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A Glorious Hindu Legacy: Indic influence in Southeast Asia.

Hinduism in Thailand

The Spread of Indian Culture in South East Asia

The history of the expansion of Indian civilization to the east has not yet been told in its entirety. The relations between India proper and Farther India date back to prehistoric times. But the eastward expansion of Hindu civilization has not yet been fully traced. 

Recently an Ancient statue of Lord Vishnu has been found in Russian town of the Volga region. For more refer to chapter on Suvarnabhumi.

Map of Greater India.

The history of the expansion of Indian civilization to the east has not yet been told in its entirety. The relations between India proper and Farther India date back to prehistoric times. Many non-Indian scholars, especially modern writers of secondary works, tend to play down India's importance for obvious reasons, in the evolution of Southeast Asian civilization. 

(image source: Digital Collection - National Library of Australia).

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Many non-Indian scholars, especially modern writers of secondary works, tend to play down India's importance in the evolution of Southeast Asian civilization. 

Some scholars (such as Mary Somers Heidhues of the Univ. of Hamburg in her book Southeast Asia – A Concise History on page 22 have downplayed India's cultural ties to South east Asia by claiming that Indians brought with them their "cultural baggage" to Southeast Asia. (Note:  Perhaps, Ms. Heidhues should also remember that the Puritans in America and the British rulers in India, also brought their cultural baggage with them).  

She then proceeds on page 64 to call Ramayana and Mahabharata as "epic folk tales". The Ramayana and Mahabharata have been a constant source of comfort, guidance, and entertainment to millions down the ages. Whereas the Homeric Epics have never been sacred books and have long since ceased to occupy a central position in Greek culture, the Indian Epics are the most widely read and respected religious books of the Hindus today. One wonders why Ms. Heidhues has labeled India's grand epics as "folk tales" ? Are the Iliad and Odyssey ever called "folk tales"? 

Others have tried to portray Buddhism as an improvement over Hinduism. (Note: It is as similar to portraying Christianity is an improvement over Judaism). However, Karma and Nirvana are both Hindu concepts and Pali was born out of Sanskrit, just like Italian came out of Latin.

Indianization must be understood essentially as the expansion of an organized culture that was founded upon the Indian conception of royalty, was characterized by Hinduism or Buddhism, by the Puranas, and the observance of the Dharmasastras, and expressed itself in the Sanskrit language. 

Hindu civilization spread to Siam in early times from about 2nd century A.D. 

The Hindus set up many colonies in Siam and the most important of them was Dvaravati which ruled from Cambodia to the Bay of Bengal up to the 10th century A.D. 

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Ancient Thailand

The northeastern part of Thailand had come under the influence of the Hindu Kingdom of Funan at a very early period. Later, when northeastern Siam fell to the Khmers, its Indian character was further strengthened. The southern part of Siam, however, was most directly and continuously in contact with India. Large numbers of Indian merchants, settlers, and teachers came to southern Siam in successive waves either directly or from India or through Burma. Southern Siam is full of remains of Indian culture, most prominent of which is the city of Nakhon Srithammarat. 

Three sanctuaries - the Bot Prahm with numerous Shivalingas, the San Pra Isuon containing bronze statues of Shiva, Parvati and Ganesh, and the Na Pra Narai with its renowned statues of Vishnu - are amongst the excavations made at this site. According to the LIang Shu, there possibly existed in the region in the first 

Shiva Nataraja.

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Hindu civilization spread to Siam in early times from about 2nd century A.D. The Hindus set up many colonies in Siam and the most important of them was Dvaravati which ruled from Cambodia to the Bay of Bengal up to the 10th century A.D. when it was overthrown by the Kaundinya kingdom. Numerous excavations have yielded extensive evidence of Indianization and some remarkable piece of art. Because Siam increasingly assimilated Indian art and culture into a local pattern, relics of pure Indian descent are more ancient than those reflecting local influences. One of the most remarkable sites in the center of Siam, is Srideb (Crip-teb), where statues of Hindu deities bearing Sanskrit inscriptions of the 5th and 6th century have been discovered. The art of Srideb is of excellent quality and provides a link between Indian art and the art of Southeast Asia. 

Dr. H G Quartich Wales ( ? ) considered Srideb the oldest known Hindu temple in Southeast Asia. 

The Khmer legacy in Thailand was considerable. Some Khmer sites, such as Sukhothai and Sri Satchanalai, was retained by the Siamese as foundations for their own cities and temples. The Siamese script was derived directly from the more complex Khmer system. 

Prasat Phom Rung

Phnom Rung: Lord Shiva's mountaintop abode.

(image source: Angkor: Splendors of the Khmer Civilization - By Marilia Albanese  p. 274 - 275).

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This major temple, built manly in a high quality pinkish sandstone combines an impressive hill-top site that commands the surrounding plain, and an extraordinary amount of architectural decoration of the highest order. 

Phnom Rung was built atop an extinct volcano in a series of raised platforms to symbolize Shiva’s mountaintop abode. Located in isolated and spectacular splendor on an enormous overhanging cliff in the Dongek Mountains, this is without question the most magnificent site of any Khmer temple. It was laid out in a north-south axis with only one entrance, and most of the large monuments here were built as a microcosm of the Hindu universe, a magical recreation on Earth of the home of the gods and the surrounding seas and continents.  

The east gopura, preceded by a platform surrounded by nagas leads into the temple enclosure.

(image source: Angkor: Splendors of the Khmer Civilization - By Marilia Albanese  p. 274 - 275).

Eleven inscriptions have been found at Phnom rung. Prasat Phanom Rung is the province’s landmark archaeological site. It dates back to the seventh and eighth century. A Khmer lord was responsible for completing most of the present structure, which exemplifies the splendour of ancient Khmer arts, architecture and culture. Within the Prasat, is a throne hall built in the 12th century A.D. The beauty of the main prang of Phanom Rung lies not only in its plan, but in the vibrant stone carvings which cover large parts of the temple. Many lintels and pediments depict episodes from Indian texts such as the Ramayana, and the Puranas.  

Lord Vishnu on Ananta Nag, reclining over the mandapa entrance.

The lintel depicting one of the most famous Hindu creation stories at Phnom Rung was the subject of a celebrated dispute, having been stolen from the temple in the early 1960s. It then appeared at the Chicago Art Institute, on loan from a private collection.

(For more refer to chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor).

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“The ancient architecture is a sort of symbol, portraying the Sumeru Mount or Krairat Mount, or reflecting an ethical system. The ancient temple also represents an image of the universe. That’s why at the middle of the temple there is always a mountain-like structure, which represents the highest idealism in Buddhism or Hinduism. Only those who practice virtue at the highest level can reside at this high place,” he said.

“We should not intrude into the ancient sites, except for appreciating the value or the faith of the people who lived in the past.”

Isaan claims a rich legacy of splendid Khmer architecture. Among the best known are Phanom Rung, Preah Vihear, Phimai,  and Muang Tham.  

Built on top of an extinct volcano. 

According to Thaitourism.com, Prasat Phanom Rung is built of sandstone and laterite, 402 metres above sea level on the rim of an extinct volcano on the Buri Ram plain in southern Isaan. Lava is still scattered around the top. In former times the crater was a natural baray or reservoir. Most of the present structure was built by a local Khmer lord in the 12th century. The structure, however, overlies a series of earlier brick temples, which, judging from the earliest of eleven inscriptions found at Phanom Rung, date back to at least the 7th and 8th centuries.  

Thai Lord Ganesha.

The temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva, but has many prominent images of Brahma, Vishnu, Ganesh, and Nandin. A long avenue leading up to a broad staircase and a terrace ends in five-headed naga (mythical snakes). A gateway opens onto the central courtyard containing the main sanctuary. The lintel over the eastern porch of the main sanctuary is comprised of two parts: the upper part depicts a 10-armed dancing Shiva and on the lower part, Vishnu floats on the ocean while sleeping on a snake.  
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Wat Phra Narai Maharat on Prachak Road houses an image of Narayana (Lord Vishnu) made of sandstone. This statue is considered the major sacred object of the city. The City Pillar is also enshrined in this temple

Prang Sam Yot - This Hindu temple was built during the time that Thailand was under the Angkor, or Cambodian empire.

(image source: Andreas Hörstemeier - wikipedia.org).

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Prang Sam Yot - This Hindu temple was built during the time that Thailand was under the Angkor, or Cambodian empire. The Thai kingdom of Sukhotai broke free of the Angkor Empire in the mid 1200's, and Lop Buri was soon absorbed into it. This temple was then rededicated as a Buddhist temple. Originally a Hindu shrine, the Prangs represent Brahma, Vishu, and Shiva (the Hindu trinity). It was later converted to a Buddhist shrine.

Prasat Narai Jaeng Waeng - 11th century during the reign of Udayadityavarman II. A small sandstone temple on a high laterite platform. The lintels and pediments are all interesting, and there is a fine Somasutra (Stone pipe or channel through which the lustral waters used to wash the image inside the sanctuary are drained, projecting outside the temple. Often terminates with a carved makara head of a serpent. Indicative of a Shaivite temple) still in situ- one of the very few throughout the remains of the Khmer empire. This is the most northerly Khmer sanctuary still in good condition. The name is both unusual and reflects the history of the region - Narai is the Thai name for Lord Vishnu, but jaeng waeng is old Khmer, meaning 'long legs'. The entire name presumably refers to the reclining Vishnu on the northern pediment. 

Prasat Muang Singh also known as Sri Jayasinhapur - City of the Victorious Lion.

(image source: Andreas Hörstemeier - wikipedia.org).

Prasat Muang Singh in Kanchanapuri - Late 12th century. The name Prasat Muang Singh means 'Sanctuary of the City of the Lion'. The inscription of the stele at Preah Khan at Angkor, still in situ, mentions Srijayasimhapur (City of the Victorious Lion) as one of the places to which Jayavarman VII had ent a Jayabuddhamahanatha statue. This ancient Khmer city is located about 45 km from Kanchanaburi, on the banks of the Kwai Noi River.       

Muang Singh's importance lies in its strategic location, on the route west to the Three Pagodas Pass that crosses into Burma. No doubt it was a garrison town to guard and protect this western limit of the Angkor Empire, but also it was probably a trading center.

(source: A Guide to Khmer Temples in Thailand and Laos - By Michael Freeman p. 168 - 195 and 238 - 240). (For more refer to chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor). For a documentary on Hindu temples, refer to The Lost Temples of India.

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Hinduism in Thai Life

R C Majumdar (1888-1980) eminent Indian historian and author of The Classical Age, published an influential series of essays, in which he argued that Indian settlers in considerable numbers had established colonies in South-east Asia and that Indian dynasties had exercised political domination in the area. Thus he speaks of the spread of Hindu kingdoms and “the triumph of Hindu culture all over the vast region and in almost every phase of life.” 

P N Bose ( ? ) author of The Indian colonies of Siam, believed that there was evidence of actual Indian settlements in Thailand, and that from these came much of the later Indian influences on Thai society. 

Thailand (ancient name: Siam) is part of what Professor George Coedes has described as the Hinduized States of south-east Asia.  

The Buddhist missionaries who brought Buddhism to Thailand were themselves the products of Hindu order. The process of intermingling of Hindu traditions with Buddhism, which had started in India, continued in Thailand. Hindu elements were adopted to complete the religious life of the Thai. At the level of literature performing arts and mural painting, the Rama story has provided the major inspiration.  

The Khmer period gives more definite evidence of Hindu traditions in Thailand. During the Ayuthia period, contact with Hindu beliefs and practices was further intensified. This period is the most significant in respect to the absorption of Hindu elements into Thai religious life. That is evident from an inscription, dated AD 1361, during the reign of Boromaraja I of this period. The inscription prescribes as most essential on the part of the king to possess the knowledge of the Vedas and astronomy. This trend was greatly accelerated after the Thai conquest of Cambodia in AD 1431. 

The Thai derive their Hindu traditions mainly from the Brahmanas, the Dharmasutras, the Dharmasastras, the epic Ramayana and the Puranas, in short, those Hindu texts which deal primarily with ritual, ceremony, dharma, Hindu law, cosmogony and mythology. These scriptures together with the Brahmanas, the Hindu priests, whom Thailand inherited from the Khmers, provide the rites the ceremonies, the festivals and the sacred cosmogonical myths, and they thus consecrate, embellish and complete Thai religious, cultural, social and political life. 

Lord Vishnu: Murals at Wat Phra Keow (Grand Palace) in Thailand.

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It is not surprising, the, to find that Hindu astronomy and mathematics give the Thai elite their knowledge of the movements of celestial bodies and their seasons according to the Hindu calendar.  Hindu cosmology helps them to evolve their concept of the sacred State or kingdom. Hindu epics primarily the Ramayana, depict for the Thai, the model of a righteous king, the Dharma raja, and also gives them an outlet for their literary and artistic expression. Sanskrit, the sacred and the classical language of the Hindus, contributes to Thai language, not only to philosophic, literary and aesthetic vocabulary, but it actually forms the very basis of Thai script. 

William J Gedney in his Indic Loanwords in Spoken Thai, has noted: 

“It is interesting to note that Indic loan-words are about as frequent in spoken Thai as are loan-words from Greek and Latin in modern English and these two situations seem to be precisely similar. Sanskrit plays the same cultural role in Thai that Latin plays in English. Pali has less importance in this respect, which is surprising, since Pali, not Sanskrit, is the sacred language of southern Buddhism, the religion of Siam.” 

The chief Hindu Gods forming the Thai roster are Phra Phrom (Sanskrit. Brahma), Phra Isuan (Sanskrit. Shiva), Phra Nara (Sanskrit. Narayana, another name for Vishnu), Phra In (Sanskrit. Indra), and Baruna (Sanskrit. Varuna). The Hindu deva are respected and are invoked at all initiatory rites, at curing and healing ceremonies and home festivals. The Thai invite Hindu deva (gods) to share the delicacies prepared for the festivals and in return to extend their protection.  

The other celestial denizens from Hindu mythology are also there. Among these Naga and Garuda hold an important place. The Thai associate Naga with the rainfall and describe him by the Hindu traditional epithet “The Guardian of the Aquatic World”. The Garuda as with the Hindus, is the vehicle (Sanskrit. Vahana) of Narayana and has become the national emblem of Thailand. 

