Hinduism and India have been under attack for thousands of years. First it was Islam, then came Christianity, that have created havoc to the fabric of Hindu society. Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi both opposed it. Swami Vivekananda has given the most heart-rending accounts of the calumnies that Christian missionaries spread about Hinduism and about India. Most common Evangelistic words are "Hindus need to be saved from spiritual darkness," church plantings, rich harvest of converts, idol worshippers and un reached people." They speak openly of "spiritual conflict." Their text often have words like "God's armor," "battle," "weapons," etc. Sir John Woodroffe had predicted in his book, Is India Civilized p. xlviii, that: “ In every way, the coming assault on Hindu civilization will be the greatest which it has ever had to endure in the whole course of its long history.”

The missionary zeal has been to convert Hindus by giving the most lurid accounts in the West to raise money for financing their activities. It costs $145 billion dollars a year to operate global Christianity, records a book on evangelization - Arun Shourie Missionaries in India.  According to Professor Gauri Vishwanathan in her book Outside the Fold "religious conversion is probably one of the most unsettling political events in the life of any society."  In the Forties, when missionaries were active in China, this denationalization process was summed up in the line, “One more Christian, one less Chinese.” From this perspective, conversion is more than just a Hindu becoming a Christian, it is the transformation of an Indian into an extension of Western culture and influence. Guy Sorman, author of The Genius of India had difficulty accepting mass conversions of children and dying by Mother Teresa, who was indifferent to the religions of India as the missionaries of the past; she believed in numbers. Arun Shourie author of Harvesting Our Souls: Missionaries, their design, their claims asks: "How come our secularists insist that conversion is not the aim of the Church when the Church repeatedly and explicitly declares that the singular aim of all its activities is to convert non-Christians to Christianity? K. M. Panikkar, author of Asia and Western Dominance has written: "the doctrine of the monopoly of truth and revelation.. is alien to the Hindu and Buddhist mind" and that "to them the claim of any sect that it alone represented the truth and others shall be condemned has always seemed unreasonable." 
Mahatma Gandhi called Christian missionaries, "Vendors of Goods". He said " In Hindu households, the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink". "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. He also considered missionaries as "a clear libel on Indian humanity."

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. 

Christian missionaries, their goals, their activities and their sites
Conversion News from India
Indians Against Christian Aggression
 UN & Religious Proselytization  

The rest of the chapter begins  - Conversion

For articles on Conversion please go to the link below:
Articles on Conversion

Religious Conversion is a foreign policy objective of the Christian West.


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How the British Longed to convert the Parsis to Christianity  

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) The 16th President of the United States, successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, only to be assassinated as the war was coming to an end. Before becoming the first Republican elected to the Presidency, Lincoln was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States.  

He said:

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."   

(source: What Some Famous People Have Said About Christianity).  Refer to jesusneverexisted.com. 

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That the Parsis of today, now that the light of science is breaking upon them, should be making inquiries into the genesis of their faith and the almost lost threads of their history, is a most significant fact. They have found many things to astonish them. The old Pahlavi literature has revealed to them many doctrinal crudities which the better minds would gladly ignore as authority on worship and creed, and which are deviations from the severer code of Zoroaster. Bu these candid inquiries can only result in good. They will suggest the striking contrast between the conglomerate Parsi religion and Christianity, while the contact with European Christians will constantly lessen the prejudice against the Christian religion, an make the Parsis more accessible to the Gospel. 

In the plane of moral ideas, they stand so far above the Hindus that we must regard them as occupying a midway position between Christianity and Buddhism.

 

Parsi from Bombay.

It must be admitted, however, that the Parsis have proven very inaccessible to the Gospel.

(image source: Indika: The Country and the people of India and Ceylon - By Rev. John F Hurst p. 151 - 152).

Refer to chapter on European Imperialism and Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie and Things they don't tell about Christianity.

Refer to jesusneverexisted.com 

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We cannot but believe that the Parsi, as he studies more closely the difference between his own faith and the Christian, will, in due time, come to accept the latter. It must be admitted, however, that the Parsis have proven very inaccessible to the Gospel. It is said, that of all the Christians in the presidency of Bombay , not more than a dozen are from the Parsi community. 

But Rev. J Murray Mitchell, (1815 - 1904) who has studied the prevailing tendencies among the people during his residence in Bombay, has a hopeful view of their Christian future. He says:

“The immense disparity between Christ and Zoroaster is dawning, we believe, on that interesting people, the Parsis of India. They have been clinging to their ancient faith from a feeling of nationality rather than of religion – from tradition more than conviction; but immense changes are certainly at hand. But we believe that, as the Magi from the East, who probably were Zoroastrians, hastened to lay their gold, frankincense, and myrrh at the feet of the new-born Redeemer, so ere long, the Parsis will in all probability be the first of Eastern races to take upon them, as a race, the easy yoke of Christ.”

(source:  Indika: The Country and the people of India and Ceylon - By Rev. John F Hurst p. 151 - 152).

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The Hypocrisy of English Imperialism
How British wanted to Christianize India

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1774) France's greatest writers and philosophers, was atheist, and a bitter critic of the Church, which he looked upon as the instigator of cruelty, injustice, and inequality, wrote, in a letter to Frederick the Great (1712–86): 

"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." "Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?'

"Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." “You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.” “As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.”  

In his 'Philosophical Dictionary', Voltaire gave a time-defying verdict: "Pagan religion shed very little blood, while ours flooded the earth with it. Christianity has deluged the earth with blood for the sake of sophisms'."  

About the atrocities committed by the Roman Catholic Church in Goa in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Voltaire in his 'Fragments of India's History' observed: "Goa is sadly famous for its Inquistion, which is contrary to humanity as much as to commerce. The Portuguese monks deluded us into believing that the Indian populace was worshipping the Devil, while it is THEY who served him'.  

(source: Letter to Frederick the Great, quoted in the Encyclopedia of Unbelief, Prometheus Books, 1985, p. 715 and The Burningcross and Letter to Frederick the Great, quoted in the Encyclopedia of Unbelief  Prometheus Books, 1985, p. 715).  Refer to jesusneverexisted.com. 

Conversion (Christian and Islamic) is not Spirituality - it is Imperialism, Intrusion, and Terrorism

Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) philosopher and President of India, Eastern Religions & Western Thought  p. 149 that:

“Christian proselytism has done irretrievable harm to native races by disintegrating their culture."

Refer to Memoirs of Goa - By Alfredo DeMello and Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust - By Kevin Annett and documentary Unrepentant and Canada's Genocide. Refer to The Bible Unmasked - by Joseph Lewis.

Tim Mitchell a Columnist has wisely observed that:

"Christianity’s rapacious evangelical agenda has caused, and will continue to cause, incalculable damage to humanity’s spirit. Because of its steadfast conviction that it is “universal” and that it can transplant itself into any culture at any time and any place, as if it were somehow making things they way they should be, Christianity fails to recognize the damage it is inflicting upon religion as a collective human experience when it compromises the integrity of other faiths. Just as industrialization has caused countless environments across the globe to erode due to overpopulation, pollution and massive clear-cutting efforts, I believe that Christianity’s ruthless evangelization efforts that resulted in the destruction of countless religious traditions has caused a spiritual erosion of sorts around the world." 

(source:  Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Destiny - By Tim Mitchell.   Refer to Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie

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Protestant Missions in British India - By Rev. John F Hurst  

While India has attracted the commercial and military spirit of the West, its great spiritual needs have not been less potent in attracting the evangelist. The beginning was simple and obscure, but abundant in faith and sacrifice.

Evangelization of India from America

Important facts show the early relation between American Christianity and India.  The first gifts from Anglo-Saxon Christians for the evangelization of India were from America; that one of the first full accounts of the methods of work in Indian evangelization sent to the English-speaking world was to New England; and that some of the first copies of books which came from the mission press in India and fell into Anglo-Saxon hands were sent to New England and were received by Cotton Mather. Serampore was the first English purpose to bring to pass, in the realm of Christian life, what Clive and Hastings achieved by military and civil triumphs in India.

Ziegenbalg and Plutschau

 

    

Ziegenbalg and King Fredrick of Denmark.

Fredrick IV, the Danish king, lost no opportunity and instructed his court preacher, Dr. Lutkens, to take measures for sending out missionaries to Tranquebar. While India has attracted the commercial and military spirit of the West, its great spiritual needs have not been less potent in attracting the evangelist.

Refer to Crimes of Christianity - By G W Foote and J M Wheeler Progressive Publishing Co. London. 1887.

Refer to chapter on European Imperialism and Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie and Things they don't tell about Christianity. Refer to jesusneverexisted.com. 

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

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Tranquebar, a little town 180 miles south of Madras, was the cradle of Protestant missions in the Orient. That the missionaries from Denmark began their magnificent work here belongs to the region of religious romance. On July 9, 11706, Ziegenbalg and Plutschau landed here. Why should they come to this obscure and insignificant place? Simply because Tranquebar was a little possession of Denmark. It became a Danish settlement through the accident of a shipwreck. In 1618 Roland Crape, the captain of a Danish East India ship, was shipwrecked here.

The King of Tanjore Vijaya Raghunatha Nayak in 1620, saw in this accident an advantage and permitted the Danes to settle in Tarangambadi (Tranquebar) and carry on Trade in the Tanjore country. Believing it to be a good opportunity to show a kindness to the Danes, he made over the town of Tranquebar to Crape, and the Danish flag floated over the fort of Tranquebar.  Fredrick IV, the Danish king, instructed his court preacher, Dr. Lutkens, to take measures for sending out missionaries to Tranquebar.

Schwartz

Christian Frederik Schwarz, who was destined to prove an inspiration to the cause of missions world over, arrived in Southern India in 1759, and, without waiting for a critical knowledge of Tamil, began at once with a few words and in broken speech. If we consider all the qualities which constitute a sublime missionary life, the career of this man is almost without a parallel in missionary history. With the death of Schwarz, in 1798, the first period of Protestant missions came to an end. The difficulties had been numerous, and of such magnitude as to terrify any spirits less brave than the heroes who made the first Protestant attack upon the dense mass of Hindu paganism.

Carey, Marshman, and Ward  

William Carey arrived in Calcutta in 1793, began a new era, not alone in the Indian missions, but in the history of universal evangelization. He was joined afterwards by Marshman and Ward, and the three planned for the occupation of all Northern India . The forces of this mission radiated in all directions. 

Martyn

Henry Martyn, a chaplain of the East India Company, arrived in 1806, and began his brief but remarkable career in the valley of the Ganges . In less than two years after his arrival he had translated the New Testament into Hindustani, written a commentary in the same language on our Lord’s parables, and began a Persian translation of the New Testament. He was consumed by his passionate zeal for souls. He died in 1812 at the age of 31 at Tokat, Asia Minor on his way home from Persia to England . His body lies where he died, and his tombstone bears the following inscription, written by Lord Macaulay:

“here Martyn lies! In manhood’s early bloom
The Christian found a Pagan tomb;
Religion, sorrowing o’er her favorite son,
Points to the glorious trophies which he won”

Martyn left behind an example which has been a singular force in leading many, in both England and America, to enter upon the missionary career.

Judson and Newell

In 1812 two American missionaries, Judson and Newell, arrived in Calcutta. The British government, which had not yet learned that the Christian religion was a greater force to preserve India to England than the army itself, ordered their expulsion from the country. After 1813, there were no further expulsions of missionaries. The Bishop’s College in Calcutta and the Baptist College in Serampore had been doing invaluable work, each in its own way, towards translating the Scriptures, establishing schools and building up a Christian life among the native populations. The British government had learned that its interests in India lay in the same path with the evangelization of the country.

Of the 791 foreign missionaries , 25 of these are connected with American societies. The nationalities of the others are as follows:

England – 276
Scotland – 78
Ireland – 17
 Wales – 11
Canada – 23-404
United States – 139
Germany – 128
Switzerland – 18
Denmark – 9
 Others – 40
 Native Sons – 42

“ India is now open to missionary work. All the Indian gates are down; the bars are shattered into small fragments; the locks are ground into fine dust. Every stream sings a welcome to the evangelist of peace. The King of Nations is entering”

One of the most significant signs of the Indian times lies in the fact that since the Mutiny of 1857 (War of Independence) England has learned that the Christian religion is the real, and only, basis of a permanent tenure of the country. 

In 1862 Lord Palmerston paid a tribute to the loyalty to the British government of the native Christians of India, and added:

“It is not only our duty, but it is our interest to promote the diffusion of Christianity, as far as possible, through the whole length and breadth of India .” The report of the Secretary of State and Council of India, 1871- 72, says: “the government of India cannot but acknowledge the great obligations under which it is laid by the benevolent exertions made by missionaries, whose blameless example and self-denying labors are infusing new vigor into the stereotyped life of the great populations placed under English rule, and are preparing them to be in every way better men and better citizens of the great empire in which they dwell.” There will be no lower attitude occupied by the government than is expressed in these strong words.

No missionary will ever again be warned off, as Judson was, from an Indian port.

(source: Indika: The Country and the people of India and Ceylon - By Rev. John F Hurst p. 432 – 444 and  p. 450 - 453). Refer to jesusneverexisted.com. Refer to chapter on European Imperialism  

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007  

Christian Spiritual Domination 

"Who is Christianity for? It may seem an odd question. The plainest of answers is furnished by the so-called 'great commission' which concludes St Mathew's Gospel: 'Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.' What could be more explicit than that? But it needs only a slight acquaintance with the history of the past 2,000 years to show that Christians have not always heeded even the least ambiguous of instructions. consider the withering rebuke delivered by a gathering of Baptist ministers to the young William Carey, later to be so famous in the Indian mission field, when in 1786 he first voiced his wish to become a missionary: 

'Sit down, young man. When it pleases the Lord to convert the heathen He will do it without your help or mine.'

(source: The Barbarian Conversion -  By Richard Fletcher  p. 1). Refer to chapter on European Imperialism  

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1857 War of Independence and Justifying British Colonialism in India

James Madison (1751-1836) was an American politician, the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Considered to be the "Father of the Constitution", he was the principal author of the document. In 1788, he wrote over a third of the Federalist Papers, still the most influential commentary on the Constitution.  

He has observed this about Christianity:

"What have been Christianity's fruits? — Superstition, bigotry and persecution".

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Victor Hugo rightly said that revolution is the lava of civilization. Political convulsions, like geological upheavals, often usher in new epochs in the life of any nation. The War of 1857 was undoubtedly an epoch-making event in India’s struggle for freedom. For what the British sought to deride as a mere Sepoy mutiny was India’s First War of Independence in a very true sense, when people from all walks of life, irrespective of their caste, creed, religion and language, rose against the British rule. 

Indian history appears to be remarkably free of large scale peasant revolts (like The French Revolution and The Russian Revolution) of the kind that have provided the historians of Europe and China with materials for assessing class antagonisms. For this reason the war of 1857 has been of special interest. 

Western Intrusion into Non-European World and tampering with the religions of India?

Ross Lewis Mangles (1833 - 1905) the Chairman of the Directors of the East India Company said in the House of Commons in 1857:

"Providence has entrusted the extensive empire of Hindustan to England, in order that the banner of Christ should wave triumphant from one end of India to the other. Everyone must exert all his strength that here may be no dilatoriness on any account in continuing in the country the grand work of making India Christian."

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It was war in which Western man was pitted against Orientals, race against race, Christianity against the resurgent religions of India. 

Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870 ) fulminated like a savage tyrant when he wrote:

‘I wish I were a Commander In Chief in India . The first thing I would do to strike that Oriental Race with amazement....should be to proclaim to them that my holding that appointment by the leave of God, to mean that I should do my utmost to exterminate the race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested; and that I was there for that purpose and no other, . . .now proceeding, with all convenient dispatch and merciful swiftness of execution, to blot it out of mankind and raze it off the face of the Earth.’

British Atrocities

One of the conspicuous features of British writing of 1857  had been on emphasis on the atrocities committed by Indians on Europeans.  

"If in 1776 the Americans had failed, would you now talk about the American Mutiny?" 

Speaking in the House of Commons in July 1857, Benjamin Disraeli described the uprising of 1857 as a ‘national revolt’ while Lord Palmerston, the then Prime Minister, tried to down play the scope and the significance of the event as a ‘mere military mutiny’ (much like what is termed as "insurgency in Iraq by the American Government today").

 

White Man's burden. Civilizing the Heathens of India and Spreading Democracy in Iraq.

 America: The 21st century Britain's Imperial apprentice.

The First War of Independence was a war in which Western man was pitted against Orientals, race against race, Christianity against the resurgent religions of India. 

The British tried to down play the scope and the significance of the event as a ‘mere military mutiny’ much like what is termed as "insurgency in Iraq" by the American Government today.

Refer to chapter on European Imperialism  

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Reflecting this debate, the early historian of the rebellion, Charles Ball, though he sided with the name of ‘Mutiny’ in his title (using mutiny and Sepoy insurrection), yet he labeled it a ‘struggle for liberty and independence as a people’ in the text of his book.

Sir John Kaye (1814 - 1876) historian and author of Christianity in India, writing with an evangelical mindset made the Brahmins the scapegoat for revolt. 

"Every monstrous lie exploded, every abominable practice suppressed, was a blow struck at the Priesthood; for all these monstrosities and abominations had their root in Hindooism, and could not be eradicated without sore disturbance and confusion of the soil. The murder of women on the funeral-pile, the murder of little children in the zenana, the murder of the sick and the aged on the banks of the river....Education, pure and simple in its secularity, was quite enough in itself to hew down this dense jungle of Hindooism; but when it was seen that the functions of the English schoolmaster and the Christian priest were often united in the same person at examinations conducted by chaplains or missionaries, a fear arose lest even secular education might be the mask of proselytism...every year there were there manifestations of a continually increasing desire to emancipate the natives of India from the gross superstitions which enchained them."

Surendra Nath Sen formerly the Head of the Department of History, Calcutta University and Vice Chancellor of the Delhi University wrote:

"The Mutiny was inevitable. No dependent nation can for ever reconcile itself to foreign domination. A despotic government must ultimately rule by the sword though it might be sheathed in velvet. In India the sword was apparently in the custody of the Sepoy Army. Between the Sepoy and his foreign master there was no common tie of race, language, and religion."

He wrote in his book Eighteen fifty seven: 

"The cause of the mutiny was as much as anything a kind of collective English insensitivity to Indian religious beliefs and Indian ways in general, combined with the excesses of nineteenth century Christian evangelism. Admittedly, this evangelism did embrace reforms such as the suppression of suttee, but Sen stresses that there was a body of educated Indian opinion moving in the same direction. Further, many of the vaunted reforms of the English, such as the suppression of feudal tyranny, were deeply flawed in practice: hence he dwells upon the sheer scale of the looting practiced by the English soldiery, and even their officers, and the corruption which was the norm in a civil government presided over by Englishmen. In short, while Sen is forced to recognize the Later English Raj component of his own heritage, he resents the brutality with which it was imposed."

Henry Mead author of The Sepoy Revolt: Its Causes and Its Consequences "the measureless folly of our rule” in India, a rule based, he declares, on “torture and lawlessness, and the perpetual suffering of millions”. He traces in excruciating detail the system of torture employed by tax collectors of the raj and asserts that “under Christian sway,” the peasant population of India has been reduced almost to a state of “ultimate wretchedness”  The British have imposed on India, he concludes, “a system of rule which is wholly destructive”

Gautam Chakravarty author of The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination has remarked that: 

"that nineteenth-century imperial expansion, like the “US-led neo-colonial globalisation of the twentieth century,” “justified multiform violence through self-serving, self-congratulatory high talk about civilizing and racial missions”; Victorian professions of philanthropic intent toward India were only so much “humbug” designed to justify plunder."  British imperialism in India was propelled by general belief in “an inevitable national and racial urge” to foreign domination and that there was in Britain an “almost immediate manufacture of a language combining patriotic fervour with xenophobia,” a language anticipating the “jingoism and warmongering of later, high imperial, decades.” 

The analyses of the nature and courses of the war that had been made by British writers were challenged by a young Indian writer in a work that has played a remarkably influential role in the development of modern Indian historgraphy. 

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883 - 1966) was one of a group of students who went to Europe and realized that something more than the destruction of the British was needed: Indians must be filled with the desire to rise against their oppressors. It was for this reason that he wrote his account of 1857, calling it "the First Indian War of Independence." His book was printed in Holland, was immediately proscribed by the British authorities, nevertheless copies were smuggled into India, and those who never read it began to think of the revolt of 1857 as a great national war of liberation. 

The use of the term "Indian Mutiny" is considered as unacceptable and offensive, as it is perceived to belittle what they see as a "First War of Independence" and therefore reflecting a biased, imperialistic attitude of the erstwhile colonists. 

Hira Lal Gupta of Saugar University in the Journal of Indian History wrote:

"Although the 19th century political and philosophical concept of nationalism of a strictly western type was not evolved in India till then, the idea of a nationhood and the concept of India, as one country inhabited by the Hindus and Muslims, were not new. Sri Savarkar designated the uprising of 1857 as the first war of Indian Independence, he revealed a simple truth and provided inspiration to the English educated intelligentsia of India coming to the forefront of the nationalist oragnizations. There is nothing wrong in calling the great Revolt as the national uprising of India against foreign domination."

Somnath Chaterjee  (1929 - ) Office of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha in October 2006 said:

“The War of 1857 was undoubtedly an epoch-making event in India ’s struggle for freedom. For what the British sought to deride as a mere sepoy mutiny was India ’s First War of Independence in a very true sense, when people from all walks of life, irrespective of their caste, creed, religion and language, rose against the British rule. Not only did these martyrs give up their lives for the sake of the country’s freedom but also left a message for the future generations --- a message of sacrifice, courage of conviction, a strong belief in the ultimate victory of the people in their war against oppression. 

'With these words, I once again pay my humble tributes to the martyrs of the 1857 War of Independence ...”  

(source: 1857 in India: Mutiny or War of Independence - Edited by Ainslee T Embree and War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma - By Christopher Herbert).

Refer to chapter on European Imperialism  

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Racial Equality Bill Of 1919, And Massacre At Jallianwala Bagh
No apology for the Massacre by the Government of Britain  

The British enacted the Rowlatt Act in February 1919 essentially designed to suppress all Indian demands. The Rowlatt Bill drew nation wide protests. The people of Amritsar chose to hold a peaceful meeting on Sunday the 13th of April 1919, which was also the Baisakhi, in Jallianwala Bagh to express their opposition to the Bill. 

While the Indian nationalists of Amritsar made arrangements for a peaceful meeting, the staunch British imperialist General Reginald E. H. Dyer, chief of the British army in Amritsar , resolved to teach the natives a lesson. Dyer commanded his troops to open fire, without warning, on the peaceful gathering of about 20,000 local Indians from Amritsar and the nearby villages. The machine guns killed 379 men women and children, and at least 1200 received serious injuries. Eminent journalist and historian Khuswant Singh claims a higher figure of 2000 wounded, many of whom succumbed to their injuries in the months to follow. 

The Government of Britain as of today, despite demands from the Government and people of India , have not offered an official apology for the massacre of Jallianwala Bagh.
 
The 13th of April 1919 was the day of Baisakhi, which marks the beginning of the solar New Year in India . For the people of the province of Punjab where lies the city of Amritsar , where the massacre took place, Baisakhi is a mega event. Adherents of the Sikh religion celebrate Baisakhi for a combination of reasons; it is the day of their most important religious festival, harvest festival and the New Year’s Day. Religious significance of Baisakhi stems from several important historical facts, which are as follows. The Hindus, not only of Punjab but of the entire country of India , observe Baisakhi as the New Year’s Day, celebrated by ritual bathing, worshipping and merriment. And the Baisakhi is the day the British chose to massacre the unarmed civilians, men women and children, of Punjab , and to utterly humiliate Indians, who had most generously contributed to the war efforts of the British. 

The massacre of Jallianwala Bagh was a turning point in Indo-British relations, just as the rejection of the Racial Equality Bill was for the Anglo-Japanese relations. The massacre brought a new resolve among the Indian leadership demanding freedom. Mahatma Gandhi launched his non-cooperation movement that would eventually succeed in driving the British off India .

(source: Racial Equality Bill Of 1919, And Massacre At Jallianwala Bagh - By Mrs Shizuka Imamoto with Dr Nachiketa Das).

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Bishop Azariah: India's Enemy Number One  

Anglican Bishop V.S. Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah (1874-1945). Azariah, the first Indian to be  ordained a bishop in an Anglican diocese, spent much of his life leading a movement to convert Indians to Christianity. Considered by Mahatma Gandhi to be postcolonial Indians' "Enemy Number One," his theology was a mixture of British Christian imperialism and American Reformed theology. He was convinced that Christianity could transform Indian culture. Gandhi, who considered all religions to have equal value, nevertheless associated Christianity with British imperialism and saw Hinduism as a potent cultural force for uniting anticolonial India. 

       

Bishop Azariah and Mahatma Gandhi

Considered by Mahatma Gandhi  to be postcolonial Indians' "Enemy Number One," his theology was a mixture of British Christian imperialism and American Reformed theology.

Gandhi, who considered all religions to have equal value, nevertheless associated Christianity with British imperialism and saw Hinduism as a potent cultural force for uniting anticolonial India. 

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Bishop Azariah's diocese was the fastest-growing in the world. Most of the money for this and other missionary work in India comes from the great British missionary boards—one of which, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, sent out such famed 18th-Century missionaries to the U. S. as Methodist John Wesley, Episcopalian John Talbot. Now that Britain has had to cut her missionary giving, U. S. Episcopalians are rallying to help Bishop Azariah and other Anglican missionaries carry on.

(source: In the Shadows of the Mahatma - By Susan Billington Harper). Harper is program officer for religion scholarships at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Philadelphia. For more on Ms. Harper refer to chapter on Glimpses XXII.

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Conversion: Sin or Sincerity?  

Bharat Gupt (1946 - ) Associate Professor of English, College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi has observed:

"A planned and well executed anti-intellectualism disguised as ‘anti-Brahmanism’ has been practiced for a very long time, from the medieval court/administration patronized intellectuals like Ziauddin Barni of the 14th century to the British administrator T. B. Macaulay, and in recent times from the Nehruvian ‘secularists’ to the present Euro-American academics like Wendy Doniger and the liberal left groups like the subalternists who concentrate on a caste, curry and sexuality-ridden stereotype of Hinduism. This has engendered a pathetic ignorance of our own texts, particularly in their original languages, that oscillates from guilt to bravado in our educated elite."

Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

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The Papal call for the Asian Harvesting of Souls is no exercise to swell the coffers of the Church losing ground in the opulent West as many would like us to believe. It is based more on the notion that Christianity alone is the true religion while other religions are condemned to error. Even in a multicultural world, the Christian leadership does not wish to pluralize its dogma and offer it as, one more instead of, the only way to God! For the Pope, all religions may be equal but Christianity is more equal than others!  

Apologies for Evangelism  

Many clichés about conversion are kept alive by vested interests that prevent an evaluation of the evangelical agenda. The foremost being that conversion controversy is not a religious issue but a vote-catching device. It is projected as a Hindu Conservative Right versus Progressive Left confrontation. But time has shown that proselytization is not a battle for votes, but a battle for souls with a long history of cultural beliefs and behavior patterns that goes far beyond the smaller fortunes of the Nehru or the Sangh Parivar.  

Another cliché is that conversions have always been a result of the low caste Hindus turning to other faiths to escape the oppression by higher varnas. Christian and Muslim evangelists are never tired of projecting their faiths as truly egalitarian and democratic based upon the ability to provide equal opportunities to all their adherents irrespective of their birth or social class or caste.  

As a matter of fact, caste has little to do with conversion. No Muslim or Christian convert of low caste forgoes his caste and gains a status of even workable equality with upper caste Christians or Muslims. If it was so, Churches of all denominations would not be demanding reservation for Christians on caste basis. The motive to become Muslim or Christian was seldom freedom from caste hierarchy. For vast populations it was always either force or allurement.  When Christianity arrived in India in the first century, the caste-system had become quite rigid.  

If Christianity was such a relief for the underdogs why did it not grow in leaps and bounds from its very arrival?

In early centuries, let alone in India , in the Mediterranean as well, Christians were not focusing upon the destitute entirely to multiply their fold. They influenced the highly placed sections of the Roman and Greek bureaucracy and their great expansion came only after the baptism of Constantine, the Roman Emperor.  

In India , Christianity remained in isolation till the Protestant British gave it an impetus, keeping at bay even the older Orthodox Christians. Similarly, Islamic rulers did not target the lower-caste Hindus who were incapable of effectively supporting the Turkish, Afghan and later Mughal elite. They left these poor neoconverts to the Sufis whom they seldom patronized and often persecuted as potential spokesmen of the poor. An unabashed instigator of proselytization, the historian Ziauddin Barni (1285 - 1357) advised the Sultanate to target the Brahmin intelligentsia and the big Hindu landowners and merchants to be cowed into submission and conversion.  

The ruling Muslims in India never objected to the varna-jaati hierarchy as they themselves believed in social status by birth, distinction between lord and slave, ashraf, arjal and ajlaf. The elite class belonged to the royalty and military eminence were ashraf that included Qureshi, Jafri, Hussaini, Alvi, Osmani, Farooqi, Siddiqui, Moghuls, Naqvi, Zaidi, Kazmi, Rizvi, Hashmi, Abbasi, Arabs, Pathans, Sherwani, Shairazi, Isphani, Timizi, Bukhari, Qazi, Mullick, and Mirzas etc. They were originally foreigners and some of them even boasted of ‘blue blood’ as they were able to import Central Asia women. During the days of the Islamic rule in India , they were the high and mighty and even when they married the Hindu princely women whom they converted to their religion and manners, they were known as torch bearers of the clans they originally belonged to before settling in India . The converts to Islam from the Indian artisan, trading and agricultural classes were called ajlaf and were the new middle class of Islamic population in India, who were semi respectable like the Ansari, Mansoori, Mirasi, etc. The lowest category that converted from the Hindu shudra classes were called arjal and did not take any Arabic caste names and continued to be known by their professional  such as dhobi, halal khor, dhuniya, dom etc. To this day the matrimonial columns of the Muslim community reflect this divide.  

Conversion for Colonization  

It is not totally true that the primary motive of Christian missionaries of any denomination is to improve the standards of life for the poor, the marginalized and the aborigines. If this was so, vast populations of the South American and the African continents would not be living even after conversion in poverty and exploitation by the rich Christian West.

