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.
***
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.
***
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
***
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
***
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)
***
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".
***
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."
***
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
***
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
***
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.
***
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).
***
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)
***
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
***
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).
***
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
***
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.
***
 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...
***
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.
***
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
***
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
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.
***
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
***
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.
***
“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.
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
***
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
Top of Page
Christian
Terrorists threaten to Kill Puri Shankaracharya
The
Church Outsourcing the murder?
***
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).
***
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
***
Destroying
the social superstructure of India
The
Church's "harvest of soul" policy has led us to this
foul juncture
***
"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.
***
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
***
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).
***
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
***
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
***
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).
***
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.
***
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
***
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
Top of Page
Conversion
kills India's
Cultural identity
- Immeasurable
loss of culture, tradition, and multiple levels of religious
belief.
It
kills intellectual
and spiritual freedom
***
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).
***
"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.
Top of Page
Foreign
funds to Indian NGOs soar
Evangelization
in India is a part of uniform world policy to revive Christendom
for re-establishing Western supremacy…
***
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.
***
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.
***
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'
Top of Page
Don't
Convert!- A rejoinder by Dr. Hilda Raja
***
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
***
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).
***
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.
***
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 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
***
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
Top of Page
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."
***
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
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
***
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).
***
 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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