The Hindu concepts of space and time have been personified by the Thai into indigenous deities. Traditionally, each of the four directional Phras (Sanskrit. Deva) guarded one of the four directions (as defined by Hindu cosmology). The Thai are also familiar with Hindu chemistry, which reduces all existence to the Four Elements – earth, water, air and fire. The Thai offers prayers to the first three. They refer to earth as Mae Thaurani (Sanskrit. Mata Dharati) and pray to her for good rice harvests. Water is invoked as Mae Khongkhaa (Sanskrit. Mata Ganga – Mother Ganges). She is invoked during the starting rites of the rice-cycle. The air, called Phra Phaaj (Sanskrit. Vayu) is associated with storms. The Thai also relate Hanuman with air. This belief is similar to the Hindu belief that Hanuman was the son of wind (Sanskrit. Pavan) God.  

Hindu Gods in Thailand

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The Thai attitude towards the Hindu gods is clearly demonstrated in the following invocation to them to ward off the “Spirits which trouble the new-born”: 

“Hail to the gracious and auspicious powers: I prostrate myself. I will recite an invoation inviting all the great gods. I invite the great god Vishnu, the god Shiva of majestic power, who is the lord of Mount Krailasa (Sanskrit. Kailasa). I bow down and do homage to you. Also the goddess Uma, whose grace sustains the world. May you conquer diseases. I invite the god of the wind (Sanskrit. Vayu) and the god of fire (Sanskrit. Agni), the blazing god Kala (Time) and the god Brahma. Also Yama and the guardians of the four quarters, the god of the sun and the god of the moon. Also the Lord Indra who is the monarch …….I fold my hands in reverence and raise them over my head..” 

The Festivals 

The various social festivals in Thailand further illustrate the intermingling of the Hindu elements in the life of the Thai. The traditional new year, beginning with the spring, was introduced by Songran, the water Festival. It is followed by Triyambavay Tripavay, the Festival of the Swing: Rek Na, the Ploughing Ceremony; the Baruna Satra, the Rain Festival; the Bidhi Sarada, the Autumn Festival; and Loi Krathong, the Festivals of Lights. 

The Water Festival – The Songran (Sanskrit. Sankranta), or the water throwing festival, takes place in spring. The traditional celebration was the pouring of ample water to invite the god (Sanskrit. Indra) to descend to earth and bring rain.  

The Festival of the Swing – (Sanskrit. Triyambhava Tribhava) marks the arrival and stay of the god Shiva on earth, which supposed to have lasted for ten days. The King appoints a nobleman to play the role of Shiva. The Festival begins from a Buddhis wat. The God Shiva, who is believed to have arrived at that moment, is carried at the head of the procession. The procession moves with pomp and gaiety to the spot where the swing has been erected. The Thai swinging has considerably changed from the Hindu festival of the swing performed in the middle of March in honor of the God Krishna. The Hindu festival, was originally a solar ceremony. The Thai ceremony has retained this solar character, as the swinging is always performed from east to west. Shiva has replaced the original Surya, sun god, or the later Lord Krishna, as the focal point of the ceremony. 

The Ploughing Festival – In India, reference to this ceremony appears in the Satapatha Brahmana and the Valmiki Ramayana. In Thailand this ceremony is performed in month of May (Vaisakha) outside the city in the crown paddy field. The field to be ploughed is fenced off and made sacred through various rites performed by the Brahmins. On the day of the ploughing, the substitute is taken in a procession to the field. He offers light and incense sticks to the Hindu God images. The Brahmins offer him three ploughs. He chooses one, takes the gilded handle wrapped in red cloth by the Brah Maha Raj Guru (Sanskrit. Maha Rajaguru) and gets the pair of beautiful oxen to move. At this moment the Brahmins blow the conches and he ploughs three concentric circles. After the ploughing, the seed-rice is brought in four baskets of silver and gold. While the Brahmins chant mantras, the performer of the ceremony scatters the seed. At the same time holy water is offered to the Goddess of Earth. 

The Rain Festival – Prayers for rain are offered to Varuna. 

The Festival of Light – which seems Hindu in its underlying idea, is Loi-Krathong, the Festival of Lights. Loi Krathong seems to be a variation of the Hindu Diwali or Deepawali. The festival is held, both in Thailand and India in November. The homes are cleaned and decorated with palm leaves, and paper lamps. At dusk tiny rafts made of banana leaves are each given a lit candle and are made to float in the Menam river. The whole river appears “a stream of dancing lights,” as little rafts luminous with glowing candles, are being borne towards the sea. This sight on the Menam compares with the floating lights on the river Ganges in India on Deepwali night. 

(source: Hinduism in Thai Life - By Santosh N Desai  p. 1 - 40).

Lord Ganesha on his mount. Murals at Wat Phra Keow (Grand Palace) in Thailand.

(For more refer to chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor).

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Ramayana - A Timeless Tale

The Greatest influence on almost all of the arts of South east Asian region has been from India.  The "Ramayana" tells of good defeating evil. It offers inspiration and spiritual fulfillment .

This sacred Epic has been deeply etched in the collective psyche of all the countries of Southeast Asia.

In second place, but far behind, has been the cultural forms from China. Of all the Indian inspirations, the most important ones have been related to the Ramayana – an epic story of Prince Rama, his loving wife Sita, and their adventures following her abduction and rescue from a demon-king Ravana. Each episode of the story provides entertainment, but also instruction on the virtues: courage, honesty, morality, loyalty, duty and trustworthiness. The great theme is that of the triumph of good over evil. Another Indian masterpiece is the Mahabharata, which tells of heroic struggles among the ruling families of India.   

The Thai Ramakien: Literally means "Ram akhyan".. 

 In Southeast Asia, the story of Rama has become a traditional part of culture in Buddhist Burma, Thailand and Cambodia. In Malaysia and Indonesia.

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In India, where plays have been presented in almost every community for centuries, everyone knows the epics almost by heart. In Southeast Asia, the story of Rama has become a traditional part of culture in Buddhist Burma, Thailand and Cambodia. In Malaysia and Indonesia, this story had become popular long before the conversion of the people to Islam. It is kept alive, in slightly modified versions, in all countries of the region.

(source: Southeast Asia: Earliest Indianized Kingdoms – By M Ladd Thomas  p. 45 -  79 and 80 - 84).

Ramayana is well known to the Thai people as Ramakien, the name being derived from the Sanskrit term Ramakirti. According to their knowledge, it was written by Sri Valmiki more than 2000 years ago.  

The Ramayana or Ramakien has been appreciated by the Thai people for ages. In Ayudhya period it was regarded as the sacred story and is because of the story of Ramayan that the first King of Ayudhya was named Rama and its capital, Ayudhya. The Ramayana written by Ramayana scholars in Thailand is divided into 7 Kandhas or sections.  

The Ramayana story as found in Thailand, according to the great scholar of Thai literature, Phraya Anumanrajthon, did not come directly from India, but it came from Indonesia about 900 years ago. At that time on a lot of ruins are depicted the scenes from the Ramayana story. One of the most outstanding examples is found in the stone shrine “Prasat Hin Pimai” in the Pimai district, Nakhon Rathaseema Province, north-east of Bangkok. In King Ramkhamhang’s inscriptions was mentioned the cave of Rama and Sita. 

At a later time, when Taksin became King of Dhonburi, he wrote the Ramayana in Thai verses. They are of 2012 verses in four volumes: 

1. Phra Mangkuta practicing the art of bow.
2. Hanuman courting Nang Vanarin.
3. King Malivaraj ajdudiating the case.
4. Thosakan (Dasakantha) setting up the ceremony of making sand acid to be his weapon.

(source: The Ramayana Tradition in Asia - By V Raghavan. p. 245 - 255).

Ayuthaya has a great significance for Indians. The name Ayuthaya was derived from the original Sanskrit name Ayodhya. This city (Ayodhya) was the capital of the ancient Hindu Kingdom (around 1500 BC) of Rama, a great king and hero of the Hindu epic Ramayana. The ancient city still exists and is situated on the banks of the Sarayu River in the northern part of India.

Although Thailand is today predominantly Buddhist, there are traces of Hindu influence, visible mostly in the court ceremonials. Until recently, the court Rajguru Brahmins cast horoscopes, consulted omens, and performed worship of both Hindu and Buddhist deities. Ceremonies of coronation, tonsure, cremation, and lesser rites connected with agriculture were developed by the Brahmins. The Siamese call their coronation by its ancient Sanskrit designation, the Rajabhiseka. The entire complex of coronation ceremonies, such as homa (sacrifice of Fire), purificatory rites, ablutions, anointment, are closely modelled on Hindu rituals, and are presided over by the Brah Maha Raja Guru.  

The tonsure ceremony in Siam is a rite of initiation of youths, corresponding to the Hindu Cudakarma Mangala, which is very important Hindu Samskara. Cremation, an old Vedic rite, is the only means of disposal of the remains of deceased royalty in Siam. 

Even today, the Kings of Thailand bear the royal title is Rama, a Hindu avatar, and the story of Ramayana is depicted on the palace and temple walls of Bangkok. 

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Even today, the Kings of Thailand bear the Royal title is Rama, a Hindu avatar, and the story of Ramayana is depicted on the Royal Palace and temple walls of Bangkok.   

Hindu festivals such as Dashahara, commemorating the victory of Rama over the demon king Ravana, are still observed in Thailand. 

The Thais, like the Hindus, still believe in Vishnu or Naryana (Phra Narain), and Mahadeva or Siva, and dislike the asuras (asuns) as the enemies of the devas. 

Famous Indian works, such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, and the Shakuntala have formed the basis of some of the outstanding Siamese literature. 

The Ramayana, known in Siam as the Ramakien "Ram - Akhyan" where Akhya is a Sanskrit word meaning "rendition of the story of".  

Phendin-Klang Rama II (1809-24), was an outstanding poet, producing Thai translations of the Hindu Ramayana.

It is regarded as Siamese classic. Knowledge of this work is as essential for a cultured Siamese as Homer used to be for an European. The epic and Puranic literature of India constituted the principal source of inspiration not only for Siam but for the whole of Southeast Asia. It provided the themes for classical theatre, shadow theatre, and marionette shows. 

Indian influence is clearly seen on Siamese dance, drama, and music. Many of the themes of Siam's various dance-dramas (lakhon-ram) are drawn from Indian stories: for example, the story of Savitri and Satyavan. Many Thai musical instruments closely resemble those of India. The Siamese legal system is directly descended from the Manusmriti. The Hindu Dharmasastras, provided the framework for Siamese justice. 

Thai language too bears close affinity with Indian An indication of the close linguistic affiliation between India and Thailand can be found in common Thai words like Ratha Mantri, Vidhya, Samuthra, Prachinpuri, Karuna, Prannee etc. which are almost identical to their Indian counterparts. Thai language basically consists of monosyllabic words that are individually complete in meaning. His Majesty King Ramkhamhaeng the Great created the Thai alphabet in 1283. He modeled it on the ancient Indian alphabets of Sanskrit and Pai through the medium it on the ancient Indian alphabets of Sanskrit and Pali through the medium of the old Khmer characters.  

Angkorwat - miniature in Bangkok Palace, Thailand.

(source: webmaster's own collection of photos taken during a recent visit).

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The tales of the Ramakien are similar to those of the Ramayana, though transferred to the topography and culture of Ayutthaya, where the avatar of Phra Narai (the Thai incarnation of Vishnu) is reborn as Phra Ram. 

The Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya, named after Rama’s capital of Ayodhya, was itself sacked and destroyed by invading armies from Myanmar in the 18^th century, resulting in the loss of literary works. When a new capital was established at Bangkok shortly after, one of the first tasks of King Rama I, who took on the name of the hero of the epic, was to have the lost Ramakian composed again. The episodes were rearranged, however, in a more linear time fashion. In addition, Tamil tradition probably played an important role in the royal literary effort, for the Thai epic has many features in common with southern Indian ideas, such as strong females (which also is an indigenous Thai trait), soul transfer, and characters magically transforming themselves into other beings. Many of the ogres have special powers or weapons, and they are defeated in unique ways with help from Vibhisana. Hanuman becomes as lover to many women and has several wives, thus completely going against the entire Indian tradition in which he remains celibate and unmarried. The brothers of Rama and even his sons battle against the surviving ogres and destroy them, thus repeating several motifs and greatly increasing the length of the epic.

(source: A Timeless Tale).

Thailand, Nepal honor legendary Indian King - Janak of Ancient Mithila

A legendary Indian king is being feted by Nepal and Thailand.

The two countries are coming together to pay a tribute to King Janak of ancient Mithila on the occasion of the 76th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand as well as the Thai National Day. The Nepalese translation of a magnum opus by the Thai king himself, "The Mahajanaka: The Story of King Janak of Ancient Mithila", will be distributed free in Nepal to symbolise the ties between Nepal and Thailand. The genesis of the royal book goes back to 1977 when King Bhumibol was listening to a sermon about King Janak from "Tripitaka", the sacred texts of Theravada Buddhism.

The Thai royal was especially impressed by a tale about King Janak's visit to the royal park in Mithila, believed to have been located in modern day Bihar in India. At the entrance of the park, the story went, stood a fruit-bearing mango tree and a barren one. While coming out of the park, the king saw that the mango tree with delicious fruits had been uprooted by his entourage. The parable taught the lesson that good things are endangered by greed.

King Janak is said to have been revered for his just ways as well as being the father of Sita, the consort of god Ram.

"The underlying themes of self-reliance, moderation and compassion in the story of King Janak struck a chord with the king's Thai subjects who were increasingly disenchanted with materialism in an era of instant gratification," wrote Sudhindra Sharma, a visiting scholar at The Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

The Thai king's daughter, Princess Maha Chakkri Sirindhorn, a student of linguistics and Sanskrit, is said to be researching King Janak and Mithila.

(source: Thailand, Nepal honor legendary Indian King -  Newindpress.com - December 6 2003). Watch Scientific verification of Vedic knowledge

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Hindu Gods and Goddesses in Bangkok

For generations, Hindu Gods and Goddesses have occupied a special place in the hearts and minds of many Thai Buddhists as well as foreign visitors, especially from other Asian countries. 

One unique place in Bangkok where you may observe or worship these deities is the Ratchaprasong intersection, where many of the city's upscale shopping and hotel complexes are situated. Last Wednesday was a special day at the extremely popular Brahma shrine in front of the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel. Hundreds of Thais and foreign faithful flocked to the shrine to pay obeisance and pray for fulfilment of their desires. Apart from the Brahma shrine, set up in 1956, there are five other prominent shrines in the vicinity of Ratchaprasong intersection. 