(source: India: A Cultural Decline or Revival? - By Bharat Gupta p. 32 - 37). Refer to Searching for “God” in the Catholic Church   - By Krishen Kak - vijayvaani.com

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An abysmally apocalyptic condition of Hindus In India

Only in India: Where 17% aggressive religious Minority rules over Majority

India is a predominantly Hindu nation.  83% of the Indian population is Hindu.  But it is a matter of great regret that India is the only country in the world where the Hindu majority population is being ruled by the other 17% minority communities. 

Sonia Maino Gandhi, the President of the ruling Congress Party is a practicing Catholic Christian.  Her son Rahul Gandhi who is being groomed as the next Prime Minister of India is also a Christian.  Sonia’s daughter Priyanka Vadera and her husband are also Christians.  India’a Defense Minister is A. K. Anthony, a Christian. 

Sonia’s closest advisors are:  Margaret Alva (resigned yesterday), Oscar Fernandes, Ambika Soni, all Christians (yes, despite Ambika’s Hindu sounding name, she is a Christian).  India ’s Vice President is Mohammad Hamid Ansari.  Ahmed Patel, Gulam Nabi Azad and Salman Khurshid – the core members of Sonia’s think tank – are all Muslims.   

Dr. Shakeel Ahmad is Minister of State in Home Ministry, a very sensitive post.  One more fundamentalist Islamist E. Ahmed, President of the Indian Union Muslim League is the Union Minister for External Affairs.  Mr. Abdul Rahman Antulay is the Minority Affairs Minister and Mr. Shafi Qureshi is the Chairman of National Commission on Minorities.  In addition, Sonia’s handpick Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterY. S. Rajasekhara Reddy is also a Christian (again, to deceive the gullible Hindu public, he maintains a Hindu sounding name). 

 

 An abysmally apocalyptic condition of Hindus in India

Lord Krishna.

India: A Land of The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita and Vedas is being ruled by 17% of Aggressively religious Minority.

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and  Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

Refer to AP Govt. move to demolish ISKCON Temple. Refer to Hindu Human Rights Watch and Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006). Refer to Searching for “God” in the Catholic Church   - By Krishen Kak - vijayvaani.com

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

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Prof. Valson Thampu, a Christian theologian, an academic and author, Chairman, NCERT Curriculum Review Committee, is a known Hindu baiter.  Mr. John Dayal, Chairman of Indian Catholic Union, notorious for his hate mongering proclivity, is playing a very disastrous role in National Integration Council.  Anti-Hindu UPA government uses the services of Mr. John Dayal and Mr. Kanchan Ilaya, another Hindu hater, to lobby with the U.N. and U.S. Congress, to drive a wedge in Hindu society and weaken it.  

From the above, it is absolutely clear that India is actually being ruled either by the Moslems or by Christians.  The situation for Hindus in India , in short, could be described as abysmally apocalyptic.      

While most Hindus are busy in their daily chores like earning a living, doing yoga, making money, celebrating festivals, enjoying their lives, building temples, our adversaries have hatched very sinister plans to enslave us politically and then obliterate Hindu Dharma from the Indian soil.  As a matter of fact, the Hindus are under a multi-pronged seize. 

Muslim population in the world is approximately 1.3 billion.  They have more than 54 countries.  It is a paradox that Hindus with approximately one billion adherents in the world do not have even one country where they could live without any fear of being terrorized!   

We must rectify this dichotomy at the earliest.

Because of our internal squabbles, in the medieval period, Afghans and Moguls used us to fight for them and finally they subjugated India .  Now, because of our disunity, myopic vision, apathy, selfishness, greed, and ego-centric attitude, the Islamists, Christians and Communists are vying with one another to control Hindus politically.

The next Parliamentary elections are round the corner.  If Hindus really want to jettison the anti-Hindu forces (such as Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Ramvilas Paswan, the deadly combination of Leftists-cum-Islamists), who have entrenched themselves in the corridors of power and reduced Hindus to second class citizens in their own country, Hindus have to shed their squeamishness, and make a Machiavellian move to end this sordid chapter of servitude and vulnerability.

(source: How to Establish the Pro Hindu Government in India ? - By Narain Kataria - haindava keralam). Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America. Refer to Searching for “God” in the Catholic Church   - By Krishen Kak - vijayvaani.com

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Christian Conquest of India - White Man's Burden

Christian Conversion are a plot to Murder Ancient Indic Civilization and Culture.

To Colonize our souls and Cannibalize our Cultures. 

Massive Foreign funds to annihilate the native faith of the World.

Conversion (Christian and Islamic) is not Spirituality - it is Imperialism and Terrorism

 

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother..."

                                                                 Matthew 10:34-35 - Things they don't tell about Christianity  

"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."  - Isaac Asimov 

"Whoever will take the trouble to read attentively, will find in all those passages where the Old Testament is cited, only an obvious abuse of words, and the seal of falsehood on almost every page."  - Voltaire

“The calculation is that this (India) is the last great missionary front on Earth”  - John L. Allen Jr a Vatican expert based in Rome.

"A new mood of aggressive evangelism has been emanating from America. Well-funded, superbly networked, backed by the highest of the land, seized of its moral supremacy, it has India as one of its key targets."

                                -  V K Shashikumar - Preparing for the harvest ...  - By Tehelka.com.  Refer to Debunking Christianity and Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity - by John W. Loftus and Christianity’s criminal history – By Karlheinz Deschner.  Refer to Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie and Foundations of  Christianity – By Karl Kautsky. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007.  Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America. Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall

" The movement to convert Asia and Africa to Christianity is a continuation of what was known in the colonial days as the ‘White Man's Burden' to civilize these regions. But what the Christians more appropriately the White Christians of Europe, America and Australia - conveniently forget is that Asian and African nations have a history of civilization dating back over three thousand years before Christ. " 

                                                            - Sultan Shahin author of  Harvesting Asian souls

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Christianity's Magnificent Historical Obsession to Convert.

Christianity has Created Civilizational Graveyards all over the world.

The Burden of the Cross: To colonize our Hindu souls and cannibalize Indian culture.

Denigrating Hindu gods and goddesses has become the standard practice of preachers flush with foreign funds.

Irony Alert:  Historically the Jews have denied Jesus as Messiah and have rejected Christianity and yet this dogma is being forced upon the rest of the world?

 

Monotheism, stands out as especially dangerous, repressive and loony. 

"Christianity’s rapacious evangelical agenda has caused, and will continue to cause, incalculable damage to humanity’s spirit.

Why this war on Hinduism? Destroying India's Spiritual Democracy. Global Christianity will tolerate no rival. 

Why are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to live in peace in pluralist societies?

For those who propagate the supremacy of Christianity. Worshipping a Dead Arab on a stick makes a whole lot of sense than worshipping the Divine within us or the forces of Mother Nature? Like the Tobacco and drug industry when they cannot market a faulty product in the West they head to the Third World countries trying to sell their wares. Similarly Christianity which is dying in the West (especially Europe) is following the same route to increase and inflate its numbers through deceit and allurement.

Refer to chapters on Nature Worship and Symbolism in Hinduism and European Imperialism and  Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie and Things they don't tell about Christianity.  Refer to jesusneverexisted.com. 

Refer to Follow up on the murder of Swami Lakshmananda – Dar-ul- islam Christendom and Jews for Jesus: Targeting Jews for Conversion with Subterfuge and Deception and Christian Missionaries step up activities to convert Jews in Israel.

Refer to VINDICATED BY TIME: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities - Christianity Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee 1956 and How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India and Hindu Human Rights Watch and Why this war on Hinduism? - By George Thundiparambil - christianaggression.org. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

(image source: democratic underground.com).

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Spiritual Design and Intrusion:  History of how Western Powers want to destroy Indic Civilization

Christofascism? An Arrogant, totalitarian, imperialistic attitude towards Hinduism

Alexander Zinoviev (1922 -    )  Russian sociologist and works in Russian Academy of Sciences. He has been many times in India and is interested in Indian culture.

He has recently written:

"But I would like to believe Hinduism is too valuable for humanity, and sacred Indian books contain too much precious and unique knowledge that it will not sink in oblivion. I’d like to believe that the principles of Indian philosophy and religion are much more in agreement with the needs for the future than any other religion in the world, in agreement with the tendency, known in Western countries as New Age. 

It’s my deep belief that without India the world will sink in spiritual darkness and ignorance."

(source: For India’s survival Hinduism has to prevail - By Alexander Zinoviev - organiser.org). Refer to Searching for “God” in the Catholic Church   - By Krishen Kak - vijayvaani.com

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Religious Conversion is a foreign policy objective of the Christian West.

Western governments as a matter of carefully thought-out strategy provide economic, diplomatic and political support to missionary organizations to carry out conversions throughout the world. The US government considers Christian evangelism as an inseparable part of its foreign policy.

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Pitrim Alexandrovitch Sorokin (1889-1968) was a Russian-American sociologist of Harvard University had said: 

"During the past few centuries the most belligerent, the most aggressive, the most rapacious, the most power-drunk section of humanity has been precisely, the Christian Western world. 

During these centuries western Christendom had invaded all other continents; its armies followed by priests and merchants have subjugated, robbed or pillaged most of the non-Christians. Native Americans, African, Australian, Asiatic populations have been subjugated to this peculiar brand of Christian "love" which has generally manifested itself in pitiless destruction, enslavement, coercion, destruction of the cultural values, institutions, the way of life of the victims and the spread of alcoholism, venereal disease, commercial cynicism and the like."

(source: History of Hindu-Christian Encounters - By Sita Ram Goel  ISBN 9990049173 p. 370). Refer to chapter on European Imperialism  

Note: Christian Love? Christianity has destroyed Native cultures around the globe from Australia , New Zealand to India to Africa and the Americas . Tragically Native Americans/African Americans have been stripped of their Cultural Identity. Hair styles, clothing and even names and body languages were changed. The intention was to completely erase the Indian way of life.  Indeed, in order to destroy completely not only their African heritage, but also their very African identity psychologically, they were forced to change their names to Arabic and Christian names...

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India Under Siege - Missionary Onslaught

India has had an unrivalled tradition of religious freedom and tolerance. 

That tradition was born of the consciousness that truth can never be the monopoly of any one sect or creed.

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Orissa-based Swami, An Anti-Conversion Champion, Is Killed by Christian Missionaries
Ethically-Challenged Christian Missionaries Piously bent on destroying Ancient Culture of India

Orissa, India. August 24, 2008: Swami Laxmananda Saraswati, the 80-year-old monk who spearheaded the anti-conversion movement in Orissa's tribal dominated areas for decades, was shot dead at his Jalespata Ashram under Tumudibandha block in Kandhamal district late Saturday night. Director-General of Police Gopal Nanda confirmed the murderous attack on Swami Laxmananda Saraswati's ashram. 

Swami Laxmananda Saraswati came to tribal-dominated Kandhamal in 1966. Since then he has been leading a campaign against conversion activities of Christian missionaries. He has also been in the forefront of the campaign against cow-slaughter. It was because of his sustained efforts that thousands of tribals who had embraced Christianity returned to the Hindu fold. Swami Laxmananda Saraswati had served tribals, mainly Kandhs, in the region. His main ashram is located at Chakapad in the same district. The place where he was killed houses a residential school for girls and an ashram.

Brutally assaulted and killed by AK-47 rifles and 7.62 mm assault rifles and 9 mm pistols. 

Christian atrocities are well cloaked under the 'pious'  and hypocritical guise of social service.

 

       

The heinous murder of Swami Laxmananda Saraswati - valiant warrior for Hindu civilisation.

The secular and foreign media has worked overtime to delink the ugly, provocative murder of 80-year-old Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four disciples to aggressive Christian evangelicals.

Though not yet conclusively proved about the motivation, a firm belief is spreading among the disciples of Swamiji that the Christian missionaries had hired a splinter group of Maoists to eliminate Swamiji, the main bottleneck on the way to proselytisation. Killing the seer with AK-47 rifles and 7.62 mm assault rifles and 9 mm pistols does prove such a nexus. Actually Swamiji proved to be a great stumbling block in the way of the missionaries from converting the simple Vanvasis and others to Christianity by allurement, bribe and deceit.

In 1999 the burning of Christian priest Graham Staines and his two young sons invited an international outrage, in which even the then US President Bill Clinton through telephone expressed his deepest concern to the then Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. The German Parliament passed a resolution condemning the killing of Graham Staines who was actively involved in active propagation of his religion. 

And this time also, the national media and specifically the English ones have focused more on the aftermath violence than on the Swamiji’s murder itself. The Catholic religion head, Pope Benedict XVI and the Italian Parliament have expressed their deepest concern on the incident of church burning, damage to Christian homes, property and their escapade to the jungle but no sympathy for Hindus and the causes for this conflict and violence.

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan

Refer to Hindu Human Rights Watch and Christian fundamentalism and the media in South India - By Pradip N. Thomas and Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie

Refer to The Persecution Industry: What are the stakes? - By Ramapriya Abraham and Follow up on the murder of Swami Lakshmananda – Dar-ul- islam Christendom

The Myth of Christian oppression? The carefully nurtured image of oppression of Christians in India by the media and Human Rights groups in the West. Refer to Things they don't tell about Christianity and 1,000 years of Carnage and Barbarity in the name of Christ. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

Refer to Conversion is Terrorism! and How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India and Christian Missionaries step up activities to convert Jews in Israel 

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The police have arrested Pradesh Kumar Das, an employee of the World Vision, a Christian Charity, from Khadagpur while escaping from the district at Buguda. In another drive, two other persons Vikram Digal and William Digal have been arrested from the house of Lal Digal, a local militant Christian, from Nuasahi at Gunjibadi, Nuagaan. They have admitted to having joined a group of 28 other assailants. Last Rites of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati Performed - Rituals associated with the death of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati -- the Sodoshi Mohatshov, 16th day function -- were held amidst unprecedented security measures at his Chakapada Ashram, 61 km from here today. A Shivalingam was installed at the samadhi of Laxmananandaji. Prior to the installation several yagnas were performed. The rituals were followed by a memorial meeting in which devotees vowed to carry forward his battle against illegal conversion and cow slaughter. 

Paying glowing tributes to Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, speakers said he had laid down his life for the Hindu cause. "The religion is under threat from forces who indulge in illegal conversion." they said.

Refer to Swami Laxmanananda murder: Can’t we stop conversion? - By MA Kharabela Swain. Watch youtube.com. Refer to Crusadewatch.org,  Jesusneverexisted.com, Conversion Agenda, Christian Aggression.com. Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil

Christian Conversions and Attack on Hindu Swami in Orissa

It is now a known global fact that the mainline English media (both print and electronic) in India are committed every day only to the cause of the reporting of manufactured pseudo events or suitably "tailored’ so called real events. All the time the language of the manufactured story is so designed as to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give as appearance of solidity to pure wind.  

The most important cardinal truth that is being deliberately and mischievously suppressed by the media is the fact that the whole trouble started after the Fanatic Christians attacked SWAMY LAKSHMANANDA SARASWATHI in Christian dominated Brahmanaigaon in Kandhamal District in Orissa on Monday, the 24 December 2007.

(source: Christian Conversions and Attack on Hindu Swami in Orissa - By V Sundaram  indiacause.com). Refer to India Secular and The Rise and fall of Religious Right in USA

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We knew it was Christian Mafia  
Net closes in on Congress Christian MP for Orissa swami’s murder

Bhubaneswar: The BJD-BJP Government in Orissa is closing in on Congress Rajya Sabha member and former civil servant Radhakanta Nayak for his “alleged role in the conspiracy to kill Lakshmanananda Saraswati.”

Sources say that Nayak, the most high-profile Christian political leader in the State, may be arrested shortly. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has alleged that the plot to kill Lakshamananda Saraswati was “hatched in the presence of Nayak.”

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Orissa police is said to be preparing a case against Nayak and his supporters. Though CID officials refused to comment whether they considered Nayak as one of the suspects, they said: “The mastermind has been identified and he is now out of Orissa.”

He could not make it to the post but in 2004, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha on a Congress ticket. In Kandhamal, he is known as the protector of churches and Pano (Dalit) Christians. Nayak is also connected with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). What are they going to say now? Understandably, they are mum. I haven’t seen this news report in any other paper than the Indian Express. Spit and run. Now, what saith the raped nun?

(source: We knew it was Christian Mafia - sandeep.com). Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

Harvesting Hindu Souls

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was among India's most fervent nationalists, fighting for Indian independence from British rule. Gandhi rose to the eminence of being called “amoral genius” by no less a person than the celebrated British philosopher C. E. M Joad. He was disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the Western civilization. 

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

He claimed: "I am a proud staunch Sanatani Hindu."  

He took considerable pride in this self-identification. Far from being a dirty word as it would soon become even for some so-called Hindu leaders, the word "Hindu" conveyed to him all that was noble and elevating. He did not feel that he was being "communal" when he called himself a Hindu. For him Hinduism was a a vast, spiritual vision beckoning man to rise to the highest heights.

 He has further stated:

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

(source: Young India 1-12-26 and (source: Young India, 24/11/1924 p. 390-396 and  The Discovery of India - By Jawaharlal Nehru. Oxford University Press. 1995. pg 75).

Faith Stealers
Spiritual regiment of the West's conquering armies

Christian expansionism was a two-track affair. A secular empire capturing colonies, turning humans into slaves; and missionaries harvesting them for intellectual and soul slavery. Both used deceit to achieve their objectives: denying expansionism, saying they were merely trying to help out, creating and encouraging our internal rivalries, claiming to be separate from each other while helping each other; in short both lying through their teeth. We ran a powerful independence movement trying to get rid of the former; but despite an occasional fulmination by leaders like Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi, we basically left the latter alone.

Arun Shourie's Harvesting Our Souls, a sequel to his Missionaries in India, may mark the beginning of a movement for the independence of our intellect and our souls. Coming as it does after Pope John Paul II's call to Christian missionaries to intensify their mission of harvesting our souls, it has arrived just in time. It fulfils a widely felt need, particularly after Missionaries in India, which detailed how missionaries had been casting aspersions on our culture and religions through the centuries.

As India came to realise what names missionaries have been calling us, how callously they have been interpreting our scriptures, one did want to seek the truth of their claims. Unfortunately, Christian missionary schools have been able to brainwash our elite so well that while our intelligentsia was already aware of what Shourie has put together in his book, it was not able to see through their claims and their design.

Rising communal tension between locals and Christian missionaries has focused our mind on the threat to social harmony the activities of missionaries pose. The way Christian converts in East Timor were helped by powerful Christian governments to gain independence from Indonesia has also awakened many of us.

(source: Faith Stealers - By Sultan Shahin - indiatoday.com). Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).  Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

 

A plot to conquer India by conversion
Resenting Conversion is dubbed as Communal by Indian 'Secular' Media

Cowards blame the victims

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Hindus in India and Nepal are prime targets for this harvest of faith. Even if old horrors like Goa Inquisition (1560 to 1812) heaped on Hindus by the church are kept aside, what is happening now is equally horrible.

The so-called ‘secular’ India has proved to be a disaster for Hindus. To prevent the creation of more Pakistans and Bangladeshs on Bharat’s soil by countless Pak-Bangla terrorists and infiltrators, and to prevent more Hindu lands (like North-East India) going to missionaries, ‘secular India ’ has to be transformed into ‘Hindu Bharat’. Since Bharat has forgotten its ancient Sanskrit adage, “Shathe shaathyam samaacharet” (treat the wicked in his own wicked way), its tormentors are having a free run.

Expansionist forces are waging a relentless war to demolish Hinduism and Hindu civilisation the way they have already wiped out many native religions and cultures from Europe, America , Africa, Australia , New Zealand , numerous Islands and parts of Asia .

Predators or ‘victims’?

Missionaries pretend to be ‘victims’ if their predatory attempts at proselytisation are resisted.

Recent circulation of a number of contrived stories about the alleged attacks on Christians in mainstream anti-Hindu media suppresses the fact that Hindu reaction in Orissa was triggered by the murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, and in Karnataka by denigration of Hindu gods in the book, Satya Darshini— distributed by some missionaries.

Unfortunately, most of the mainstream media in India is anti-Hindu, and hides missionary aggression. But it dubs those resenting this aggression as ‘communal’. While the said media ignored the outrageous murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, as also the denigration of Hinduism in Satya Darshini, it over-blew the natural Hindu reaction following these appalling attacks on Hindus and Hindu faith.

(source: A plot to conquer India by conversion - By J G Arora - organiser.org).  Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

As anti-missionary (not anti-Christian) violence is reported from some parts of the country, we are once again witnessing the familiar charade of public debate. A government that showed stoic indifference to a series of terrorist acts that killed dozens in several Indian cities; stayed mute when fanatic mobs desecrated the Tricolour on the Independence Day; is alarmed by reported on churches in Orissa, Karnataka, and Kerala. Upset enough to invoke the rarely-used Article 355 to issue directives to Orissa and Karnataka to restore law and order, ignoring the meaning of anti-missionary violence spreading to Kerala, haven of secularism.

The spontaneous response of unorganised Hindu mobs is being portrayed as pre-meditated attacks on Christians by members of blood-thirsty communal outfits. While the Hindu reaction to missionary mischief is highlighted with sharp focus, the original provocation (murder of a Hindu sanyasi and continuous forced conversions) is all but ignored. 

 

 Ram Rajya or Rome Rajya?

Christianity has not gotten tolerant over the years; it has merely gotten smarter. You catch more flies with sugar than salt

It costs 145 billion dollars to operate global Christianity.

A civilizational assault by India ’s supposedly miniscule internationally-backed Christian minority has been even more unrelenting.

The Church is the second largest land owner, the largest being the Indian military. Most of this land was given under land grants by the British to the Church, and by subsequent Indian governments.

 

Christianity, like its angry brother Islam, will tolerate no rival.

Christianity (like Islam) works on the principle:  What is mine is mine, what is yours should be free for evangelisation

Christianity has not gotten tolerant over the years; it has merely gotten smarter. You catch more flies with sugar than salt

Christian atrocities are well cloaked under the 'pious'  and hypocritical guise of social service. Christian missionaries are like Vultures who prey on Famine and natural disaster victims of the world. How would these Western missionaries react if the tables were reversed and Islamic/Buddhist/Hindu missionaries tried to convert them during a Hurricane disaster (like Katrina) in the United States?

The World Christian Trends (2001) has placed the number of persons affiliated to the Church in India at 62243546 or 6.1%. In short, the number of Christians in India is nearly thrice the official census figure!

Refer to Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie and Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall.
 Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007 and Things they don't tell about Christianity and jesusneverexisted.com and Hindu Human Rights Watch and watch the movie Deliver us from Evil

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

 

Christian missionaries are like Vultures who prey on Famine and natural disaster victims of the world.

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“India and its Missions”, an official Catholic publication, discusses the Spiritual Advantages of Famine and Cholera under that very heading!

Such a passage appears to Hindus as reminiscent of vultures circling over carcasses. 

Soul for food is a Faustian deal, and offering temptations is the way of Satan, not saints. Yet the church regards it as appropriate action at the proper time.

Why are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to live in peace in pluralist societies?

It costs 145 billion dollars to operate global Christianity, records a book on evangelization. The Church commands 4,000,000 full time Christian workers, it runs 13,000 major libraries, it publishes 22,000 periodicals, it operates 1,800 Christian Radio and TV stations. It runs 1,500 universities and 930 research centers. It has 250,000 foreign missionaries and over 400 institutions to train them. These are 1989 numbers. No wonder Church needs Nazi gold looted from Jews of Europe and drug money to support this gigantic multinational operation.

Mahatma Gandhi wrote: "Only the other day a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine stricken, converted them to his fold, took charge of their temple, and demolished it. This is outrageous." (quoted in Harijan: November 5, 1937).

Refer to chapter on Conversion. Refer to Follow up on the murder of Swami Lakshmananda – Dar-ul- islam Christendom and  Mother Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee. Refer to Vatican's Holocaust - By Avro Manhattan and What Some Famous People Have Said About Christianity and jesusneverexisted.com. Refer to Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie. Refer to Jews for Jesus: Targeting Jews for Conversion with Subterfuge and Deception and Christian Missionaries step up activities to convert Jews in Israel. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil and video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan

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The church assumes an air of injured innocence and secularist edit writers and ‘analysts’ indulge in sanctimonious humbug on the duty of a secular state to protect the minorities’ right to religious freedom, including propagation of religion, dangers of ‘majoritarianism’, damage to the country’s image abroad and social fabric at home, etc. 

It is, therefore, not surprising that the Karnataka chief minister is under attack for saying that forced conversions are inappropriate. The Indian establishment feels duty-bound to protect, if not encourage, those who are out to subvert Hinduism.

The slightest whiff of dissent, the vaguest hint of a different perspective, invites instant condemnation from those who have positioned themselves as guardians of democracy and secularism in the country. 

This ostrich-like mentality (of the UPA Government, English Language Media and secularist elite) is not shared by people at large. 

The government, media and civil society will be missing the wood for the trees if they regard the current spate of violence against missions as attacks on minorities by communal outfits out to polarize society and raise communal temperatures on the eve of (possible national) elections. Large sections of Hindu society have never concealed their discomfort with conversions carried out by missionaries, and particularly with the means employed to win converts.

Hindu leaders from Swami Vivekananda down to Acharya Dharmendra have questioned the motives underlying the much-publicised social service of the missionaries. They have questioned not the ‘service’ per se, but its strong link with conversions. That link is freely acknowledged by missionaries themselves. The Church makes no secret of its strategy of selecting groups which are the weakest, approaching them when they are most vulnerable, and converting them in return for the assistance rendered.

“ India and its Missions”, an official Catholic publication, discusses the Spiritual Advantages of Famine and Cholera under that very heading! It quotes the report of the Archdiocese of Puducherry to his superiors in Europe : “The famine has wrought miracles. The catechumenates are filling, baptismal water flows in steams and starving little tots fly in masses to heaven… a hospital is a readymade congregation; there is no need to go into highways and hedges and compel them to ‘come in’. They send each other.”  

Such a passage appears to Hindus as reminiscent of vultures circling over carcasses. Soul for food is a Faustian deal, and offering temptations is the way of Satan, not saints. Yet the church regards it as appropriate action at the proper time.

(source: Conversions are Religious Intolerance  - By Virendra Parekh - vijayvaani.com  The author is Executive Editor, Corporate India, and lives in Mumbai). Refer to Follow up on the murder of Swami Lakshmananda – Dar-ul- islam Christendom and  Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie.  Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007.  Refer to Things they don't tell about Christianity

For daily news and columns on India refer to Sarve Samachar and Vivekajyoti.com

Dar-ul- islam Christendom
India is in reality, ruled by an Italian Catholic Super Prime Minister.

As we alight each step in the aftermath of the gruesome murder of Swami Lakshmananda Saraswati, we progressively discover the true nature of Christianity in its pristine-pure form. The faithful followers of the God of the Book and his Son are united across the globe in condemning–not the murder of the Swami–Hindu extremists for their unfair attacks on Christians.  

No less than the Holy “Ratzinger” See has joined the fray of the denouncers. I learnt with great sorrow the information concerning the violence against the Christian community in Orissa which broke out after the reprehensible assassination of the Hindu leader, Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati,” he said. Ah! At least a word of condemnation from the Saviour of Souls. But others have expressed a similar sentiment in less colourful language but compensated for by applying vivid hues ranging from barbaric, extremists, and militant. Homegrown converts have quickly journeyed their outrage to the highest levels.  For the lamb cannot afford to disobey  Maino whose soul in turn has been promised safe passage to the Kingdom of Heaven by the Holy See. Death to Lakshmananda Saraswati for he is not blessed with such luck in addition to being born a Heathen. I don’t recall reading the Lamb bemoaning the death of the Swami, or condemning the killing. Here is a sample of the power and reach of said homegrown converts when they with impunity.

Note that this call is based on purely religious grounds. Solidarity. In other words, a show of Dar-ul-Christendom. I don’t wish to recall the practise of open discrimination against Hindus in these very institutions–Hindu girl-children are forbidden from wearing the Bindi, and Hindu teachers/lecturers paid salaries at a lesser scale, and in general, reminded of their inferiority by virtue of being born Hindus and following Hinduism. Secularists don’t bat an eyelid, of course. In any case, the outrage against the attacks on Christians is equally vocal, and uniformly resonant across the Christian world–India too, is included in the said world. Their only chant: Maoists, not Christians killed the Swami despite proof to the contrary. I suppose their passion for service to the Lord has blinded them to the concept of smoke and fire.

Finally, it is a telling statement on the spinelessness of the UPA when Italy ’s Foreign Ministry will summon India ’s ambassador to demand “incisive action” to prevent further attacks against Christians that have left 11 people dead in Orissa, the Italian government said on Thursday. If these jokers have any self-respect left, they would tell the Italian foreign ministry to mind its own business. But they won’t. India is in reality, ruled by an Italian Super Prime Minister.

(source: Follow up on the murder of Swami Lakshmananda – Dar-ul- islam Christendom).  Refer to Refer to Christian Terrorists threaten to kill Puri Shankaracharya - odishatoday.com

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Christian Terrorists threaten to Kill Puri Shankaracharya

The Church Outsourcing the murder?

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Majority Hindus are feeling prosecuted in a country like India

Shankaracharya of Puri Gobardhan Pitha, Jagadaguru Swami Nischalananda Saraswati was on Wednesday apprehended that some International forces have been working overtime to eliminate Hindus and destroy their age-old culture to register their dominancy in the country.

Gobardhan Peetha is one of the four important mutts of Hindu faith in the country founded by Adi Sankaracharya.

Speaking at a press conference here, that the Hindu Seer, who got a threat letter from the outlawed CPI (Maoists), however indirectly attacking on Church said, "I am not perturbed by the threat call issued by an outfit. I see some others behind the nexus than the CPI (Maoists)."

 

"Majority Hindus are feeling prosecuted in a country like India"

 

        

Shankaracharya of Puri Swami Nischalananda Saraswati and Italian Catholic Sonia Maino Gandhi and PM Manmohan Singh

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Minority appeasement is the root cause of all existing problem in the country. For vote bank politics, they could go to any extent; the Seer charged referring to large-scale conversion from Hinduism to Christianity.

The Maoists never interfere in religious activities. In the name of Maoists, others are trying to defame the Hindu religion and kill me

Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India and Caesar's Messiah: The Roman conspiracy to invent Jesus and Things they don't tell about Christianity and Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007 and jesusneverexisted.com.  Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America  

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

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The outfit in a threat letter, that sent to the Gobardhan Pitha in Puri, has alleged that the Hindu Seer has been spreading communal feelings and dividing society on religious lines. 

