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Spiritual
leader Sri Sri RaviShankar against Conversion on Allurement
Keith
M Parsons
author of Why
I Am Not a Christian (2000) has observed:
"So
no, Christianity has not gotten
tolerant over the years; it has merely gotten
smarter. You catch more flies with sugar than salt, and you get
more converts with slick rhetoric and high-tech propaganda than
you do with dungeon, fire, and sword. Who needs Grand
Inquisitors when you have gone on-line and satellites broadcast
your message worldwide? So Christian
intolerance no longer wears the mask of the Inquisitor;
it wears the "aw shucks" grin of Pat Robertson and the
oleaginous simper of Jerry Falwell.”
(source: Why
I am not a Christian - By Keith M Parsons). Refer
to Things
they don't tell about Christianity
***
 Opposing religious conversion through allurement anywhere including
Orissa's Kandhamal, spiritual leader Ravi
Shankar
today said any attempt to convert people by giving false promises
under the garb of service would destroy pluralism and harmony.
Though one was free to propagate one's religion, none should try to
give an impression that other faiths were bad as it would ruin
unity and heterogeneous character of the Indian society, the
humanitarian leader said here.
Stating
that the existing anti-conversion law should be enforced, he
said non-violence and inter-faith dialogues should be used for
conflict resolution in places like riot-torn Kandhamal.
Ravishankar also took a dig at the Centre and criticised its
announcement of 25 lakh scholarships for students belonging to
minority community saying such appeasement would spark rift
among the youngsters. Terming the move as a "blunder"
on the part of the prime minister, he said "such petty vote bank politics to appease a
community is dangerous."
Observing that there was no attempt to carry out religious conversion in
Hinduism, the spiritual leader said Hindus rarely propagate
their religion, which remains confined to a personal and
individual activity.
(source:
Spiritual
leader Sri Sri Ravishankar against conversion on allurement
- outlookindia.com). Refer
to Preparing
for the harvest ...
- By Tehelka.com.
***
Civilizing
the Heathens of India by Spreading Christianity is like America
spreading Democracy in Iraq
White
Man's Burden: Funds
for Christian Invasion of India
Each year,
the Government of India's Ministry of
Home Affairs releases a report (URL below) entitled,
"Receipt of Foreign Contributions by Voluntary
Associations.
Following
are the Associations which receive the funds
Gospel
Fellowship Trust
India
,
USA
-- $60,305,263
Gospel
for Asia,
USA
-- $36,100,000
Plan
International,
UK
-- $29,257,895
Foundation
Vicent E Ferrer,
Alicante
,
Spain
-- $27,428,947
Christian
Aid,
UK
-- $21,094,737
Miseror Mozartstrasse
,
Germany
-- $20,457,895
Foundacion
Vicente Ferrer,
Madrid,
Spain
-- $20,118,421
Oxfam
,
UK
--
$19,721,053
NOVIB,
Netharlands -- $19,321,053
Deptt
for International Devpt (DFID),
UK
-- $15,723,684
Kindemothilfe
,
Germany
--
$14,318,421
Save
the Children
Fund
,
UK
-- $13,594,737
Manos
Unidas
,
Spain
-- $13,050,000
Missio,
Germany
-- $12,900,000
Population
Service International
USA
-- $12,826,316
Total
funds sent to
India
: -- $336,218,421
(source:
Refer to Report).
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Burden
of the Cross
 Thomas
Jefferson (1743 - 1826) was the third President of
the
United States
(1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration
of Independence (1776), and one of the most
influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of
republicanism in the
United States
.
"Christianity
is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
"The
Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel,
vindictive, capricious, and unjust."
"I
do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming
feature." "It is between fifty and sixty years since I
read the Apocalypse,
and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac."
"We
discover [in the Gospels] a
groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of
superstition, fanaticism and fabrication."
The
Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and
capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three
headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of
the people who say they serve him. They are always of two
classes: fools and hypocrites." Writing on on
the Revelations in the Bible, from Thomas Jefferson: A Reference
Biography,
New York
: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986."...merely the ravings of a
maniac, no more worthy, nor capable of explanation than the incoherence's
of our own nightly dreams." "Christianity
neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
***
Is
this the "
Superior
" western civilization?