San Phra Phrom or Erawan Shrine was created as a spirit house connected to the Erawan Hotel, which has now made way for the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel. The forces of the typical Thai spirit house didn't seem effective enough during the building of the hotel, so spiritual persons advised that it should be replaced with the four-headed image of Brahma or Phra Phrom in Thai. There have been no further hitches since then, and the shrine has became famous for bringing good fortune. The name Erawan comes from Brahma's thirty-three headed elephant.

Thai-Buddhist tradition associates Brahma with creation. Brahma is believed to have ridden a three-headed elephant named Erawan, hence the connection with the Bangkok hotel, and the use of small elephants at both the Eastern shrine in Bangkok and the Western shrine in Las Vegas. The four faces of the Brahma statue represent the Four Divine States of Mind: Loving Kindness, Compassion, Sympathy and Equanimity.

At Caesars Palace, the Brahma Shrine stands as a tribute to an ancient culture, and a wish for prosperity and good luck to all who visit the resort.

A  statue of the elephant god Ganesh sits in front of Isetan shopping centre, while the Trimurti, a form of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, adorns the front of Zen department store. 

At the Intercontinental Hotel near Gaysorn Plaza, Narayana, another name for Lord Vishnu, is mounted on his celestial vehicle Garuda, while the plaza itself has the Statue of the Goddess Uma Parvati on its fourth floor. Opposite Gaysorn is the Amarin Plaza, where the rain god Lord Indra stands majestically. 

The property-owners view Hindu Gods and Goddesses as helpful for the prosperity of their businesses. For instance, the owners of the original Erawan Hotel decided to build a prominent shrine to the four-faced Brahma back in 1956 after several workers lost their lives in mysterious construction accidents. Essentially, the shrine was intended to ward off misfortune. Since its consecration, the shrine has become a model for similar ones nationwide.   

Kinnar: Celestial beings in Sanskrit. Thailand.

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Besides property-owners, all these shrines of Hindu Gods and Goddesses are also immensely popular among local and foreign worshippers, especially the Chinese from Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. 

Chen Siek Hui, an Indonesian-Chinese, said she had returned to Bangkok last week after a trip to Vietnam to offer prayers at the Erawan Brahma shrine and thank the deity for answering her prayer. "I prayed here last year when my business ran into trouble. I believed Brahma would give me the courage and strength to solve the problems. Now my business is running smoothly, so I came back to say thank you, and while I was here I asked for better health for my mother," she said. A relative of Hui, who accompanied her to Bangkok, said there were several Brahma shrines in Indonesia but Hui had great faith in the one at the Erawan Hotel. Besides Indonesian-Chinese, the Erawan Brahma shrine often sees worshippers from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Malaysia, including celebrities.

Among these is Taiwanese movie star Nicolas Tse, who said that his prayer had been answered after he visited the shrine.

(source: Hindu Gods and Goddesses in Bangkok -  Refer to Thailand Hinduism).

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Hindu influence in Thai Culture

In the Buddhist Thai kingdom, the Hindus constitute about one-tenth of the population. However, various aspects of Hinduism are deeply entrenched in Thai society. Although it sometimes is difficult to distinguish the Hindu elements in Thai culture, Hinduism has survived in Thailand through the concepts of royalty, festivals, music, architecture, the pantheon of Hindu deities, language, and literature.

The Hindu dharmasastras (religious scriptures), the concept of kingship, and Hindu rituals have become essential features of state formation, and rulers have legitimized their position with the help of brahmans (priests, phrams in Thai). These priests perform various rituals connected with royalty.

In the Rajyabhiseka ceremony (consecration), they invoke the blessings of Hindu deities and present royal regalia to the king, and Thai ceremonies adhere to the tenets of the Satapatha Brahmana and Aitreya Brahmana. 

The steed of the Hindu God Lord Vishnu Garuda is the Royal symbol of Thailand.

The influence of Hinduism is also ingrained in popular Thai culture. Icons of Hindu gods and goddesses have been discovered in ancient excavations, and sculptures of such icons as Parvati, Hanumana, Ganesha, Vishnu, Indra, and Brahma adorn wats (temples) in Thailand. Images of Ganesha, the patron of Thai arts, are sometimes installed in newly constructed buildings. Hindu deities are worshipped along with Buddha and phis (spirits). Even to the present, the Thai congregate at the Erawan (Brahma’s elephant) shrine in Bangkok to invoke Brahma.

The Ramayana tradition is important in Thailand. In the process of adoption, the stories of Ramayana have been transformed into a Thai version known as the Ramakien. Performing arts forms like classical dance, masked plays, theater shows, and shadow plays have continuously used the themes of this classic. The Thai features in these works are so predominant that only the origin of the Ramakien remains as a nonindigenous element. 

The Subanahongsa or Golden hamsa (swan) of Lord Brahma. 

The Subanahongsa, or golden hamsa, passes the Grand Palace in Bangkok. The Subanahongsa refers to the swan-like mythical steed of the Hindu god Brahma, which first appeared in Thai lore during the Ayutthaya period. King Rama I ordered the vessel built soon after his accession to the throne in 1782.

The Subanahongsa, or golden hamsa, passes the Grand Palace in Bangkok during a rehearsal for the upcoming ceremonies to mark Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 60th anniversary to throne. 

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An admixture of Hindu and Buddhist elements exists in the popular festivals like Loh Chingecha (swing ceremony), Loi Krathong (festival of lights), Baruna Satra (rain festival), and Songkran (astrological New Year). The Brahmans also have a role in such family ceremonies as births, deaths, purifications, and weddings. The similarities of Thai beliefs in the existence of the other world with such Hindu concepts as savan (paradise) and narok (hell) and with the Hindu names for deities (devata), worship (pussa), and God (isuan) point toward the cultural interaction between Thailand and India. Thai society has shown a tremendous capacity to harmonize Hindu elements and yet retain its distinct identity.  

(source: Hinduism - Thailand). (For more refer to chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor).

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The Thai King's Coronation  

The coronation ceremony in Thailand consists of the Rajabhiseka, (Hindu, the Rajasuya), the anointment. The ceremonial bath constitutes an important initiatory ritual. The Thai king uses water of five rivers in the kingdom, the Cau Brahya, the Sak, the Rajapuri, the Bejrapuri and the Paupahkhan. His counterpart in India uses the waters of the Ganga, Mahi, Yamuna, Sarayu and Airavati. 

Water is the most significant in the coronation ceremony of Thailand. The significance of water is fully discussed in the Hindu treatise, Aitareya Brahmana. The king invokes the waters for their blessing: 

“Look upon ye waters with favorable eye! Touch my skin with your happy body. I invoke all the fires which reside in the waters to bestow on me splendor, strength and vigor.” 

The officiating priest, Brahmin continues:

“With these waters which are most happy, which cure everything, increase the royal power, the immortal Prajapati sprinkled Indra, Soma, the King, Varuna, Yama, Manu, with the same sprinkle I thee! “ 

The Thai king then takes his seat on the Octagonal Throne beneath the seven-tiered white umbrella of State. He receives here further anointment. The throne in the Thai ceremony is made of Udumbara wood (figwood) as prescribed in the Hindu ritual:

“The reason that the throne-seat, the ladle, and the branch is of Udumbara tree is because the Udumbara is vigor and a nourishing substance. The priest thus places vigor in the king.” 

The Thai throne is spread with hya ga, the Indian darbha or durva grass. The Thai king, like the ancient Hindu king of India, always sits on the throne facing the east. 

(source: Hinduism in Thai Life - By Santosh N Desai  p. 1 - 40).

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Ganga (Ganges water) jal for Thai King's anniversary celebrations 

Bangkok: Sacred river waters of India will be brought to Thailand next week on April 21 as part of national celebrations to mark the Thai King’s 60th anniversary on the throne in June. 

Water from the Ganges, Yamuna, Saraswati, Saryu and Gomati rivers will be brought by the Thai government’s Religious Affairs department and Hindu organisations in Thailand, said religious affairs department Director-General Preecha Kantiya.   

Monarchs from 28 countries will attend the special event on June 12 and 13 this year marking 60 years of the accession of King Bhumibol Adulyadej who is the world’s longest ruling monarch. A priest from the Thai royal household bureau will travel to India to collect the holy water from Indian priests, the official said.

Sacred Ganga

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The water will be taken to Devasthan, the Hindu temple in Bangkok from where it will be collected by the Hindu Samaj Association after religious ceremonies. The water will be taken to other Hindu temples in Bangkok where Buddhists also worship.   

“Thai and Indian priests will jointly conduct the rituals," said Preecha. The holy water will finally be presented to the King on May 5 which is the coronation day.  

Although Buddhism is the national religion, Thai culture and religious beliefs carry the imprint of significant elements of Hinduism.

(source: Ganga jal for Thai King's anniversary celebrations - dnaindia.com).

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Pilgrimage to the Holy Waters of India
King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 60th Anniversary on the accession to the Throne

King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrates his 60th anniversary on the throne in Thailand in the year 2006 by the Gregorian count and 2549 from the life of Buddha count. King Bhumibol is the longest reigning monarch in Thailand and in the world. The significance of the King's reign is probably little understood by people from other countries, but to the people of Thailand, however, this enduring monarch, who will be 79 years of age this December 5th, signifies something bordering on a heavenly occasion reserved for the gods.

Buddhist and Brahma (Phram) ceremonies have been planned for a very long time, and living in Thailand, as I do, its hard not to see the devotion which Thai people give to their King. It is safe to say that King Bhumibol is the most revered monarch in the world. And as far as monarchies go in Southeast Asia the influence of preceding dynasties of Kingship can be traced back to the Khmer Empire which ruled for over 1000 years at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and was finally sacked by Thai armies in 1431AD. The legends of the Khmer empire and their influence on Thai royalty is evident through the strong influence of Hinduism when conducting sacred ceremonies in Thailand. Brahmin priests were influential in guiding the Thai monarchy to what it has become today unlike the monarchy in Cambodia which has little influence over the people. The monarchies of Laos and Burma (Mynamar) have been completely removed. 

At the grand palace in Bangkok there is a scale model of the Angkor Wat temple which is testimony to the reverence Thais have for their Khmer ancestor Kings.

So today in the early 21st century the influence of Hinduism in Thailand with the accompanying offerings and prayers to Brahma is as important to Thais as Lord Buddha. In fact it is a Royal decree that both Buddha and Brahma have equal spiritual significance when it comes to making prayers and merit making. 

However, the Buddha is more widely recognized as the dominant spiritual teacher whereas Brahma is looked upon as a God.  

To demonstrate how important Brahma is to the Thai people was made starkly obvious when a deranged man destroyed the sacred Erawan shrine housing Lord Brahma in Bangkok. The emotional outpouring from the Thai nation was voiced in all the newspapers. 

The Erawan Shrine is the most sacred shrine in Bangkok that harks back to Vedic times, and the Emerald Buddha in the grand place is the most sacred Buddhist shrine. Interestingly enough the emerald Buddha was taken from Laos. The Thai people take their devotion to heart and the destruction of the Erawan shrine brought a deep spiritual aspect of the Thai people to the surface.

To recognize the royal occasion of the king's longevity as a monarch the president of the council overseeing the affairs of the Hindu temple at Wat Phra Si Maha Uma Devi (Wat Phra Si Maha Mariamman) on Silom Road in Bangkok decided to send a high Brahmin priest to India where water would be collected from the most sacred spots of India's five most sacred rivers and brought back to Bangkok.

The Holy Water would then travel to three Hindu temples before finally being presented to the King on Coronation Day, May 5th, 2006. On April 30th the Holy Water was to be set in Wat Phra Si Maha Uma Devi. 

Having just returned from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Kuruksetra in Champassak Laos, the site of the 5th century Shiavite temple Vat Phu, I was well acquainted with the influence the Hindu Gods had on the people.

The five rivers in India where the Holy Water was taken from was the Ganges, Yamuna, Saraswati, Saryu, and Gomati rivers. It struck me that even after 2000 years the spiritual powers associated with India are playing a dominant role in what will be the worlds most sanctified ceremony on Coronation Day using Holy Water from India.

Learning that this Holy Water for His Majesty would be housed at a Hindu temple in the heart of Bangkok prompted me to make a pilgrimage from Nakhon Sawan to pay my respects to the Holy Water. 

After experiencing Vat Phu and the sacred mountain of Lingaparvata in Laos, I realized it was more than curiosity that was drawing me to Bangkok. I could sense the spiritual devotion still strong in Southeast Asia coming from India.  

Refer to chapter on ancient Laos - Glimpses XVIII

Where Vat Phu has a sacred spring constantly flowing into a catchment for pilgrims to drink and do personal ablutions, here in Bangkok was going to be water from the holy rivers of India. An opportunity to go see these five rivers in India may not be possible for me in this life time, but I knew I could travel to Bangkok, which I did, to witness the Holy Water ceremonies surrounding the central shrine at Wat Phra Si Maha Uma Devi.

(source: Pilgrimage to the Holy Waters of India - By Willard Van De Bogart). This article was contributed to this site by author. For more refer to A Pilgrimage to Vat Phu

(For more refer to chapter on Greater India: Suvarnabhumi and Sacred Angkor).For a documentary on Hindu temples, refer to The Lost Temples of India. Watch video - Brahmins in India have become a minority

Princess From Ayudhya - Maha Chakri Sirindhorn

Introduction: She's Thai royalty, and a scholar in Indic lore. Also, a keen student of things modern. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand practises her Sanskrit, reads Pali scriptures and traipses around rural India looking at development projects to emulate for her people. And she goes to Tata Motors to check out the Nano. In her spare time, she writes poetry and children's books. She can discuss different versions of the Ramayana prevalent in Southeast Asia , play three instruments and speak four languages.

On a recent trip to India , a country the princess visits often, Maha Chakri spoke of the ancient ties binding Thailand and Southeast Asia to India . "Most scholars in Thailand study Pali, the language of the word of Buddha. My ancestors did it and my grandmother studied Pali and Sanskrit," she said. Dressed simply in a black skirt and jacket with not a hint of make-up, Maha Chakri said learning the Devanagari script was the toughest. Her teacher at university was Satyavrat Shastri, an Indian scholar who had gone to Thailand to teach Sanskrit. He has since returned and on her visits to India , the princess always makes it a point to meet him.