The Seer charged that Congress led UPA Government at Centre is being patronizing anti-Hindu elements in the country. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi have been making all out effort to appease the minorities, he lambasted.

Minority appeasement is the root cause of all existing problem in the country, he argued.

"Majority Hindus are feeling prosecuted in a country like India ," he added. For vote bank politics, they could go to any extent; the Seer charged referring to large-scale conversion from Hinduism to Christianity.

Addressing a new conference here on Wednesday, the Sankaracharaya said he did not fear for his life. “I have received a number of threatening letters. I don’t give importance to such things,” he said, adding that he would continue to work for uplift of the poor and preservation of Hinduism.

Sankaracharya said he did not believe that the threat came from the Maoists. “They never interfere in religious activities. In the name of Maoists, others are trying to defame the Hindu religion and kill me,” he said.uri Sankaracharya

(source: Puri Seer lashes out at PM-Sonia, supports Orissa Bandh - odishatoday.com).  Refer to Victims of Christian Faith: How many people have been killed by Christians since Biblical times?  Also refer to The Dark Side of Christian History - By Helen Ellerbe

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Destroying the social superstructure of India
The Church's "harvest of soul" policy has led us to this foul juncture

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"The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world."  - Bertrand Russell

Did the Church outsource the swami's assassination?

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." - Mathew 10:34

The recent violence involving the church and locals in Orissa and elsewhere has, it is said, sullied India 's image abroad, put the Sangh parivar in a spot and evoked global sympathy for the "hapless Christians", the victims of those fascist Bajrang Dal goons.

The broad picture put out by the 'secular' media (Outlook included) mirrors the position of the Church: the missionaries only serve the underprivileged, they have no evangelical agenda. The Manuvadi vested interests cannot stand the emancipation of the hapless poor and hence resort to violence. In short, the church's motives are pious and those of its opponents devilish. Christianity came to India a few decades into its birth and remained undisturbed in the subcontinent till about 500 years back. It's the arrival of the missionaries—in the company of imperial forces—that shattered the peace. 

As Babasaheb Ambedkar writes: "The entry of the Catholic Church in the field of the spread of Christianity in India began in the year 1541 with the arrival of Francis Xavier. The Syrian Christians shrank with dismay from the defiling touch of the Roman Catholics of Portugal. The inquisitors of Goa discovered they were heretics and like a wolf in the fold, down came the delegates of the Pope upon the Syrian Churches".

What followed was even worse.

Till the end of British rule, the missionaries were brazen about their intent. Hindu gods were abused openly. Writing about his childhood in Rajkot , Gandhiji says in his autobiography, "In those days, Christian missionaries used to stand in a corner near the high school and hold forth, pouring abuse on Hindus and their Gods." Decades later, Gandhiji recalled in Young India (March 4, 1926), "Though the preaching took place over forty years ago, the painful memory of it is still vivid before me." Obviously this practice was followed in the entire British India . If the "preaching" could leave such scars for so long on a person like Gandhiji, how do you expect a tribal to react to such humiliation?

Social reformers, from Dayanand Saraswati to Vivekananda to Gandhiji, have questioned the Church's 'real intent' and its methods at one time or another. Gandhiji said, "I believe there is no such thing as conversion from one faith to another in the accepted sense of the term...Christian missions will render true service to India if they can persuade themselves to confine their activities to humanitarian service without the ulterior motive of converting India or at least her unsophisticated villagers to Christianity, and destroying their social superstructure" (Harijan, Sept 28, 1935). Note the words, "destroying the social superstructure".

Post-Independence, the Church changed its methods. Open confrontation was dropped in favour of covert methods like inducements to target groups (the poor, illiterate sections). The new strategy, focused on specific areas, yielded a handsome harvest. A comparison between the census figures of 1991 and 2001 shows the growth rate of the Christian population was many times more that of Hindus in as many as 18 of the 25 states and UTs. To carry out the sordid business of harvesting of souls, the Church now adopts a multi-layered strategy, full of prevarication and Janus-faced subterfuge.

The church tells the elite it worships the Lord through the service of the poor and has no conversion agenda. But at ground level, there are overt attacks on other faiths. (The trouble in Karnataka followed the publication of a booklet, Satyadarshini, in which Hindu gods were abused). Protests against such insults are termed as attacks on Christians. Again, the right to evangelise is defended and exercised. 'Help' to the needy and subsequent conversions are explained as a 'change of heart'.

It is against this backdrop that one has to see recent events. The hapless Kandhamal tribals are under siege, fighting to preserve their culture, even their very existence. The Kandhs, once tribal kings, are now pariahs, hunted by the CRPF in their own land, painted as rapists/ murderers. Thousands have fled to the jungles. There is no one to speak for them. They don't interest our rent-a-cause NGOs and activists. Arraigned against the Kandh tribals are the missionaries with their centuries of global experience in decimating local cultures. Backed with foreign funds, the Church is following its age-old divisive agenda of splitting local society into hostile factions. At immense human cost, it has reaped a rich harvest of souls. The share of Christians in the population of Kandhamal, just six per cent in 1971, had grown to 18 per cent by '01.

Kandhamal has witnessed violence earlier too, in 1994 and in 2007. The recent blowout came after the murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and his three associates. The Kandhs, 90 per cent of whom are Hindus, revered the aged swami. Over four decades, he had not only started schools and hospitals for them—in a sense, he helped them preserve their identity and ancient faith against alien onslaughts. Who killed the 84-year-old swami? Sabyasachi Panda, the Maoist leader who owned up to the killing, said the swami was eliminated for reviving Brahminism. Strangely, Panda turned a blind eye to evangelism. But he divulged an interesting fact—that the Christian Panas (an SC group) provides cadres to the Maoists in Orissa. I for one don't know how to reconcile evangelism, which believes in the harvesting of souls, with Maoism, which believes there's no soul. In Europe , wherever Communism succeeded, the Church had to go underground, if not disappear. But in Orissa, perhaps there is some kind of 'strategic alliance' happening. Did the Church outsource the swami's assassination?

It's all a result of what Gandhiji called the destruction of the "social superstructure". India is steeped in a pluralistic ethos and believes God is one, irrespective of his numerous names and shapes. The Church has faith only in "one God". The rest, to it, are false. Wouldn't it be better if the church heeded Gandhiji's words and left people to their faith?

(source:  The Church's "harvest of soul" policy has led us to this foul juncture - By Balbir Punj). Refer to Biblical Nonsense: A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians - By Jason Long and Why I Rejected Christianity: A Former Apologist Explains - By John W Loftus. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

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It happens only in India – By S. L. Byrappa 

The USA contributes USD 145 Billion every year to fund Christian Missionaries across the world. 

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For the last four decades, Christian missionaries in India have been indulging in religious conversions and this trend has become fairly aggressive and far more pronounced with Sonia Gandhi’s coronation.  

However, the mass media have chosen to ignore reporting this. States like Orissa and Karnataka have reacted sharply to the scale of operations of Christian missionaries. This has been dutifully reported by all newspapers and TV channels across India . Self-proclaimed ‘Secularists’ and Left parties have taken this opportunity to announce that India has met its doom in this backlash and have thereby supported the missionaries! It is certainly a pity that they do not care to recognise that the common man on the street clearly understands what the truth is. Sonia Gandhi’s sycophants, self-proclaimed intellectuals and secularists have gone to the extent of blaming pro-Hindu organisations, Seers and BJP governments for the situation and are helping Christian organisations bent on getting India censured at the international level by United Nations and other such organisations.

The Indian media, especially English TV channels and newspapers celebrated The Pope’s visit to India . 

The Indian Government accorded hospitality reserved for heads of states to The Pope, who is the religious head of Roman Catholics. The President, The Prime Minister and the cabinet queued up to pay obeisance to him. A few pro-Hindu organisations argued that he is a religious head and his sole mission to India was to encourage conversions and therefore he should neither be allowed to enter India nor be accorded official welcome. These opinions were dismissed as Hindu-fundamentalist diatribes by the self-proclaimed modernists and the English media. And what did the Pope do? He proclaimed with exaltation: “Just as we planted the cross in Europe in the first millennium and in the Americas and Africa in the second millennium, we shall harvest the crop of our faith in this powerful continent ( Asia ) in the third millennium”. He did not bother to hide his true intentions. However, the media and the self-proclaimed Secularists who branded Hindu groups as fundamentalists chose to maintain clever silence over this proclamation.

The following list details the present population (percentage) of Christians (in countries that had previously been untouched by Christianity) due to the wide-spread activity of Christian missionaries: Angola (90%), Burundi (78%), Cameroon (35%), Central African Republic (82%), Chad (33%), Congo (62%), East Timor (98%), Ethiopia (52%), Equatorial Guinea (94%), Gabon (79%), Kenya (25%), Liberia (68%), Mozambique (31%), Nigeria (52%), Papua New Guinea (97%), Philippines (84%), Rwanda (69%), South Africa (78%), South Korea (49%), Sudan (30%), Tanzania (20%), Togo (23%), Uganda (70%) and Zaire (90%).

The USA contributes USD 145 Billion every year to fund Christian Missionaries across the world. Churches across the world spend USD 1.1 Billion towards research aimed at achieving religious conversions. This is for propaganda material in 300 languages about 180 topics. Books and articles are printed in 500 languages. They total 175000. Every conversion costs USD 3300. It does not mean that this amount reaches the Convert. It is the expense incurred in activities related to administration, planning and implementation of the conversion programme. In 1500 A.D, there were 30 Lac active Christian Missionaries. Their number stands at 64.8 Crore today. 54% of these people are non-Whites. The strategy is to train non-Whites, provide them with funds and involve them in religious conversions. 

This is similar to the time when the British employed Indians as Soldiers to rule India !

What brand of spiritual enlightenment is this? This is an issue that Indians do not understand. That is perhaps because Indians relate spiritual enlightenment to things like living in a hermitage in a forest or in caves in mountains or perhaps in the freezing heights of Snowy Himalayas where people manage to look inward. One cannot preach others until one is enlightened. And what would one preach about? To look inward! To understand oneself! Religion is a form of this enlightenment. Preaching it is called jigyasa. However, this isn’t the essence or method of Christianity.

To understand Christianity, we need to learn the features of Semitic religions. They are also called Prophetic religions. It means that these religions were established by a prophet each. The roots lie in the Jewish religion established by Prophet Abraham. Christianity, established by Jesus Christ, is a modified form of Judaism. Later, Prophet Mohammed established Islam borrowing various tenets of Abraham’s Judaism. The message common to these religions is that  

‘God is not directly accessible to Man. You are, fundamentally, Sinners. God is exceptionally terrible and cruel and punishes without qualms. You will have to believe me, your Messiah, and follow my preaching to obtain an opportunity to avoid burning in hell. If you do not pay heed, you are sure to end up in hell. You will have to place faith in this religion. You will have to convert others to this faith. You will have to spread this message and convert people wherever you go, even if it necessitates the use of force. That is Religion; that is the code.’

(source: It happens only in India – By S. L. Byrappa and translated by Manoj Despande). Refer to Follow up on the murder of Swami Lakshmananda – Dar-ul- islam Christendom. Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

The Suppression of African Spirituality

My name was stolen from me 400 years ago when my people were stolen out of Africa . They were sold into slavery in America , “the land of the free and the home of the brave.”My name was taken from me when my ancestors were forbidden to utter its sound or pass it on to their children. When Christopher Columbus invaded the shores of America in 1492, he brought with him diseases that would kill over 70% of the Native American people within three years. Whole tribes disappeared from the face of the earth. In the name of their Christian god, the slave owners reasoned that Africans needed to be brought to America so they could be civilized. African slaves were considered savges in need of conversion. My culture, my religion, my ancestors, traditions, customs, stolen, suppressed, violated, vilified, denied, destroyed – that is what I call terrorism.

(source: A Drum & A Dream The Suppression of African Spirituality during Slavery in the US - By Dorothy Randall Gray).

Western Hypocrisy: Stop trying 'save' Africa

It seems that these days, wracked by guilt at the humanitarian crisis it has created in the Middle East, the West has turned to Africa for redemption. Idealistic college students, celebrities such as Bob Geldof and politicians such as Tony Blair have all made bringing light to the dark continent their mission. They fly in for internships and fact-finding missions or to pick out children to adopt in much the same way my friends and I in New York take the subway to the pound to adopt stray dogs.

Perhaps most interesting is the language used to describe the Africa being saved. For example, the Keep a Child Alive/" I am African" ad campaign features portraits of primarily white, Western celebrities with painted "tribal markings" on their faces above "I AM AFRICAN" in bold letters. Below, smaller print says, "help us stop the dying."Such campaigns, however well intentioned, promote the stereotype of Africa as a black hole of disease and death. News reports constantly focus on the continent's corrupt leaders, warlords, "tribal" conflicts, child laborers, and women disfigured by abuse and genital mutilation. These descriptions run under headlines like "Can Bono Save Africa?" or "Will Brangelina Save Africa?" The relationship between the West and Africa is no longer based on openly racist beliefs, but such articles are reminiscent of reports from the heyday of European colonialism, when missionaries were sent to Africa to introduce us to education, Jesus Christ and "civilization."...

(source: Stop trying 'save' Africa - By Uzodinma Iweala).  Refer to Hindu Human Rights Watch and Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

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Pushing Hindus into a corner  

One Diwali the highly revered monk of Hindus, Swami Jayendra Saraswati, was arrested while performing puja. The secular world celebrated it as a victory of law and constitutional propriety. When nothing was proved, all the chargesheets turned bunkum, the Supreme Court gave a verdict favouring the swami's release on bail, but no one retracted the strong, often abusive words used for the Hindu monk. It was met with silence as if nothing important had happened. 

 

Kali Yuga: The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities of India 

India ’s putrid political dispensation, sham-secularist politicians take sadistic pleasure in heaping scorn and calumny on the religious icons of the majority community, namely the Hindus.

    

One Diwali the highly revered monk of Hindus, Swami Jayendra Saraswati, was arrested while performing puja. 

The secular world celebrated it as a victory of law and constitutional propriety. When nothing was proved, all the charge sheets turned bunkum, the Supreme Court gave a verdict favouring the swami's release on bail, but no one retracted the strong, often abusive words used for the Hindu monk. It was met with silence as if nothing important had happened. 

India 's Hinduness is that essential element to define this nation. We can't be explained through Saudis, Marx or Bethlehem. Or through Arabic or Latin or Persian. 

India is explained by the Ganga, Krishna , Ram and Gandhi. By Kumbh Mela, Sanskrit chanting, lighting of the lamp, Namaste, the Vedas, Guru Nanak's teachings, Guru Gobind Singh's valour, Buddha's global message of peace and compassion and Mahavir's ahimsa. India is deciphered by Dhammapad, the Gita, the Guru Granth Sahib and a divine love that saw the emergence of Radha and Meera. That fired the imaginations of doyens like Tagore and Vivekananda.

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).

Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

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One Krishna Janmashtami night, another ochre-robed reformist monk, Swami Lakshmanananda, was murdered along with an aged Hindu nun, Ma Bhaktimoyee, in his ashram. Secularists tried to direct and guide the entire investigation till the arrested murderers confessed that swami's work among tribals made prosylitisation difficult and hence they took the violent way. The media linked the violence post-Lakshmanananda's murder to various Hindu organisations and completely ignored the brutal killing of the sanyasi and the lady monk. This Diwali, Hindus were labelled as 'terrorists'.

India 's Hinduness is that essential element to define this nation. We can't be explained through Saudis, Marx or Bethlehem . Or through Arabic or Latin or Persian. India is explained by the Ganga, Krishna , Ram and Gandhi. By Kumbh Mela, Sanskrit chanting, lighting of the lamp, Namaste, the Vedas, Guru Nanak's teachings, Guru Gobind Singh's valour, Buddha's global message of peace and compassion and Mahavir's ahimsa. India is deciphered by Dhammapad, the Gita, the Guru Granth Sahib and a divine love that saw the emergence of Radha and Meera. That fired the imaginations of doyens like Tagore and Vivekananda. Together they make a mutually supportive group of Indian streams of faith that welcomed and accommodated without murmur all other ways of worship brought here through various means. Every single persecuted community in the world found a respectable space here, while they were brutalised, uprooted, converted and 'museum-ised' in other countries. The legacy of tolerance and plurality is the legacy of the Hindus and all those faiths born and flowered here. It made Taj Mahal possible and Jesus adored by a non-Christian majority. You deny them this place of honour, make them shrink in a defensive shell, and you lose India.

 

    

One Krishna Janmashtami night, another ochre-robed reformist monk, Swami Lakshmanananda, was murdered along with an aged Hindu nun, Ma Bhaktimoyee, in his ashram. 

Secularists tried to direct and guide the entire investigation till the arrested murderers confessed that swami's work among tribals made prosylitisation difficult and hence they took the violent way. The media linked the violence post-Lakshmanananda's murder to various Hindu organisations and completely ignored the brutal killing of the sanyasi and the lady monk.

"The ideology of Indian secularism, misconceived from the very outset, has become the backbone of Islamic Jihad and fundamentalist evangelism. The one committing mass murder, the other attempting to transform India ’s cultural and political landscape in order to re-impose foreign rule over it. And always to the chorus of minority rights, cynically guaranteed by Indian secularism." 

Refer to Secularism has degenerated as the backbone of terrorists & evangelists - By Dr Gautam Sen and How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India  and Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007 and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and  Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).

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Ram Sethu becomes a target of destruction, Ram is denied, Ram's history linked with the bridge is mocked at, Sita's persona is caricaturized in public, the shrinking Hindu population and their conversion become victory signposts of the secularists, Hindus driven out of Kashmir are deleted from all lists of secular concern, Hindu temples are taken over by the atheist State and their revenue used on non-Hindu areas, while not a single non-Hindu place of worship is taken over or 'managed' on similar grounds by the governors! More than sixty thousand Hindus have been killed by terrorists in various actions during the last three decades, five lakh have been uprooted and turned refugees, but no one shares their grief or respects their courage, but terms them terrorist in a matter of 24 hours, that too relying on media hype and an election platform?

After centuries Hindus got freedom that should have meant a free space for them to flower their culture, language and traditions. After all, the invaders came to attack and loot them and raze their temples. Wasn't it a matter of logical right that they should have been honoured for exemplary resistance and resilience and showing an extraordinary tolerance towards all those communities whose leaders had been in the forefront to deprive them of basic human rights? But instead, the victims were portrayed as aggressors and humiliated for their colour and faith. What has changed since Ghauris and Ghaznavis and the inquisitionist Portuguese left? They killed us but never portrayed Hindus as terrorists. This secular dispensation is celebrating Diwali with that label gifted to Hindus. It will not remain unanswered. Hindus as a mainline faith never never never believed in any kind of cowardice that's the hallmark of terrorism we see today. Killing innocents, shooting at fellow citizens and the dreaded midnight knocks just for the reason they wear a different faith.

But I am afraid the secular hate-mongers are pushing Hindus into a difficult corner without a space to be heard. Not a single 'mainline' newspaper publishes their views, though any number of assaults on them are a matter of routine. This is creating a grave situation and it's a warning signal that can be ignored only at the peril of the nation's great legacy of plurality.

(source: Pushing Hindus into a corner  - By Tarun Vijay is a director of the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation - rediff.com).

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Is Christianity a solid monolith? 

"Caste" was an old weapon of missionaries who established the conversion business in India

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In India every debate on conversion to Christianity ends with Hindu society's caste-based "poison of divisions". Missionaries and their supporters present conversion as the only "antidote" available. And missionaries are "doctors," hell bent on administering that antidote! And our "secularists" have been repeating it.  

"Caste" was an old weapon of missionaries who established the conversion business in India . 

Anti-Brahminism, "Dravidianism," conversion as "the solution" to caste and the Aryan-Dravidian divide were effectively introduced as stratagems for conversion by Bishop Robert Caldwell. "On the other hand", he wrote, "Christianity teaches that God gave us life and continually preserves us. He is therefore our Father in heaven… The Brotherhood of man follows Fatherhood of God… But Hinduism makes life a curse instead of a blessing" (p. 20-21). Caldwell ’s arguments are well known. His "Dravidian Grammar" was a trend-setter. But why did he painstakingly write so many books? If we read his lecture, "Progress of Christianity in India" we get the answer.  

He says, "an encouraging amount of interest in the progress of Christianity has now at last been awakened, and a demand for information has been excited: it is now felt that a great door and effectual has been opened to us in India, and that the conversion of India to Christ is one of the greatest works, if not the great work, to which the Church and nation of England are called" (Lectures on the Tinnevelly Missions, 1857, p. 4). 

Refer to chapter on Aryan Invasion Theory

For sheer audacity and bigotry, Caldwell could today be called a "cultural terrorist". Yet his views are endorsed by a section of India 's "secular" intelligentsia! They were reiterated in Karnataka's recent public debate on conversion. 

The debate on conversion was launched by the oldest Kannada daily, Samyukta Karnataka, with some well-researched articles by selected writers and scholars. Professional missionaries kept silent; our secularists did all the batting on their behalf! Once again, leftists are proving that they are "more Christian" than the original faith-sellers. Hindus should not hesitate to debate caste as they have nothing to hide. But they should understand what Christianity is all about.  They should study and debate its history and methods of expansion, its "spiritualism" and "brotherhood." They should ask missionaries why casteless societies were converted to Christianity throughout the ages and throughout the world. 

Missionaries' typical answers are well known. In India , "conversion is the best solution for caste-based differences within Hindu society;" in America , "barbaric tribes had to be civilized and spiritualized." They always proffer local issues to justify conversions. In India 's case, most proponents of Christianity's "monolithic unity" and Hinduism’s "caste- based divisions" invoke B.R. Ambedkar to remain politically correct while attacking the faith! 

But all fail to explain why Ambedkar did not convert to Caldwell 's "great brotherhood" called Christianity. 

In fact, Ambedkar wanted to send a strong message through his religious conversion. After examining Christianity, he wrote in 1938: "caste governs the life of Christians as much as it does the life of the Hindus. There are Brahmin Christians and non-Brahmin Christians. Among non-Brahmin Christians there are Maratha Christians, Mahar Christians, Mang Christians and Bhangi Christians. Similarly in the south there are Pariah Christians, Malla Christians and Madiga Christians. They would not inter-marry. They would not inter-dine" (Selected Speeches and Writings, Vol. 5, Government of Maharashtra, 1989, p. 445-78). 

Ambedkar converted to Buddhism as it was a "part and parcel of Bharatiya culture." He said: "I have taken care that my conversion will not harm the tradition of the culture and the history of this land" (Quoted in 'Ambedkar', by Dhananjay Keer, p. 498). The hard truth is that even Buddhism is not a monolithic unity! It has different schools of thought and different traditional streams. For that matter where do we find the most unified, rock-solid group on earth? Is Islam one single entity?

Is Christianity a superb monolith? If so, since when? Since its inception or through "spiritualism"? Since the First Council of Nicaea, when Emperor Constantine decided, at sword-point, what should and should not be the tenets of 'official' Christianity? Or since the Second Vatican Council, when it was decided to establish the supremacy of Catholicism once again? Christians are not one; they are divided into separate churches and traditions. Over the centuries, Christianity has divided into numerous denominations. Each denomination has its own distinctive beliefs or practices, yet we hold them to be branches of the same religion. But when it comes to Hindu society, every Tom, Dick or Harry talks about caste and asks us "where is the common unity?" as if there is no common thread of beliefs among Hindus! 

Although missionaries never talk about their internal divisions openly, conversion always happens to a particular denomination, to a particular church. One can never get converted to "Christianity". He or she can only become a member of a particular church.  When former British Prime Minister Tony Blair converted to the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican community and its church vehemently protested. 

Why do street missionaries never talk about their internal divisions? This is an age-old strategy. The famous Christian apologist, C.S. Lewis (1898 - 1963) who wrote Mere Christianity, in 1940s, reminded believers about this strategy: "our divisions should never be discussed except in the presence of those who have already come to believe that there is one God and that Jesus Christ is his only Son"! 

Let us move on to the denominations. In 1985, it was estimated that there were 22,000 Christian denominations with 5 new ones being formed each week! There are nearly 34,000 (probably more) Christian and Messianic denominations and churches in the world now. These may be broken down to six different main blocks:

1] Independents   22000
2] Protestants        9000
3] 'Marginals'        1600
4] Orthodox            781
5] Roman Catholics 242
6] Anglicans           168
    Total              33791

(source: World Christian Encyclopedia, by Barrett, Kurian, Johnson; Oxford Univ. Press, 2nd edition, 2001, Vol. 1, p.16-18). 

Pope John Paul II once called Protestant missionaries "rapacious wolves" for converting Catholics! So much for "monolithic unity"! In the second week of August 2007, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Methodists, Pentecostals, Orthodox, Evangelicals (sounds like caste names!) gathered to map a "common religious conversion code" in France . The code, which has to be finalized in a year or two, was named "Ethical Conversion Code".  

"Conversion is a controversial issue not only in inter-religious relations, but in intra-Christian relations as well," admitted Dr. Hans Ucko, World Council of Churches programme executive and one of the organizers of the meeting. 

So much for "monolithic unity" and "great brotherhood"! 

(source: Castes and Conversions: Is Christianity a solid monolith? - By G. Anil Kumar). Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

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Missionaries are Colonists says Gregory F. Fegel  

No Official Hindu Country in the World

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Christian missionaries make no secret of the fact that they use medical services, education, and employment opportunities to lure impoverished indigenous populations throughout the world into conversion to Christianity.

Using your wealth to purchase other people's loyalty is a game as old as humanity itself. Rich men use their wealth to attract women, unscrupulous employers use material incentives and disincentives to manipulate their workers, and wealthy countries like the USA use their national wealth to keep their citizens loyal to the cause of aggressive and genocidal Imperialism. But historical longevity and common practice don't make the manipulation or exploitation morally or ethically right.

Organized religions are inherently POLITICAL organizations. There is a fundamental difference between the financial enterprise and political machinations of an organized religion versus a mass of independent, unaffiliated believers, philosophers, and mystics who do not support any organized religion. Christianity and Islam are known as proselytizing religions because they make an organized and systematic effort to gain converts, and they often provide services, products, or employment to attract converts. Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism show far less zeal about gaining converts, which is why you almost never hear about Jewish, Hindu, or Buddhist missionaries.

Modern medical and nursing schools usually teach their students the moral principle that the provision of medical services should never be used as a means to proselytize or promote a religion, but that does not deter many Christian health care providers from doing exactly that. Most of the medical and charitable organizations based in Christian countries are fronts for Christian proselytizing activities. One of the largest international medical relief organizations based in the USA, Northwest Medical Teams, states in their recruitment brochure that their chief 'mission' is to 'spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ', that their medical relief services are subordinate to their stated goal of proselytizing Christianity, and that their medical relief work is merely an 'aegis', or facade, for spreading Christianity.

The religious and cultural Imperialism performed by missionaries nearly always goes hand-in-hand with political and economic Imperialism. Christian missionaries often work in partnership with the CIA, with the US government, and with wealthy corporations to subvert the religion, the culture, the economy, and the politics of vulnerable indigenous populations. The CIA often uses planes owned by Christian missionary organizations and flown by Christian missionary pilots to smuggle drugs, arms, and prisoners. The USA 's Faith Based Initiative law provides Christian missionary organizations with taxpayer funds that are used to proselytize Christianity to indigenous populations throughout the world. Christian missionaries are the leading edge of a religious, cultural, economic, and political aggression supported by the US government.

When missionaries bring outside wealth to an impoverished Third World country and use that wealth to provide services that are meant to attract converts, they are interfering with the local social and economic structure as well as the local cultural traditions. Indigenous people who take advantage of the privileges provided by the missionaries and convert to Christianity partake in a social organization that uses foreign wealth as a tool to eliminate the indigenous culture and replace it with Christianity.

A small and reclusive population of a few hundred people with a primitive Stone Age culture lives on North Sentinel Island, in the Andaman chain, which is administered by the government of India. To protect the culture of the inhabitants of North Sentinel Island, the Indian government has wisely banned anyone from visiting the island. I approve of the Indian government's policy of protecting the unique culture of the North Sentinels from outside influence. If anyone on North Sentinel Island should ever desire to leave, they can build a boat and do so.

Among a total of 195 nations in the world today, fifty-seven of those nations have a legally established, official State Religion. There are fourteen nations that claim Christianity as their State Religion, twenty-six nations that claim Islam as their State Religion, six nations that claim Buddhism as their State Religion, and the Jewish State of Israel. The Jewish State of Israel discriminates against its non-Jewish citizens and within its borders Israel officially prohibits the proselytizing of any religion other than Judaism. Many people believe that Israel has a ‘right to exist’ in this manner as a Jewish State.

Many Islamic countries strive to protect the cultural identity of their citizens by enforcing a ban on preaching any religion but Islam. Considering the aggressive, insidious, and highly political nature of Christian missionary programs, the banning of non-Moslem religious preaching by Moslem governments makes sense. 


No Official Hindu Country in the World

There are fourteen nations that claim Christianity as their State Religion, twenty-six nations that claim Islam as their State Religion, six nations that claim Buddhism as their State Religion, and the Jewish State of Israel.

 

Lord Shiva Nataraja from Ellora caves.

Currently there is no officially Hindu State anywhere in the world, but perhaps India should become a Hindu State in order to protect its indigenous religion and culture from the predatory missionaries and State-sponsored cultural Imperialism that are coming from both Christian and Moslem countries. If the Jews have the right to establish and maintain Israel as a Jewish State, then the Hindus certainly have a right to establish and maintain India as a Hindu State .

When the Hindus of India rise up in riot and drive out the Christian missionaries and the Christian 'cash converts', they are doing what the Iraqi, Afghani, and Palestinian Freedom Fighters are doing. They are protecting themselves and their indigenous culture from wealthy and unscrupulous invaders who have no respect for them or for their culture. 

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

Refer to The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America. Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

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Currently there is no officially Hindu State anywhere in the world, but perhaps India should become a Hindu State in order to protect its indigenous religion and culture from the predatory missionaries and State-sponsored cultural Imperialism that are coming from both Christian and Moslem countries. If the Jews have the right to establish and maintain Israel as a Jewish State, then the Hindus certainly have a right to establish and maintain India as a Hindu State .

When Western leaders talk about a 'Clash of Civilizations', what they really mean is Judeo-Christianity and corporate Capitalism versus all non-Christians and non-Capitalists. 