A
spectre is haunting our earth—the spectre of Revenge. Revenge
for the crimes of nations and peoples in the past. Time has not
requieted it; nor has it suffered from amnesia. Like an evil
spirit, it hovers over the earth.
The anger is directed against the West. The
West has been leading the world for three long centuries. It
wants now to make its rule a hereditary right. But what is its
record? What is its reputation? How does it deserve this great
honour?
The last slave ship left the
African coast in 1807. Nearly two
centuries have passed. And yet the soul of
Africa
remains restless. It is not pacified.
Africa
cries for revenge and reparation for the worst crimes in human
history.
The Chinese too want their revenge. They have not forgotten the
opium wars thrust upon them by
Britain
. And
India
? It was made into a
wasteland by the invaders. We can never forget it.
May be, revenge is not what we want. We
want our honour restored.
And the Jews? There is
nothing comparable to the holocaust in barbarism. They have been
subject to the longest hate and persecution in history.
The world is full of horrible memories of high injustices—of
unjust wars, colonial plunder and oppression, imperial
conquests, racial atrocities. These
have left deep scars on the racial memory of peoples. They
cannot forget. How can the Red-Indians ever forget the genocide
of their race and the destruction of the Aztec, Inca and Maya
civilisations? Writes an authority on the Mayas:
“The great men of
Athens
would not have felt out of place in a gathering of Maya priests
and rulers.”
How can the original inhabitants of
Australia
and
New Zealand
forget the decimation of their peoples? Every nation,
which was colonised, has a bitter tale to tell. And the
Christian church was at the bottom of it all—providing the
real inspiration. It has given its blessing to every Christian
enterprise inspired by the Devil.
Dr.
S
Radhakrishnan writes:
“The
history of Christianity illustrates the tragic effects of a
unique intolerant and exclusive truth.”
Resentment is building up like a volcano. It is bound to erupt. Terrorism
is the first major outbreak of the pent up anger.
America
has come to know how it is to live in constant fear. But
injustices continue to thrive. Why? Because those who perpetrate
the evils even today believe that they can get away with murder.
That is what the white hunters thought when they hunted for the
black men in the jungles of
Africa
. They never thought that the spirit of African will rise one
day and demand reparation. And yet these men who hunted other
men were “Christians”. It was their claim that Christianity
is all about love and compassion for humanity! They did not
think of the African as a human being. The church propagated
that the black men were the sons of the Devil.
Inequality,
said Martin Luther,
author of the Reformation, is a “natural order.” It still is
a natural order to the West. Ask
Wall Street!
The Semitic faiths were marked for their blindness and cruelty.
This is no reflection on Christ. He was truly a man of God. The
fault lay with the church. Today it is back again to its
aggressive posture.
W
E H Lecky
(1838 -1903) the great Irish historian of
Europe
, writes:
“What
strikes us most in considering the medieval tortures is not so
much their diabolic barbarity…(but) the artistic skill they
displayed.”
And
the Inquisition
was at the back of this art! In every prison, the crucifix and
the rack (a torture instrument) stood side by side!
Torture was abolished in the teeth of opposition from the
church, but most of the atrocities came back in full force with
the blessings of the church during the colonial period. Although
empires have gone, the predatory instinct of Western
civilisation is still around.
Good Reader, it would be a good mental exercise for you to make
a list of nations in the moral order.
Today
the church wants to convert we Hindus—we who have never done a
harm to a foreign nation in our history—into Christianity!
Why? Because, says the church, we live in “darkness”!
Because our gods are devils!
This is the record of Christianity! And it calls itself
“superior!”
(source:
Is
this the "
Superior
" western civilisation? - By
M S N Menon).
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Congress Party
will have to pay dearly for playing with the
Fire of
Communalism.
Steve Allen, (1921 - 2000) comedian, musician,
writer, and talk show innovator in his book, Steve
Allen on the Bible, Religion & Morality, 1990 had
remarked:
“It
was only when I finally undertook to read the Bible through from
beginning to end that I perceived that its depiction of the Lord
God--whom I had always viewed as the very embodiment of
perfection--was actually that of a monstrous, vengeful tyrant,
far exceeding in bloodthirstiness and insane savagery the
depredations of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Attila the Hun, or any
other mass murderer of ancient or modern history.”