"He would talk a lot about philosophy and literature. When we talked, he would cite Sanskrit verses to illustrate his point. He could remember everything," the princess recalled. Shastri studied the Thai version of the Ramayana and composed it in Sanskrit verse. Many episodes in the Thai version are different-a big demon abducts Ram and takes him to the nether world from which Hanuman rescues him. Ravana is an extremely important character, shown as wise and a victim of a certain unfairness by the gods.

Ravana in his former life had served them but they inflicted pain upon him and he wanted to avenge his honour in the next life. "It is the story of revenge. It is difficult to say who is evil and who is right in battle. It is the same today," Maha Chakri noted. All Thai children grow up with the story of the Ramayana, and some episodes of the Mahabharata also are part of the Thai cultural milieu. Her quiet but significant forays to India help rev up these old bonds that seemed so natural and organic once upon a time. It was in the first century AD that Indian merchant princes from our eastern and southern shores reached what are today Thailand , Indonesia , Laos and Cambodia , carrying textiles and other goods. The locals adopted their culture, building vast temple cities bearing names and statues of Hindu gods. A fascination for Indian culture developed, and people closely followed and absorbed aspects they found interesting. It was a time when India was seen as a more affluent and powerful country, worthy of emulation.

Elements of Hindu culture have survived in Thailand and other countries through festivals, royal religious practices, music and language. Royal Thai priests come to India to learn the rituals, and many Hindu deities can still be seen in Thai temples. The king himself is considered an avatar of Lord Vishnu.

(source: Princess From Ayudhya - By Seema Sirohi on Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Outlook May 5, 2008).

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For India's survival Hinduism has to prevail - says Russian sociologist Alexander Zinoviev
Hinduism is fading in obscurity

Sir John Woodroffe (1865 -1936) the well known British 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. 

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. He had predicted in his book, Is India Civilized: Essays on Indian Culture 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.”

(source: Is India Civilized: Essays on Indian Culture - By Sir John Woodroffe  p. xlviii). Watch An Invasion through Conversion and Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West and Pope Prods Catholics: Time to Evangelize - crusadewatch.org. Refer to The Failing State of India - By Rajeev Srinivasan

Refer to Pointers on Witnessing to Hindus - By Gurudatt Shiwdat and Jared Jenkins - hinduministeries.org.
Refer to Think tank alleges British MPs involved in promoting evangelism in India - hinduvoice.co.uk. 
Refer to 'Churchianity' - An artifice for aggression - By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com.

Refer to Cardinal Toppo of Ranchi renews call to evangelize India - christianaggression.org. Refer to Bishopaccountability.org  

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

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

Watch video on Christian aggression in Cauvery Layout , India

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In Europe and all over the world nowadays it is very popular to speak and discuss about Indian culture, ancient Indian philosophy and the glorious past of the country. In everyday life Europeans constantly hear or read in the media about some new yoga seminar being organised, or about the appearance of a new guru in Western countries, drawing the public attention. They hear superlatives about ancient Indian culture over and over again from different places and in different contexts.

But what is worth so much activity, so many words, and do they really help people understand the actual state of modern Hinduism and the challenges that stand before it? I would say-not at all!

"The truth is that the situation of modern Hinduism, of all India, is far from perfect. In fact, it is alarming, if not altogether catastrophic. Even if some Indians-the so-called "secularists"-do not realise that, it is more than obvious that Hinduism is fading in obscurity, its relative influence in Asia is decreasing with every month, with every day. 

Perhaps we are living at the last centuries of Indian civilisation and the situation of today's Hindus is very similar to the Iranians from the late Zoroastrian age or Ptolemaic Egypt. Drastic steps must be undertaken very soon, or Hindus will share the fate of these great nations of the past. "

(Refer to Chief Minister Samuel Reddy - An Appeal to Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
http://www.petitiononline.com:80/qa23124/petition.html)

Refer to Shame to humanity: Vatican defends 'right and duty' to convert members of other faiths - crusadewatch.org

In fact, what I fear the most is that providence, the supreme spirit, or the force of history acts against Hinduism. Maybe the historical processes lead to such a state of things, when on the planet only the so-called "Abrahamic" religions will continue to exist-Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Maybe the fact that the great religions of Egypt, Babylon and Persia died out a couple of millennia ago is not accidental. 

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.

"So, what must be done in order to save Hinduism and stop the Islamic flood? There is only one way and it is called mass conversion of Muslims into Hinduism. If Hindus want to survive, they must convert. They must adopt the strategy of Catholic missionaries and Muslim mullahs. I don’t mean only conversion of one-time Hindus that only recently adopted other religions. Hinduism must convert also people of non-Hindu origin. The fact that they live in India is enough because all Indians, notwithstanding their religious affiliation, had once had Hindu ancestors. "

Lord Vishnu - Pala period 12th century.

For India's survival Hinduism has to prevail. 

"It's my deep belief that without India the world will sink in spiritual darkness and ignorance. Secularism and the lack of political thinking are the main problems for modern India. The pre-Christian, pre-Islamic and pre-Communist cultural creations of societies are now to be met only in libraries and museums, thanks to the labours of antiquarian scholars."

The 2005 edition of the World Christian Database (http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/) says that India is now 6% Christian. Refer to India - State wise Christian population - 2000 AD - crusadewatch.org.  In the Northeast of India, Christianity is being blamed for destroying indigenous cultures,  refer to In the name of the Church - By Rahul Karmarkar.  Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio has urged the church leaders not to convert the few remaining followers of indigenous faith because “if every Naga is converted to Christianity, the faith, culture and identity of Naga society will be lost forever.” Many in Nagaland deem it unfortunate that the “church has been very critical of indigenous Naga faith and culture, dubbing our forefathers as wild, savage, naked, cannibal, heathen and pagan.” That is indeed ironical for a state where militants used the ‘Nagaland for Christ’ slogan to justify secessionism.

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If there was a sufficiently numerous class in India, hard and systematically supporting the cause of Hindutva, politicians would not have to court the Muslim minority. In most countries religious parties are supported by nearly 30-40 per cent of all the followers of this religion. In India 40 per cent of all Hindus would mean 30-35 per cent of the whole population, and this is about three times more than the 13 per cent Muslim electors in the country. With such a distribution, all political parties in India, including the Congress Party, would favour Hindu political slogans and would build an image of strong defenders of the Hindutva principles.

Secularism and the lack of political thinking are the main problems for modern India. 

Secularism is the main cause for the biggest absurdity in modern Indian history-the birth-control programme. This enterprise is the strongest factor for the immense growth of the Islamic society in India in the last 50 years, and very soon, it must be, if not completely abolished, at least strongly reduced-otherwise Muslims will certainly become a majority on the subcontinent.

As for the Hindu middle class, it must adopt a fertile line of behaviour following the example of the Jews in Israel, i.e. to orient towards multi-child families. Since the demographic situation in India and Israel is pretty much alike, and the enemy of both the nations is the same.

(source: For India's survival Hinduism has to prevail - By Alexander Zinoviev - organiser.org). Alexander Zinoviev Russian sociologist and works in Russian Academy of Sciences. He has been many times in India and interested in Indian culture. 

Refer to I was born Catholic, Now a follower of Hinduism - By David Cardozo aka Vivek Bharat. Refer to Global Ambitions of Evangelical Christianity.  Refer to Christians 'should stop evangelising in India ' - religiousintelligence.co.uk and Are Brahmins today's Dalits in India ?, asks Francois Gautier. Also refer to Christian Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - youtube.com. Watch Benny Hinn examined - youtube.com. Refer to The Dangers of Monotheism in the Age of Globalization - By Jean-Pierre Lehmann - theglobalist.com). Refer to Are the Hindus Destined to Become an Extinct Race? - By Ishani Chowdhury and refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn and refer to Pointers on Witnessing to Hindus - By Gurudatt Shiwdat and Jared Jenkins - hinduministeries.org. Refer to Hindus missing the wood for the trees - By Dr Gautam Sen- organizer.org. Watch video - Christian Missionary Misdeeds in India

For a documentary on Hindu temples, refer to The Lost Temples of India. Watch video on Christian aggression in Cauvery Layout , India. Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about Christianity. Refer to Pope Prods Catholics: Time to Evangelize - crusadewatch.org. Hyper link to Hindu Phobia – Online Hatred, Extremism and Bigotry against Hindus. Refuting Evolution in USA and Christian Fascism - By Carolyn Baker. Watch An Invasion through Conversion - videoyahoo.com. Refer to Think tank alleges British MPs involved in promoting evangelism in India - hinduvoice.co.uk.  Refer to A Ph.D. thesis on Church planting movements in India – By Dane Winstead Fowlkes – East Texas Baptist University. Also refer to Christian Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - youtube.com. Refer to Christian persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org. Refer to Swamy's wake-up call to Hindus - newstodaynet.com. Refer to Reality check India. Refer to Cardinal Toppo of Ranchi renews call to evangelize India - christianaggression.org. Refer to Bishopaccountability.org. Refer to  The Unholy Alliance : Christianity and The NOW – By Eric Jewell. Watch video - Christian Missionary Misdeeds in India and Planning the Demise of Buddhism - Lankaweb

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Civilizational Graveyards? Modus Operandi of Christianity around the Globe
Relevant Lessons for Hindus of India ?

"Much of the thrill of venturing to the far side of the world rests on the romance of cultural difference."

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Generations ago, European colonists and Christian missionaries looted Africa 's ancient treasures. Now, Pentecostal Christian evangelists - most of them Africans - are helping wipe out remaining traces of how Africans once worked, played and prayed.

As poverty deepened in Nigeria from the mid-1980s, Pentecostal Christian church membership surged. The new faithful found comfort in preachers like evangelist Uma Ukpai who promised material success was next to godliness. He has boasted of overseeing the destruction of more than 100 shrines in one district in December 2005 alone.

Achina is typical of towns and villages in the ethnic Igbo-dominated Christian belt of southeastern Nigeria where this new Christian fundamentalism is evident. The old gods are being linked to the devil, and preachers are urging not only their rejection, but their destruction.

The Ezeokolo, the main shrine of Achina - a community of mainly farmers and traders in Nigeria 's rain forest belt - has been repeatedly looted of its carved god figures. While no one has been caught, suspects range from people acting on Christian impulses to treasure thieves. "We feared it may be stolen or destroyed like so many of our traditional cultural symbols," said Chuma Ezenwa, a Lagos-based lawyer. Early missionaries to Nigeria condemned most traditional practices as pagan. Roman Catholics and Anglicans later came to terms with most practices, even incorporating some traditional dances into church liturgy. But there was no room for local gods once their erstwhile worshippers became Christians. "Where the older Catholic and Anglican denominations are more tolerant, the Pentecostals reflect more strictly the idea of a jealous God that would brook no rival," said Uzoatu. The changing attitudes have not escaped the attention of art dealers. "This work you see here is from a shrine. It was brought to me by one woman who said her pastor had asked her to get rid of it," said Wahid Mumuni, a dealer at Ikoyi Hotel in Lagos, gesturing toward a carving. "We are ... telling the Christians that they can't detach themselves from their past, that there is a beginning to their history," said Omotosho Eluyemi, a senior commission official.

Okwy Achor, an archaeologist, fears the government's response has been weak compared to the fervor of the evangelists. Achina is part of the region where famed Igbo-Ukwu bronzes were discovered in a private compound in 1958. Older and more sophisticated than the better-known Benin and Ife bronzes, the Igbo-Ukwu bronzes date to between the 8th and 10th centuries and provide proof that a unique form of metallurgy evolved in Nigeria . While Achina had few Christians 60 years ago, they now constitute more than 95 percent, says Emmanuel Eze, a retired teacher. "There is hardly anyone around these days to speak up for tradition," said Eze.

(source: Christianity vs. the old gods of Nigeria - yahoonews.com September 4, 2007).  

Swami Aksharananda (   )  an Indian of Caribbean origin and holds a Ph.D. degree in Hindu Studies from the University of Madison, Wisconsin (USA) has observed:

 "The concept that “All religions are one” as propagated by Gandhi incessantly is the most destructive concept that is affecting us all. It is not only silly but dangerous fallacy to propagate the idea that all religions are one. Hindus, who are under severe attacks every day by the same forces of Allah and Christ. Hinduism and other religions can’t be equated and called same because “religions” of the world have been born in the environment of hostility.

(source: All religions are not same - By Swami Aksharanand - theuniversalwisdom.org).

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Cannibalizing Ancient Cultures in the Name of Religion
Hindus will welcome (?) says Vatican Indian Henchmen Cardinal Ivan Dias

Vatican City - The Vatican on Friday defended the "right and duty" of Catholics to do missionary work aimed at converting people from other religions and other Christian denominations. The assertion came in a document titled "Doctrinal Note on some aspects of Evangelization", issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the Vatican's department in charge of matters of church orthodoxy.    

Evangelists belong to a long line of pests from the West who have come and keep coming like locusts to colonize our souls and cannibalize our cultures. " 

- writes Sesha Samarajiwa from Sri Lanka who is interested in examining foreign religious agents’ role as Fifth Columnists of neocolonialism/neo imperialism in Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing - By Sesha Samarajiwa - Asian Tribune October 9, 2007).

Bible Burning Row Ignites Israeli Jews - Orthodox Jews have burned hundreds of New Testaments in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in Israel . Proselytizing is frowned upon in Israel . New Testament seeks to convert all non-Christians, not just Jews. Proselytizing is illegal, trying to change Jews into being Christians is illegal, to hand out bibles is illegal. This theft of Jewish souls by Christian missionaries can lead to genocide, loss of Judaic culture and religion or the extinction of a race.  

(Image source: Democratic underground.com).

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Respect for religious freedom and its promotion "must not in any way make us indifferent towards truth and goodness. Indeed love impels the followers of Christ to proclaim to all the truth which saves", the 19-page document said. Similar proclamations by the Vatican that the Roman Catholic Church believes its message to be the "truth" and that its mission is to make converts, has angered leaders of other Christian and non- Christian faiths. But the Vatican 's top Indian-born cleric, Cardinal Ivan Dias, said he believed the "vast majority" of Hindus - the largest religious group in India - would welcome the document.  

(source: Shame to humanity: Vatican defends 'right and duty' to convert members of other faiths - crusadewatch.org).