Christian missionaries are essentially colonialists working for Christian cultural Imperialism.

When the Hindus of India rise up in riot and drive out the Christian missionaries and the Christian 'cash converts', they are doing what the Iraqi, Afghani, and Palestinian Freedom Fighters are doing. They are protecting themselves and their indigenous culture from wealthy and unscrupulous invaders who have no respect for them or for their culture. 

I wish the Hindu nationalists well in their efforts to defend and maintain the independence and survival of their indigenous culture and religion against the onslaught of predatory and disrespectful foreigners whose goal is to replace indigenous traditional cultures with a global Christian empire. If Christian missionaries want to come to India and try to make converts to Christianity, let them come with empty pockets and compete on a level playing field. And if most of the locals don't want the missionaries interfering with their traditional way of life, they have the right to make the missionaries and their converts leave.

(source: Missionaries are Colonists - By Gregory F. Fegel - Pravada, Russia October 21 2008).

Religious Conversion is a foreign policy objective of the Christian West.

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Do You Know What World Vision is?

If you have been browsing the websites of prominent Indian newspapers and other media outlets such as Rediff, you would surely have noticed the advertisements of an agency called World Vision asking for your money. These promotional messages are very poignant, designed to pull at your heart strings. Most of these show pictures of vulnerable-looking Indian orphan children staring at you with longing in their eyes.

World Vision asks you for some of your money so that those poor souls can be taken care of and provided with food and shelter. Who can argue with that? Soon, you find yourself reaching for your credit card. But hey, hold on! Do you really know what World Vision is and what kind of work it is doing in India?

It is an out and out Christian proselytisation organisation which asks Hindus to fund its orphanages but forgets to tell them about its evangelical operations and Bible classes. Neither does it tell Hindu donors how many Hindu orphans taken in its orphanages are allowed to remain Hindu when they are ready to move out. It is nothing but a conversion racket under the garb of charity. Radhakant Nayak, a Christian convert who is a Congress MP and the head of World Vision in Orissa, is the main accused in planning the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati.

(source:  Do You Know What World Vision is? - indianrealist.com).

The Truth about World Vision

World Vision, the world’s largest Christian church mission agency, has traditionally been closely linked with successive American governments. The former US Ambassador for International Religious Freedoms, Dr Robert Seiple, was World Vision chief for 11 years till 1998 when he was picked by former president, Bill Clinton, to head the office of International Religious Freedoms. Around the period when Seiple was the president of World Vision, its vice-president from 1993 to 1998 was Andrew S. Natsios. He is now the administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). For more than 40 years, USAID has been the leading government agency providing economic and humanitarian assistance to developing countries.

Its mission statement clearly states: “World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, in working with the poor and oppressed, to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the Good News of the Kingdom of God .”

Though World Vision has consultative status with UNESCO and partnerships with UN agencies like UNICEF, WHO, UNHCR and ILO, the fact is that its financial records reveal that it has funded evangelical activities all over the world including India . World Vision uses its international clout and its close links with the US government through USAID to network with governments and corporate entities in the developing world. What goes unnoticed by the governments and the corporate world is World Vision India ’s evangelical missions as part of its development agenda.

Proselytisation (conversion of faith) is an integral part of its provision of development services under its much-touted ADP programmes. Though none of the literature published by World Vision India even mentions its evangelisation missions, foreign publications of World Vision India proudly proclaim its “spiritual” component.

(source:  The Truth about World Vision - by V. K. Sashikumar). Courtesy: Hindu Voice, December 2008. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).

Also refer to Indian Media’s War on Hinduism and Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

Somebody should bell the cat! - By Hilda Raja

“As a family, we sponsor a child. Being able to change a life gives us great satisfaction. We hope others will be inspired to do the same. Nothing gives more joy than empowering those who need it most.” 

           - Rajdeep Sardesai Editor-in-Chief, CNN-IBN & World Vision Child Sponsor

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I know about 'World Vision' personally because many of my students were recruited to work in it. But invariably at the interview the question which they asked is about "evangalisation". Even a friend of mine who had applied for a chartered accountant post in response to an advertisement, was asked not of his professional and knowledge skills but about evengalisation. He came home and shared this with me and wanted to know if 'World Vision' was a purely a development organization or one for evangalisation. Poor fellow does not know that development is the cover up for its evangalisation.

At a public meeting I raised this issue in Chennai. I had even responded to Mani Shankar Iyer who stated that to his knowledge there is not a single Christian development agency involved in evangalisation. I reacted to that by citing the case of 'World Vision'. It was published in the papers. I can cite quite a few examples. 'World Vision' will not recruit a single non-Christian, no matter the competence. They will not even recruit a Catholic because they do not trust the Catholics. They once offered one of my Catholic students a job provided she leaves the Catholic church and joins in a Protestant church. She did convert because she was in dire need of a job for financial support. Two Brahmins were converted to the Protestant church and placed in high official positions.

 In fact 'World Vision' looks out for Brahmin converts to make them show pieces. These head the various departments which is highly remunerative. This is my own micro-level first hand knowledge. So what will it be on the all India level? 'World Vision' has a narrow, myopic vision of the world where their main agenda is evangalisation. The government of India must be aware of it. I have been always advocating for a ban on foreign funds. China, France and so many countries will not tolerate what India not only tolerates but even abets. The fight against terrorism will be futile unless and until foreign funds for "development" are monitored and banned.

(source: Somebody should bell the cat! - By Dr Hilda Raja - hamsa.org). Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

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Conversion kills India's Cultural identity - Immeasurable loss of culture, tradition, and multiple levels of religious belief.

It kills intellectual and spiritual freedom

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Conversion is political conquest, which is why faith and empire have always gone hand-in-hand. 

The Political Nature of Conversions - Why are the Vatican, Italy and America rushing to interfere in India's internal affairs?

Sir John Woodroffe aka Arthur Avalon (1865 -1936) the well known English scholar, Advocate-General of Bengal and sometime Legal Member of the Government of India. He served with competence for eighteen years and in 1915 officiated as Chief Justice.  Alongside his judicial duties he studied Sanskrit and Hindu philosophy and was especially interested in the esoteric Hindu Tantric Shakti system. He translated some twenty original Sanskrit texts, and under his pseudonym Arthur Avalon he published and lectured prolifically and authoritatively on Indian philosophy and a wide range of Yoga and Tantra topics. His work helped to unleash in the West a deep and wide interest in Hindu philosophy and Yogic practices. 

He was instrumental in removing many of the cobwebs of ignorance that had come to cluster round the Sakta philosophy and practice. His most popular and influential book, a major contribution to the appreciation of Indian philosophy and spirituality, is The Serpent Power – The secrets of tantric and shaktic yoga, Sakti and Sakta, Introduction to Tantra Sastra and The World as Power

"An examination of the Vedic thesis shows that it is in conformity with the most advanced philosophical and scientific thoughts of the West and, where this is not so, it is the scientist who will go to the Vedantist and not the Vedantist to the scientist."

 

"It is Official Christianity which has been slow to recognize the merit of Indian teaching and to give credit for anything to the "Heathen." 

“In India there has been intellectual and spiritual freedom – the most valuable of all. This is evidenced by the great variety of religious and philosophical opinion in this country, Rationalism Theism, Atheism and so forth, and the existence of a large number of varying religious communities. The history of Europe on the contrary is marked by intolerance and abominable persecution. The “liberty loving nations of the West” have been in the past greatly, and still are to some extent, behind India in the matter of intellectual and religious freedom.”

Why are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to live in peace in pluralist societies?

Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India  and Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007 and Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).

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"It is Official Christianity which has been slow to recognize the merit of Indian teaching and to give credit for anything to the "Heathen." 

“In India there has been intellectual and spiritual freedom – the most valuable of all. This is evidenced by the great variety of religious and philosophical opinion in this country, Rationalism Theism, Atheism and so forth, and the existence of a large number of varying religious communities. The history of Europe on the contrary is marked by intolerance and abominable persecution. The “liberty loving nations of the West” have been in the past greatly, and still are to some extent, behind India in the matter of intellectual and religious freedom.”

(source: Hinduism: The Eternal Religion - By M. D. Chaturvedi  p.16-17 and Is India Civilized: Essays on Indian Culture - By Sir John Woodroffe p. 21 - 22).  Refer to jesusneverexisted.com. 

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Foreign funds to Indian NGOs soar

Evangelization in India is a part of uniform world policy to revive Christendom for re-establishing Western supremacy…

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Statistics released by the home ministry regarding ‘foreign funds to NGOs’ show that India, which has a total of 33,937 registered associations, received Rs 12,289.63 crore in foreign contributions during 2006-07 as against Rs 7,877.57 crore in 2005-06, a substantial increase of nearly Rs 4,400 crore (56%) in just one year. The US, Germany, the UK, Switzerland and Italy were the top five foreign contributors during 2006-07. These five countries have consistently been the big donors since 2004-05. Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and France are the other countries which figure prominently in the list of foreign donors.

The US has been the biggest donor to Indian NGOs in the last several years. It contributed over Rs 2,971 crore in 2006-07 alone. As far as Pakistan is concerned, the country contributed Rs 43.28 lakh in 2004-05, Rs 71.70 lakh in 2005-06 and Rs 21.99 lakh in 2006-07. ………..

Among the states, Tamil Nadu has the distinction of having the highest number of registered associations (3,009) and getting the highest amount of foreign contributions in India. The “Times of India” newspaper has reported that foreign funding to NGOs in India has seen a massive boost of 56 percent in the last one year. It now totals a staggering 2.5 billion dollars or so annually. This amounts to a mind-boggling Rupees one thousand crores every month– enough to destablise the country many times over. Most of this money from other countries is coming, it is claimed, for the benefit of “cultural and religious” institutions. Our friend to the West, Pakistan, has also begun to fund quite a few NGOs in India.

Considering this massive inflow of foreign funds in the name of ”culture,” India should logically have become the most cultured country in the world by now. It obviously is yet to attain this distinction. So the big question is: Where is this money actually going? Is it going into the pockets of Maoists in the jungles of Chhattisgarh to pay salaries to their cadres? (The money is usually routed to them through the churches that dot the jungles.) Is it being used for conversions to Christianity? Is it being used to build new churches and mosques in every nook and corner of India? Is this money meant for the Christian terrorists of North Eastern states ? Is it being used to take as many resident Indians on the payrolls of foreigners as possible so that the NGOs that these Indians staff can be used to protest against everything from Tata Nano to Narmada Dam to Hindu festivals to arrest of terrorists?

Interestingly, a huge chunk of this money is specifically going to Tamil Nadu. What is the reason? After floating the Aryan-Dravidian theory, are the White Christians now trying to Christianise the “Dravidians”? (Incidentally, the word “Dravidian” was coined by a British missionary, Robert Caldwell.) What is so much foreign money doing in Tamil Nadu? Why is the Indian government allowing billions of dollars from other races to land in India every year? Russia and China do not allow other countries to fund their NGOs. Is Indian government smarter than the Russian or Chinese strategists or is it actually quite foolish? With regard to this “charity” money being poured into India by hostile races from far away, Indians should get one thing very clear: “In this world, there is no such thing as a free lunch. They will have to pay the bill one day in terms of their territorial integrity.” Capiche?

(source: Mischief money from other countries - indianrealist.com).  Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

Refer to Christmas Offering by Religion of Love?  Protestant militants hack 45 Catholics to pieces in Uganda church -  The Lord's Resistance Army rebel group has waged one of Africa's longest and most brutal wars for the last two decades. In the past, aid and rights groups have accused the rebels of cutting off the lips of civilians and forcing thousands of children as soldiers or sex slaves.  The conflict has spilled out of northern Uganda and into Sudan and Congo. "The scene at the church was unbelievable. It was horrendous. On the floor were dead bodies of mostly women and children cut in pieces.

India, an Exporter of Priests

As a result, bishops trek here from the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia looking for spare priests to fill their empty pulpits. Hundreds have been allowed to go, siphoning support from India’s widespread network of Catholic churches, schools, orphanages, missionary projects and social service programs. At least 800 Indian priests are working in the United States alone. India, Vietnam and the Philippines are among the leading exporters of priests, according to data compiled by researchers at Catholic University of America in Washington.

(source: Divine recruits: India, an Exporter of Priests, May Keep Them - nytimes.com).

How NGOs are Being Used by Missionaries

There are billions of dollars being sent by white Christians to India for “development work.” This money is what empowers missionaries and allows them to bribe poor Indians for conversion and build infrastructure such as churches, prayer halls, “community halls” and “Jesus wells.” (Jesus wells are wells in villages dug by missionaries from which you are allowed to draw water only if you agree to convert.) Every penny of this money being recieved from abroad has only one aim: convert Indians and uproot all native faiths and culture.

Without this funding from abroad, the missionary machinery will grind to a halt. The Indian government says this money is not a threat to national security. Well, it sure will be once enough number of people get converted. Is there any place in India where Christians or Muslims are in a majority and not fighting for secession from India, from Kashmir to North East states to Maoists of central India (90 percent of whose cadres are Christian converts)?

This money is nothing but “secession” money that is being sent to India by White Christians and must be stopped at all costs if Hindus still love their land. China and Russia do not allow this money from the West to enter their countries for “development” or “culture” or whatever excuse the White Christians can think of. It is only the “liberal” Hindus who do this good turn to them and allow their own feet to be cut slowly.

Once the missionaries manage to create a critical mass of Christian converts, their godfathers in the West will immediately trigger an armed terrorist movement against “Brahmanical oppression” of the flock and stake claim over the land on behalf of Jesus. (The same game White Christians have played in Nagaland.) Their strategy is: first convert, and then arm the converts. Indians better be careful. Have you heard of the Niyogi Committee report about activities of Christian missionaries? It had warned exactly the same thing.

The eleventh commandment: 'thou shall not convert'

Religious conversion is the cause of violence against the missionaries. Desist from conversions and violence will cease.

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Militant Islam and evangelical Christianity are the two remaining Neanderthals who are still committed to proselytization and religious conversions. India will continue to remain hospitable to all religions only if the Muslim fanatics and the Christian fundamentalists will accept the pluralistic tradition of Hindus which is to respect others’ way of worship. Pluralistic Christians and liberated Muslims of India have done that, and the overwhelming majority of Hindus practice it. But, it is heart wrenching for me to see the missionaries assert that they alone are the holders of valid visas to heaven! Many missionaries lay enticing traps for gullible Hindus whom they think must be "saved" at all costs. It is worse still that their attitudes, though they (Christians) are a tiny minority in India, often create counter-reaction among the Hindus.

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Conversion racket in India 

Here is an article about how NGOs are being set up by missionaries to carry out conversion rackets.

The operations of the Christian missionaries need to be diagnosed in order to understand the Kandhamal phenomenon. One may be surprised to note that the Christian community is not unanimous on conversions. There are more than 500 denominations among the Christians in India. Out of this, mainly three groups – Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal - are living in Orissa.

The Catholic and Penticoastal missionaries are mainly active in Kandhamal. They run Churches by name such as Assembly of God or Church of God. There has been virtual rivalry between these two denominations and they follow the principal of business chain in attracting people to their fold. For example, each visitor to the Church will be asked to bring minimum one or two new persons in the next visit to the Church. They allegedly take care the daily wages of the financially weaker visitors to the Church. They stress on the constant human touch in maintaining relationships with the people of their denominations. These Christian missionaries are very cleverly using Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to reach unreached people. They allegedly either sponsor the NGOs or ask their own men to form NGOs under the Registrar of Societies Act or Indian Trust Act. 

These Christian funded NGOs have constructed Community Halls in Kandhamal. The ventilators of these Community Halls are made in the shape of Cross symbol. After people start gathering to have meetings in these Committee Halls for the issues related to the concerned areas, they gradually place either cross symbol or photograph of Jesus in the main hall. And, a pastor starts teaching them about the Bible both in morning and evening in these Community Halls.

The pastor is shown as a social worker on the official records of one these Christian sponsored NGOs. The academically poor, backward caste and downtrodden youth are targeted to join as pastors. They are moulded emotionally, psychologically and mentally with a free food, lodging and medical facilities for one year.

One should understand the modus operandi of these missionaries. The Catholic and Pentecostal missionaries enter an areas in the name of helping children or destitutes. They identify the children of the poor families in a village. Based on these children, they chalk out the community development programme of that area up to 15 years. They target the tender hearts to bring them into their fold. They are more interested in children homes instead of building old age homes.

(source: Faith is dangling between God and Money - By Sai Prasan - odishatoday.com).  Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English). Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

On Church Splitting the Nation

We Hindus may be vaguely aware that Christian missionaries are active in tribal areas converting Aadivaasis (aboriginal) into Christianity but we may not be aware of the gravity of the situation. Let us walk you through the findings of Niyogi Committee, and its documented facts. Dr Niyogi, retired Chief Justice of the Naagpur High Court published his findings way back in July 1956, "The separatist tendency that has gripped the mind of the aboriginal under the Lutheran and Roman Catholic Missions is entirely due to the consistent policy pursued by the British Government and the Missionaries. The final segregation of the aborigines in the Census of 1931 from the main body of the Hindus considered along with the recommendations of the Simon Commission which were incorporated in the Government of India Act, 1935 apparently set the stage for the demand of a separate State of JhaarKhand on the lines of Pakistan." (Justice) Niyogi Commission Report [1956] as quoted in Pseudo-Secularism, Christian Missions and Hindu Resistance Sita Ram Goel ISBN 81-85990-54-9 [1998]

The Niyogi Commission's Report of the Christian Missionaries Enquiry Committee MP, Nagpur, 1956 (Vol I, Part I, Chapter I) states, "The Missionaries have throughout claimed that they are not Hindus. A continuous attempt has been made by these organisations to foster a sense of separateness amongst the Tribes from the rest of the Hindus. 

Speaking about the separation of the aborigines from the mass of the Indian population Mahatma Gandhiji remarked: 'We were strangers to this sort of classification --animists -- aborigines, etc, but we have learnt it from the English rulers.' To the question put by Dr Chesterman whether Gandhiji's objection applied to areas like the Kond hills where the aboriginal race were animists, the unhesitating reply was, 'Yes, it does apply, because I know that in spite of being described as animists these tribes have from times immemorial been absorbed in Hinduism. They are, like the indigenous medicine of the soil, and their roots lie deep there'."

(source: On Church Splitting the Nation: Justice Niyogi Commission Report and VINDICATED BY TIME: The Niyogi Committee Report On Christian Missionary Activities).  Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

Refer to Lurid drama of proselytism after 1947 and The eleventh commandment: 'thou shall not convert' and 'Nobody has the right to convert anybody in India'

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Don't Convert!- A rejoinder by Dr. Hilda Raja

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Rev. John P. Jones in his book: India: Its Life and Thought observed that:

"It is a curious fact that the hideous and bloody monster of religious intolerance was hardly known in India until, first the followers of Mohammed and, secondly, the disciples of the meek and lowly Jesus, began to invade the land ."

(source: India: Its Life and Thought - By John P Jones).  Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007.  Refer to Mother Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

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Conversion is process of Cultural alienation and Creates Western Clones

‘Don’t target Converts ‘by Michael Pinto (Times of India 8th October) poses many questions than it answers. No amount of provocation can justify violence is easily said but humanly not easy to follow. All are not Gandhians or Jesus to show the left cheek when slapped on the right. Some countries follow a justice system which is based on ‘eye for an eye’. Aggressive policy of conversion followed by some fundamentalist churches and fundamental Christians cannot justify taking law into one’s hand and no amount of provocation can justify violence is correct theoretically and logically. But if such logic rules the hearts and minds of men/women why is there so much of violence in the world? Why do countries violate the rights of other countries? Why do law makers turn into law breakers? Why do those in the Khaki who have to operate the law on the streets become violators of human rights? In the midst of such oppression, exploitation can we expect the people to meekly be submissive and subservient? Or is the author’s theory held good only in the provocation rising in the business of conversion?  

 

     

The heinous murder of Swami Laxmananda Saraswati - valiant warrior for Hindu civilization and Kashmiri Hindu refugees.

When the Brahmin pundits were killed and chased away from their homes in the Kashmir Valley and forced to become refugees in their own country under ethnic cleansing no voices were raised against such an abuse and violation? When a holy man held in great reverence was brutally murdered with his three disciples in his own ashram will the author’s theory be strong enough to hold back the emotional, social, and religious upheaval of the hurt psyche? 

Why are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to live in peace in pluralist societies?

Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India and Mother Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee and jesusneverexisted.com.  Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).

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When Indira Gandhi was assassinated why thousands of Sikhs were butchered in the capital? Was it not justified by the Congress party? When the Brahmin pundits were killed and chased away from their homes in the Kashmir Valley and forced to become refugees in their own country under ethnic cleansing no voices were raised against such an abuse and violation? When a holy man held in great reverence was brutally murdered with his three disciples in his own ashram will the author’s theory be strong enough to hold back the emotional, social, and religious upheaval of the hurt psyche? 

 

Depiction of Samudra Manthan at Thailand airport.

A Glorious Hindu Legacy: Indic influence in Southeast Asia.

A unilateral war against Hinduism is being waged by anti-Hindu forces to wipe out Hinduism the way other native religions and cultures have been destroyed in the world. It is tragic that frontiers of Hinduism which used to extend from Afghanistan to Indonesia are shrinking and getting confined to less and less area.

 

Hindu Civilization in Thailand.

Christianity has virtually destroyed South Korea and Korean Buddhists have become a minority in their own country and gone into hiding. China and India are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and conquer.

Christian Love? Christianity has destroyed Native cultures around the globe from Australia, New Zealand to India to Africa and the Americas. 

Tragically Native Americans/African Americans have been stripped of their Cultural Identity. Hair styles, clothing and even names and body languages were changed. The intention was to completely erase the Indian way of life.  Indeed, in order to destroy completely not only their African heritage, but also their very African identity psychologically, they were forced to change their names to Arabic and Christian names...  

Museum pieces? Christianity's morbid desire to retire and gawk at Ancient cultures and religions in Museums.

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Every action has a reaction. When a nun is raped then all hell breaks loose. Daily children are sexually violated and raped and murdered, no protest voice is heard -no Church rallies are held, no Archbishop/bishop rebukes Chief Ministers and express pain and anguish. And no European Union raises the issue with the PM in a foreign land.

So Christians have global brokers and Christian lives become sacred and the PM is accountable to foreign powers for their safety.-the lives of others can be snuffed out without even a whimper. What is the root cause of this warped perception but religion? Does a crime become more heinous because the victim belongs to a particular religion?  

It is a utopia that Michael Pinto is envisaging when he states that no amount of provocation can justify violence. This is armchair wistful thinking. When the Christians were oppressors this theory vanished. The tables are turned and when there is an assertion of the Hindus to retain their culture, their religion and their heritage then the drum beating of the Constitutional guarantees is heard. It is the right of the Hindus to protect the Hindu ethos of this country which they feel is threatened. Was Art 30 not enacted to ensure the Right of the Minorities to establish manage and administer institutions to safeguard their ethos?  

It is shocking that politicians are equating the Bajrang Dal and the VHP with the SIMI.

Conversion from time immemorial has a concomitant-violence. Indian history is replete with it. The oppression, force, torture, massacre of the Indians to convert them to Islam, and Christianity is not a fable. The Inquisition and all that it wrought is world record. Again it is in the name of religion. What you sow you reap. Violence begets violence-this is nature’s order. 

 

Immature Monotheism (Islam and Christianity), stands out as especially dangerous, repressive and loony. 

World conquering movements

 

Monotheism's discontent. Prophetic religion is severe, militant, uncompromising, intolerant, while mystic religions are renouncing, and peaceful.  

Nations were ruthlessly converted to Christianity by the sword just like Islam converted Arabia, Central Asia, and Africa by the sword. Clash of monotheism? Islam vs. Christianity. In the world today, one religious ideology, monotheism, stands out as especially dangerous, repressive and loony. 

The oppression, force, torture, massacre of the Indians to convert them to Islam, and Christianity is not a fable. When the Brahmin pundits were killed and chased away from their homes in the Kashmir Valley and forced to become refugees in their own country under ethnic cleansing no voices were raised against such an abuse and violation? 

Why are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to live in peace in pluralist societies?

Refer to The Goa Inquisition and Inquisition of Goa: Atrocities on Hindus by missionaries in Goa - By V Sundaram and Islamic Onslaught.  Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to chapter on European Imperialism  

Refer to Secularism has degenerated as the backbone of terrorists & evangelists - By Dr Gautam Sen and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America. Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English) and Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan

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In ‘don’t target converts’ the author finds it strange that converts are targeted in a country which constitutionally upholds the right to preach and propagate one’s religion. 

But then to preach and propagate one’s religion does not mean to force and use fraudulent means to pressurize people to change from one religion to another.

Money is flowing from foreign based churches and the gods of these churches need recruits-the greater the strength the greater the power of these gods and hence the brokers of these gods are all out targeting the poor. The inducement-a plate of rice, a loaf of bread to the hunger, shelter for the homeless, and also the promise of the green pastures in the next world. The strategy has first an entry point-first denigrate, abuse, degrade and demolished their gods and icons. Second instill in these victims the doubt that their gods are false and then promise to lead them to the true god. A vulnerable victim, with a vacuum inner self is then ready for the initiation into a “New Life”/to be “Born Again”. The false propaganda is vicious because of its attack on another religion. This kind of provocation is not easy to overlook because human nature is to refute and repel this atrocious slander/blasphemy. 

When posters depicting Jayalalitha as a Virgin Mary appeared in Chennai there were massive rallies and protests. But if Madhuri Dixit is depicted as Durga and the goddess is painted nude it comes under the freedom of expression of a painter. Only difference is that the same painter will not dare to let his artistic acumen and constitutional right to freedom of expression to depict Allah even in the best form. This is how we perceive the operation of guarantees/Rights enshrined in our Constitution.  

If opting for a “New Life”/ “Born Again”, demands discarding of one’s culture, social practices, adapting a western life style and adapting western forms of worship then the convert becomes an alien to the Indian/Hindu ‘ethos’, and is sucked into a process of alienation. This has other ramifications. 

Why did East Timor break away from Indonesia when its Christian population swelled to 27percent just in a matter of ten years?

World history and Indian history is replete with the experience that ‘peace cannot co-exist with conversion. The reason being conversion has an inbuilt violence: physical, psychological, social and cultural. It may even abet one to be anti-national. I belong to the Catholic Church and my understanding of conversion is that it is a process-a life long search for truth. Conversion is a private affair and not a street tamasha-neither is it an activity intended to swell numbers.

When conversions are a threat to peace then it needs to be banned. Like the curfew order-the ban to strike etc. The million dollar question is why conversion? Is it a prerequisite for development work? Why are the foreign agencies funding conversion activities? It is strange that the fundamental Christians and the churches to which they belong do not turn their attention and energy in this salvation ensuring business to the Muslims. Development and upliftment of the poor is the camouflage of evangelization all the more why the need for the churches to work with the Muslims. Because according to Sachar report the Muslims are the lowest in India -both economically and educationally. Is it not strange that not a single Muslim has been converted? Conversion has been commercialized by the Fundamentalistic churches. 

The number of converts is co-related to the quantum of funds that flow in.  

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

This must not be overlooked. Why not ban foreign funds and watch how evangelization evaporates? All laws have their accompanying lacunae/loopholes and difficulties in implementation, do we on such grounds fight shy of enacting laws? Conversions must be banned to ensure peace and harmony. Let us give peace a chance-for peace and conversion cannot co-exist.

(source:  Don't Convert!- A rejoinder - By Dr. Hilda Raja). Refer to Mother Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee and jesusneverexisted.com.  Refer to The Cross And The Crescent As Conquest Weapons - By Bulago A. Chilume - allafrica.com

Refer to After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org

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Is History repeating itself?
Are we heading towards a Christian India?

Mark Twain, (1835-1910) American writer and journalist, also known as Samuel Clemens, one of the most widely loved and celebrated American writers since his first books were released in the late 1860s. He wrote in Mark Twain and the Bible:

"The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology." 

"Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor His Son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt."    

"Christianity was the first creed in history to exterminate its adversaries in the name of love."

Note: "Christianity has virtually destroyed South Korea and Korean Buddhists have become a minority in their own country and gone into hiding. China and India are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and conquer."

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Civilizing the Heathens of India by Spreading Christianity is like America spreading Democracy in Iraq

John Fletcher Hurst (1839 - 1903) American missionary visiting British India wrote:

“ India is now open to missionary work. All the Indian gates are down; the bars are shattered into small fragments; the locks are ground into fine dust. Every stream sings a welcome to the evangelist of peace. The King of Nations is entering”

 

      

John F Hurst and Lord Palmerston of the British Empire.

One of the most significant signs of the Indian times lies in the fact that since the mutiny of 1857 England has learned that the Christian religion is the real, and only, basis of a permanent tenure of the country.

“It is not only our duty, but it is our interest to promote the diffusion of Christianity, as far as possible, through the whole length and breadth of India.”

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).

Refer to jesusneverexisted.com.  Refer to The Goa Inquisition and Inquisition of Goa: Atrocities on Hindus by missionaries in Goa - By V Sundaram.  Refer to chapter on European Imperialism

Refer to The United States Government War Against the American Indian Movement - aimovment.org and The Covert War Against Native Americans - by Ward Churchill. Also refer to Ancient Struggle Continues, Scholars Remain Clueless - By Vrndavan Parker. Refer to Training Students to Convert Hindu Students in America

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One of the most significant signs of the Indian times lies in the fact that since the mutiny of 1857 England has learned that the Christian religion is the real, and only, basis of a permanent tenure of the country. In 1862 Lord Palmerston paid a tribute to the loyalty to the British government of the native Christians of India, and added:

“It is not only our duty, but it is our interest to promote the diffusion of Christianity, as far as possible, through the whole length and breadth of India.”

(source: Indika: The Country and the people of India and Ceylon - By Rev. John F Hurst p. 432 - 444).

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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America . A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. 

He has observed that:

"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies."

The Christian God is a being of terrific character -- cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust." "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."

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According to a widely circulated invitation on the Internet, a 'massive demonstration rally' will be held on October 4, 2008 in front of the UN office in New York, to protest against a 'small group of misguided fascist ideologues and caste supremacists' who are corrupting Indian civilisation. Perusing the stentorian note of warning about 'possibly the start of genocide,' one is left admiring the Church's ability to successfully annihilate faiths and cultures across countries and continents without introspection or remorse, while projecting themselves as martyrs when resisted by their hapless victims.  

