-Con., dated the 14th of April, 1954.

Dr. M. B. Niyogi, M.A., LL.M., LL.D. (Hon.), Kt., C.I.E., 
Chairman, Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, Nagpur, Madhya Pradesh.

Refer to Hinduism under Threat

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Watch video - Christian Missionary Misdeeds in India

Refer to Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities Introduction - By Sita Ram Goel - voi.org.

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Mahatma Gandhi called religious conversions a fraud on humanity. He wrote:

"If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing". "I resent the overtures made to Harijans." "Stop all conversion, it is the deadliest poison that ever sapped the fountain of truth." Poverty doesn't justify conversion. 

(source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Volume 46. p.110 and Volume 61, p. 46-47  volume 64, p. 37 and 400 New Delhi 1968). For more refer to Mahatma Gandhi on The Christian Missionary Menace - Compiled by Swami Aksharananda). 

Refer to I was born Catholic, Now a follower of Hinduism - By David Cardozo aka Vivek Bharat 

He also considered Christian missionaries as "a clear libel on Indian humanity."

(source: "A Repudiation," Young India, 4 March 1926, in Collected Works, vol. 30 (1968), 70). Refer to Insults to the Mahatma, ignored by India - rediff.com.

Refer to India - State wise Christian population - 2000 AD - crusadewatch.org. Watch video on Christian aggression in Cauvery Layout , India

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Watch Soul winning mission in India - Spreading the gospel in Southern India.

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It was Mahatma Gandhi who characterized religious conversions as "pure commerce". And Swami Vivekananda termed religious conversion as "religious perversion"

"This proselytization will mean no peace in the world. Conversions are harmful to India. If I had the power and could legislate I should certainly stop all proselytizing.'' 

"It pains me to have to say that the Christian missionaries as a body, with honorable exceptions, have actively supported a system which has impoverished, enervated and demoralized a people considered to be among the gentlest and most civilized on earth...."

(source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Volume 24, p. 476). Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Watch An Invasion through Conversion - videoyahoo.com

He claimed:  "I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu." and when asked what was the contribution of Christianity to the national life of India? Gandhiji remarked:

"Aye, there lies the rub. Unfortunately, Christianity in India has been inextricably mixed up for the last one hundred and fifty years with materialistic civilization and imperialistic exploitation by the stronger white races of the world. Its contribution to India has been therefore largely of a negative character." 

(source: Christian missions in the eyes of Gandhiji - Jagarana Prakashana p. 5). For more refer to chapter on European Imperialism and Christian Aggression 

Mahatma Gandhi writes: " In the matter of religion I must restrict myself to my ancestral religion; that is, the use of my immediate surroundings in religion. If I find my religion defective, I should serve it by purifying it of defects." 

He told the Christian missionaries "it is no part of your call, I assure you, to tear up the lives of the people of the East by the roots."  

(source: Mahatma Gandhi's His Life and Ideas - By C. F. Andrews, p. 96). Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth.

Gandhi had tried to put the Christian missions in a tight spot by proclaiming that proselytisation was morally wrong and spiritually sterile, if not counter-productive. He had also appealed to the missions to employ their enormous resources for rendering humanitarian services to the poor without any motive for proselytisation. 

Further he asks, "How can the conversion achieved through such unethical means be called religious in its true sense?" Mahatma Gandhi once told his friend, the missionary E. Stanley Jones,  “Don’t attempt to propagate your faith; just live it."

Gandhi wrote to an American Missionary who claimed that the Christian way is the best of all: "You assume knowledge of all people which you can do only if you were God. I want you to understand that you are laboring under a double fallacy. That what you think best for you is really so; and that what you regard as the best for you is the best for the whole world. It is an assumption of omniscience and infallibility. I plead a little humility." 

(source: Religion and Culture - By S. Radhakrishnan South Asia Books 1994 ISBN 8122200125 p. 64). Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel.  Refer to Christian Atrocities and Inquisitions - The Burning Cross and Insults to the Mahatma, ignored by India - rediff.com.

He wrote in My Experiments With Truth: "It was impossible for me to believe that I could go to heaven or attain salvation only by becoming a Christian." All religions were equally capable of leading the follower to salvation.

Gandhi said: 

"If instead of confining themselves purely to humanitarian work such as education, medical services to the poor and the like, they would use these activities of theirs for the purpose of proselytising, I would certainly like them to withdraw. Every nation considers its own faith to be as good as that of any other. Certainly the great faiths held by the people of India are adequate for her people. India stands in no need of conversion from one faith to another. 