Pope Benedict Solves Mystery of Pedophile Priests ?

On April 19, 2005, in an arcane rite of “transubstantiation” known only to the College of Cardinals, the rabid Rottweiler Ratzinger became, with a puff of white smoke, the kindly, thoughtful Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th Bishop of Rome and leader of one billion Catholics worldwide.  

During Benedict’s million-dollar-a-day junket to the United States , a trip that the Vatican admits is a P.R. opportunity to change a German Rottweiler into an American Golden Retriever, the mystery of pedophile priests was cleared up . . . sort of. According to Benedict, it is America ’s “increasingly secular and materialistic culture” that caused priests to fondle and rape children. Keep in mind that the “materialistic” remark is coming from a guy who has been seen sporting a pair of custom-cobbled red shoes, Gucci sunglasses, ceremonial gowns by Gamarelli, and listening to an iPod Nano while tens of millions of Catholics worldwide struggle to feed their families, much less put shoes on their feet or sunglasses on their faces.  

(source: Pope Benedict Solves Mystery of Pedophile Priests . . . Sort of - By Robert Weitzel).  Refer to Missionary Impossible - Jews for Judaism.org and Evangelizing the Jews: The New Techniques - IsraeleNews.com and Harvesting Souls for God' and Religious Harmony - By Harendra De Silva. Refer to Debunking Christianity and Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity (Paperback) by John W. Loftus.  

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World conquering Creeds/ Imperialist ideologies - By Koenraad Elst
Chosen and Non-Chosen People (Heathens/Pagans and Infidels)

Tertullian of Carthage (c. 155 - c. 222) whose full name was Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus was an early Christian apologist who said: 

"credo quia absurdum est (I believe, because it is absurd).

He also said, "And the son of God died, which is immediately credible because it is absurd. And buried he rose again, which is certain because it is impossible."

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"The gospel story is an artificial, non-historical work. It has been fabricated from source materials that can be identified and traced to their incorporation in the gospels. There is not a particle of hard evidence that 'Jesus of Nazareth' ever existed."

– Harold Leidner  author of The Fabrication of the Christ Myth.

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"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." -  C S Lewis (1898 - 1963).

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

                    -  Paul Nussbaum, author of Evangelical Christianity shifting outside West - Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb 20, 2006. Refer to Bishopaccountability.org. 

Gore Vidal (1925 -   )  well known American writer, the eminent historian, and a public figure for over fifty years, in his Lowell Lecture at Harvard University given April 20, 1996 observed:

“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race …” “More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.”

"Christianity is such a silly religion."

(source: Monotheism and its discontents - By Gore Vidal and Lowell Lecture at Harvard University given - By Gore Vidal - April 20, 1996 and positiveatheism.com and Gore Vidal, in Time magazine, September 28, 1992, p. 66, from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief. Refer to Quotes from the The American Taliban. Watch The Bible is Bullshit - Penn & Teller examine the Bible.  Watch Christian Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - A British scientist interviewing Rev Ted Haggard. Refer to Religious Freedom Report as a Political Weapon - According to the report, there seems to be mainly one discriminated minority in India: the Christian missionaries.  

Pastor Rod Parsley (1957 - ) the leader of a 12,000-member congregation World Harvest Church, has written several books outlining his fundamentalist religious outlook, including the 2005 Silent No More.

Parsley targets a profound threat to the United States : the religion of Islam. In a chapter titled "Islam: The Deception of Allah," Parsley warns there is a "war between Islam and Christian civilization." 

Parsley is not shy about his desire to obliterate Islam. In Silent No More, he notes—approvingly—that Christopher Columbus shared the same goal: "It was to defeat Islam, among other dreams, that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492… Columbus dreamed of defeating the armies of Islam with the armies of Europe made mighty by the wealth of the New World . It was this dream that, in part, began America ." He urges his readers to realize that a confrontation between Christianity and Islam is unavoidable: Parsley is not shy about his desire to obliterate Islam. In Silent No More, he notes—approvingly—that Christopher Columbus shared the same goal: "It was to defeat Islam, among other dreams, that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World in 1492… Columbus dreamed of defeating the armies of Islam with the armies of Europe made mighty by the wealth of the New World . It was this dream that, in part, began America ." He urges his readers to realize that a confrontation between Christianity and Islam is unavoidable.

(source: McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam - motherjones.com). Watch video - McCain's "Spiritual Guide" Wants America to Destroy Islam - youtube.com.  

Christian Nationalism – For more watch Silhouette city - a new documentary by Michael Wilson that investigates apocalyptic Christian nationalism. The film tracks the rise of this religious fervor over the last three decades, from fringe Christian survivalist groups of the 1970's to today's mainstream movement. As you can see from this clip, the current leaders of apocalyptic Christian nationalism include Rev. Rod Parsley and Rev. John Hagee.

(source: Apocalyptic Christian Nationalism at Its Scariest - alternet.org).

An enormous clout wielded by Western Christian fundamentalist organizations who, following the invasion and destruction of Iraq , which they had so fervently abetted, are now calling for a repeat performance, this time in Iran . Insisting that America and Israel should invade Iran at once, they regard this as a Christian necessity. They also believe that this would herald a global war of cosmic proportions that would, so they believe, usher in the end of the world and Jesus' Second Coming, something that they passionately await. A key American Christian fundamentalist ideologue is the Texas-based televangelist John Hagee. He is no insignificant crank, although his views are, to put it mildly, wildly outlandish. Hagee's latest book, ' Jerusalem Countdown: A Preclude to War' encapsulates the Christian fundamentalists' case for a joint American-Israeli invasion of Iran .

Tracing the cause of anti-Westernism simply to Islam, Hagee claims that Jews and Christians, on the one hand, and Muslims, on the other, are presently engaged in nothing less than the final battle for global domination, and that, in fact, World War III has already begun. . It is a war to the finish, even if it brings about the destruction of the world and the entire human race through nuclear conflagration. In fact, Hagee seems to clearly suggest (and this is something that he appears to share with numerous other influential Christian fundamentalist ideologues) that this grand, final war must be speeded up by all possible means, for only then, he believes, will Jesus return to the world, destroy all non-Christians and dispatch all 'good' Christians, like Hagee himself, to ever-lasting bliss in heaven. 

In this war against the Anti-Christ and China , the West will join forces with the Jews, at a place call Armageddon, a narrow valley outside Jerusalem , which the Bible describes in considerable gory detail. Jesus will descend to earth from the skies, clothed in a garment dipped in blood and seated on a white horse. With the sharp sword that he wields in his mouth, Jesus shall 'strike the nations' that have gathered against Israel, killing the Anti-Christ and the 'Man from the East' and sending them-literally hundreds of millions of people-all non-Christians, that is-to eternal torment in hell. Jesus would then ascend his throne in Jerusalem , from where he would rule the entire (and, if Hagee is to be believed, the by-then entirely Christian) world for a thousand years. A 'Golden Age of Peace. That 'best' that Hagee and his fellow Christian extremists so fervently pine for, is nothing less than the destruction of the entire world.

(source: Target Iran : Christian Fundamentalists' Road To The End Of The World  - countercurrents.org).

Clash of monotheism? Islam vs. Christianity. In the world today, one religious ideology, monotheism, stands out as especially dangerous, repressive and loony. 

What is the difference between evangelical Christianity (so called religion of love) and Jihadi Islam (so called religion of peace)?  

Missionaries are rarely caught because their agents are at the highest echelons of power and also have the best public relations campaign in the world. For this reason evangelical violence on Ancient cultures is hard to detect.  

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Dr Charles Sabillon ( ?) author of several books, has observed in his article Christianity and Islam: Which is the Worst?

"The origins of both religions are based on the claims of two men, Jesus and Mohammed, and both men proved equally incapable of demonstrating their divine mandate. From that perspective, the two creeds are equally based on false propositions and can be classified as nothing more than lies.

Mohammed ordered his followers to do it by the sword, and that is what they did once he died. They launched into one of the most enthusiastic conquering ventures the world has ever seen and forged an empire that extended from Central Asia to the southwest of Europe.

Nations were ruthlessly converted to Christianity by the sword just like Islam converted Arabia, Central Asia, and Africa by the sword. With his armies, Charlemagne preached the Gospel of the cross to the Saxons, the Germans, the Bohemians, and the Hungarians. 

This was not the only evangelizing military operation. There were also the infamous Crusades from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, the Inquisition, and the conquest of the American continent from the sixteenth century onwards. Throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, the Christian Church was the most militarily powerful organization in that continent. Being the largest landowner and the biggest tax collector provided the Pope with huge amounts of money, which were used to solidify his power by establishing a potent armed force. However, Christianity has had a more pernicious effect on progress than Islam for it has hindered more the advance of science. Since Christianity is the religion of the West and Christianity has systemically opposed, silenced and killed scientists, it is thus the creed most accountable for having hindered progress.

(source: Christianity and Islam: Which is the Worst? - By Charles Sabillon - americanchronicle.com). Refer to The Myth of Jesus Christ - By Nithin S - haindavakeralam.org. Refer to  In the name of the Church - By Rahul Karmarkar. Refer to 'Churchianity' - An artifice for aggression - By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com. Refer to Christianity’s criminal history – By Karlheinz Deschner and Pope Prods Catholics: Time to Evangelize - crusadewatch.org. Watch Christian Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - A British scientist interviewing Rev Ted Haggard.

From the pulpit of Calvary Baptist Church, the Reverend W. L. Pettingill (1886 - 1950) said this in 1923:

(source: The Bible Unmasked - By Joseph Lewis - positiveatheism.org). Watch video - Islam vs Christianity. Refer to Think tank alleges British MPs involved in promoting evangelism in India - hinduvoice.co.uk.

Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) German philologist and Orientalist. He repeatedly drew attention to the uniqueness of the Vedas and awakened interest in Indology among educated people. He did more than any other scholar to popularize philology and mythology, e.g., his lectures Science of Language. Muller is best known for his series Sacred Books of the East. 

"Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death."               

James Foley in www.alternet.org (September 23 2006) has observed:

"In the world today, one ancient religious ideology, monotheism, stands out as especially dangerous, repressive and loony.  Monotheism insists there is but one god, a man of course, alone in the universe for all eternity. Even as a child, I found this to be a crazy idea." 

The Greeks and Romans, the Hindus, and the Egyptians all imagined many different gods who hang out together, the way people throughout the world do. But monotheism posits one omnipotent, lonely sucker all by himself -- "the sky god" as Gore Vidal once called him. The historic battles within monotheism are legendary: Hebrews vs. Christians, Sunnis vs. Shiites, Catholics vs. Protestants, Lutherans vs. Calvinists, Church of England vs. dissenters, Puritans vs. Baptists, and so many others. Now, in our global warming, nuclear bomb-loaded world, especially in the United States and the Middle East, we face an older, far more popular and durable ideology: the angry god as mandate and role model."

Ugwu is an intern with The Tide - Nigeria wrote:

"Wearing the mask of evangelism and the Bible as an instrument to deception, they (European colonial master) ravaged our mother land (Africa) beyond repair."

(source: How Europeans underdeveloped Africa - christianaggression.org). Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn. Refer to The Cross And The Crescent As Conquest Weapons - By Bulago A. Chilume - allafrica.com and the The Destruction of Black Civilization - By Prof. Chancellor James Williams. Refer to Christian persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org.

Rev. Hans Ucko, a representative from the nearly 350-member World Council of Churches, has observed:

"The Quran, Bible and other sacred books should come with a warning label,"  "It should say, 'These books may contain passages that can be interpreted for violence and intolerance.'

(source: crusadewatch.org). Refer to Proving that Bible is Repulsive video - godisimaginary.com.  Watch An Invasion through Conversion and Obsession: Radical Islam's War against the West.

Charles Francois Dupuis (1742 –1809) French scholar, a professor (from 1766) of rhetoric at the Collège de Lisieux, Paris, anti-clerical, branded Christianity as a religion of terror, in contrast to simple, beautiful pagan religions.  

With anti-clerical fervor typical of the Enlightenment, Dupuis castigated Christianity for its attempt to monopolize universal mythology — that is, to hijack the script for the human species. He argued that pagans were closer to the reality of the world because they saw divinity in the forces of natures and read the book of nature, and particularly the Zodiac, like a divinatory text.

Also refer to Christmas’ pagan origins - By Kelly Wittmann Texas East Review December 21, 2006).

Pat Robertson American Christian evangelists on his 700 Club was recently asked:

A viewer wrote in to ask Pat Robertson a question:

Why [do] evangelical Christians tell non-Christians that Jesus (God) is the only way to Heaven? Those who are Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, etc. already know and have a relationship with God. Why is this? It seems disrespectful.

Robertson replied that it is not all disrespectful because all other religions really just worship “demonic powers.”

No. They don’t have a relationship. There is the god of the Bible, who is Jehovah. When you see L-O-R-D in caps, that is the name. It’s not Allah, it’s not Brahma, it’s not Shiva, it’s not Vishnu, it’s not Buddha. It is Jehovah God. They don’t have a relationship with him. He is the God of all Gods. These others are mostly demonic powers. Sure they’re demons. There are many demons in the world.

(source: Watch the video - Robertson Says All Other Religions Worship Demonic Powers” - Rightwingwatch.org.  Refer to Why The Christian Right Should Want To Ban The Bible - By Denise Noe. Refer to Bishopaccountability.org. Refer to Quotes from the The American Taliban and Refer to Christian groups plan for 'spiritual harvest' during Beijing Olympics .  Watch Hand of God movie: A must-see film on church sex scandal - pbs.org - New Hampshire Public TV on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007 at 10 p.m. Refuting Evolution in USA and Christian Fascism - By Carolyn Baker.Also refer to Christmas’ pagan origins - By Kelly Wittmann EastTexas Review December 21, 2006).

He shouts his belief that the Muslims are heathen from the rooftops. In a 2003 speech in Israel, he said:

(source: Fundaresentalism - By Spengler - asiatimes.com). Refer to chapter on Conversion and Rosie O'Donnell: Radical Christianity is just as threatening as Radical Islam - alternet.org and Robertson unhinged over new female Bishop and Pope Prods Catholics: Time to Evangelize - crusadewatch.org. Refer to The Dead Sea Scrolls - An Eastern View of a Western Crisis - N. S. Rajaram - burningcross.net. Also refer to Christian Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - youtube.com.  Refer to Christian persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org. Refer to Cardinal Toppo of Ranchi renews call to evangelize India - christianaggression.org. Refuting Evolution in USA and Christian Fascism - By Carolyn Baker

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Say Goodbye to pluralism

Dr. Koenraad Elst (1959 - ) Dutch historian, born in Leuven, Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. 