 

It costs 145 billion dollars to operate global Christianity, records a book on evangelization. 

 

      

The Vatican and Pope Benedict.

The Christian Church's has successfully annihilate faiths and cultures across countries and continents without introspection or remorse, while projecting themselves as martyrs when resisted by their hapless victims.  

Why are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to live in peace in pluralist societies?

Converting with Military Precision: India is fully aware that barring France, almost all Western Governments provide generous funding to evangelists; this has a political and not a religious objective.

Despite awareness of the Baptist activity in the North-East, the Indian elite's slavish attitude towards the West inhibits an adequate response to the nature of the threat.  

Refer to Preparing for the harvest ...  - By Tehelka.com and jesusneverexisted.com.  Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006). Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English). Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com

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"Popes maimed & were maimed, killed & were killed... Without question, these pontiffs constitute the most despicable body of leaders, clerical or lay, in history. They were, frankly, barbarians. Ancient Rome had nothing to rival them in rottenness."

                         – Peter de Rosa - Vicars of Christ  p 48.

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The decision of Indian Christians to run for aid to the supreme Christian military power in the world, the United States makes sense when one considers that even during the British Raj it was American evangelists who had greater success in converting natives in South Asia than the Europeans. So overpowering was their intellectual dominance over formally unconverted upper castes that to this day the products of Forman's Christian College, Lahore, solemnly swear that they learnt their moral codes from missionaries.  

 

  

Cotton Mather (1663 - 1728) who is often remembered for the Salem Witch trials and American theocracy. Ever since Cotton Mather took up a collection to convert the Hindus, Americans have felt a great interest in missionary labor in India.

Greed invariably leads to arrogance and arrogance to stupidity. Co-existence not competition has been the hallmark of Indic/Vedic religions. Wars of religion were quite unknown in ancient India before the advent and appearance of Islamic and Christianity.

Saving heathen souls and destroying and tearing up other ancient cultures are a mega business around the world from Iraq to India and China to Hawaii. The concept of respect for other people cherished traditions is of little consequence to them. Columnist Stephen R Welch who writes for Free Inquiry magazine says that: "India is part of the "Unreached Bloc" or the "Last Frontier." In the rural backwaters and isolated tribal hamlets of countries like India, missionaries routinely peddle the fruits of generosity--food and medicine--as "inducements" for conversion to Christianity. When these allurements fail, more aggressive means may be employed, not barring fraud and intimidation. Apparently, in the Unreached Bloc, "harvesting" souls is an end that justifies almost any means."

It is mind boggling to think that one billion people are under the rule of a foreign Italian Catholic woman who is by NO means a towering intellectual and who has NO compassion for the Hindu cause or interest in Hinduism. In conclusion it can be said that we are truly living in the age of The Kali Yuga. The decision of Indian Christians to run for aid to the supreme Christian military power in the world, the United States makes sense when one considers that even during the British Raj it was American evangelists who had greater success in converting natives in South Asia than the Europeans. 

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Twenty-first century Hindus, however, are far less diffident in the protection of their faith and civilisational ethos than say, 60 years ago, when the sub-continent was partitioned because even nationalists like Bhagat Singh and Subhash Chandra Bose failed to see the intimate connection between dharma, motherland, and national integrity. The Left under Mr Prakash Karat is making the same mistake; even America 's success in dividing Leftist ranks over the nuclear deal and sharply curtailing Leftist exposure in Indian media thereafter, has not caused a rethink. Without a swim in the sea of Hindu nationalism, the Left is doomed to extinction; Hindu groundswell will give the BJP a lift as a Hindu party in spite of itself. 

 

Conversion Kills India's Unique Cultural Identity

 

Indra - Vedic God from Nepal.

(image source: A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture - By Sushama Londhe).

Conversion kills Cultural identity - Immeasurable loss of culture, tradition, and multiple levels of religious belief. Conversion is political conquest, which is why faith and Empire have always gone hand-in-hand. Why are the Vatican, Italy and America rushing to interfere in India 's internal affairs?

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Conversion is political conquest, which is why faith and empire have always gone hand-in-hand. 

Currently, the National Association of Asian Indian Christians in the USA, Inc, Indian Christian Forum and Gujarat Christian Federation have joined hands to invite Western Christian intervention to facilitate conversions in India. Already Pope Benedict XVI, and the Italian and American Governments have expressed themselves against the Hindu reaction to the murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati last month.

Yet surely the violence is a symptom of deep-seated Hindu resentment over missionary conduct. Certainly the growing arc of violence against Christian prayer halls, from Orissa to Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and even isolated incidents in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, supports the contention that unmonitored foreign funds are being used for conversions and that the true extent of Christian population is not reflected in the Census.

What is indefensible here is that the Indian state, despite so much known societal resentment, has done nothing to monitor missionary activity among vulnerable sections of the people. When it is known that evangelists target the chronically ill, hungry, and socially backward, why is there no immediate and statutory inquiry the minute a conversion takes place? If faith is being exchanged like a market commodity, does the missionary have the licence to conduct such a transaction?

And when the Church (and its secular advocates) claims that conversions happen when it renders services Hindu society has failed to provide, doesn't that debunk the myth of 'voluntary' conversion?

India is fully aware that barring France, almost all Western Governments provide generous funding to evangelists; this has a political and not a religious objective. Israel was created by dumping European Jews on Palestine; East Timor was created by almost full-scale conversion of the Muslims in that part of Indonesia. 

Despite awareness of the Baptist activity in the North-East, the Indian elite's slavish attitude towards the West inhibits an adequate response to the nature of the threat. Foreign missionaries visit the country with impunity, and very few are identified and deported; so far no funds of converting agencies have been seized. Henceforth, district authorities must be asked to suo motu investigate any unnatural rise of converts in any area. 

As conversions are often justified on grounds of freedom of religion, it is pertinent to ask whether an individual -- embedded from birth in family, religion, cultural tradition -- can simply cut anchor and roll away. 

The Sanatan Dharma is a religion and a civilisation; conversion to any monotheistic faith involves an immeasurable loss of culture, tradition, and multiple levels of religious belief. One does not merely travel from Krishna to Christ or Kaaba, as is glibly insinuated. One loses a civilisational landscape -- ishta deva (personal deity), kula deva (family deity), grama deva (village god), sthana deva (god of the area) -- and the culture and traditions associated with it.

(source: Conversion kills cultural identity - By Sandhya Jain - dailypioneer.com). Refer to Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com. Refer to Things they don't tell about Christianity and jesusneverexisted.com. 

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. 

Refer to Things they don't tell about Christianity and jesusneverexisted.com.  Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007.  Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp. Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp and For The Rise of Christian Nationalism in USA - Refer to Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism - By Michelle Goldberg and Divine Destruction: Dominion Theology and American Environmental Policy - By Stephenie Hendricks. Refer to Rapture or Rupture? and Rapture Ready and Christian Fundamentalism Agenda in USA and Book: Bush told reporter Jews are 'all going to hell' - rawstory.com. Refer to The multi-million dollar business called evangelism - By David Barnett. Refer to Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities Introduction - By Sita Ram Goel - voi.org. Refer to Christian Conversions and Attack on Hindu Swami in Orissa - By V Sundaram  indiacause.com). Refer to India Secular and The Rise and fall of Religious Right in USA

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Fighting for the Soul of Bharat Mata
Lord Krishna's message in the Bhagavad Gita

Charles Francois Dupuis (1742 –1809) French scholar, a professor (from 1766) of rhetoric at the Collčge de Lisieux, Paris. With anti-clerical fervor typical of the Enlightenment, Dupuis castigated Christianity for its attempt to monopolize universal mythology — that is, to hijack the script for the human species. He argued that pagans were closer to the reality of the world because they saw divinity in the forces of natures and read the book of nature, and particularly the Zodiac, like a divinatory text.

He branded Christianity as a religion of terror, in contrast to simple, beautiful pagan religions.   

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Meanwhile the thinly veiled Christian empires of the West have lent their political muscle along with their treasuries to cower upon a weak-kneed Indian government. The Pope, the Italian, French, European Union and US governments have risen up in unison to demonstrate that the modern Western State is nothing more than the executive arm of the Church. 

Such is their concern over the loss of a few Indian Citizens since their stripes are Christian, as if affiliation to a Church overrides their national and cultural identity of eons. Our minority Prime Minister has done his due diligence by claiming the Hindu"s reaction in Orissa to be a national shame. So are the "nonviolent" Hindus taking recourse to violence? Do Hindus indulge in unprovoked violence? Even if provoked, is "Hindu" violence justifiable? Should Hindus retaliate and be revengeful? What is the Hindu scriptural dictate"?

 

Lord Krishna expounding the Bhagavad Gita to Arjun

During the Mahabharata war, according to the Bhagvat Gita, Lord Krishna revealed himself to Arjun and asked him to wage "dharma-yuddha". Protection of self is a necessity - all civil societies so agree.

It is true that Hindus do not force their religion on "non Hindus". On the other hand, history is witness to the violence and atrocities committed by Muslims or Christians all over the world, past and present, in the name of religion.

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com

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During the Mahabharata war, according to the Bhagvat Gita, Lord Krishna revealed himself to Arjun and asked him to wage "dharma-yuddha". Protection of self is a necessity - all civil societies so agree. Nobody argues that nonviolence is a desirable quality. It is true that Hindus do not force their religion on "non Hindus". On the other hand, history is witness to the violence and atrocities committed by Muslims or Christians all over the world, past and present, in the name of religion. A malignant self-destructive nonviolence has been subtly allowed to sprout and mushroom in the collective psyche of the Hindus, and "inaction" has been deceptively euphemized as "tolerance" to destroy our righteous will. Our independence struggle has been almost totally credited to this Gandhian philosophy, which is a huge injustice to the large number of leaders and common people who have given up their lives for our freedom.

Have Hindus always been nonviolent? Don"t we believe that the "virtuous Devtas" always fought the "evil doing Asuras"? Wasn"t it a necessity for Lord Vishnu to incarnate repeatedly in the form of his various "avatars" to save the universe from evil forces? Wasn"t it required of Ram to kill Ravan for a just cause? Didn"t Krishna use his divine power right from childhood to slay the demons and "save the innocents" repeatedly? Our independence struggle has been almost totally credited to this Gandhian philosophy, which is a huge injustice to the large number of leaders and common people who have given up their lives for our freedom. Does that make Hinduism the same as other religion in its approach to the concept of violence? The answer is no. Unlike the scriptural sanction of violence in propagation of some monotheistic faiths, Sanatan Dharma has no such parallel; it merely exhorts one to righteousness, which does not include propagation of one"s faith as the only true faith. This is a foundational difference which must never be lost sight of.

Hinduism does not promote violence when it is not necessary or against the innocent. Even in war we had our ethos and principles. Harold Wilson (1786-1860), a British Orientalist wrote "The Hindu laws of war are very chivalrous and humane, and prohibit the slaying of the unarmed, of women, of the old, and of the conquered. " Can we say the same about the invaders of Bharatvarsha over the centuries? Even our whitewashed history, as we read today, will not support that. Whole scale massacres, rape and destruction in the name of religion and God were the rule rather than the exception. The Western (read Christian) mission on India was no less barbarous. This was Max Mueller"s comment" " India has been conquered once, but India must be conquered again. the ancient religion of India is doomed, and if Christianity does not step in, whose fault will it be? "

The history of Christianity, despite the deception of fables of love and mercy of the savior, has been a trail of bloodshed and horror wherever it has stepped in the world. It is an unrelenting continuity of persecution of peoples who differed from the Christian doctrine. The "dark ages" of Europe testify to the horror of crusades, slavery, witch hunt and annihilation of the "pagans."

All in the name of the cross!

Bharatvarsha and Hindus have tolerated all this before independence. Are Hindus any better off now? Has their lot changed? Have they revived themselves in any meaningful way? 

We still remain under forces that do not allow us to live our life and practice our religion freely in our own country. Our subjugators prefer the tolerant, docile harmless Gandhian Hindu. We are made to believe that an assertive Hindu is not the "real Hindu"; only the assertive Christian and the assertive Muslim is real - that being their natural state has to be so accepted! It is unfashionable to claim oneself as a Hindu - doing so is equated to "being a fundamentalist". The same "stigma" does not apply to a Muslim or Christian - it is their religious right!

Hindus are being denigrated by their own media and politicians in the name of "secularism" which is equated with anti-Hinduism. In India , most of print and electronic media is controlled by foreign funded, anti-Hindu forces that are more than happy to denounce Hinduism and spread misinformation about Hindu religious icons and scriptures. Irrespective of truth and morality, it is "progressive" thinking to talk about minority rights and politically correct to voice minority concerns. Since Hindus have suffered for 14 centuries, suffering for the Hindu is but natural. Why talk about it?

Every attempt is made to divide Hindu unity, to disrobe Hindu pride, to denigrate Hindu saints and deities. Our religion is portrayed as superstitious, our tradition as old fashioned, our beliefs as non-progressive. Our history is distorted and our achievements are belittled. Our historical exhibitions are forcefully shut down, our processions are diverted, our celebrations are rescheduled and our meetings are disallowed to avoid "minority displeasure" and to promote "peace and communal harmony". Ram is abused as a drunkard and Krishna is vilified as a "characterless womanizer", while an invited Pope openly aspires to change the religion of our land and a resident chief Imam continuously delivers anti-national speech and open threats to the integrity of the country. Sankaracharya is treated worse than an ordinary criminal and not even allowed to cook his own food but Abdul Madani, the "main accused" in the Coimbatore bomb blast case, which left 58 dead, is provided all the facilities, including a regular masseur and Muslim terrorist inmates regularly make phone calls from their cell phone to Pakistan.

It is non-secular and communal to talk about Vivekananda"s nationalism, to sing Bankim"s Vandematram, to dream of Gandhi"s Ram Rajya, to reclaim our demolished temples of Rama, Krishna and Shiva, but it is perfectly secular and consistent with minority rights to portray Bharatmata and our Gods in nude, to refuse to hoist the tricolor in madrassas, to wave flags of our enemies in our soil and to preach that our religion, the Sanatan Dharma, that Rishi Aurobindo described as the "soul of India", as a dark mythology that guarantees a ride to hell and thus needs to be rescued in the name of the father and the son.

 



              

Swami Vivekanada, Vande Matram, Rishi Sri Aurobindo.

It is non-secular and communal to talk about Vivekananda"s nationalism, to sing Bankim"s Vandematram, to dream of Gandhi"s Ram Rajya, to reclaim our demolished temples of Rama, Krishna and Shiva, but it is perfectly secular and consistent with minority rights to portray Bharatmata and our Gods in nude, to refuse to hoist the tricolor in madrassas, to wave flags of our enemies in our soil and to preach that our religion, the Sanatan Dharma, that Rishi Aurobindo described as the "soul of India", as a dark mythology that guarantees a ride to hell and thus needs to be rescued in the name of the father and the son.

Refer to Christian Missionary Atrocities and Victims of Christian Faith and jesusneverexisted.com. 

Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil  and watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan.  Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

Refer to The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

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Terrorist groups are sympathized with as "victims of circumstances", their families compensated and taxpayers money is spent for their legal aid, duly endorsed by "secular" ministers; terrorist victims are brushed away as collateral damage and urged to maintain peace and harmony. Police and armed forces, who risk their daily life and safety for our protection, are vigorously scrutinized to detect even the minutest of flaws, by so called "human right sympathizers of terrorism". Hindus have seen their land divided, their people uprooted before and they see again the shadow of infiltration by the same perpetrators, encroaching their country, with the support of their own leaders and government. Hindu religious institutions are being governed by people, including non Hindus, contemptuous of their faith.

And then, as if the "peaceful" Muslim menace is not enough, the Hindus are also being "blessed" by the presence of the other major religious invader, the "God fearing and ever-loving" Christians. Many of us do not realize that Jesus was neither a Christian nor did he start Christianity. Christianity, as we know today, was compiled by his followers over the next few centuries. In close association with "Western Imperialism", Christianity has successfully conquered majority of the world by centuries of violence, causing extinction of "pagan" ancient civilizations of the Greek, the Romans, the Red Indians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Australian aborigines and the indigenous African population. Having killed and converted the populations in the name of the cross, they then preach nonviolence, take control of the resources and rule the countries in the name of "democracy", manipulating the leaders and the government to satisfy their need. Aided by the wealth that was accumulated by robbing the conquered people, and military aggression, they lure countries into development in the name of Industrialization, followed soon by Westernization and then Christianization.  

     

Christianity has successfully conquered majority of the world by centuries of violence, causing extinction of "pagan" ancient civilizations of the Greek, the Romans, the Red Indians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, the Australian aborigines and the indigenous African population. Having killed and converted the populations in the name of the cross, they then preach nonviolence, take control of the resources and rule the countries in the name of "democracy", manipulating the leaders and the government to satisfy their need. 

In the 19th century, German historian Bruno Baur alleged that Jesus was the mental invention of a few second-century Christians who were influenced by Grćco-Roman philosophy. More recently, an atheist associated with the Freedom From Religion Foundation argued that “the New Testament Jesus is a myth” The views of scholars who entirely rejected Jesus' historicity were summarized in Will Durant's Caesar and Christ, published in 1944. Their rejections were based on a suggested lack of eyewitnesses, a lack of direct archaeological evidence, the failure of ancient works to mention Jesus, and similarities early Christianity shares with then-contemporary religion and mythology.

Refer to Victims of Christian Faith and jesusneverexisted.com and Things they don't tell about Christianity

Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil

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The cultural and religious invasion is smooth, well organized, well funded and well executed, amply masqueraded by such "faith based benevolent social services" like establishing Christian educational and healthcare institutions and setting up non-governmental aid and human rights organization that subtly promote western interest and missionary activities. It is hard to blame the innocents who are easily attracted and fall for the glamour and material comfort of "modern" life. Age old indigenous traditions and cultures are thus gradually erased and humane qualities of morality, ethics and values get redefined.

In 1999, Pope John Paul II, gave a call to evangelize and "conquer" Asia in the third millennium. So far, other than a few smaller countries like Vietnam, Philippines or South Korea, Christianity is yet to set a firm foot on Asia continent, largely because the ancient civilizations of India and China and the faith in the Eastern religions, largely Hinduism and Buddhism. But since the last decade or so, with the active support of fundamental, Christian Governments, dominated by the Bush lead Americans, evangelism has reached a new dimension. Unable and hesitant to effectively manipulate the theocratic Muslim countries or the communist Chinese for fear of retaliation, they have pounced upon India as a major but soft target.

One has to realize that Christianity worldwide has always been and still is an institutionalized, politically motivated, power hungry organization. The good old "father" in a white robe, with a cross, as depicted in our movies, spreading "love" and "mercy", is not necessarily the whole story. The current Pope Benedict, on his trip to Brazil , had described the genocidal destruction of America "s pre-Columbus cultures as a "purifying" act which gave the natives just what they were "longing" for. What a way to officially endorse the mass murder, slavery and military aggression.

(source: Are Hindus violent?  - By Dr. Bandyopadhyay Arindam - indiacause.com). 

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Western Double Standards - Nationalism and Secularism
A flag-wrapped  American Crusade for global domination

American Nationalism is considered a virtue but in Hindu Nationalism or Japanese Nihonjinron is undesirable. It hinders Christian evangelization of India and Japan. Thus BJP is routinely tagged with a derogatory term  'the Hindu Nationalist' party but the same derogatory term is not applied to the Christian Democratic Party of Germany or The British National Front? And Why Not?

In the USA - From the prominent displays of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy, was always obvious. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was  usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.

PNAC (Project for a New American Century) - a gift to the world could be wrapped in just the right colorful tissues of  patriotism, freedom, democracy, and Christian values. A flag-wrapped American Crusade for global domination.

According to the Catholic Church in The Vatican 'secularism is bad in the West' but Secularism is essential and good in India and Nepal since it facilitates religious conversion. 

Refer to Fascism Anyone? - By Laurence W. Britt and Dark Pearl - By John S. Hatch.  Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp

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Con artists: Catholic priest in saffron robe called 'Isai Baba'

Dressed in saffron robe and sporting long hair, he comes across as a sadhu but what differentiates him from others is the fact that Aji Sebastian is a Catholic priest and has donned this look to promote the "Indian Christian identity."

A pass-out of the CMC Seminary, Sebastian, who hails from Kerala, has now become an Ayurvedic medic, yoga instructor and teacher for the Fazirpur Kadia village in Faridabad district of Haryana. Known as the 'Isai Baba' (Christian sadhu), he says, "The saffron dress helps me to connect with people easily as they regard me as a religious person after seeing my robe.”

(source: Catholic priest in saffron robe called 'Isai Baba' - expressindia.com)

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Evangelizing the Sikhs of Punjab

Holding fierce pride in their identity, Sikhs have for decades been seen as “off-limits” by the missionary machine but not anymore. In a alarming trend, evangelism has begun to tread on the Sikh faith as well. 

Every aspect of Punjabi society is being overwhelmed with this new wave of assertive Christianity. 

Besides nationwide programs in Hindi, Punjabi television channels have been deluged by Christian programs even though the Christian population of Punjab is less than 1%. Taking aim at Sikh youth, animated films and children’s books on Christianity are freely distributed by missionaries.

Because of the strong adherence to tradition by Sikhs, missionaries have attempted to repackage Christianity. Jesus is called “Satguru”, church is referred to as “Satsang” and choir singing is called “Kirtan”. Choir boys in Punjabi churches wear turbans to attempt to minimize the variation between Sikhism and Christianity. 

However, despite these attempts to disguise Christianity as a version of Sikhism, missionaries still cannot hide their intent: to destroy the Sikh faith. Gurbachan Singh Bachan, former Secretary of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee and a proud Sikh, says "People who are converting from Hinduism and Sikhism to Christianity are those who have lost understanding of their own religion…

 

  

Guru Nanak and Golden Temple.

Every aspect of Punjabi society is being overwhelmed with this new wave of assertive Christianity. 

Meanwhile, Christian media painted this incident as an example of “Christian persecution.”  

Refer to The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).

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Such provocative evangelism in Punjab does not always go unnoticed by the local community. The Open Door Church run by Pastor Harbhajan Singh, a landlord who converted to Christianity from Sikhism, has aggressively converted over 2,800 members of the Khojewala village community. In February of 2004, Singh made derogatory remarks against several Sikh gurus including Guru Granth Sahib. This led to several protests by Sikh youths in front Singh’s church in the. The conflict was ultimately resolved by police intervention and an unconditional apology by Harbhajan Singh.

Meanwhile, Christian media painted this incident as an example of “Christian persecution.”

(source: Evangelizing the Sikhs of Punjab - info-sikh.com).  

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Christian Buddhist tension in South Korea
Lessons for India's Jains, Buddhist, Hindus and Sikhs.

Christianity's Divine Insanity: God killed himself on the cross to save his own creation from his own wrath. One God, father-son-ghost? 

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At Jogye Temple, normally an island of Buddhist serenity, plainclothes officers have staked out the exits, waiting to grab any fugitives who venture out. Camped out on the temple grounds are the leaders of fierce anti-government protests who have been charged with instigating violence. They have come to the temple seeking political sanctuary, not spiritual uplift. One top government official has branded them "Satans."

As a gong echoes through the neighborhood of office towers in central Seoul , afternoon worshipers arriving at the temple - home to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea - walk below a canopy of 6,200 lotus-shaped lanterns. The lanterns are arranged by color to spell the English word "OUT" - a highly unusual rebuke to President Lee Myung Bak from the country's once-docile and normally apolitical Buddhists.

 

Buddhism Under Siege in South Korea

Christianity creating havoc to Native Traditions and Culture of South Korea.

Lessons for Hindus

 

        

The Jogye temple  and Buddha statues in the Seoul, South Korea. 

Religious peace in our country is being threatened by those who dream of turning it into a medieval Christian kingdom through a church elder-president.

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan

South Korea was after World War II nearly all Buddhist. It became the special focus of Christian missionary activities for the next several decades, with great success. It is a success story that missionaries hope to repeat in other countries, specifically India . A notable one was the visit of Pope John Paul II to Korea during Buddha's birthday, a visit which served to disrupt the ancient celebration. Another example is an official Korean textbook stating in 1984 that Buddhism is a "fading religion." 

Refer to Buddhism under Siege in Korea and Many examples are of attacks against Buddhist monasteries and places of worship.  Refer to The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com

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"Religious peace in our country is being threatened by those who dream of turning it into a medieval Christian kingdom through a church elder-president," said Park Jeong Kyu, a spokesman for the Jogye Order.

Lee, 66, is an elder at a Presbyterian church in Seoul. Since his election last December, Buddhists have voiced a rising alarm over the country's conservative Protestant churches. These churches support Lee, but they also have irritated many Koreans - not just Buddhists - with their assertive proselytizing and alleged disregard for other faiths. In August, tens of thousands of Buddhist monks and lay people marched in central Seoul , accusing Lee and his government of discriminating against Buddhists and favoring Protestants. Buddhists complain that of the 16 members of Lee's cabinet, 13 are Christians while only one is a Buddhist.

 

   

Sonia Gandhi, a devout Italian Catholic who is surrounded by Indian Christians (Margaret Alva, CM Rajashekara Reddy & co). Ms. Sonia Gandhi has taken care to see that there is not a single Muslim or Sikh in her personal SPG protection. This was brought out in a story in Outlook a year ago.  

Why is it that Sonia Gandhi remained silent in the face of the on-going anti-Christian agitation rocking India —she cannot afford to answer questions about her religious affiliations. But as someone who spares no opportunity to malign organisations defending Hindu culture and civilisation, Smt Gandhi must be asked to publicly explain her position on conversions, especially as prominent Christians are spreading the canard that the Constitution grants the right to convert. It does not.

Protestant Lee Myung-bak of Korea has 13 Christians in his cabinet and only one is Buddhist. Using the government as a proselytizing tool. 

Conversion meant much more than mere change of mode of worship. It cut at the root of their cultural identity. That is why 150,000 South Koreans took to streets last month protesting rising conversions and increasing influence of Christianity. Today the South Korean Buddhists are up in arms against their Government for promoting Christianity aggressively because they find Christianity as destroying their homes and families.

"They (Christians) don't respect or recognize other religions."

Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).
Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India  and Christian Jihad - crusadewatch.org. Refer to Indian minorities: Exterminatory zeal - By Sandhya Jain and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp and the movie Deliver us from Evil

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In the spotlight of the dispute is Lee, who once outraged Buddhists by vowing, when he was mayor of Seoul , to "consecrate" the capital to the Christian God.  In August, a prominent Protestant minister was invited to say the prayer at a lunch Lee hosted for the U.S. president, George W. Bush, at the presidential Blue House. Buddhists seized on these and similar episodes to accuse Lee and Protestant churches of "using the government as a proselytizing tool."

Buddhism is 1,600 years old in Korea, but it has lost ground, first to Catholicism and then to Protestant denominations. Protestantism arrived here with American missionaries only a century ago but has expanded in the past several decades.

"They (Christians) don't respect or recognize other religions."

Seoul is home to 11 of the world's 12 largest Christian congregations. Yoido Full Gospel Church, whose chief minister recited the prayer at the Lee-Bush lunch, boasts 800,000 members. Protestant churches stage all-night prayer marathons. Their evangelical zeal made news last year, when 23 Presbyterians were kidnapped in Afghanistan by the Taliban and two of them were murdered. The Buddhist furor escalated in recent weeks as videos circulated on the Internet showing zealous Protestant preachers, one of whom led his congregation in shouts for the "collapse of Buddhist temples." In another clip, a leading preacher, Jang Kyong Dong, says: "Buddhist monks are wasting their time. They should convert to Jesus. Is there any Buddhist country in the world that is rich?"

(source: Christian Buddhist tension in South Korea - iht.com). Refer to chapter on European Imperialism  

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A Tiny Christian minority - The Church is the Second Largest Land owner in India?

India ’s two mighty, internationally-backed minorities are displaying renewed zeal to respectively dominate the physical polity and the cultural-civilisational landscape. The saving grace in the current situation is that the respective crusades against Hindu civilisation are separate and distinct—Muslims quietly withdrew support from Christians after the West stepped up its campaign to demonise Islam, while humiliating Muslims in occupied Muslim lands.

Tens of billions of dollars worth of land in India is owned by the Church, and in Mumbai, the Church is the second largest land owner, the largest being the Indian military. Most of this land was given under land grants by the British to the Church, and by subsequent Indian governments. Such generosity to a minority religion followed by only 2.5% of the Indian population has gone unreported. Given the foreign controlled nexus of the various Churches, this is tantamount to giving billions of dollars to subsidiaries of foreign entities that are engaged in social re-engineering of Indian society. The US government has never contemplated such generosity towards minority religions, especially those controlled from overseas.

(source:  Indian minorities: Exterminatory zeal - By Sandhya Jain and The Axis of Neocolonialism - By Rajiv Malhotra - sulekha.com).  Refer to The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri and  Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com

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Asymmetric Evangelism in Polynesia and Kenya
Stripping Natives of their Cultural Identities

Bilinda Straight a cultural anthropologists writes about "Killing God" in the latest volume of Current Anthropology. In this case, the "god" was a Kenyan divinity named Nkai. In 1935, an Anglican missionary, Charles Scudder, fired his gun into the cave where Nkai was believed to reside. Nkai was thought to have been vanquished, and the worship of Nkai ended at that site.

Straight also recounts tales of John Williams, a British missionary to Tahiti and the Society Islands . Williams gathered the sacred relics and "gods" of different communities, then publicly humiliated them in his chapel. 

The "gods" were publicly exposed, hanged, burnt, and possibly shipped back to England as curiosities.

Straight points out that there was a double standard at work in these Christian missions. On one hand, they relied on brute force and sometimes science to demonstrate the invalidity of the religions they opposed. The native gods could not stand up to modern technology, and were therefore defeated. On the other hand, the missionaries simultaneously claimed that their Christian god was above scientific scrutiny.

Christian missionaries of course understood that the Polynesian view of divinity was different than the Western view. They told the Polynesians that the Christian God was mightier than any of the old gods; he resided in Heaven but his power flowed over the entire world. As evidence (and understanding their audience) they demonstrated their military power. A polynesian would be convinced: these foreign visitors had near-godlike ability to build and to destroy; clearly their God must be as powerful as they say He is. A Christian could destroy a native god, and with that same power could destroy an entire native village with a handful of men, suggesting that the vanquished god's protection was indeed worthless against the might of the Christian God. A native could desecrate a crucifix, but yet the Christians would remain just as powerful; their claim that their God resided in the heavens seemed to stand to scrutiny.