(source: Foreign Missionaries, Young India, April 23, 1931.) Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel

Gandhi chided the Christian missionaries for misrepresenting Hinduism. 

"You, the missionaries," he said, "come to India thinking that you come to a land of heathens, of idolators, of men who do not know God. One of the greatest Christian divines, Bishop Heber, wrote the two lines which have always left a sting with me: 'Where every prospect pleases, and man alone is vile.'  I wish he had not written them. My own experience in my travels through out India has been to the contrary. I have gone from one end of the country to the other, without any prejudice, in a relentless search for truth, and I am not able to say that here in this fair land, watered by the great Ganga, the Brahmaputra, and the Jamuna, man is vile. He is not vile. He is as much a seeker after truth as you and I are, possibly more so.." 

He further commented: "I have read several missionary publications and they are able to see only the dark side and paint it darker still. The famous hymn of Bishop Heber's - 'Greenland's icy mountains' - is a clear libel on Indian humanity. I was favored with some literature even in the Yervada prison by well-meaning missionaries, which seemed to be written as if merely to belittle Hinduism."

(source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Vol. 27 New Delhi 1968 p.436). For the hymn please refer to chapter on First Indologists and European Imperialism and Christian Aggression. Refer to VINDICATED BY TIME: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities - Christianity Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee 1956 and The Sunshine of Secularism.Refer to Can Hinduism face the onslaught of Project Thessalonica? - By Alex Pomero. Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Refer to Christian Supremacy: Pushing the Dhimmitude of Non-Christians in America.

Gandhi was equally wary of the Church and its missionaries. Writing in Harijan (March 13, 1937) he said: "My fear is that, though Christian friends nowadays do not say or admit it that Hindu religion is untrue, they must harbour in their breast that Hinduism is an error and that Christianity, as they believe it, is the only true religion. So far, as one can understand the present (Christian) effort, it is to uproot Hinduism from her very foundation and replace it by another faith." He took great care to distinguish between his work and that of the Church: "The first distinction I would like to make...between your missionary work and mine is that while I am strengthening the faith of the people, you (missionaries) are undermining it." 

(source: Young India, March 1927).

Swami Vivekeanada speaking about what damage Christian missionaries have done to India, he says in a lecture reported in the Detroit Free Press (February 21, 1894):

"They come to my country and abuse my forefathers, my religion, and everything; they walk near a temple and say 'you idolators, you will go to hell', but they dare not do this to the Mohammedans of India, for the sword will be out but the Hindu is too mild."

(source: The Hindu Soul in search of Its Body - Balbir Punj).

As is clear from the Mahatma's polemic against the Christian missionaries, he was first and foremost a Hindu, who opposed all designs to destroy Hindu culture. And it was because he loved and served Hindu society, that he could take the freedom to criticize it. Those who criticize Hindu society and its defenders today, not as its well-wishers but as its enemies, and who do not hesitate to invoke the Mahatma's authority to prop up their Hindu-baiting designs before a population with an increasingly hazy Mahatma's message.

(source: Ayodhya and After - By Koenraad Elst Voice of India Issues Before Hindu Society SKU: INBK2650 p. 272). 

For interesting article on missionaries - refer to The problem of Christian missionaries - By Koenraad Elst ). 

For more refer to The War against Hinduism - By Stephen Knapp and Christian Aggression. Refer to VINDICATED BY TIME: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities - Christianity Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee 1956 and The Sunshine of Secularism. Refer to Can Hinduism face the onslaught of Project Thessalonica? - By Alex Pomero. Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Refer to Crimes of Christianity - By G W Foote and J M Wheeler Progressive Publishing Co. London. 1887. Refer to Christian Supremacy: Pushing the Dhimmitude of Non-Christians in America. Refer to Christian Atrocities and Inquisitions - The Burning Cross and Insults to the Mahatma, ignored by India - rediff.com. Refer to crusadewatch.org. Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth.

Refer to Pointers on Witnessing to Hindus - By Gurudatt Shiwdat and Jared Jenkins - hinduministeries.org.

Refer to Himachal Pradesh passes anti-conversion legislation - christianaggression.org.

Watch Christian Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - A British scientist interviewing Rev Ted Haggard.