He is the author of several books including The Saffron Swastika, Decolonising The Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism and Negationism in India: Concealilng the Record of Islam

He has observed this about World conquering Creeds:

"Moses taught the Hebrew people a religion, which divided humanity into two: Chosen People and the rest. It divided space into two: the Promised land and the rest. It divided time into two: the time before the Covenant (between Yahweh and His People) and the unfoldment of God’s plan staring with the Covenant. Fortunately, in later centuries when the Jews had no political power left, they transformed their self-righteous religion into a strongly ethical religion with a mystical dimension and a pluralistic culture of Scripture interpretation through intellectual discussion. However, the seed of Moses was still there, and it was taken up by Christianity. 

In the Great Commission, Jesus calls every Christian to step out in faith and spread the Good News. 

"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen. (Matthew 28:18-20).

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Christianity (aka. Religion of Love -with its Crusades, The Inquisition, Imperialism, Genocide in Americas, Australia, etc) - again divided humanity into Christians (saved ones) and Pagans (doomed ones). This automatically divided space into two: the Christian countries and the Pagan countries. But while the Jews had limited ambition to the Promise Land, Christianity wanted to convert the whole world. As the New Testament had said, in seeming innocence:  

“Go and teach all the peoples”. It also divided time into two: the time when the original sin reigned supreme, and the era of Jesus Christ, the Saviour, our Lord (marked as AD, Anno Domini, year of the Lord).   

Refer to Chief Minister Samuel Reddy - An Appeal to Govt. of Andhra Pradesh - http://www.petitiononline.com:80/qa23124/petition.html

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 Think tank alleges British MPs involved in promoting evangelism in India - hinduvoice.co.uk. Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn

Allah's Apostle said "I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy). - Bukhari 4:52:220  

"If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." - Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah commander.

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Islam (aka. Religion of Peace - with its Jehad and Slaugher of Hindus) - Mohammed, who used to travel to the Christian city of Damascus as an agent of his wife Khadija’s company, brought monotheism and prophet hood to Arabia. He divided humanity into two, the believers and unbelievers. He divided the world into two: the Muslim-ruled countries, or Dar-ul-Islam, and the rest, called Dar-ur-Harb, the land of strife. 

Refer to Jihad Watch. Refer to We will smash the Cross: al-Qaeda - express india.com and Muslims in UK demand capital punishment for Pope - rediff.com. Watch Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West. Refer to video Statistics on Islamic Terrorism - By B Raman.

Marxism (Stalin's great purges, Pol Pot in Cambodia, 20th century Chinese democide) - is the latest and shortest-lived offshoot of this lineage of closed and aggressive creeds. Its God is history, which is one-dimensional version of the Christian-Islamic doctrine of “God’s plan unfolding in history. It divided humanity into two: the progressive forces, who have history on their side (today: the proletariat), and the rest, who will be wiped out of history soon. It divides the world into two: the Socialist Republics where the proletariat is in power and does its redeeming work of establishing classless society, and the rest, where revolution is yet to take place. 

The one thing these three world-conquering creeds have in common, is their boundless self-righteousness in overrunning, the societies of the non-chosen peoples. They have respected nothing of what was sacred to the Pagan, often not even their lives. 

(Note: A rare use of "Pagan" is to describe a person who does not follow an main Abrahamic religion. That is, their faith does not recognize Abraham as a patriarch. The individual is neither Christian, Muslim, nor Jew. This includes Agnostics, Atheists, Buddhists, Hindus, Humanists, Taoists, etc. About 45% of the people of the world are Pagans, by this definition.  

Also refer to Christmas’ pagan origins - By Kelly Wittmann East Texas Review December 21, 2006).

Heathen is the derogatory term used to define Non-christians just as the word Kafir is used to define Non-muslims.

What is the missionary definition of Heathen? - The heathen are spirituality lost, wicked, willful sinners, without Christ, having no hope and without God in the world. Their moral conditions are reeking with filthy and degrading habits& They are marked by abject poverty, wretched homes and unremitting. (source: The Progress of World Wide Mission - By R. Glovers, ed. H. Kane, (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960).

Where these have come in conflict with each other, they have not spared each other either, witness the Crusades and the Spanish Reconquista, the treatment meted out to the Christians in Muslim countries, the Armenian genocide the wholesale persecution of (an already softened) Christianity in the Soviet block, the confrontations between the Chinese and the Uighurs, the persecution of the communists in Khomenini’s Iran. Each one of them, in its prime, has (had) the unshakable conviction that it is bound to conquer the world, and that ultimately no opponent would survive to give testimony against its outrageous crimes. 

But what goes up, must come down. Religions that are not sanatana, (eternal) ingrained in human nature and therefore age-old, religions that have a beginning, are also bound to end. 

There was no Christianity before Christ, no Islam before Mohammed, no Marxism before Marx: therefore the creeds of Christ, Mohammed and Marx are bound to end. So if Hindus wait long enough, these thousands of mosques built on destroyed temples will all fall back into their lap. They will be abandoned, or Muslim-born people will convert them into Pagan establishments themselves."

(source: Ayodhya and After: Issues Before Hindu Society - By Koenraad Elst  p 32 - 34). Refer to Conversion of the Bulgarian people to the Christian Faith and South American native cultures destroyed by missionaries and Demonizing African Culture in the Name of Christianity and List of African cultures destroyed by christian Conquest. Watch An Invasion through Conversion - videoyahoo.com. Refer to Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects – By Bertrand Russell and Why I Am Not a Muslim - By Ibn Warraq

Refer to chapter on European Imperialism, First Indologists, Conversion and Islamic Onslaught.  Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth.  Refer to The Burning Cross. Also refer to Monotheism and its discontents - By Gore Vidal and Monotheism vs. Polytheism – By A C Bose and  America's Moral Decline and the Rise of False Christianity - By Karen Horst Cobb and Biblical Pacifism to the Crusades - By Nat Parry and The Jihadist War Against India - frontpagemagazine.com and crusadewatch.org.

Note: What is the difference between evangelical Christianity and Jihadi Islam?

There is not much difference in their thought as they are competitors trying to outrun each other. Modern day Evangelical missionaries inflict 90% psychological and 10% physical violence whereas jihadis inflict 10% psychological and 90% physical violence. Missionaries are rarely caught because their agents are at the highest echelons of power and also have the best public relations campaign in the world. For this reason evangelical violence is hard to detect.

Refer to Compare and Contrast Jihadi Islam and Evangelical Christianity - crusade.org. Watch video - Islam vs Christianity - throwawayyourtv.com. Refer to Are the Hindus Destined to Become an Extinct Race? By Ishani Chowdhury. Refer to Being Hindu is hip - ibnlive.com.

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The Persecution Industry: What are the stakes? 
Manufacturing news to demonize Hindus?  

“When you physically hurt me, it is violence. If you hurt me emotionally, it is violence. And if you hurt me spiritually, that is the worst violence, rank violence. When you convert somebody, you have to criticize the person's religion, his worship, his culture. All these hurt. When he converts, there is more hurt. He has to disown his parents, their wisdom and their culture, his ancestors and entire community. You isolate, uproot and emotionally unsettle him.” 

                     -  Swami Dayananda Saraswati

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Christian Church and the old Roman Empire 
Democracy and Human Rights

"In the bullshit department, nobody can hold a candle to a clergyman."

Christian Church and all its manifestations is the new face of the Old Roman Empire. Their quest is not about Peace and Goodwill to all mankind. It is about the power that the Christian Church can wield in the world. It has substituted moral enslavement in place of physical enslavement. The new converts and their progeny are the most reactionary and they are a great boon to the proselytizers.

Democracy and Human Rights - These are the smoke screen distracters used to create confusion in third world countries. These ideals are there to mislead and make third world countries look small, inferior and guilty in the eyes of the world. No country including the so-called 5 star democracies in the world respect human rights or democracy when all the chips are down and direct action is called to deal with difficult situations such as Terrorism.

(Refer to abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and victims of Katrina and Seymour Hersh reveals shocking new details of Abu Ghraib

The NGOs and INGOs are the 'cats paws' of the Western World and the Christian Church. Although outwardly on humanitarian missions, their ulterior motives are clearly seen by their evangelizing and globalizing actions. With the above mentioned forces operating in the background, it is possible to understand the happenings in Sri Lanka and by extension in Asia. The western world in their rush to grab resources of developing countries is seeking to balkanize mega countries like India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan and Burma and others for this purpose. China put paid to their efforts with a fully orchestrated bloody show in Tiananmen Square. They killed nearly 100 dissenters and stopped the dismemberment of China. This in perspective served a larger cause than the massacre of Branch Davidians in the US at Waco, Texas in 1993 for a much lesser offense. They failed with China and succeeded with the Soviet Union ; but the unceasing efforts go on relentlessly. Fortunately for Russia, President Putin is doing his best to stop the balkanization of what is left of the old Soviet Union, Russia. Democracy and human rights can wait; political and economic independence and dignity of Mother Russia are more important.

Minority Christians well placed, are used to subvert power; India and Sri Lanka are good examples. The Church and the Western powers are trying hard for India and already cracks are opening with Christian led insurgencies in North East India. Ealam is only the stepping stone for their agenda for India. Christian Church's involvement with proselytization is about power over the converted and not about the welfare of the converted. They are not there to look after the poor Christians in Latin America and in Africa. Do we see the Vatican sending millions to those affected by the Typhoon Durian in the Phillipines, a very Catholic country? The world Christian Churches and the Western Powers are in a symbiotic relationship and profit from each other. The Church provides moral enslavement; western powers the economic exploitation. Together they share the bounty.

(source: Forces at play and the President – lankaweb.com). For another story of alleged persecution of Christians. Refer to The cross they bear - economist.com.    

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Cigarette, Drug Companies and Christianity
Unable to sell their wares in the West - All head to The Third World

Some Western drug companies spend millions of dollars developing and marketing a new drug only to have the health authorities later discover that it has dangerous side-effects and then ban it. Needing to recover their investment and unable to sell their drug in the West some of these companies try to market their dangerous products in the Third World where public awareness of health issues is low and indifferent governments can be brought off.

Some might say that Christianity is a bit like this.  

But does Christianity really do a better job of solving social problems? The evidence that it does is very thin. Christianity failed miserably to bring peace to northern Ireland, in fact, it was the main cause of the problem. Germany 's long tradition of Catholicism and Protestantism did not prevent Nazism taking root there. South Africa 's Dutch Reformed Church was an ardent supporter of apartheid and all its oppression and cruelty. The prevalence of evangelical Christianity in the southern United States , the so-called 'Bible Belt,' has not prevented it being the poorest and most raciest part of that country. And the racial segregation in the south is never more obvious than on Sunday morning when black and white people still go to separate churches; 'Hallelujha and praise the Lord but worship him in your own church!'

(source: Planning the Demise of Buddhism - By Allen Carr - lankaweb.com).

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Human Rights issues have the power to bring nations to their knees in the International arena by forcing major policy changes.  Evangelical groups worldwide are abusing this issue to achieve their selfish goals by turning human rights into a game called ‘Persecution’ and making it an essential ingredient of their evangelism plan.

Persecution Complex?

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. 

Christianity is the world largest religion with more than 2 billion followers. 

The 2005 edition of the World Christian Database (http://www.worldchristiandatabase.org/) says that India is now 6% Christian.

Like Tobacco industry - Having lost much of their following in the West, churches are now beginning to look for opportunities elsewhere. Of course the Islamic world is out of the question. Even the most optimistic evangelist knows that the chance of spreading the Gospel amongst Muslims is nil. The obvious targets are Africa, India and the Buddhist countries of Asia . Refer to Planning the Demise of Buddhism - Lankaweb

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Why is it that only the Christian evangelicals have problems with others? 

Rev. John Hagee (1940 - ) a Texas televangelist of Cornerstone Church the controversial pastor who had said that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for the people of New Orleans and that called the Catholic church "the Great Whore." He argued in a late 1990s sermon that God sent Hitler to help the Jews get to the promised land ( Israel , not Auschwitz ). Why did God allow the Holocaust to happen? Hagee's answer was: 

"Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel ." 

(source: McCain's Pastor Hagee on Hitler and the Jews - thenation.com).

The answer is in the Bible itself, which the missionaries believe to be the inerrant, uncompromising word of God.  

Watch video United States of Jesus - By Pat Conell of UK and  Hello America

As quoted by Frank G. Huling:

There are the two groups in the world, children of God " those who have received Christ (John 1:12)", and the children of the devil "those who reject Christ (John 8:44)."

Persecution stories are flashed daily across evangelical news sources. 

If the report says it is an accident, the missionary news networks are not going to publish any correction because the original newsflashes served their purpose to depict Christians as targets of abuse by other religious groups.  Sadly, not just Hindus but a common man around the world wouldn’t understand these lies and the reasons behind such propaganda. 

One of the main purposes behind the falsehoods is to create stories that arouse sympathy for Christians, which in turn yield more financial support from the West.  Every missionary fundraiser in the West uses these stories as part of their fundraising campaigns.  The message contained in the stories is made up of three essential ingredients:  

1. Christian missionaries are being persecuted;
2. The new converts to Christianity are not going to bow down to threats from other religions; and 
3. They need your financial support.  

Under the guise of AIDS awareness camps - conversion of natives?

Any Hindu in India opposing missionary activity is defined a "Hindu militant". 

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Secondly, these stories often lacking scrutiny, silence, demonize and preempt any potential opposition to the missionary activity in their host countries by internationalizing any issue, including law enforcement cases, as human rights issues.  Any Hindu in India opposing missionary activity is defined a "Hindu militant".  A majority of Western media, which revere the evangelical Christian news sources, pick up such articles which are then picked by Indian media. US State Department often influenced by such manufactured news writes negatively about Hindus in its annual reports. As a result, Hindus become divided into two categories: the ‘Good Hindu’, who shuts his eyes, ears and mouth in reaction to any anti-Hindu activity; and a Hindu militant, who is likely to  raise voice to evangelical activity happening around them. 