(source: Asymmetric Evangelism - democraticunderground.com). Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and European Imperialism  

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Chennai’s Own Holocaust Deniers  
The destruction of Jain and Buddhist temples along with all of the buildings of the Kapaleeswarar Temple on the Mylapore beach

In November 2006 Pope Benedict XVI had categorically stated that St.Thomas never visited South India.

All eminent historians writing on colonial India describe the devastation of Mylapore and its environs by the Portuguese in the 16th century. The respected Mylapore archaeologist Dr. R. Nagaswami, who has worked on San Thome Cathedral with the Jesuits, tells of the destruction of Jain and Buddhist temples along with all of the buildings of the Kapaleeswarar Temple on the Mylapore beach. 

Before him the Portuguese historian Gaspar Correa describes a holocaust that extended from Mylapore to Big Mount, south of the Adyar River. Even the St. Thomas protagonist Archbishop Arulappa admitted that Hindu temples once stood on the sites now occupied by St. Thomas–related churches in Madras , at Mylapore, Saidapet, and Big Mount now called St. Thomas Mount.

But the true story about the annihilation of Mylapore, the ancient Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage town established long before the Christian era, is not to be told by today's self-appointed guardians of Chennai heritage. The truth is not overtly denied, it is simply not admitted, and is covertly replaced by a fabulous Christian tale about St. Thomas coming to Mylapore in 64 C.E. and getting himself killed eight years later on Big Mount. The tale turns the victims of a holocaust into the slayers of an important Christian saint, the doubting apostle of the Gospels, and–yes!–the twin brother of Jesus, no less. With this story to cover up the true story of Mylapore, Hindus can be made into “Christ killers” just like the Jews before them, and treated accordingly—damned and reviled by the Christian power then, the Portuguese, and damned and censored by the Christian power now, the Americans who, like the Portuguese, use Christianity to give them moral authority for their imperial expeditions, and as a means to gain influence and sympathy through converts in an India that they wish to dominate.    

Refer to The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple - hamsa.org) and Victims of Christian Faith.

The main champion of St. Thomas in Madras today, besides the Catholic Church who owns the shrines and collects the money, is the Sri Lanka-returned journalist and producer of picture books, S. Muthiah, who got his stripes sitting at the feet of the notorious Indian Express columnist Harry Miller, Muthiah's current patron is The Hindu, an obloquial communist rag that is known up and down Mount Road as “The Dinosaur” because it is big and old and dumb, and makes so much noise as it lumbers along through the capitalist swamps of secular, socialist India. Its editor is an ideological Neanderthal called N. Ram. His forte is “secularism” which, in today's political parlance, means he is anti-national and anti-Hindu. He believes that China is the great leader and assiduously follows the Chinese two-systems system in his newspaper–economic freedom and political oppression for all. His opinion columns are filled with gloom and doom, and the rest of the paper is given over to the celebration of consumer goods for the urban rich. One of the special items for sale on January 7th, 2004, was the tale of St. Thomas in an article called “The Mount of Thomas” by S. Muthiah.

(source: Chennai’s Own Holocaust Deniers - christianaggression.com and The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple - hamsa.org). Also refer to The Guilt of Christianity Towards the Jewish People and Catholic Priests Molest Third World Nuns to Avoid AIDS The Anti-Christ - Attempt at Critique of Christianity - By Friedrich Nietzsche [1895] Translated by Walter Kaufmann. For more refer to chapter on European Imperialism and Glimpses_XV and Christianity Dying In The West? - By M S N Menon - organiser.org. Refer to Fraudulent myth of the tomb of St Thomas - IV  and  The Swami Devananda Saraswati Interview with Rajeev Srinivasan - christianaggression.org. 

Refer to One of the ‘holiest’ subterranean alliances in the history of Christianity in India! - vivekjyoti.blogspot.com. Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org

Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English).

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Evangelisation and methods of blasphemous distortions

A Tamil weekly magazine has reported the following in its latest issue (dated 14th November 2008):

 

'On Friday 24 October, the devotees of the world famous 'Sri Kapalishwarar Temple' Mylapore, Chennai were literally shocked when they were given five booklets each containing defamatory write-ups about Hinduism, Vedas, Vedic heritage, Hindu Shastras, Hindu culture & tradition, Sabarimala Ayyappan and denigrating articles on Sage Thirumoolar, Nayanmars and others, by a bunch of mean-minded Christian evangelists just in front of the Temple entrance! For example, in the book titled 'Light in darkness', it is written that, the word 'Sadhaa' in the verse 'Sadhaa Shivaaya' means 'forever' and there is only one God, who blesses and takes care of this world forever, and he is 'Jesus' and the verse 'Sadhaa Shivaaya' denotes only him! All the five books are said to have contained more defamatory stories about Hindu Gods and Religious Gurus. Many people have called up this magazine and sent mails to it giving complete details about what happened in front of the temple that day'.  

 

 

 

            

 

Evangelization and methods of blasphemous distortions - Light in darkness and Sacred Ash? Or, The Cross? and Hindu hating atheist Tamilnadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi. He who waxed eloquent on the 'supposed' history of St.Thomas, despite having excellent knowledge on Thiruvalluvar and Thirukkural.

 

Refer to The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple - hamsa.org and Victims of Christian Faith. 

Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India  and  Indian minorities: Exterminatory zeal - By Sandhya Jain and The Axis of Neocolonialism - By Rajiv Malhotra - sulekha.com).  Refer to The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri and  After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and  Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com

 

Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp and the movie Deliver us from Evil

Refer to Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007 and Christian Missionary Atrocities and Victims of Christian Faith and jesusneverexisted.com.  Refer to Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie

Refer to Things they don't tell about Christianity and Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

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Incidentally, the Santhome Cathedral stands on the ruins of the original Kapalishvarar Temple , which was destroyed by the Portuguese invaders and now the evangelical invaders are trying to destroy the Hindu culture and religion in front of this reconstructed Kapalishvarar Temple .

This outrageous incident has brought out the following facts:

 

  • The evangelists have the temerity to distribute blasphemous literatures and conduct a hate-campaign against Hinduism, that too in front of a very famous historic temple.
  •  The minority appeasement policies of a 'minority' government, which openly said that it is committed to the welfare of minorities, and its anti-majority stand have emboldened these evangelists to indulge in this kind of illegal activity.
  • The policemen who have been posted near the temple for security (Mylapore temple is under terror threat) have turned a blind eye to this venomous act, probably due to fear motivation from the 'minority' government or money motivation from the evangelists. 
  • The Hindus have just exposed their 'dhimmitude' by remaining passive without acting against those evangelists. Sadly, not even one devotee has exhibited the courage to lodge a police complaint against them. The traders near the temple have not bothered to drive away those Christian rapscallions. Certainly the number of devotees must have easily outnumbered those evangelists and they must have caught them with their collars and taken them to the Mylapore police station. Instead of doing all this, some people have written to this particular weekly magazine.

Similarly, in Coimbatore , on 24 September, five staff of Chennai based ' East Coast Christian Matriculation School ' have been arrested by the police for distributing blasphemous literatures propagating Christianity and degrading Hindu Gods and engaging in evangelisation. The police action has been prompted by the complaint given by the local people belonging to BJP and Hindu Makkal Katchi, who caught those evangelists and took them to the nearby police station. Ironically those evangelists have asked the students (most of them are Hindus) to distribute those pamphlets and the innocent students have obeyed the order out of fear. This has been done while taking the students on an excursion (study tour) to Ooty. If this is the way study tours are conducted by a Christian School , one can imagine the standard of education imparted by it. 

In this context, it must be noted that in most of the schools run by the various Christian denominations, Hindu students (who obviously are more in number) are not allowed to sport 'Thilaks' on their forehead and girl students are not allowed to have flowers on their heads. Last year a boy was reprimanded and sent out by the management of a Christian school in Chennai city for having applied 'Mehendi' in his palms. His parents were made to run from pillar to post to reinstate him. In another school in Dindigul, some boys, who were 'fasting' for Sabarimala pilgrimage, were allowed to write their examinations only after having a haircut and removing their 'Tulasi Maalaas'. In certain schools 'Bible' is being taught and the Hindu students are forced to attend such classes. The parent community is also aware of these kinds of tortures undergone by their wards, but they prefer to keep quiet in the fear that their wards' education would be affected.

Recently in a Church in Kakkan Nagar, in the Ambedkar slum dwellings of Adambakkam, a Chennai suburb, the pastor, during morning prayers, had openly ridiculed the practice of Abishekams of Amman Deities saying that 'they are nude & naked worships performed with an erotic motive'. As the Pastor was addressing a group of 'converts', his blasphemous speech was heard by the slum dwellers through loud speakers. A Hindu woman, who was drawing drinking water from a nearby Municipal water-pump, got outraged by the blasphemous speech, threw out the water from her vessel and filled it with gutter from the nearby ditch and threw it inside the Church. Only then the Hindu men realised the seriousness of the issue and reportedly damaged the windowpanes of the Church. The Pastor lodged a police complaint and the police promptly booked those Hindus, who damaged the windowpanes, and the Pastor, who was the real culprit as per the law of the land, went Scot-free! 

 

These incidents may look like isolated due to the fact that the Hindus rarely exhibit courage to take on those evangelists, but these strategies adopted by the Church and missionaries are a regular phenomenon going on for years in the state. Mariamman and Aiyappan are two Deities, which attract millions of devotees, particularly the Scheduled Castes, as evidenced by the Sabarimala pilgrimage and Melmaruvaththur pilgrimage. Since the SCs are the targeted audience of the evangelists, the Churches come out with literatures, pamphlets and books denigrating Goddess Amman and Swami Aiyappan and ridiculing their worship.

An evangelist by name Dr Theivanayagam has founded an organisation by name 'Diravida Aanmeega Iyakkam' (Movement of Dravidian Spiritualism) to spread the concept of 'Thomas Christianity', in the name of 'Aadhi Christhuvam' (Early Christianity). Through this concept, he attempts to project Shivisim and Vishnavism as sub sects of Christianity. He wrote a book titled 'Vivliyam (Bible), Thirukkural, Saiva Siddantham - Oppu Ayvu' (Comparative Research) and published it in 1985-86 and has been steadfastly campaigning on this concept since then. Very recently, he convened 'Agila Ulaga Dravida Samaya Maanaadu' (International Dravidiyan Spiritual conference) under the aegis of Mylapore diocese, in which the following blasphemous distortions were projected as researched facts:

 

  • 'Aadhi Christhuvam' (Early Christianity) was promulgated and established in Tamilnadu by St.Thomas is the original religion of the Tamils.   
  •  The Aryan invaders distorted Thoams Christianity and conceived new concepts called Shivism and Vishnavism and hence they must be treated as the sub sects of Thomas Christianity.
  • The 'holy trinity' of 'Father-Son-Holy Spirit' is denoted by 'Shiva-Muruga-Shakthi' and the same is also denoted by 'Brahmma-Vishnu-Rudran'
  • The 'holy trinity' concept has beautified the Indian Religions. The 'Holy Spirit-Father' combination can be identified with 'Arthanarishvarar' and 'Sankaranarayanar' formations.
  • St.Thomas's teachings were abounding in Thirukkural and Sage Thiruvalluvar was a disciple of St.Thomas.  

All these things go to show that a sustained campaign has been going on for years and the momentum keeps on increasing with foreign aids and local support. The Dravidian political parties, which are bent on alienating the Tamils from the Hindu fold, have been aiding and abetting these anti-Hindu forces and this unholy nexus between them is creating havoc in the society. Though the Religious Gurus are deeply concerned about the speedy developments in this area of evangelisation and the alarming rate of conversion going on in the state, they feel helpless and fear the Dravidian rulers. So, the onus lies purely on political and social Hindu organisations to take legal actions against persons like Deivanayagam and their organisations for destroying the Hindu cultural heritage and Religious traditions posing a danger to communal harmony. 

 

Evangelism has gone beyond the limits of tolerance by abusing the constitutional provisions for freedom of religion and the general public must also be aware of their moral responsibility to act against those who indulge in blasphemy against their religion and the government machineries must also act as per the rule of law instead of dancing to the tunes of political masters.   

Many such blasphemous distortions were presented in the conference. Close on the heels of the conference the inauguration of the Rs.50 crore production of a movie on St.Thomas was also conducted. The Chief Guest of the inauguration was none other than the Tamilnadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi, who waxed eloquent on the 'supposed' history of St.Thomas, despite having excellent knowledge on Thiruvalluvar and Thirukkural.  Dr Deivanayagam has recently released a book titled 'Thiruneeraa, Siluvaiya?' (Sacred Ash? Or, The Cross?), in which, he has again brought out blasphemous distortions.  

A few examples are given below:    

  • The Hindu practice of applying 'sacred ash' on the forehead has actually started from 'Ash Wednesday' the first day of the 'Penance' (lent-days). The sacred ash comprises within it all the three stages of 'Death, Resurrection & Pardon due to the fact that the 'ash' cannot be destroyed, as how the resurrected body cannot be destroyed.
  • When Visnavism got separated from Shivism, the style of applying sacred ash was changed from horizontal pattern to vertical pattern.
  • Shiva is supposed to have given his left half to Shakthi. If that left half is worshipped as woman, it becomes Shivism and if the same is worshipped as man it becomes Vishnavism.
  • 'Thiruneetru Pathigam', a collection of Shivite Hymns sung by Sage Thirugnaana Sambandhar comprises a number of messages of Christianity.  
  • All Shivite literatures namely 'Thirumurai', 'Thevaram', 'Thiruvasagam' and 'Thirupathigam' do not talk about the four Vedas namely Rig, Yajur, Sama and Adharvana. Also, as they carry the messages of Christ the 'Bible' is the only 'Veda'. 

(source: Evangelisation and methods of blasphemous distortions - By B R Haran - newstodaynet.com).

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Gandhi’s concerns over Evangelization
Gandhi viewed all conversions as acts of Spiritual Violence

"How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ had  been"                          

                   - Pope Leo X  (1513 - 1521). The Bible Fraud: An Untold Story of Jesus Christ - By Tony Bushby

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As we observe the anniversary of Bapu’s martyrdom in the midst of fierce debate over the activities of an obdurately evangelising church, it is appropriate to recall the Mahatma’s vehement opposition to Christian proselytisation.  Gandhi’s observations on the church in India, made more than half a century ago, have not only withstood the test of time but encompass the entire spectrum of concerns that missionary activities have recently aroused.

Young Gandhian, Niru Vora, deserves credit for bringing out a timely collection of the Mahatma’s writings on the subject in the wake of Pope John Paul It’s call for a harvest of faith in Asia (Gandhiji’s Dialogue with Christianity, Swaraj Peeth Trust, 1999).  In his introduction, eminent Gandhian, Rajiv Vora of the Gandhi Peace Foundation, has effectively summed up of the issues at stake.  As Vora points out, not only has the Pontiff disregarded India ’s civilisational sensibility, he has also charted out a plan for her spiritual doom.  In the face of this enormous challenge, Vora states, it is imperative that we shed our moral, spiritual and intellectual lethargy and make an all out bid to strengthen our flanks.  We have to protect our religious space and cultural ethos, quench the spiritual hunger of our downtrodden, and neutralise the money and muscle power of the missionaries, white taking care not to tread on their just rights as citizens of this country. Vora attributes the dilemmas we face today to the inability of the post-independence Indian state to positively define its secular character.  It is the absence of such a definition, he says, that is responsible for the question that haunt us today. Conscience, comes with the inherited faith; it represents the divine light within us.  To tamper with conscience is to tamper with the work of the Almighty, no less. 

 

Christianity's ambitious march around the World.

India is a country where the minority has more clout in the media and is politically more powerful than the majority and where the Christian Church is the SECOND LARGEST land owner in so called Hindu India.

Christian missions, Gandhi repeatedly emphasized, were intent on uprooting our ancestral faith and replacing it with an alien one. 

Gandhi viewed all conversions, not just forced or mass conversions, as acts of spiritual violence.

We have to protect our religious space and cultural ethos, quench the spiritual hunger of our downtrodden, and neutralise the money and muscle power of the missionaries, white taking care not to tread on their just rights as citizens of this country. 

Refer to Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org. Refer to jesusneverexisted.com and Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan

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Gandhi viewed all conversions, not just forced or mass conversions, as acts of Spiritual Violence.  

He termed them as ‘blasphemy’, as ‘the deadliest poison that has ever sapped the very foundation of truth’. Gandhi first experienced the intolerance of Christian evangelists as a young boy in Rajkot .  He would see them at a roadside corner near the High School, pouring venom on Hindus and their gods.  Around the same time he heard stories of Hindu converts being forced to eat beet and drink liquor at their baptism ceremony.  For a brief span Gandhi himself become a target of missionaries who felt he was too good not to be a Christian.  These early encounters, together with later Knowledge of the ruthlessness of missionary activity, turned him into a vociferous opponent of proselytisation.

Christian missions, Gandhi repeatedly emphasised, were intent on uprooting our ancestral faith and replacing it with an alien one.  He clarified that he was not judging Christianity as a religion, just the actions of Christian missionaries.  On the personal front, however, he added, he had tried to experience Christianity, but found that it limited and restricted man’s quest for truth, unlike Hinduism which was truly expansive and gave its followers the widest scope for self-expression. Hinduism alone, Gandhi said, entirely satisfied his soul and filled his being.  The solace he found in the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, he said, was missing in the Sermon on the Mount.

What he found particularly unpalatable in Christianity, Gandhi confessed, was its refusal to accept the spiritual equality of men.  By insisting that Christianity was superior to other faiths, the church sought to destroy multiplicity of religions and engage in a form of imperial conquest.  Why should Christians, he asked, want to convert Hindus to Christianity, why couldn’t they be satisfied if the Hindus were good or godly men?  

 

       

Mahatma Gandhi and The Bhagavad Gita.

"Hinduism alone, Gandhi said, entirely satisfied his soul and filled his being. The solace he found in the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, he said, was missing in the Sermon on the Mount. " 

"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. Gandhi was unequivocal In his condemnation of Christian evangelism. 

Modem India has no reason to deviate from his stand.

Refer to Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and  The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri 

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Gandhi found missionary presence in India as disruptive of inner peace and social harmony.  He agreed that Hinduism was no longer in its pristine state and a number of wholly unacceptable abuses had crept into it.  But he insisted that every religion had the right to rejuvenate itself.  Hindus were entitled to offer repentance and reparation for the reprehensible practice of Untouchability.  Indeed, he felt that it was vital they did so, for if Untouchability lived, Hinduism, and India itself, would perish.  Christians were welcome to assist in this endeavour, but for them to work independently and seize this as a chance for propaganda was unethical, Gandhi felt. Gandhi dismissed as ‘absurd’ the Christian claim of an upsurge of spiritual hunger among Untouchables, and described most cases of conversion as ‘false coin’. 

He found the British categorisation of tribals as ‘animists’ and ‘aborigines’ unacceptable, and said such thinking was alien to the Hindu ethos.  We may, in fact, view it as another instance of the imperial divide and rule strategy which present-day evangelists, backed by massive foreign funds and foreign government claiming concern with human rights, are seeking to revive.  

Gandhi was unequivocal In his condemnation of Christian evangelism.  Modem India has no reason to deviate from his stand.

(source: Gandhi’s concerns over Evangelization - By Meenakshi Jain The Weekend Observer January 29, 2000).  Refer to Dismantle the evangelical establishment - By Ram Madhav and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org

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Gandhi was unequivocal In his condemnation of Christian Evangelism.

Mahatma Gandhi writing in Young India, he observed: 

"If I had power and could legislate, I should certainly stop all proselytizing". In Hindu households the advent of a missionary has meant the disruption of the family coming in the wake of change of dress, manners, language, food and drink .  "I resent the overtures made to Harijans." "Stop all conversion, it is the deadliest poison that ever sapped the fountain of truth." 

"Conversion nowadays has become a matter of business, like any other. India (Hindus) is in no need of conversion of this kind. Conversion in the sense of self-purification, self-realization is the crying need of the times. That however is never what is meant by proselytization. To those who would convert India (Hindus), might it not be said, "Physician, heal yourself." (Young India: April 23, 1931). 

“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”.

"I hold that proselytisation under the cloak of humanitarian work is unhealthy to say the least. It is most resented by people here. Religion after all is a deeply personal thing. It touches the heart." 

"As I wander about through the length and breath of India I see many Christian Indians almost ashamed of their birth, certainly of their ancestral religion, and of their ancestral dress. The aping of Europeans by Anglo-Indians is bad enough, but the aping of them by Indian converts is a violence done to their country and, shall I say, even to their new religion. (Young India: August 8, 1925). 

"I regard Jesus as a great teacher of humanity, but I do not regard him as the only begotten son of God. That epithet in its material interpretation is quite unacceptable. Metaphorically we are all sons of God, but for each of us there may be different sons of God in a special sense. Thus for me Chaitanya may be the only begotten son of God. God cannot be the exclusive Father and I cannot ascribe exclusive divinity to Jesus. (Harijan: June 3, 1937). 

"It is my firm opinion that Europe (and the United States) does not represent the spirit of God or Christianity but the spirit of Satan. And Satan"s successes are the greatest when appears with the name of God on his lips. (Young India: September 8, 1920). Christianity in India has been inextricably mixed up for the last one hundred and fifty years with British rule. It appears to us as synonymous with materialistic civilization and imperialistic exploitation by the stronger white races of the weaker races of the world. Its contribution to India has been, therefore, largely negative. (Young India: March 21, 1929). 

"Only the other day a missionary descended on a famine area with money in his pocket, distributed it among the famine stricken, converted them to his fold, took charge of their temple, and demolished it. This is outrageous. (Harijan: November 5, 1937). "I consider western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ"s Christianity. I cannot conceive Jesus, if he was living in flesh in our midst, approving of modern Christian organizations, public worship, or ministry. (Young India: September 22, 1921).

Pope Benedict Piously invokes Gandhi while calling for Christianization of India

The Vatican invoked the memory of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi in an appeal on Tuesday for an end to religious violence in India after anti-minority riots killed at least 35 people.

(source: Vatican invokes Gandhi in plea to end Orissa violence - ibnlive.com).  Refer to Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

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The Future of African Gods - By Professor Molefi Kete Asante

Lessons for Hindus - To deny the validity of one's religion is to deny the validity of one's civilization. 

David Livingstone (1813-1873) was a British Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in central Africa .

He spoke of "the white man's burden" to evangelize and civilize the peoples of Africa." (Nobody bothered the ask the Africans what they thought of this!).

Jaques Maquet the anthropologist had called missionary activities in Africa a "religious commando attack, aimed at extirpating 'superstitious and idolatrous' practices and converting whole groups."

The missionaries in general have little respect for African cultures and regard their peoples as ignorant savages. One early twentieth century methodist missionary in Umtali, Zimbabwe, wrote of the people he had set out to evangelize: "Heathen and naked as new born babies, and as ignorant as beetles." The missionaries were, of course, part of the oppressive colonial forces in Africa . Britain ’s imperialistic activities in Africa from 1869 to 1912 had different motives. Britain wanted to colonize, find new markets and materials, attain revenge and world prestige, convert natives to Christianity, and spread the English style of orderly government.

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"When the missionaries came to Africa we had the land; they had the Bible. They asked us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them they had our land, we had the Bible."

                                                          - Jomo Kenyatta (1897-1978), first prime minister of Kenya.

Molefi Kete Asante (born as Arthur Lee Smith Jr. in 1942, in Valdosta , Georgia , USA ) is a contemporary African American scholar in the field of African studies and African American Studies. He is currently Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University , where he founded the first PhD program in African American Studies. He has astutely observed that to deny the validity of one's religion is to deny the validity of one's civilization.

So powerful is the concept of religion when we discuss it in connection with civilization that to deny the validity of one's religion is to deny the validity of one's civilization. Indeed to deny one's religion as valid is to suggest that the person is a pagan, a heathen, uncivilized, and beyond the sphere of humanity. So to talk about religion is to talk about our views of ourselves, our understanding of our ancestors, and our love of our culture.

There are no people without traditions and traditions are the lifeblood of a people. A people who refuse to express its love and appreciation for its ancestors will die because in traditions, if you are not expressing your own, you are participating in and expressing faith in someone else's ancestors. No person is devoid of an attachment to some cultural fountain. Whose water are we drinking?  

Our African history has been a recent orgy of forgetfulness. We have often lost our memories and accepted the gods of those who enslaved and colonized us. This is something the Chinese and the Indians have fought hard to keep at bay. While we have often embraced our enemies gods they have found those gods to be anathema to their interests. Show me the gods we Africans worship and I will show the extent of our moral and ethical decay. Those who speak to us of Christian or Islamic morals have often been the very ones who had defiled our ancestors' memories and called out sacred rites paganism. Malcolm X once said that the world pushes the African around because we give the impression that we are chumps, not champs, but chumps, weaklings, falling over ourselves to follow other people rather than our own traditions.  

What would be anything more pagan than the wanton willful destruction of millions of Africans, Jews, Native Americans, Indians and Chinese by Christians Europeans? How could white men pray to a god on the second floor of a slave dungeon while on the first floor they held our ancestors, yours and mine, in horrible bondage? What kind of religion denied our humanity at the same time they were raping our women, brutalizing our children, and demanding our wealth and our souls?  It is true that the idea of Christian names or Muslim names promotes and advances those cultures. Why must you change your name even if you chose to buy into a foreign religion? What is wrong with your name? Any religion that asks you to do what others do not have to do is asking you to abandon your mother. The question is, why would you abandon your mother?  

Religion in General

What is religion but the deification of ancestors, the making sacred of traditions within the context and history. How can we honor any god who was used against us? The only people who accept alien gods are defeated people; all others honor and accept their own name for the Almighty. We must learn to appreciate ourselves and our traditions. What is wrong with the African God?  What would we think of a Yoruba who accepted Chinese ancestors as his own? We would find it quite interesting and wonder how it came to be. But what of Africans' acceptance of others' gods? Is there no tradition with these alien gods? Of course there is tradition with these gods! To accept the Jews' god or the Arabs' god is to valorize those histories above your own. Indeed, it is to honor the names in those myths and stories higher than your own stories, it is to love the language, the places in their stories above your own. Why is Mecca , Rome , or Jerusalem more sacred that Bosumtwi? Quite simply, it is imperialism, not by force of arms, but by force of religion which sometimes comes armed.  

Tribes, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy - By Joel Kotkin, a book about people ready for the 21st Century claims that only Jews, Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and British are ready. These groups have some commonalities which include (1) strong sense of identity, (2) international network, and (3) a passion for technology. Samuel P Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations claims that there are six major civilizations: Chinese, Japanese, Orthodox, Hindu, Western, Islamic. He says each one has a nation that is vanguard, deeply committed to its religion and history. Africa has no such vanguard nation and furthermore Africa has yet to emerge from under the cloaks of its interventionists. Of 53 nations only one nation is more African in religion than either Christian or Muslim. That nation is small Benin .  

Benin is 87% popular traditional African Religion. But it is a small nation with limited influence in a propaganda fashion. As such we do not expect African traditional religion to play a major part in the civilization of Africa for a long time to come, but we can begin to examine the questions, to raise the issues, and to interrogate our practices. T

he British called Harry Lee the best Englishman east of the British Isles when he finished Oxford . He changed his name, converted to Confucianism and they wondered what happened to him. He learned Mandarin Chinese and became Lee Kuan Yew, a leader who rejected Western values. Asians are calling for Confucianism as they emphasize tradition. The Japanese are calling for Nihonjinron, Japanese values (Cultural nationalism). 

Why must we be stuck with the attitudes and values of the European, so-called Christian values, particularly since they have shown themselves to be bankrupt on many fronts.

(source: The Future of African Gods - by Professor Molefi Kete Asante).  Refer to Christian Missionaries

Note:  Why these double standards?  Why is Asian Nationalism (Nihonjinron, Confucianism and Hindutva) not desirable and worrisome to the West but American nationalism (wrapping oneself in the flag specially after Sept 11, 2001) considered noble?

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Christian Ummah

Have a look at this report.

“ India ’s Vengeful Christians turn to Murder as Hindus Step up Their Killing Campaign” 

The story is a toxic blend of deception and half-truths. If this is the “editorial excellence” of the mainstream media of Anglo Saxons, one can imagine the bile their fringe publications must be pouring over the rest of humanity. The story has exactly the same quality and commitment to “truth” as you see in any Urdu magazine published from a Muslim ghetto in Pakistan . That is why I say that don’t mistake Anglo-Saxons for harmless creatures just because they drink Coke and use expensive Cologne . They are no different in toxicity than a Afghan Mullah in a cave.

It is fascinating to see the Christian Ummah in action. Both Muslims and Christians want to screw the unbelievers and take over their land and rule ove them, and both have the modus operandi of “keep blaming the victim as you cut his throat.”

The strategy is simple: first convert the unbelievers, and then arm the converts. The Whites are masters of this game. Currently, they are pumping in money quietly in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Tamil Nadu to create a critical mass of converts out of us heathens. They will then weaponize the newly brainwashed converts and start a terrorist movement against the rest of the unbelievers in their own country. This is the strategy that we are now seeing unfolding before us in India .

The Whites have tasted blood and have been screwing other races for 500 years and capturing their land and resources to fatten themselves. Their genes have got corrupted and become a liability to this world. They will not rest or stop easily just because we politely ask them to. Only force and firm action will work against them. China has understood this. The Whites and their church will make short work of all “secular” and “non-violent” races, especially those who are still sitting on a huge expanse of land even after Partition.

(source: Christian Ummah - indiarealist.com).  Refer to The Cuckoo Land of Creationists and “Why do people laugh at creationists?”

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Spiritual leader Sri Sri RaviShankar against Conversion on Allurement

Keith M Parsons author of Why I Am Not a Christian (2000) has observed:  

"So no, Christianity has not gotten tolerant over the years; it has merely gotten smarter. You catch more flies with sugar than salt, and you get more converts with slick rhetoric and high-tech propaganda than you do with dungeon, fire, and sword. Who needs Grand Inquisitors when you have gone on-line and satellites broadcast your message worldwide? So Christian intolerance no longer wears the mask of the Inquisitor; it wears the "aw shucks" grin of Pat Robertson and the oleaginous simper of Jerry Falwell.”