The evangelical groups are using the issue of human rights to play a dangerous game with public sympathies and international law, a game that actually hurts other Christians as a result.  People are increasingly being aware of these manufactured news stories. When true attacks against Christians do happen, they may not be taken seriously because of all the false stories that came before.

(source: The Persecution Industry: What are the stakes? - By Ramapriya Abraham - crusadewatch.org). Refer to The Historical Roots of America 's Christian Fundamentalism.  Korean Buddhism under Siege - Christian groups in the West have always decried that they are persecuted in different parts of the world. Christian evangelists in Asia should examine their conscience for what they are doing to the psyches and cultures of the peoples they wish to convert. They are creating seeds of deep and lasting unhappiness by inducing people to reject their own cultural roots and heritage.  For another story of alleged persecution of Christians. Refer to The cross they bear - economist.com. John Dayal bleats “persecution” to tarnish India abroad - This should hardly be news. But, how does John Dayal live with himself after spreading such diabolical falsehoods day in and day out? Conversions through force, fraud and allurement is a fundamental right? Denigrating an ancient civilization to advance an imperialistic cult is freedom of religion? Refer to Persecution of Buddhists in Korea and  Korean Buddhism at the Crossroads - By Dr Frank M. Tedesco.

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The role of Christian Church as a western tool in destabilization of nations

Western world is seeking political and economic hegemony over the third world. For them, Balkanization is part of the solution. Western world represents the power and the Third World the resources they are after. 

Christian Church and all its manifestations is the new face of the Old Roman Empire. Their quest is not about Peace and Goodwill to all mankind. It is about the power that the Christian Church can wield in the world. It has substituted moral enslavement in place of physical enslavement. The new converts and their progeny are the most reactionary and they are a great boon to the proselytizers.

Democracy and Human Rights. These are the smoke screen distracters used to create confusion in third world countries. These ideals are there to mislead and make third world countries look small, inferior and guilty in the eyes of the world. No country including the so-called 5 star democracies in the world respect human rights or democracy when all the chips are down and direct action is called to deal with difficult situations such as Terrorism. Corrupt and selfish local politicians and business interests are the foot soldiers and lackeys (the Brown Sahibs) of this political and economic subjugation.

(source: The role of Christian Church as a western tool in destabilization of nations - lankaweb February 20 2007). Refer to Debunking Christianity and Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity (Paperback) by John W. Loftus.  

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Greek Christian Clergymen, Father Efstathios Kollas calls Paganism "degenerate dead religion"
Zeus devotees worship in Athens  

(Note: Father Efstathios Kollas, the leader of this organisation, has said: “Homosexuality is dangerous. Before Jesus Christ came to earth he had sent out an angel to kill homosexuals!”).

A clutch of modern pagans honored Zeus at a 1,800-year-old temple in the heart of Athens on Sunday -- the first known ceremony of its kind held there since the ancient Greek religion was outlawed by the Roman Empire in the fourth century. A clutch of modern pagans honored Zeus at a 1,800-year-old temple in the heart of Athens on Sunday -- the first known ceremony of its kind held there since the ancient Greek religion was outlawed by the Roman Empire in the fourth century.

"Our message is world peace and an ecological way of life in which everyone has the right to education," said Kostas Stathopoulos, one of three "high priests" overseeing the event, which celebrated the nuptials of Zeus and Hera, the goddess of love and marriage. To the Greeks, ecological awareness was fundamental, Stathopoulos said after a priestess, with arms raised to the sky, called on Zeus "to bring rain to the planet." A herald holding a metal staff topped with two snake heads proclaimed the beginning of the ceremony before priests in blue and red robes released two white doves as symbols of peace. A priest poured libations of wine and incense burned on a tiny copper tripod while a choir of men and women chanted hymns. Ellinais was founded last year and has 34 official members, mainly academics, lawyers and other professionals. It won a court battle for state recognition of the ancient Greek religion and is demanding the government register its offices as a place of worship, a move that could allow the group to perform weddings and other rites.  

Christianity rose to prominence in Greece in the fourth century after Roman Emperor Constantine's conversion. Emperor Theodosius wiped out the last vestige of the Olympian gods when he abolished the Olympic Games in A.D. 394. Several isolated pockets of pagan worship lingered as late as the ninth century. "The Christians shut down our schools and destroyed our temples," said Yiannis Panagidis, a 36-year-old accountant at the ceremony. Most Greeks are baptized Orthodox Christians, and the church rejects ancient religious practices as pagan. Church officials have refused to attend flame ceremony re-enactments at Olympia before the Olympic Games because Apollo, the ancient god of light, is invoked.

(source: Zeus makes a comeback in Greece - cnn.com and bbc.com). Refer to Intolerance of Christians to Yoga in India - Don’t impose religious practices, Indian archbishop says of yoga measure - catholic.org). Watch Hand of God movie: A must-see film on church sex scandal - pbs.org - New Hampshire Public TV on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007 at 10 p.m.

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Genocide of Asia's Ancient Cultures

"Much of the thrill of venturing to the far side of the world rests on the romance of cultural difference."

Gospel for Asia intrudes and trespasses at India's Ardh Kumbh Festival

Police arrested six Gospel for Asia missionaries for trespassing at Ardh Kumbh festival. Scores of Gospel for Asia leaders and missionaries camped at the Ardh Kumbh location to "offer the pilgrims an alternative to the traditional rituals by introducing them to Jesus".

Some pilgrims got into an argument with some missionaries who were denigrating Hindu gods. Police sensed trouble and asked missionaries to leave the place as it is against law to denigrate other religions. The women's team retreated while the men's team was belligerent. Police arrested the leaders and released them a day after. The missionaries claimed that they had talked about Christianity to over 200,000 pilgrims. 

(source: GFA missionaries arrested at Ardh Kumbh - christianaggression.org).  

Pope Prods Catholics: Time to Evangelize

In support of his drive to increase the global influence of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict xvi is calling upon all baptized members of the church to participate in the church’s missionary work. Missionary work, the pope states, is “the church’s primary service to humanity today”—in other words, he considers the church’s most important job to be to convert the world.

Lest one confuse the church’s universal missionary duty of conversion with merely humanitarian goals, Benedict “stressed that the mission cannot be reduced to some kind of humanitarian voluntary service or social work. In other words, for Benedict, humanitarian work is more a means to an end: conversion of peoples to, not just any religion, but Catholicism.

(source: Pope Prods Catholics: Time to Evangelize - crusadewatch.org). 

Bible Burning Row Ignites Israeli Jews - Orthodox Jews have burned hundreds of New Testaments in the latest act of violence against Christian missionaries in Israel . Proselytizing is frowned upon in Israel . New Testament seeks to convert all non-Christians, not just Jews. Proselytizing is illegal, trying to change Jews into being Christians is illegal, to hand out bibles is illegal.

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How to destroy a people in God’s name - By Dr. Gautam Sen
Church's Diabolical plot to destroy Hinduism

"Wherever Christians have passed, conquering and discovering, it seems as though a fire has gone, consuming everything." 

– Pedro de Cieza de León Spanish Conquistador and historian of Peru. (c. 1550, Crónica del Peru, Primera Parte, 2.66). Refer to Christianity’s criminal history – By Karlheinz Deschner

"The gospel story is an artificial, non-historical work. It has been fabricated from source materials that can be identified and traced to their incorporation in the gospels. There is not a particle of hard evidence that 'Jesus of Nazareth' ever existed."

– Harold Leidner  author of The Fabrication of the Christ Myth.  

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"Much of the thrill of venturing to the far side of the world rests on the romance of cultural difference."

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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish-born English author had written:

"Christianity has lent itself with amazing facility to cruel distortion . . . and has brought an infinity of anguish to innumerable souls on this earth."

(source: Famous Dead Nontheists).  Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn and Refer to Proving that Bible is Repulsive video - godisimaginary.com. Refer to A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom - By Andrew Dickinson White - umich.edu. Watch Sex crimes and the Vatican - videogoogle.com. Refer to Why The Christian Right Should Want To Ban The Bible - By Denise Noe. Refer to Bishopaccountability.org. Also refer to Christian Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - youtube.com. 

Refer to The multi-million dollar business called evangelism - By David Barnett. Refer to The Dead Sea Scrolls - An Eastern View of a Western Crisis - N. S. Rajaram - burningcross.net. Refer to The Myth of Jesus Christ - By Nithin S - haindavakeralam.org. Refer to  In the name of the Church - By Rahul Karmarkar. 

Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) British author and historian and a bitter critic of the Roman Catholic Church and author of several books including A Short History of the World and Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church and The Time Machine.

He had observed:

"The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion."

(source: What Some Famous People Have Said About Christianity - burningcross.com. The Obsession to Convert Jews and Film Shows Youths Training to Fight for Jesus - By Dan Harris - abcnews.com

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

"The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."

(source: Famous Quotes - crusadewatch.org).

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

(source: jesusneverexisted.com). 

Matthew McDaniel  of Friends of People close to Nature

(source: Compare and Contrast Jihadi Islam and Evangelical Christianity - crusade.org). Refer to Film Shows Youths Training to Fight for Jesus - By Dan Harris - abcnews.com. 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.

Soul Harvesting?

Conversion bid at Guruvayur, murder in Potta - Christian groups in Kerala are uping their conversion machinery. The target of the Christians and terrorists have always been the Sabarimala and Guruvayur temples of Kerala where crores of Hindus irrespective of caste, creed, gender or colour worship Lord Ayyappa and Krishna. The idol of Mahavishnu in Guruvayur is the one that was worshipped by Krishna and was placed in Guruvayur after Dwaraka was submerged.

Watch India Missionary Trips - Harvest India

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v1AWX0m1Frg and youtube.com/watch?v=jDQs96KHRlA and youtube.com/watch?v=39vD1mqnGjA and youtube.com/watch?v=vRl2c0SkjMk and youtube.com/watch?v=tYHlH5qCa-A.  Watch Sex crimes and the Vatican - videogoogle.com.

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The Church's Magnificent Obsession to convert the Hindus

Richard Dawkins (1941 - ) Is the eminent British ethologist evolutionary theorist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He is the author of The God Delusion. 

He has called the New Testament "St Paul's nasty, sado-masochistic doctrine of atonement for original sin."

He has observed:

“The God of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist, an ethnic-cleanser urging his people on to acts of genocide.”

(source: The Root of All Evil - wikipedia.org and worldnetdaily.com). 

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Christian Dogmatic Ideology and Cultural Genocide of Asia ?
Myanmar - Burmese counterpoint to Pat Robertson, 10-40 Window, Joshua project and othres?

The military regime in Burma is intent on wiping out Christianity in the country, according to claims in a secret document believed to have been leaked from a government ministry. Entitled "Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma ", the incendiary memo contains point by point instructions on how to drive Christians out of the state. The text, which opens with the line "There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practised", calls for anyone caught evangelising to be imprisoned.

Its discovery follows widespread reports of religious persecution, with churches burnt to the ground, Christians forced to convert to the state religion, Buddhism, and their children barred from school.

Human rights groups claim that the treatment meted out to Christians, who make up six per cent of the population, is part of a wider campaign by the regime, also targeted at ethnic minority tribes, to create a uniform society in which the race and language is Burmese and the only accepted religion is Buddhism. The document, shown to The Sunday Telegraph by human rights groups, may have been produced by a state-sponsored Buddhist group, but with the tacit approval of the military junta. The regime has denied authorship of the document – which also calls for teenagers to be prevented from wearing Western clothes – but has made no public attempt to refute or repudiate its contents.

(Note: Joshua Project II set the scope and strategy for converting the "heathen" of the world in 10-40 window (regions that lie between the latitudes of 10 and 40 degrees north) whereas project Thessalonica (called PT) prioritizes the tasks to be taken. Joshua Project II strategized the methodology called 'Adopt-a-peoples' wherein every mission agency or church adopted a 'people group'. Tribals were the first and easy missionary targets. 

(source: Burma orders Christians to be wiped out' - telegraph.co.uk).  

Refer to Chief Minister Samuel Reddy - An Appeal to Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
http://www.petitiononline.com:80/qa23124/petition.html

Ecclesiastical zealotry of Organized religions

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?'

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'.

When the Roman Catholic Church in France made a slanderous attack on Lord Bolingbroke in the 1760s, Voltaire defended him with these biting words: 'Christianity lit the torches that reduced our cities of ashes, and furbished the swords that for so long covered our countryside with the corpses of our ancestors'.

(source: Letter to Frederick the Great, quoted in the Encyclopedia of Unbelief Prometheus Books, 1985, p. 715).  Refer to 'Churchianity' - An artifice for aggression - By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com. 

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Dr. Koenraad Elst (1959 - ) Dutch historian has written:

"At the centre of the Judaeo-Christian tradition stands an institution which we moderns tend to consider as irrational par excellence: the belief that the Creator of the Universe is a person, with personal traits and whims, who communicates messages to us through privileged channels called prophets.  This irrational belief mixes up the eternal and the temporal, the metaphysical and the phenomenal.  Moreover, it is the foundation of exclusivist claims on divine revelation: it divides mankind in those who are in touch with the privileged messengers and those who aren’t."

(source: Psychology of Prophetism - A Secular look at the Bible - By Koenraad Elst).

A fearful and persistent chorus of hostility is widespread on numerous Internet sites. They purvey rancid hatreds that amount to a call for the ‘destruction’ of Brahmins. Virtually all of it is ultimately orchestrated intellectually and financially by the American Christian Right. However, the demand for the elimination of Brahmins cannot end with their ethnic cleansing and legal restrictions on their human rights, which are already enshrined in the Indian Constitution and successive amendments to it. These policies and attitudes have become so deeply entrenched that very few, including Brahmins themselves, question their wider connotations and intrinsic legitimacy. Eventually, pogroms and mass murder are the most effective way of expelling large numbers of people because only the better off flee in response to mere legal discrimination and threats alone.

On the latter course of action, south India has become the experimental laboratory of the Church where it now has a political leadership of its choice ensconced in most places, i.e. Hindu-baiters one and all. The Church is therefore able to pursue the first element of a broader strategy of severing India from its Vedic Hindu past that it associates with India’s upper castes in general and Brahmins in particular. This is the same way polytheistic pluralism was violently extirpated in Byzantium, Europe and Latin America. And mass murder to achieve Christian ascendancy was not merely a medieval stratagem. The ‘final solution’ occurred in the twentieth century and the ancient aspiration to end the Jewish presence in the midst of Christian communities was largely achieved.

Hitler and Jews in prison camps.

Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) Hitler was a Roman Catholic, baptized into that religio-political institution as an infant in Austria. He became a communicant and an altar boy in his youth and was confirmed as a "soldier of Christ" in that church. 

Hitler seeking power, wrote in Mein Kampf, "... I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. By fighting off the Jews. I am doing the Lord's work." Years later, when in power, he quoted those same words in a Reichstag speech in 1938. 

Three years later he informed General Gerhart Engel: "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."  He never left the Church, and the Church never left him.

(source: Hitler Was Not An Atheist – By John Patrick Michael Murphy Free Inquiry Magazine vol. 19).  

Refer to Hitler’s Christianity.

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The shedding of copious tears now that Jews are largely gone adds insult to injury. It doesn’t seem to prevent unctuous concern for those seeking to destroy what remains of Jewry, tragically incarcerated in the midst of the Arab world.

The political instincts for the Nuremberg laws enacted by the Nazis, against alleged Jewish ‘pollution’, are resurfacing virulently in India in a distinctive guise against the upper castes, irrespective of their socio-economic status. 

It is being propelled by the global Christian Right and a swathe of Indian studies departments in universities across the world, especially the US and the UK. 

And these machinations coincide with the dreams of world imperial domination and racial primacy that are the historic hallmark of European empires. The Church and the imperial State have always been engaged in an embrace that may not be readily apparent today, but it has ancient roots. 

Religion based Racial bigotry in USA.

The descendants of those who invented the grim cruelties of plantation slavery and established the Southern Baptist Convention to provide it with Christian justification should have hesitated to preach equality. 

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Underlying the mundane dispute over the portrayal of Hindus in California’s school textbooks the crude message of the Church and its academic co-conspirators was the determination to destroy Hinduism, which they openly describe as an abomination. The descendants of those who invented the grim cruelties of plantation slavery and established the Southern Baptist Convention to provide it with Christian justification should have hesitated to preach equality.

The Church in its various denominational incarnations worldwide astutely concluded long ago that the enslavement of Hindus requires the destruction of their intellectual leadership, identified as Brahmins by them.  

There is a vast corpus of Christian writing against Hindus in general and Brahmins in particular that dates back to the colonial conquests of the Portuguese, the British and the French. Hunting and murdering upper caste Hindus, with priority being accorded to Brahmins, was a sport that Islamic invaders and Christian proselytisers engaged in with great gusto. 

As the astute Sir V. S. Naipaul observed, you cut off the head of a conquered people by first killing its leadership. 

This is why, presumably, the Portuguese unfailingly engaged in feasts of blood lust for which their imperial ventures were notorious.

And Andhra Pradesh is their principal experimental laboratory right now, where irreversible facts are being created on the ground with barely a response from supposed Hindu leaders. But a ‘final solution’ to the world’s Brahmin problem could be achieved in much the way Europe ‘solved ‘ its Jewish problem through mass murder and expulsion. For the present, the flight of some of these Hindu communities is the dominant reality. Like that of the post-WWII Jewish Diaspora it is deviously portrayed as ‘voluntary’.

Sowing seeds of discord among Hindus has remained a diabolical ploy of the Church from colonial times. The determined dissemination of vicious propaganda about upper caste perfidy continues unabated, with various racist academics active in the fray in recent months. A numerically insignificant, but influential group of mainly Dalit Christians have become the standard bearers of the criminal enterprise of the global Church to sort out upper caste Hindus once-and-for-all. They are now being actively abetted by various organs of the Indian State.

A significant minority of Brahmins themselves have also turned collaborators in this project at the destruction of Brahmins and the alleged horrors of Hinduism they nurture. Many Hindus are eager to sell their grandmothers for money and recognition accorded to them by whites, no matter how demeaning it is in reality. Significantly, every renowned Indian radical alarmed by oppression of what they pathetically describe as ‘the people’ ends up finding a well-paid niche in some US university.

(source: How to destroy a people in god’s name - By Dr. Gautam Sen - india-forum.com). 

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Facets of assault on Hinduism

President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), by no means a communal and saffronised Hindu wrote in the 18th century: 

'The Christian God is cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.'

(source: Sonia Cong's blitzkrieg evangelisation through RBI – By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com).

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Note:  While the right of propagation applies equally to all religions, in India, where the historically non-aggressive, pluralistic tradition is confronted by an aggressive, proselytising religion with a highly organised, well-funded (including foreign funding) network that is established in political and educational institutions as well as the media, the equality, as Koenraad Elst maintains, "is like giving wolves and sheep the 'equal' liberty to eat one another."  

It is, therefore, necessary to examine our understanding of religious freedom, and include in it the freedom not to have one's religion targeted for destruction. We need to examine, understand and see the wisdom in the conversion Bills. If there had been such Bills in the Americas 400 years ago, today we would have a living Native American culture, instead of a broken people withering away on reservations, trying to piece together fragments of lost traditions. For Hindus today, the story of native Americans is a cautionary tale.  

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Protests against Sonia Gandhi representing Mohandas Gandhi

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

Refer to From jail to bailing out Dr Singh! - By T V R Shenoy

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The contemporary assault on Hinduism is reaching acute proportions. 

The reason is pure opportunism. All the mannered subterfuges cannot hide the fact that a Christian bigot rules India for the first time since the end of Colonialism. 

No nominal Hindu ruler has dared to underwrite Christian proselytising so brazenly though they surely laid the ground for the unfolding aggression. 

(Refer to Crusade watch and Christian Aggression for more articles). (Note: Sonia Gandhi, a devout Roman Catholic denounce India 's anti-conversion laws (Sept, 2006) Sonia Gandhi, the leader of India's Congress party, has condemned the anti-conversion laws enacted in several Indian states, the AsiaNews service reports). 

Refer to The Mother Hen Syndrome - haindavakeralam.org). Refer to Sonia Cong's blitzkrieg evangelisation through RBI – By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com.  Refer to She became loyal to India a trifle late, by 16 years! - By S Gurumurthy. Refer to The Failing State of India - By Rajeev Srinivasan. Watch video Pratibha Patil - moneycontrol.com and refer to Electing a President, rashtramaataa: Pratibha Patil – A true story – By Arun Shourie and Know Pratibha Patil - India Diminished Indians Disgraced. Watch Video on Save Ramsetu and refer to UPA planned destruction of Rama Sethu bridge - By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com

At present much of India is ruled directly by adherents of Catholic and Protestant denominations, in cahoots with foreign powers and assisted by Hindu renegades. 

The different denominations of Christian proselytisers have postponed conflict over a division of the spoils among themselves in favour of first displacing the Hindu upper castes, perceived as the principal obstacle to their unfettered rule.

A Brahmin reading the Vedas.

Watch video - Brahmins in India have become a minority

All things Hindu are regarded with disdain by agencies of the state. Upper castes Hindus are the principal obstacle for conversion.

The different denominations of Christian proselytisers have postponed conflict over a division of the spoils among themselves in favour of first displacing the Hindu upper castes, perceived as the principal obstacle to their unfettered rule. Missionaries use religious freedom as a tool to promote its conversion/political agendas. The Congress government use changing definitions of secularism and religious freedom to oppress and divide Hindus, dismantle Hindu cultural practices paving the way for missionary onslaught.

Religious freedom in India means, as Koenraad Elst maintains, "is like giving wolves and sheep the 'equal' liberty to eat one another."

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Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have begun to imitate the de facto quasi-independent states of the North-east by gratuitously assaulting Hindus and curtailing their freedom of worship. The humiliation of Hindus to demoralise them is competing for pride of place with seizures of temple property and theft of temple income, with the diabolical collusion of Hindu beneficiaries. 

(Refer to Massive conversions under R. Reddy in Andhra). 

(Refer to Delhi fiddles while the northeast burns - rediff.com - We lost Taxila, Karachi , Dhaka . Post independence, we lost 1.25 lakh square kilometres of land to Pakistan and China . Beijing still eyes Arunachal Pradesh. Then Indians lost lands and homes in the Kashmir valley and became refugees for the 'sin' of supporting India . Now, jihadis, Maoists and church-supported insurgents want their share. Where will this all lead to?).

Refer to Save Temples - http://www.savetemples.org/images/pdfs/flyer_for_chicago.pdf 

Refer to YSR Government's antipathy towards Hindus deplored - christianaggression.org). Refer to Vice Chancellor of Padmavathi University should be removed demands BJP -  crusadewatch.org. 

Refer to Chief Minister Samuel Reddy - An Appeal to Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
http://www.petitiononline.com:80/qa23124/petition.html

Under the covering fire of alleged atheistic virtue and Leftist claptrap the Church is increasing its stranglehold through state government ministers who answer to god and his Church rather than the electorate. 

All things Hindu are regarded with disdain by agencies of the state and its outward manifestations are treated as mere cultural spectacles, lacking the divine sanction enjoyed by the two semitic faiths.  

The propagation of Christian and Islamic interests at the expense of Hinduism has become an article of good faith and a means of establishing the legitimacy to govern for every political party.

Hindus themselves persist in playing the role of defeated collaborators as they have always done. They delude themselves into believing in their innate genius because they shine as individuals only to lose as a collective since they are apathetic to the need for aggressive political unity. Contemporary Christian ascendancy is assured since a grievously weak Islamic world can fight and impose costs on their historic adversary, but not win. As a result, it is possible for the Church to remain implicitly and explicitly in alliance with Islam in India. 

This is why Anglo-American Christian imperialism is acquiescing in Islam’s demographic conquest of parts of India as the price of its own eventual political primacy. Christians are confident that Islam is unlikely to succeed in making inroads in India through conversions either because it is radically at odds with the Hindu world-view.  

As far as India is concerned, Christianity only needs to convert a relatively small proportion of the population to consolidate its already enormous hold. The current exact numbers of Christians are unknowable because Indian official statistics are manipulated to mislead on crucial counts, as obvious in recent years. The conversion to Christianity of a sixth to a fifth of the population, strategically concentrated to transmute into electoral victories, in alliance with disgruntled ethnic and caste groupings, should suffice to deliver a knockout blow to the core Hindu status quo. The elimination of Brahmins from Tamil Nadu and the murderous expulsion of Kashmir’s Pandits are an illustration of the plans afoot for India ’s incumbent Hindu elites.

Alas, Christians control of a high proportion of India’s elite educational institutions both at school and college levels and continue to precipitate havoc. These institutions do not preach Christianity, except in the subliminal sense of asserting the superiority of economically advanced white Christian nations. But what Christianity does much more actively and insidiously is to wage psychological warfare against Hinduism and the nationalism, that is taken for granted elsewhere, in the name cosmopolitan secularism.

The British may have departed from India, but they left behind a thoroughly collaborationist native elite firmly in control. Christianity provides an essential affirmation of historic white European superiority while secularism dominates the mundane business of statecraft. 

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The British may have departed from India, but they left behind a thoroughly collaborationist native elite firmly in control. 

Right from the beginning Communists (Note: Marxism was a peculiar heresy within Christianity) collaborated with both the British and Islam in unexampled displays of self-hatred. The Partition was merely a case of adding insult to injury though Indian pan-Islam has been an ally of European imperialism since its very inception in the nineteenth century as a bulwark against Hindu political aspirations.  

The Nehruvian dispensation elevated every kind of political cant into a state of grace, ruining India’s economy and devastating its strategic interests, first with respect to China and then Pakistan. Yet now the Islamic Frankenstein is also beginning to devour its own creator, the contemporary Anglo-American sponsor of what has become Islamism. The gods are not neutral and they do have a perverse sense of humour as Hindu sages alone loudly proclaimed in their prescient epics.

(source: Facets of assault on Hinduism - By Dr Gautam Sen - organiser.org). Gautam Sen, London School of Economics & Political Science, Member Indo-UK Roundtable. (Refer to Crusade watch and Christian Aggression for more articles).

It is sadly evident that Ms Sonia Gandhi is manipulating the UPA to subordinate India to the US-dominated world order. The nuclear deal strips India of nuclear autonomy and makes it a pawn in Washington 's contests with China and Iran. It targets India 's right to procure enriched uranium; reprocess fuel in fast-breeder reactors; and, eventually switch to thorium as fissile material. The first two stages of our nuclear cycle are visibly under attack; informed sources say Ram Setu is intended to destroy our thorium sources.

Scientists like former President APJ Abdul Kalam believe thorium is the route to energy independence.

(source: Deal dilutes autonomy – By Sandhya Jain – August 21, 2007 Edit page dailypioneer.com).

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Evangelical Imperialism combined with high moral fervor?

Can Hinduism face the onslaught of Project Thessalonica?

Theodosius I (378 - 395)

The Christian monarch who introduced the world to religious totalitarianism.
"The first Spanish Inquisitor"

       –  Hugh Trevor Roper the author of The Rise of Christian Europe and is best known as the author of The Last Days of Hitler (p 36).

The world’s earliest totalitarianism – of Catholic Christianity – was inaugurated by Theodosius. No wonder to Christian scribes he became ‘the Great.’ In short order, the Roman world was compelled to be Christian – on pain of death! The fall of empire in the west was an acceptable price for the triumph of the Church of Christ.

(source: Assault on Paganism - jesusneverexisted.com).

Michael Baffoe wrote: 

"It is the same ship that brought the Bible which also carried guns and alcohol to Africa."

Denis Diderot (1713-84) he was a prominent French philosopher and figure in what became known as The Enlightenment, and was the editor-in-chief of the famous Encyclopédie.

"Missionaries come 'with crucifix in one hand and dagger in the other, to cut your throats or force you to accept their customs and opinions".

(source: Famous Quotes - crusadewatch.org). Refer to Swamy's wake-up call to Hindus - newstodaynet.com. Refer to Vindicated by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities Introduction - By Sita Ram Goel - voi.org. 

Refer to Chief Minister Samuel Reddy - An Appeal to Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
http://www.petitiononline.com:80/qa23124/petition.html

Mask of White Religious Imperialism?

"If there had been such Bills in the Americas 400 years ago, today we would have a living Native American culture, instead of a broken people withering away on reservations, trying to piece together fragments of lost traditions. For Hindus today, the story of native Americans is a cautionary tale."

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Dr. M.B.Shankar Niyogi who was appointed by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1954. In the Niyogi Committee Report he states :