(source: Why I am not a Christian - By Keith M Parsons). Refer to Things they don't tell about Christianity

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Opposing religious conversion through allurement anywhere including Orissa's Kandhamal, spiritual leader Ravi Shankar today said any attempt to convert people by giving false promises under the garb of service would destroy pluralism and harmony. Though one was free to propagate one's religion, none should try to give an impression that other faiths were bad as it would ruin unity and heterogeneous character of the Indian society, the humanitarian leader said here.

Stating that the existing anti-conversion law should be enforced, he said non-violence and inter-faith dialogues should be used for conflict resolution in places like riot-torn Kandhamal. Ravishankar also took a dig at the Centre and criticised its announcement of 25 lakh scholarships for students belonging to minority community saying such appeasement would spark rift among the youngsters. Terming the move as a "blunder" on the part of the prime minister, he said "such petty vote bank politics to appease a community is dangerous."

Observing that there was no attempt to carry out religious conversion in Hinduism, the spiritual leader said Hindus rarely propagate their religion, which remains confined to a personal and individual activity.                  

(source:  Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravishankar against conversion on allurement - outlookindia.com). Refer to Preparing for the harvest ...  - By Tehelka.com.  Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India  and Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie and  Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

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Civilizing the Heathens of India by Spreading Christianity is like America spreading Democracy in Iraq

White Man's Burden:  Funds for Christian Invasion of India

Each year, the Government of India's Ministry of Home Affairs releases a report (URL below) entitled, "Receipt of Foreign Contributions by Voluntary Associations.

Following are the Associations which receive the funds

Gospel Fellowship Trust India , USA -- $60,305,263  
Gospel for Asia, USA -- $36,100,000  
Plan International, UK -- $29,257,895  
Foundation Vicent E Ferrer, Alicante , Spain -- $27,428,947 
Christian Aid, UK -- $21,094,737  
Miseror Mozartstrasse , Germany -- $20,457,895  
Foundacion Vicente Ferrer, Madrid, Spain -- $20,118,421  
Oxfam , UK -- $19,721,053  
NOVIB, Netharlands -- $19,321,053  
Deptt for International Devpt (DFID), UK -- $15,723,684  
Kindemothilfe , Germany -- $14,318,421  
Save the Children Fund , UK -- $13,594,737  
Manos Unidas , Spain -- $13,050,000  
Missio, Germany -- $12,900,000  
Population Service International USA -- $12,826,316  
Total funds sent to India : -- $336,218,421

(source: Refer to Report).  Refer to jesusneverexisted.com.  Refer to After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.orgWatch the movie Deliver us from Evil

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

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Burden of the Cross

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States .

"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."

"The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust."

"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature." "It is between fifty and sixty years since I read the Apocalypse, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac."

"We discover [in the Gospels] a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication."

The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of the people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." Writing on on the Revelations in the Bible, from Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography, New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986."...merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy, nor capable of explanation than the incoherence's of our own nightly dreams." "Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law." 

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Is this the " Superior " western civilization?

A spectre is haunting our earth—the spectre of Revenge. Revenge for the crimes of nations and peoples in the past. Time has not requieted it; nor has it suffered from amnesia. Like an evil spirit, it hovers over the earth. 
The anger is directed against the West. The West has been leading the world for three long centuries. It wants now to make its rule a hereditary right. But what is its record? What is its reputation? How does it deserve this great honour?

The last slave ship left the African coast in 1807. Nearly two centuries have passed. And yet the soul of Africa remains restless. It is not pacified. Africa cries for revenge and reparation for the worst crimes in human history.

The Chinese too want their revenge. They have not forgotten the opium wars thrust upon them by Britain . And India ? It was made into a wasteland by the invaders. We can never forget it. May be, revenge is not what we want. We want our honour restored.

And the Jews? There is nothing comparable to the holocaust in barbarism. They have been subject to the longest hate and persecution in history.

The world is full of horrible memories of high injustices—of unjust wars, colonial plunder and oppression, imperial conquests, racial atrocities. These have left deep scars on the racial memory of peoples. They cannot forget. How can the Red-Indians ever forget the genocide of their race and the destruction of the Aztec, Inca and Maya civilisations? Writes an authority on the Mayas: “The great men of Athens would not have felt out of place in a gathering of Maya priests and rulers.”

How can the original inhabitants of Australia and New Zealand forget the decimation of their peoples? Every nation, which was colonised, has a bitter tale to tell. And the Christian church was at the bottom of it all—providing the real inspiration. It has given its blessing to every Christian enterprise inspired by the Devil. 

Dr. S Radhakrishnan writes:

“The history of Christianity illustrates the tragic effects of a unique intolerant and exclusive truth.”

Resentment is building up like a volcano. It is bound to erupt. Terrorism is the first major outbreak of the pent up anger. America has come to know how it is to live in constant fear. But injustices continue to thrive. Why? Because those who perpetrate the evils even today believe that they can get away with murder. That is what the white hunters thought when they hunted for the black men in the jungles of Africa . They never thought that the spirit of African will rise one day and demand reparation. And yet these men who hunted other men were “Christians”. It was their claim that Christianity is all about love and compassion for humanity! They did not think of the African as a human being. The church propagated that the black men were the sons of the Devil.

Inequality, said Martin Luther, author of the Reformation, is a “natural order.” It still is a natural order to the West. Ask Wall Street!

The Semitic faiths were marked for their blindness and cruelty. This is no reflection on Christ. He was truly a man of God. The fault lay with the church. Today it is back again to its aggressive posture.

 W W E H Lecky (1838 -1903) the great Irish historian of Europe , writes:

 “What strikes us most in considering the medieval tortures is not so much their diabolic barbarity…(but) the artistic skill they displayed.” 

And the Inquisition was at the back of this art! In every prison, the crucifix and the rack (a torture instrument) stood side by side!

Torture was abolished in the teeth of opposition from the church, but most of the atrocities came back in full force with the blessings of the church during the colonial period. Although empires have gone, the predatory instinct of Western civilisation is still around.

Good Reader, it would be a good mental exercise for you to make a list of nations in the moral order.

Today the church wants to convert we Hindus—we who have never done a harm to a foreign nation in our history—into Christianity! Why? Because, says the church, we live in “darkness”! Because our gods are devils!

This is the record of Christianity! And it calls itself “superior!”

(source: Is this the " Superior " western civilisation? - By M S N Menon ).

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Congress Party will have to pay dearly for playing with the Fire of Communalism.  

Steve Allen, (1921 - 2000) comedian, musician, writer, and talk show innovator in his book, Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality, 1990 had remarked: 

“It was only when I finally undertook to read the Bible through from beginning to end that I perceived that its depiction of the Lord God--whom I had always viewed as the very embodiment of perfection--was actually that of a monstrous, vengeful tyrant, far exceeding in bloodthirstiness and insane savagery the depredations of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, or any other mass murderer of ancient or modern history.”

”. . . the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God . . .” (p. 180).  

“the Bible is full of error, contradictions, and inconsistencies” (pp. 416-417). He describes the Scriptures as being inadequate, narrow, vindictive, absurd, illogical, and stupid (p. 420). Allen contends that the Bible is horribly immoral in numerous places.  

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Evangelists have been using dirty tricks in Karnataka to convert vulnerable Hindus. The literature that is being used to propagate Christianity is repulsive: Denigrating Hindu gods and goddesses has become the standard practice of preachers flush with foreign funds.  

The ruling coalition at the Centre in stern terms. The Congress's duplicity -- from tackling (largely) homegrown Islamic terrorism with an iron hand to keeping mum over the plight of Amarnath pilgrims to paying lip service to widespread conversion activity in Andhra Pradesh to being blind to the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati in Orissa -- is more than evident. This behaviour lends credence to the suspicion that the Congress seeks to deflect attention from its own ineptitude as also from widespread public anger in the wake of unrelenting terror attacks on Indian soil.

Conversion cause Social Disruption and Loss of Culture

 

Sonia Gandhi a devout Italian Catholic and PM Manmohan Singh

It is mind boggling to think that one billion people are under the rule of a foreign Italian Catholic woman who is by NO means a towering intellectual and who has NO compassion for the Hindu cause or interest in Hinduism. 

Indic religions are once again caught in an unenviable position between a bloodthirsty Islamic terrorism and devious Christian spiritual imperialism. Tragically, as long as we have an Italian Catholic woman, one who has no interest in preserving Hinduism (such an intellectual - Annie Besant did) pulling the strings of the Indian Government these incidents will go on. In conclusion it can be said that we are truly living in the age of The Kali Yuga.

The Congress's duplicity -- from tackling (largely) homegrown Islamic terrorism with an iron hand to keeping mum over the plight of Amarnath pilgrims to paying lip service to widespread conversion activity in Andhra Pradesh to being blind to the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati in Orissa -- is more than evident.

According to Columnist Rajeev Srinivasan: “Nary a word about the societal disruption, National disharmony, loss of Civilizational and Culture, self esteem caused by conversions to Christianity induced by force, fraud and allurement. Not a word about the culpability of Western donors in the religious cleansing of Hindus perpetrated by the missionary saboteurs and their pawns who convert for a bag of Rice, a bottle of liquor or the allurement of licentious behaviour sanctioned by the immoral Christian Church and it's debauched "fathers". There is no pretense of objectivity anymore in the Indian media, not even the false fig leaf of "neutrality" feigned by some Western entities.” 

Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India  and Manifesto for saving Hindu India: Political power has eluded Hindus for centuries - By Dr Gautam Sen  and Secularism has degenerated as the backbone of terrorists & evangelists - By Dr Gautam Sen

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org and  Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

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As we shall see, the truth about attacks on Christian places of worship in Mangalore and adjoining areas is at best murky. But decades of received wisdom in vast sections of the English media dictated that the Sangh Parivar was guilty. Accordingly, they donned judicial robes and pronounced the Sangh Parivar guilty without any evidence. A certain media house has been running what looks like a serial campaign against the Bajrang Dal. In what looks suspiciously complementary, it is also running feature-length interviews of 'success stories' of select Christian converts. Among others, it has put on record how regular prayer helped a poor convert 'heal' cancerous tumours! Further, this convert had, in vain, appealed to her caste members/Hindu organisations for medical aid/donations. Both the connotation and conclusion of this brazen style of reporting are inescapable.

There are deeper undercurrents surrounding the Church attacks. But first, some facts are in order. It was made out by the media that the attacks occurred only in and around Mangalore, which is blatantly false. Violence occurred in Mangalore, Udupi, and Chickmagalur districts. In other words, in an area spanning about 200 km. What is interesting is that apart from Mangalore, the other two districts have traditionally been the bastions of Hinduism: Udupi, which has been home to some famous seers belonging to Madhavacharya's sect, and Chickmagalur, which houses the Shankaracharya of Sringeri.

Mangalore's sizable Christian population owes to history when several Jesuits camped there in the 19th Century, set up educational institutions and began spreading Christianity. This explains why sections of the media selectively focussed on Mangalore as the 'hub' of attacks on Christian places of worship. Chickmagalur, which lies in the heart of the densely-forested Western Ghats , has been a special target for conversions. Over the past decade, an astonishing number of churches, little chapels, and other Christian worship-places have sprouted and are growing. That is but part of the problem.

The adage that there's no smoke without fire is worth revisiting here. Popular media accounts narrate that these attacks were unprovoked. But reports from the ground, which have now begun to come in, show that an evangelist organisation called New Life (or New Life Fellowship Trust) began an aggressive conversion campaign by circulating literature Satya Darshani that denigrated Hindu gods and goddesses.

Hence the 'advisory mission' to Karnataka under the pretence of safeguarding the interests of Christians. Destabilising the BJP Government in Karnataka or dismissing it by misusing Article 355 or 356 may yield short-term benefits to the Congress. Without doubt, it will earn the wrath of the people of the State who have lived with instability for almost six years. More dangerously, in the long run, the Congress will have to pay dearly for playing with the fire of communalism.

(source: Burden of the cross - By Sandeep B - Op-ed dailypioneer.com September 29 2008). Refer to Preparing for the harvest ...  - By Tehelka.com

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Conversions are Religious Intolerance 
The Church assumes an air of injured innocence?  

The conversion of even an individual causes grave disruption. His family is torn apart. Tensions erupt in the community. The individual is led to not just repudiate but to denounce gods and rituals in which he has grown up, to do things which are forbidden in his original religion or community. 

Swami Vivekananda wrote that discord and animosities would result by conversion.     

"Every man going out of the Hindu pale is not only a man less, but an enemy the more."

(source: Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie  p. 1 - 3). Refer to Project Joshua and jesusneverexisted.com. 

In the Forties, when Christian missionaries were active in China, this denationalization process was summed up in the line,

 “One more Christian, one less Chinese.”

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Global Evangelism plans: The main target - India
Targeting the Tribals                                                                                      

Mark Twain (1835-1910) also known as Samuel Clemens, one of the most widely loved and celebrated American writers since his first books were released in the late 1860s. Many of his writings have reached the pinnacles of American and world literature, including the timeless Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court and Following the Equator. Besides these easily recognizable classics, Twain wrote fascinating Travelogue detailing his experiences in Asia.

"You believe in a book (the Bible) that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say we are the ones that need help?"

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"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. Watch An Invasion through Conversion - videoyahoo.com and crusadewatch.org. Refer to Victims of Christian Faith and Christianity's Criminal History - By Karlheinz Deschner. Refer to jesusneverexisted.com

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"The world would be a much safer, happier place if Christians were to convert themselves to Christianity. Minus its superstitions and minus the mafia-like activities of the Vatican, Christianity is a beautiful religion. We could then bid goodbye to a lot of evils: from colonialism to neo-colonialism to consumerism, from Inquisitions to conversions to the Holocaust to India 's partition, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Vietnam , Iraq , Kosovo and East Timor ."

                                                   -  Sultan Shahin author of Harvesting Asian souls

In Mayurbhanj, again in Orissa, World Vision regularly organises spiritual development programmes as part of its ADP package. The WV report says: "Opposition to Christian workers and organisations flares up occasionally in this area, generally from those with vested interests in tribal people remaining illiterate and powerless. WV supports local churches by organising leadership courses for pastors and church leaders."

WV India is active in Bhil tribal areas and openly admits its evangelical intentions: "The Bhil people worship ancestral spirits but also celebrate all the Hindu festivals. Their superstitions about evil spirits make them suspicious of change, which hinders community development. ADP staff live among the Bhil people they work with, gaining the villagers' trust and showing their Christian love for the people by their actions and commitment."

This being the case it is not suprising that WV India was honoured with the 2003 Mahatma Gandhi Award for Social Justice. This award is hosted by the All India Christian Council. Incidentally, Joseph D'Souza who was AICC's President during that year also heads an evangelical network, Operation Mobilisation, in India. OM, again, is an American TMO. It was founded by Georg Verwer and today is a global ministry "committed to working in partnership with churches and other Christian organisations for the purpose of World mission."

Christian NGOs in India

Since the USAID funds Christian NGOs in India and also since US trans-national Chrisitian NGOs like World Vision and CARE are heavily involved in development initiatives in India, their role in evangelical activities is not a matter of conjecture. It is, of course, another matter that USAID plays a vital role in intelligence gathering operations for the CIA. President John F Kennedy had established USAID, along with the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress, "all three designed in part to stem the spread of communism." The link between the CIA and Christian missionary groups is USAID. In fact, CIA-supported missionaries were embroiled in counter-insurgency operations, civil wars and were more often than not conduits for arms and armaments for Christian insurgent groups all over the world.  

 

Imperial Arrogance and interference in India's internal affairs.

 

    

Felice Gaer, Chair of Commission on International Religious Freedom and President George W Bush.

Arrogant Interference from the Vatican, Italian and American Government in internal matters of India?

America: A nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, wants to sermonize India?

Insulting India: A country which rained death and destruction on Iraq by flaunting a tissue of lies, indulged in unspeakable atrocities in Abu Ghraib and for the last eight years, is keeping Muslim detainees in Guantanamo Bay without trial and treating them as worse than vermin, denies visa to Narendra Modi to the resounding applause of self-styled secularists who do not realise the egregious nature of the insult to the entire nation.

Under President George Bush's fundamentalist Christian government, the era of CIA-USAID-Evangelicals partnership has come back with a roar.  What has angered Hindu opinion is the manner in which Hindu deities and objects of reverence are defamed and defiled by those propagating the supremacy of Christianity. Such abusive literature has been distributed by missionaries in other States with unhappy results. Sadly, the Catholic Church, which claims to follow the strait and the narrow in matters of conversion, has shown no interest in denouncing the falsification of Hindu gods and goddesses and their wilful defilement by missionaries funded by groups in Europe and the US.  

In the Forties, when Christian missionaries were active in China, this denationalization process was summed up in the line,  “One more Christian, one less Chinese.”

Hindu Nationalism is a threat to Christian Evangelism and Islamic Jehad.

Refer to Chinese communist turn Christians -Stunning growth of Christianity in China - economist.com. Refer to Project Joshua and Discuss religious freedom with Dr Singh, Bush told and Wanted: A balanced approach  Refer to Harvesting Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims - By Arun Shourie and Preparing for the harvest ...  - By Tehelka.com. Refer to Christian Missionaries step up activities to convert Jews in Israel. Refer to Jews for Jesus: Targeting Jews for Conversion with Subterfuge and Deception and jesusneverexisted.com and Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp.  Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

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  

Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil and Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

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Under President George Bush's fundamentalist Christian government, the era of CIA-USAID-Evangelicals partnership has come back with a roar. And given the fact that Bush administration officials regularly hold consultations with Church groups and leaders, it is not surprising that American evangelical missions have found a deep reservoir of support with the US government for their activities in India and elsewhere.

(source: Preparing for the harvest .  - By Tehelka.com).  Refer to Who are the British creationists?  - BBC and jesusneverexisted.com. 

Project Joshua and secularism?
Converting with Military Precision

Evangelists are protected by people in power, like George Bush in the United States. Bush is an honest man. He claims to be a born-again Christian and not a secularist. As late as January 29, 2001 Bush apparently took a faith-based policy decision and established an office for an organisation called Project Joshua whose official mission was conversion in India. According to reports, the office was opened in the White House and was headed by a man called Jim Howey who is believed to have been legal counsel to Mother Teresa in the 1980s. In an article by one Debdas Thakur in The New Indian Express (September 10), a plan was prepared for conversion “with military precision”. According to him “all ethnographic information about India’s every nook and corner was made available in the US at the click of a mouse through transnational missionary organisation (TMOs)”.

(source: Project Joshua and secularism? - By M V Kamath - organiser.org).  Refer to Preparing for the harvest - By Tehelka.com. Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org

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Setting right Thampu’s Skewed Perception of the Conversion Problem - By Hilda Raja
The minority in India is today more powerful than the majority because of its vote bank leverage

The violent, thundering and crusading fanatic Christian groups think that it is their mission--to convert--the goal justifies the means. They confuse the beliefs of the Hindus, denigrate and abuse their gods, indoctrinate them that they are doomed. Those who evangelize have a well funded kitty which is correlated with the number of people converted. They make the vulnerable poor look to them for help--called development in return they should be prepared to accept their god. These evangelists can be compared to the politicians who offer freebies for the votes, the people are deceived--because they sell their ‘birthright’ for may be a color TV.

In ‘Clash of conversions’ Valson Thampu (Indian Express 23rd Oct) has put in black and white his skewed perception of the conversion problem. 

It goes to prove that no matter how high and educated one is, the Christian mindset is warped when it comes to the question of conversion. His first premise is on ‘force, fraud and allurement. His contention is that a 2.18 percent of Christians cannot use force to convert anyone. 

He furthers his illogic by saying that it is the other way--meaning that it is the majority which uses force against the minority to convert/reconvert. The author has no proof for this but history is the proof that it is the minority which used forced to convert. Again the present scenario in India it is the Minority community which is involved in violence against the ordinary citizens who are about their daily business. Hence his stand that force is against the minority stands demolished. Force does not depend on muscle power /physical strength. A one man force was able to drive the British from India . Coming to numbers--the minority in India is today more powerful than the majority because of its vote bank leverage.

Hindus are a minority globally and hence they do not have global power. The globally power to bargain, to threaten and to hold to ransom is with the Christians and the Muslims. But when it comes to conversion the author selectively states that a few individuals and segments among the Christians and Muslims try to convert. In this context he tones down the whole conversion business as ‘efforts of a few individuals and segments of Christians and Muslims’ and they only ‘try’ to convert. Reconversion –yes, if there is conversion why not a reconversion. Stop conversion then the need to reconvert will disappear. A return to the former mother religion is different from making them throw away what they were born in and making them alien to their own culture.

What has Valson Thampu to say to the Islamic countries where no worship of other religions is allowed? Mr Valson Thampu as a principal of a minority college cannot and should not delink the past and the present. What did the Dutch, the French, the Portuguese do in India ? Did the East India Company stop with trade or pushed itself to conquer and subjugate this country. Did it stop with that or extend its pursuit into converting the ‘infidels’ and justified the demolishing of temples and using torture to forcefully convert the poor and oppressed people? Are torture and the Inquisition the weapons the Hindus used or do these form part of the legacy of the Christian parampara? This is not confined to India alone what happened in Africa --first the conquest then the Bible followed with it came the pauperization of the Africans. Christianity is soaked in blood so too the Islam religion. But today both state that there is only brotherhood and love which their respective religions stand for.

(source: Setting right Thampu’s Skewed Perception of the Conversion Problem - By Dr Hilda Raja). Dr. Mrs. Hilda Raja is a Retired Professor of Social Science from " Stella Maris College " (a Minority managed Catholic college) in Chennai. She regularly writes Letters to the Editors and occasionally writes Columns too. Apart from being a practicing Catholic Christian, she is a true nationalist, who values the cultural heritage of this great country and respects the Hindu tradition too.  

Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Refer to Secularism has degenerated as the backbone of terrorists & evangelists - By Dr Gautam Sen and Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri.

Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

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Harvesting Asian souls

 

The methods may have changed, but the ends remain the same.

Indologist Koenraad Elst (1959 -) Dutch historian, born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. He is the author of several books including The Saffron Swastika, Decolonising The Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism and Negationism in India: Concealilng the Record of Islam. He has pointed out:  

"Hindu Society has been suffering a sustained attack from Islam since the 7th century, from Christianity since the 15th century, and this century also from Marxism. The avowed objective of each of these three world-conquering movements, with their massive resources, is the replacement of Hinduism by their own ideology, or in effect: the destruction of Hinduism. 

This concern is not at all paranoid (as the spokespersons of these aggressors would say), even if the conversion squads are remarkably unsuccessful in India. Consider the situation in Africa: in 1900, 50 % of all Africans practiced Pagan religion; today Christian and Islamic missionaries have reduced this number to less than 10 %. "

That is the kind of threat Hinduism is up against. 

(source: Negationism in India - By Koenraad Elst   p 78 - 79). Refer to After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org

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Pope John Paul II’s millennium-eve call to Christian missionaries across Asia for a massive 'harvest' of new converts from the continent has shocked into silence the apologists for Christian missionaries in the country. However, a study of the history of the people who adopted Christianity as their faith and the life and deeds of their 'spiritual' leaders reveals that the Pope's call is in no way surprising.

It is, indeed, quite in keeping with their centuries-old conduct.  A recent study by a Libyan scholar, For Whom The Cross Is Set - By Dr Salem Ibrahim Ben Amer, brings to light gory details of this history not commonly known to us.  The study is entirely based on original works by Christian historians themselves.

The movement to convert Asia and Africa to Christianity is a continuation of what was known in the colonial days as the ‘white man's burden' to civilize these regions.

But what the Christians more appropriately the White Christians of Europe, America and Australia - conveniently forget is that Asian and African nations have a history of civilisation dating back over three thousand years before Christ.

While the Church has made a habit of denouncing other cultures like Hinduism for idolatry and superstition, the Popes themselves introduced several un-Christian and pagan tenets into Christianity. Dr Salem Ben Amer’s For Whom The Cross Is Set contends that though the Christians say the cross was set for Jesus Christ, in reality it was set ‘long before the birth of Christ and long after him, it goes on and continues to be set.’ Even today, it is set on the people of Asia and Africa . 

The methods may have changed, but the ends remain the same.

(source: Harvesting Asian souls - By Sultan Shahin The Weekend Observer January 29, 2000). Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007. Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

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Concocting Saints at the Vatican Factory?
After Mother Teresa it is Pope Pius XII

Herbert George H. G. Wells (1866 -1946) historian, a bitter critic of the Roman Catholic Church and author of several books including A Short History of the World and Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church and The Time Machine.

"Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?" 

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Note: Like Americans manufacture history, the Vatican is busy concocting saints from Mother Teresa to Sister Alfonso.

The controversy over the likely canonization of Pope Pius XII heated up again this week, as the first rabbi invited to speak to a Synod of Bishops indirectly criticized the wartime pope, and Pope Benedict XVI three days later responded with a defense. The back-and-forth is only the latest chapter in a long-running debate over whether Pius, who was pope from 1939 to 1958, did enough to help victims of the Holocaust.

 

Cardinal Secretary of State, Eugenio Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius XII) signs the Concordat between Nazi Germany and the Vatican at a formal ceremony in Rome on 20 July 1933. Nazi Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen sits at the left, Pacelli in the middle.

The Concordat effectively legitimized Hitler and the Nazi government to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world.

Refer to Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy by Susan Zuccotti

Pope Pius XII has often been criticized for his silence during the extermination of European Jewry during World War II. In his defense, some have alleged that the pope was doing a great deal to help the Jews but that his efforts were necessarily behind the scenes. This meticulously researched and balanced book examines exactly what the pope, his advisers, and his assistants at the Vatican Secretariat of State did to help the Jews of Italy . It finds that they did very little.

Refer to Catholicism Unveiled: What Hides Behind the Public Image? - By Mary Ann Collins and Another Side of Catholicism - By Mary Ann Collins.  Refer to The Greatest Sins of Pius XII & The Genocide of Orthodox Christians - By Dr. Jonathan Levy

Refer to Mother Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee.  Refer to jesusneverexisted.com

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The flap began Monday, when, according to an account by John L. Allen Jr. in the National Catholic Reporter, the Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Shear-Yashuv Cohen, said 

"We cannot forget the sad and painful fact of how many, including great religious leaders, didn’t raise a voice in the effort to save our brethren, but chose to keep silent and help secretly...We cannot forgive and forget, and we hope you understand our pain, our sorrow” ...

Refer to Former Catholic Sister Says Even Mother Teresa Is a Fraud - By Greg Szymanski June 6, 2007 and  Mother Teresa: Beyond the Image - By Anne Sebba. Refer to Why Mother Teresa should Not be a saint - By Christopher Hitchens - mirror.co.uk and Mother Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee and On Mother Teresa - By Atanu Dey

The unholy legacy of Pius XII

The man who presided over the Vatican during the war stands accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust. The "Pius Wars" that have long raged over the Vatican's desire to declare Pope Pius XII a saint flared up again over the weekend when the Jesuit priest in charge of the canonisation process declared that Pope Benedict XVI could not visit Israel until a disputed panel in Jerusalem's Holocaust museum, which refers disparagingly to Pius, is removed. His claim to sainthood was opened by Pope Paul VI, "with the same sort of urgency and certainty", the Vatican journalist Robert Mickens said yesterday, "as when John Paul II opened the case for Mother Teresa".

(source: The unholy legacy of Pius XII - independent.co.uk). Refer to The Goa Inquistion.  

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India 's English Media glorifies Nazi church!

The World Council of Churches (WCC) recently received favorable coverage in a section of India 's English media which hailed it as a liberal Christian organization that opposes war and proselytism. Hans Ucko, a head of the WCC, while apparently denouncing conversions through the use of force or inducements, advocated “the mission of God, to which the church as well as people of other religious traditions may be called to participate.” In other words, he preferred conversions by other means.

A primer on the history of the WCC which is closely linked to the Holocaust during which Hitler annihilated six million Jews is in order. The Nazi system was the culmination of 2,000 years of Christian anti-Semitism. As Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Laureate, aptly stated, “the Nazi system did not arise in a void but had its roots deep in a tradition that prophesied it, prepared for it, and brought it to maturity. That tradition was inseparable from the past of Christian, civilized Europe .” The New Testament alone, as Professor Norman Beck has shown, has 450 anti-Semitic verses. Jesus himself ushered in religious anti-Semitism when he infamously called the Jews “a brood of vipers” and “the children of the Devil.” In a milieu where Christianity gained political ascendancy, the church expanded this false stereotyping with an arsenal of anti-Semitic rhetoric and declared all generations of Jews sinful. This resulted in centuries of persecution, ghettoization, and Inquisition of the Jews. 

In the 16th century, Martin Luther of the Protestant schism whipped up Christian frenzy by urging his followers to ethnic cleanse and kill the Jews and to burn the Jewish schools and synagogues. Churches of every stripe – Protestant, Evangelical, Russian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic – eagerly participated in the Holocaust when they actively turned the defenseless Jews over to the Nazis or when the clergy themselves massacred the Jews. Some of those murderers such as Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac are being proclaimed saints today.

The media unhesitatingly branded the Hindutva movement fascist even though there has never been any connection between Hindutva and the Nazis, and when in fact Hindutva groups have been ardent supporters of the Jews and Israel just as Hindus have always been the only defenders of the Jews throughout the entire Jewish history. Why would the same media hail a Nazi church? Is it merely because the journalists are completely ignorant of the history of the Holocaust? Is there something more sinister?

It is well known that the USA government actively contributes to the evangelization of India under the guise of faith based initiative. Christian churches have collectively launched Project Joshua, and have devised pin code-wise tactics to convert all Indians to Christianity. Government reports show that the USA channeled at least 2,500 crore rupees into India in 2005-2006 alone through Christian missionary organizations. A substantial part of this funding is controlled by powerful groups such as World Vision which are partners of the Nazi church WCC.

The favorable coverage accorded the WCC is paralleled by the positive coverage Worldvision receives in India 's English media. This usually translates into more funding for these organizations from the MNCs as well as Indian corporate houses, most of whom might be unaware of WCC's Nazi past. It is also paralleled by the organized campaigns of the church to ban the Da Vinci Code and more recently to suppress the telecast of the documentary on the most exciting archaeological discovery, The Lost Tomb of Jesus.

Have some journalists abandoned all ethics to turn themselves into propagandists for Nazi church? Is it merely a coincidence that the evangelical groups increasingly control India 's English media while Nazi churches receive favorable coverage and archaeological discoveries that militate against Christian claims are hushed up?

(source: India's English media glorifies Nazi church! - By Kalavai Venkat - india-forum.com). Refer to Nomenclature terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com and The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

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Paulos Mar Gregorios  (1922- 1996) who was the Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Delhi. He was a man of much substance. In addition to his religious qualifications he was a distinguished scholar. At one time he was the President of the Indian Philosophical Congress. He was also for some time the President of the World Council of [Christian] Churches. He had remarked that:

“Every Indian Christian is considered to be a second class Christian in the Vatican” 

Metropolitan Gregorios asked the Pope John Paul II what he thought was the reason for such a small percentage of Indians having converted to Christianity although it had been in India for so long. The Pope said to him the reason was that the Indian mind was not developed enough to understand the subtlety of thought of St. Gregory of Nyssa or of St. Thomas Aquinas. Somewhat taken aback Metropolitan Gregorios asked the Pope if he had read Shankara or Nagarjuna. He was immediately shown out of the room where the audience was taking place. 

I found the incident merely amusing because I did not find this surprising at all, but he had been much saddened by it, for the issue was more personal for him. As he said, he realized for the first time and first hand that every Indian Christian is considered to be a second class Christian in the Vatican. This was even more galling for him because he belonged to a branch of Christianity as ancient as any.

It illustrates that the Eurocentricism, and the associated sense of superiority of the European races and culture, which has very much coloured Christian doctrine, does not seem to have yet suffered the fact of the shift in religious demographics.

(source: What Calls You, Pilgrim? - By Ravi Ravindra - infinityfoundation.com).  Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil

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Vatican's Sainted Alphonso: Christianity's carrots for India?

Comments on the blog:

A Pole was elected Pope, he worked closely with Lech Walesa and the Soviet Union was gone. South Korea is rapidly Christianizing and we get a South Korean as UN Sec-General. Leaving her own war-torn country behind and not caring for her own troubled people, Mother Teresa comes to India for charity and gets to become saint. 

Kerala is exporting the largest numbers of Christian priests, nuns and nurses around the world and so Kerala gets a Christian saint and India gets its second. This bodes ill for what these white Christians intend for India . And don’t forget the Magsaysay’s and Nobel’s that are given as smaller carrots. It is not enough to earn sainthood with hard work in religious conversion of heathens but you must also prove you are capable of a miracle after you are dead. This lady from Kerala is supposed to have cured someone with clubfoot. Someone should go to her with bad teeth. Dentists cost the earth and all dentists are torture chambers. I would gladly give a Kerala woman her sainthood if she can do miracles with someone's teeth and gums. Any takers?

(source: Vatican's Sainted Alphonso: Christianity's carrots for India? - rajeevblogspot.com). Refer to Sister Alphonsa is a saint now - rediff.com.  Refer to jesusneverexisted.com

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Not India's first woman saint

Robert Taylor (1784 - 1844) in his book Syntagma of the Evidences of the Christian Religion  p. 32 (1828) wrote:

“If eleven hundred years are justly called the Dark Ages — how can mankind be said to have been enlightened by the Gospel?”

(source: Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art - By Partha Mitter p. 104 and Ancient Rants). 

Christian church is obsessed with race

It is a white supremacist mindset that claims “Pope Benedict XVI has created India ’s first woman saint”. Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception is not “ India ’s first woman saint” but the first Christian, or more specifically Catholic, woman saint in India . India has many woman saints belonging to the homegrown faiths. If race consciousness were not so pronounced in the Christian church, especially the Catholic church, she would have been a saint for the entire Catholic world. Similarly, a Catholic saint, even if born in India , is a Catholic saint, not an Indian saint. On the other hand, Swami Vidyanand is white and Bhakti Swami Thirtha Krishnapad is an African American but are revered by all Hindus, regardless of race. There is no talk of white swami or African American swami.

(source: Christian church is obsessed with race - times.co.za). Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil

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Indian Media's Inferiority Complex

 Indian media went into a tizzy while covering the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa, an obscure nun, to prove its secular credentials! Indian journalists forget that this country has had other women saints too

As a Frenchman, I was coached right from childhood that logic, what we in France call cartesianism, is the greatest gift given to man and that one should use one's reason to tread in life. Thus, I taught to my students in a Bangalore school of journalism, the SSCMS, that the first tool of a good reporter is to go by his or her own judgement on the ground, with the help of one's first-hand experience -- and not go by second hand information: What your parents thought, what you have read in the newspapers, what your caste, religion, culture pushes you into...

Yet in India, logic does not seem to apply to most of the media, especially when it is anything related to Hindus and Hinduism. One cannot, for instance, equate Muslim terrorists who blow up innocent civilians in market places all over India to angry ordinary Hindus who attack churches without killing anybody. We know that most of these communal incidents often involve persons of the same caste -- Dalits and tribals -- some of them converted to Christianity and some not.

However reprehensible was the destruction of the Babri Masjid, no Muslim was killed in the process. Compare that with the 'vengeance' bombings of 1993 in Mumbai, which killed hundreds of innocent people, mostly Hindus. Yet Indian and Western journalists keep equating the two, or even showing the Babri Masjid destruction as the most horrible act of the two.

How can you compare the Sangh Parivar with the Indian Mujahideen, a deadly terrorist organisation? How can you label Mr Narendra Modi a mass killer when actually it was ordinary middle class, or even Dalit Hindus, who went out into the streets in fury when 56 innocent people, many of them women and children, were burnt in a train? How can you lobby for the lifting of the ban on SIMI, an organisation which is suspected of having planted bombs in many Indian cities, killing hundreds of innocent people, while advocating a ban on the Bajrang Dal, which attacked some churches after an 84-year-old swami and his followers were brutally murdered?

There is no logic in journalism in this country when it applies itself to minorities. Christians are supposedly only two per cent of the population in India , but look how last Sunday many major television channels showed live the canonisation ceremony of Sister Alphonsa, an obscure nun from Kerala and see how Union Minister Oscar Fernandes led an entire Indian delegation to the Vatican along with the Indian Ambassador. 

It would be impossible in England , for instance, which may have a two per cent Hindu minority, to have live coverage of a major Hindu ceremony, like the anointment of a new Shankaracharya. What were the 24x7 news channels, which seem to have deliberately chosen to highlight this non-event, trying to prove? That they are secular? Is this secularism?

 

Indian media went into a tizzy while covering the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa

 

Saint Meerabai

 India has never been short of saints. The woman sage from over 3,000 years ago, Maithreyi, Andal, the Tamil saint from early in the first Millennium CE and Akkamahadevi, the 15th century saint from modern-day Karnataka, are but a few examples of women saints in India. What many publications failed to mention in the story is that this is the first woman Christian saint -- not the first Indian woman saint. 

"In India, there were many people who lived like saints, in the Hinduism and other faiths. They are living in the hearts of people, and need no one's certificate. Do you think that Saint Mirabai, Mahatma Gandhi needed any certificate from a religious head?''

This inferiority complex, as expressed by television's live coverage of the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa, is a legacy of the British, who strove to show themselves as superior and Indian culture as inferior (and inheritor of the 'White Aryans', a totally false theory). 

Refer to chapter on Women in Hinduism

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The headline of the story " India gets its first woman saint", run by many newspapers, both Indian and Western, is very misleading. For India has never been short of saints. The woman sage from over 3,000 years ago, Maithreyi, Andal, the Tamil saint from early in the first Millennium CE and Akkamahadevi, the 15th century saint from modern-day Karnataka, are but a few examples of women saints in India .  

What many publications failed to mention in the story is that this is the first woman Christian saint -- not the first Indian woman saint. 

This statement is ok, when it comes, for instance, from the BBC, which always looks at India through the Christian prism (BBC ran a few months back an untrue and slanderous documentary on Auroville), but when it comes to the Indian media, it only shows the grave lack of grounding in Indian culture and history of most Indian journalists. As a result, they suffer from an inferiority complex.

This inferiority complex, as expressed by television's live coverage of the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa, is a legacy of the British, who strove to show themselves as superior and Indian culture as inferior (and inheritor of the 'White Aryans', a totally false theory). Is it not time to institute schools of journalism, both private and public, where not only logic will be taught, but where students shall be made aware of Indian history and of the greatness of Indian culture, so that when they go out to report, they will use their own judgement and become Indian journalists, with a little bit of feeling, pride and love for their own country?

(source: Not India 's first woman saint - By Francois Gautier - dailypioneer.com October 16, 2008). Refer to Holy row over India 's first woman saint - By K S Hari Kumar - crusadewatch.org). Refer to The Hindu Rate Of Wrath – By Francois Gautier - outlookindia.com National/Opinion November 10 2008). Refer to After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org. Visit Francois Gautier

Refer to The disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities - By R K Ohri

Refer to Vatican- Excommunication for female priests - The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated.

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Papal disinformation:  Benedict XVI has insulted every Indian  

Peter de Rosa wrote in Vicars of Christ p 48:

"Popes maimed & were maimed, killed & were killed... Without question, these pontiffs constitute the most despicable body of leaders, clerical or lay, in history. They were, frankly, barbarians. Ancient Rome had nothing to rival them in rottenness."

Jan Hus (1372 - 1415) was a Czech religious thinker, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague . The Roman Catholic Church considered the teachings of John Hus heretical; consequently Hus was excommunicated in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, and burned at the stake in 1415.

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Devils Advocate  

As a part of its time tested localisation strategy ,Church Inc narrows down on an obscure nun from Kerala who is alleged to have performed medically certified "miracles" and Ratzinger wastes no time in canonising her as " Saint Alphonsamma". It would not be difficult to argue that this is a token gesture in recognition of enormous number of low cost religious foot soldiers that Church Inc has been able to recruit from the central districts of Kerala especially in the context of human resource crisis that its faces in the Christian bastion of Europe.

The fanatical followers of imperialist political ideologies aka Abrahamic religions are completely entitled to believe in evidently manifest irrationalities likes "Miracle" ,"Sainthood", "Immaculate Conception" but what was despicable was the way in which the self-professed secular mainstream media in India converted this purely private Vatican religious fantasy in to one of those now customary "India Shining " kind of campaigns that we are often bombarded. (Refer to Mother Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee).

Even more more shocking was seeing the journalist in NDTV/CNN blatantly declaring, without even an iota of skepticism, that alleged "miracles" of Alphonsa were medically verified .All norms of journalistic proprietary was thrown to winds and channels were doubling up as Christian Mouthpieces. A viewer would not be faulted if they believed that it was a gospel broadcasting channel that they were watching rather than a news channel. That Christist have infiltrated media is clearly evident now -the out rightly biased coverage of the recent attacks on "Churches" was one clear demonstration of this. It should come as no surprise if rags like TOI (Times of India) have sold space to Church groups to propagate their victim hood tales.

One vividly remembers that when millions of gullible Indians sincerely believed that Lord Ganesha was drinking milk, the Mainstream media rightfully assembled few eminent scientist in the studio who clearly explained the scientific rationale for that observed phenomenon. But on today's occasion of canonisation of Alphonsa, one could hardly find sceptics/rationalist being invited to the studio to expose the Vatican tricksters and charlatans who manufacture blatant falsehoods like "sainthood" ,"miracle" etc and deceive the masses. 

Another aspect of the Indian mindset that this chest thumping and breast beating over the canonisation reflects is the continued servitiude to the erstwhile imperialist and yearning to be rewarded and recognised by the "Whiteman". I don’t see much hope here.

And about the Indian state, lesser said the better. A huge contingent of Christian Politicians are in Rome on a government sponsored junket to witness this ceremony with Oscar Fernandes predictably getting the honor of leading it ,in stellar recognition of his role for maintaining peace and harmony in Mangalore.

India desperately needs its own version of Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris.

(source: Devils Advocate  ). Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India  and the Missionary Position - By Christopher Hitchens and Mother Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee.

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In using the solemn and sacred occasion on Sunday, October 12, of the canonisation of Sister Alphonsa, the first Indian-born Catholic saint, to make gratuitous and exaggerated remarks about the condition of Christians in India, Pope Benedict XVI has done himself and his high office a huge disservice. Most of all he has hurt the sentiments of millions of Indian Christians who live here as equal citizens with full constitutional guarantees and don’t need a foreign religious leader, especially one who doubles as a temporal head of state, to seek guarantees on their behalf.  

Making sweeping generalisations, refusing to understand the context and nuances of the situation in Karnataka and Orissa, the Pope has presented a one-sided picture of a ‘hapless’ minority being persecuted by a ‘dominant’ Hindu majority. From the Inquisition to the hounding of Galileo — a scientist whose incarceration and humiliation, solely because he said the Earth moved around the Sun and not the other way round, Benedict XVI has justified even recently — the Catholic Church’s hierarchy understands the establishment-dissent equation only in black and white terms.

 

Does the Pope justify and support hate-filled Evangelist literature that denigrates Hindu gods and goddesses and abuses nativist spiritual traditions?

 

      

The Pope has presented a one-sided picture of a ‘hapless’ minority being persecuted by a ‘dominant’ Hindu majority. 

Does the Pope justify and support hate-filled evangelist literature that denigrates Hindu gods and goddesses and abuses nativist spiritual traditions? 

This remains the crux of the crisis in Karnataka. The Pope and his close followers, remember, criticised the Da Vinci Code and wanted it banned for hurting Christian sentiments. Are Hindu sentiments, on the other hand, fair game?

Refer to The Goa Inquisition and Inquisition of Goa: Atrocities on Hindus by missionaries in Goa - By V Sundaram. Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007

Refer to Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church’s 2000-year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse - By Thomas Doyle, AW Richard Sipe & Patrick Wall (LA: Volt Press, 2006).

Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil

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As such, the Pope has taken his pre-conceived notions and decided to impose them upon India . There is no question that some Hindu activists have gone over the top, are guilty of terrible violence, and need to be punished. Yet, is the issue of induced and fraudulent conversions — of Christian pastors buying up market share — not one that exercises the Vatican? 

Does the Pope justify and support hate-filled evangelist literature that denigrates Hindu gods and goddesses and abuses nativist spiritual traditions? This remains the crux of the crisis in Karnataka. The Pope and his close followers, remember, criticised the Da Vinci Code and wanted it banned for hurting Christian sentiments. Are Hindu sentiments, on the other hand, fair game?

Not every conflict in the world is impelled by just religious difference. That simplistic and highly flawed correlation is only made by such minds as Osama bin Laden. The Pope, surely, must see things with greater intellectual sophistication. In Orissa, the ethnic conflict between an aboriginal tribal group and a ‘lower caste’ group pre-existed their formal categorisation as Hindu and Christian. In Assam , to cite an instance the Pope may never have heard of, the battle between Bodos and Bangladeshi settlers is at one level a clash between a locally-rooted community and recent immigrants; at another level, it is a tussle between Christians (the religion of the organised Bodo leadership) and Muslims. Does the Pope now expect the King of Saudi Arabia, as Protector of the Holy Mosque, to write to him, as head of the Vatican , to get Bodo Christians to stop fighting with Assamese residents of Bangladeshi origin?

The most disappointing has been the response of the Indian Catholic clergy, which has completely let down the laity. It is content saying one thing to political parties in private, another to the media in public, and is glad to live off the borrowed publicity —- or notoriety — of Benedict XVI’s unfortunate remarks. As for the Pope himself, he began his reign speaking of Christian values being fundamental to European civilisation and identity. Yet, it is increasingly apparent he is not willing to use those parameters to define other civilisations, certainly not to appreciate the centrality of Hinduism to the Indic civilisation. India cannot help feeling let down.

(source: Papal disinformation: Benedict XVI has insulted every Indian - dailypioneer.com  - Edit page Wednesday, October 15, 2008).

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It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception.

Sri Swami Dayanand Saraswati, has been teaching Vedanta in India for more than four decades, and around the world since 1976. In his public talks abroad, Swamiji has spoken at many of the most prestigious American universities, and has addressed international conventions, UNESCO and the United Nations, where he participated in the Millennium Peace Summit.distinguished, traditional teacher of Vedanta. 

He has observed that:

"Christianity is a parasitical religion. It has no life or content of its own except for the label "Jesus Christ". It maintains its life by feeding on the spiritual life-blood and religious culture of other religions: Judaism, Neo-Platonism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Having gorged itself on the spiritual body of these religions, it then claims that it has influenced them or that they have had their origin in Christianity. It is an old, old confidence trick that the Church plays. It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception."  

Christianity has virtually destroyed South Korea and Korean Buddhists have become a minority in their own country and gone into hiding. China and India are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and conquer. 

And the missionaries will succeed in their war of attrition on Hinduism if Indian leaders and Hindu religious teachers do not pay attention to this warning. Hindus will have no cause to complain when their own people convert to the cult of Jesus and Mary and become Hindu India's own worst enemy. We see the kind of enemy of Hindu civilization that can be produced by this evangelizing work in the person of "Dr." Deivanayakam himself. Then there will be not one "Dr." Deivanayakam doing the dirty work of undermining and discrediting Hindu religion and culture, but dozens and hundreds and thousands, even as there is in South Korea today.

As one great American thinker said: Before anything can be proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true. It has not yet happened. 

(Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, show that the Bible, and accepted Christian tradition, is an arbitrary collection of borrowed and often fabulous tales, the historical truth of which has never been established by the best biblical scholars).

Refer to The Dead Sea Scrolls - An Eastern View of a Western Crisis - By N. S. Rajaram - burningcross.net. Watch video The Hunt for Soul - Conversion activities in India (In Dutch and English)

Christianity is a personality cult based on authority. 

There is no logic or reason in it, or any verifiable facts, only extraordinary claims and a patently false doctrine of vicarious salvation. Is mankind really to be saved by the execution of a man who claimed to be a king, was tried for sedition and found guilty, and executed by the political power he tried to overthrow? 

What does this have to do with God and man, spirituality and religion? 

It is all politics from beginning to end and the search for world empire not peace of mind or a place in heaven. Before discussing any of the claims in this article, first establish that such a man as Jesus lived. There is no evidence that he did outside of the New Testament story. The best Christian historians admit that there is no positive evidence for the existence of a man called Jesus or the virginity of his mother. Well, if this is the case, everything that follows is really of no consequence. Except for the invention of the concept of eternal damnation, which he threatened his critics with, Jesus contributed absolutely nothing new to the vast religious and philosophical literature of the world at that time.

It is Christianity that has copied the world's religions, not the other way round. Its early theologians copied Buddhist and Platonist ideas, but they finally settled for Aristotle's philosophy as they could use it to reconciled their material interests and push for political power and world empire. 

Christianity is a political ideology that claims divine sanction. 

That Hindus believe it is a religious system of service and sacrifice only shows up their own ignorance.

(source: It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception - vivekajyotiblogspot.com). Refer to The Dark Side of Christian History - By Helen Ellerbe. Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp

Refer to Planning the Demise of Hinduism and Buddhism and Jesus Christ - An Artifice for Aggression and St. Thomas and India

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Thou shall NOT convert


 The sheer hypocrisy of the Pope

" 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). 

While converting Hindus in India, the sheer hypocrisy of the Pope: In 1992 Pope John Paul said that he must shield church from 'Wolves' of Protestantism. While in the Dominican Republic he said he must protect his flock from the 'wolves' of evangelical Protestantism wooing Latin American's 395 million Catholics, the Pope said he must 'take care of the sheep who have been put in my care and protect them from rapacious wolves.'

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A Christian once approached the Kanchi Paramacharya and expressed his wish to embrace Hinduism. The acharya advised him to stay put in his present path; in the revered seer’s world view, one does not have to switch faiths to attain God and can very well achieve the objective through one’s own religion. That in a nutshell is what Hindus call secularism and tolerance. Sadly, they have no reciprocal S & T coming their way. Forget a pastor, even the Pope would find it difficult to pass up such an opportunity to add a soul to his kitty. For that is their worldview, ordained by the Book and its authors.

Clearly, the twain shall never meet. It naturally follows that those faiths that aspire to survive, with their religious places and practices intact, will necessarily have to evolve ways to protect themselves from such predators and their natural instincts. 

The historic track record, however is that, barring Hinduism and Buddhism, scores of faiths and civilisations have been runover by Christianity and Islam, with nary a trace today.  

Of course, methods vary from visibly violent jihad to virulent but invisible evangelism, but the motives and mindset shine forth like neon signs. To miss it is to have the intellect of a sheep, and incidentally that’s what the ‘targets’ are referred to as.

But to the basic question: How do Hindus who want to remain Hindus respond? Some tips are on offer from various vested interests. Needless to add, the captains of the conversion brigade would want no response but simple surrender. Secular politicians, for instance, would prefer Hindus to have more doses of the tranquiliser called tolerance and remain sedated so that they, the politicos, that is, can build up their minority vote bank, the only bank that never fails. 

For much of the media and intellectual elite, primed by MacCaulay, even  the slightest resistance to conversions is a betrayal of their liberal character even if their conscience, if only rarely, tells them otherwise; they feign sleep without sedation. And for most of the educated middle-class of Bharat conversions do rile and revolt; but coy inhibitions rule and in any case, who has the time and mind to speak up or act? Let down by the State and ostracised by society, it is the poor Hindus who are most vulnerable; while many gullible ones do ‘cross’ over, the multitudes, though mute, have remained immune to missionary mischiefs and stuck to their traditional gods. And of course, the other extreme response is what we are witnessing now in Orissa and elsewhere; the Bajrang Dal brand that none can subscribe to. Apart from the incongruity of their acts with the law of the land, burning down churches is a futile exercise. They simply can’t keep pace with the planting that’s going on and also the media multiplier effect would make even one ravaged prayer hall seem like hundred, in Basha style.  

 

 

     

Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and Swami Dayananda Saraswati.

All of them were proud and staunch Hindu intellectuals who denounced Christian missionaries and their conversion activities. 

Convert me if you can, challenged Gandhi. Swami Vivekananda’s well thought out and well articulated arguments against conversions will sadly be deemed communal rantings in today’s milieu, but their relevance is most striking. To get more contemporary, Swami Dayananda Saraswati treats conversions as the worst form of violence.

Why are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to live in peace in pluralist societies?

Refer to How UPA Government tortures Hindu Monks in India  and Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities Introduction - By Sita Ram Goel - voi.org.  Refer to Foreign contributions to India 2006 - 2007 and Christian Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007and After Haj, it is Christian pilgrimage - crusadewatch.org. Refer to chapter on European Imperialism  

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Convert me if you can, challenged Gandhi. Swami Vivekananda’s well thought out and well articulated arguments against conversions will sadly be deemed communal rantings in today’s milieu, but their relevance is most striking. To get more contemporary, Swami Dayananda Saraswati treats conversions as the worst form of violence; In his view, you cannot convert someone without belittling his faith and that cuts at his core being. He also dubs conversions as a human rights violation as  it interferes with an individual’s right to ‘continue’ practising his own, natural religion.

The biggest cover for conversions is the Right to Religious Freedom  enunciated in the Constitution. But by elementary English grammar, the right is for ‘me’, in first person singluar; now how can an evangelist exercise my right? But their flippant claim is that right to convert ‘others’ is Constitutional. The misinterpretation and misuse of the Constitution is not just on that count. The Constitution categorically says that the right to religious freedom is subject to ‘morality and public order’. The assumed right to convert all and sundry would fall flat on these counts too. Conversion disturbs all the ‘order’ that a peaceful land and a peace loving person would value: the social order, the demographic order, the political order, the family order and of course, law and order! An individual too goes completely out of order, with his self, with his near and dear, his ancestry and his own lifestyle, all in turmoil. One cannot find a more disruptive phenomenon of life and community, nay, the country itself, than conversion.

We move on to morality, the bedrock of the Bible. Now is it moral to employ questionable means like lures and inducements to bring in the crowd? Again, the preachers claim Christianity to be true religion and the only path to salvation. Can’t a such ‘truth’ to stand alone without the aid of merchants of faith scouring and scavenging the earth for vulnerable folks in distress? Does it have to be purveyed in the market as a sin-cleaning soap to be dumped on unsuspecting soul-sellers? Hinduism too preaches but the idea is not to get converts. Again, conversion by a process of evaluation, which is perfectly fine,  is very rare. The evangelists smartly claim that most conversions are voluntary. But mass conversions do happen.

Then there is this bogey of minority rights. Does it not offend common sense to say that the minority has the right to become the majority, which in effect is what the vociferous and articulate Christian clergy is claiming through the right to convert’? Again, how can they claim to be minorities when the entire might of global Christianity, its organised international institutions, endless funds and now the European Union itself is sponsoring them? Also, the converts in India have Hindu ancestry and are very much sons of the soil.

Guess what’s the Pope’s biggest bother today? Christians converting to Islam in Europe ! To hear some eternal pearls of wisdom on the ills of conversion one can just tune in to him. 

The hypocrisy would be apparent.  

For while the resourceful reverends would happily harvest neighbours’ fields, it’s taboo for others to graze on their own pastures. I rest my case. Amen!

(source: Thou shall not convert - By T R Jawahar - newstodaynet.com).  Watch the movie Deliver us from Evil Refer to Things they don't tell about Christianity

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Orissa call for teeth to anti-conversion law

Orissa’s law and industry minister Biswabhusan Harichandan has slammed Christian missionaries for conducting “illegal conversions on a large scale” and said the state needs a more stringent anti-conversion law to “prevent abuse of religion and hurt to Hindu sentiment”.  

Orissa already has an anti-conversion law — Orissa Freedom of Religion Act (OFRA), 1967 — which requires those seeking conversion to notarise their decision and inform the government. Harichandan argued, however, that OFRA was “insufficient” and needed to be given teeth. “We need a law that will punish people indulging in illegal conversion. Christians are using coercion and allurement to convert people and this is creating disaffection and anger among Hindus. This cannot be allowed, we need a law that will effectively deter them,” he said. He also dared the Centre anew to impose central rule in the state or ban the Bajrang Dal, which allegedly led violent attacks on minorities in many places.

“The Centre will pay a heavy political price if it invokes Article 356 in Orissa,” Harichandan said. “Where is the justification? A few incidents in one district? As far as the Bajrang Dal is concerned, how can there be a general ban without investigating specific allegations and finding them guilty?” Asked whether the recent violence against Christians in Kandhamal was justified, Harichandan said: “The main issue is not that, the main issue is the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, who was deeply revered by Hindus. He was resisting forceful conversion by Christians. Naturally the people reacted. There was anger, it came out.” 

Alleging that missionaries were using “foreign and NGO funds” to expand, he said: “They are causing social resentment by abusing Hindu gods and by practising alien rituals, they are changing the basic way of life. And all this is happening illegally. If you abuse anyone’s religion, it will upset people deeply.” 

(source: Orissa call for teeth to anti-conversion law - crusadewatch.org).

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Hinduism is being murdered by Anti-Hindu forces. Hinduism needs to be saved.
It is time to awaken Hindus from their Secular stupor

 

Confront the anti-Hindus: The only way to rescue Hinduism

How do you remove enactments and laws which discriminate against Hindus? How do you dismantle fake secularism to liberate India from crores of Pak-Bangla infiltrators and countless terrorists, and all other oddities touted as secularism? And how do you defeat anti-Hindu forces wiping off Hinduism from the earth?

Though as per Arnold Toynbee, “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder”, Hindu civilization is being murdered by anti-Hindu forces every day.

A unilateral war against Hinduism is being waged by anti-Hindu forces to wipe out Hinduism the way other native religions and cultures have been destroyed in the world. It is tragic that frontiers of Hinduism which used to extend from Afghanistan to Indonesia are shrinking and getting confined to less and less area.

 But Hinduism can be saved. And it will be saved. Before planning its rescue, let us know the dangers faced by Hinduism.

 

Durga puja in Calcutta.

It is time to awaken Hindus from their Secular stupor. 

A Hindu saint is murdered, that is "normal" news. The Hindus react to it, that is uncivilized and barbaric. Hindus of Kashmir were forced to leave their land and live as refugees in their own country - that hardly raised a human rights" concern.

Why are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to live in peace in pluralist societies?

Watch video - Intellectual Terrorism and Subversion in polity – By Radha Rajan

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Starting with a zero Muslim population, Indian sub-continent including the present day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan and even a part of Iran was Hindu land till Muhammad bin Qasim’s Arab army attacked Sindh in 711. And though Hindus fought bravely to defend their religion and motherland during the repeated attacks over the centuries, they lost Afghanistan (earlier known as Gandhar) in 987 and Pakistan in 1947. At present, just five thousand Hindus and Sikhs are left in Afghanistan. And Pakistan and Bangladesh have driven out most of the Hindus and Sikhs from their land. In India, the present percentage of Muslim population is much higher than that was in 1947. And independent India has seen genocide and eviction of Hindus from Kashmir. Besides, India has been facing frequent Pak-Bangla terrorist attacks; the latest attack on July 11, 2006 killed over 200 innocents in Mumbai. Moreover, in their mission to destroy India and create one more Islamic country on Indian soil, Pakistan and Bangladesh have dispatched countless terrorists and crores of their nationals into India.

And recently, Nepal , the world’s only Hindu country, has been divested of its Hindu identity. 
If Pakistan and Bangladesh are focused to Islamize India, missionaries are determined to Christianise India.

Fake secularism

After fighting foreign invaders for over a thousand years; and losing Afghanistan and Pakistan, truncated Bharat was expected to re-assert itself after 1947. But after 1947, a perverse brand of ‘secularism’ which implies ‘anti-Hinduism’ has seized India.

Let us have a glimpse of this fake secularism.

Though a ‘secular state’ cannot promote or punish any religion, in 1959, Congress government under Jawaharlal Nehru started the “Haj subsidy” for Haj pilgrimage. Though even Muslim countries do not pay any such subsidy, successive governments have persisted with this anti-secular policy. 

 

Dusserha celebration of Ramayana in Delhi.

In India, many of the print and the electronic media is controlled by anti-Hindu forces; and is denigrating Hinduism, spreading misinformation about Hindu scriptures, dividing Hindu society and hurting Hindu sentiments. Hindus are being brain-washed to forget their religion, heritage and history; and Hinduism is being distorted and destroyed in the process.

Any protest by Hindus against atrocities committed by non Hindus, calls for the wrath of media as "militancy", "fundamentalism" and "extremism". Sadly, most of these so called secularists, politician and media intellectuals, who are totally anti-Hindu in their words, deeds and thinking, are not believers of any other faith but are actually Hindu by birth and perhaps will have Hindu rituals at death.

Nepal , the world’s only Hindu country, has been divested of its Hindu identity. 

The Arab world wants to Islamize India , missionaries are determined to Christianise India .

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The same Congress which rejected “Communal Award” and separate electorates in 1932 is now spearheading anti-secular reservation for Muslims