”.
. . the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God . .
.” (p. 180).
“the
Bible is full of error, contradictions, and inconsistencies”
(pp. 416-417). He describes the Scriptures as being inadequate,
narrow, vindictive, absurd, illogical, and stupid (p. 420).
Allen contends that the Bible is horribly immoral in numerous
places.
***
Evangelists have been using
dirty tricks in Karnataka to convert vulnerable Hindus. The
literature that is being used to propagate Christianity is
repulsive: Denigrating Hindu gods and goddesses has become the
standard practice of preachers flush with foreign funds.
The
ruling coalition at the Centre in stern terms. The Congress's
duplicity -- from tackling
(largely) homegrown Islamic terrorism with an iron hand to
keeping mum over the plight of Amarnath pilgrims to paying lip
service to widespread conversion activity in Andhra Pradesh to
being blind to the murder of Swami
Lakshmanananda Saraswati in Orissa -- is more than
evident. This behaviour lends credence to the suspicion that the
Congress seeks to deflect attention from its own ineptitude as
also from widespread public anger in the wake of unrelenting
terror attacks on Indian soil.
Conversion
cause Social Disruption and Loss of Culture
Sonia
Gandhi a devout Italian Catholic and PM Manmohan Singh
It
is mind boggling to think that one billion people are under the
rule of a foreign Italian Catholic woman who is by NO means a
towering intellectual and who has NO compassion for the Hindu
cause or interest in Hinduism.
Indic
religions are once again caught in an unenviable position
between a bloodthirsty Islamic terrorism and devious Christian
spiritual imperialism. Tragically, as long as we have an Italian
Catholic woman, one who has no interest in preserving Hinduism
(such an intellectual - Annie Besant did) pulling the strings of
the Indian Government these incidents will go on. In
conclusion it can be said that we are truly living in the age of
The Kali Yuga.
The
Congress's
duplicity -- from tackling
(largely) homegrown Islamic terrorism with an iron hand to
keeping mum over the plight of Amarnath pilgrims to paying lip
service to widespread conversion activity in Andhra Pradesh to
being blind to the murder of Swami
Lakshmanananda Saraswati in Orissa -- is more than
evident.
According
to Columnist Rajeev Srinivasan: “Nary a word about the
societal disruption, National disharmony, loss of Civilizational
and Culture, self esteem caused by conversions to Christianity
induced by force, fraud and allurement. Not a word about the
culpability of Western donors in the religious cleansing of
Hindus perpetrated by the missionary saboteurs and their pawns
who convert for a bag of Rice, a bottle of liquor or the
allurement of licentious behaviour sanctioned by the immoral
Christian Church and it's debauched "fathers". There
is no pretense of objectivity anymore in the Indian media, not
even the false fig leaf of "neutrality" feigned by
some Western entities.”
Refer
to
Manifesto
for saving Hindu India: Political power has eluded Hindus for centuries
-
By Dr Gautam Sen
and Secularism
has degenerated as the backbone of terrorists & evangelists
- By
Dr Gautam Sen. Also
refer to Church
in Kerala is rocked by sex scandals – By George Iype in
Kochi
and Clergy
abuse. Refer
to Amen
- an autobiography of a nun
and
The
disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities
- By R K Ohri
***
As
we shall see, the truth about attacks on Christian places of
worship in Mangalore and adjoining areas is at best murky. But
decades of received wisdom in vast sections of the English media
dictated that the Sangh Parivar was guilty. Accordingly, they
donned judicial robes and pronounced the Sangh Parivar guilty
without any evidence. A certain media house has been running
what looks like a serial campaign against the Bajrang Dal. In
what looks suspiciously complementary, it is also running
feature-length interviews of 'success stories' of select
Christian converts. Among others, it has put on record how
regular prayer helped a poor convert 'heal' cancerous tumours!
Further, this convert had, in vain, appealed to her caste
members/Hindu organisations for medical aid/donations. Both the
connotation and conclusion of this brazen style of reporting are
inescapable.
There are deeper undercurrents surrounding the Church attacks.
But first, some facts are in order. It was made out by the media
that the attacks occurred only in and around Mangalore, which is
blatantly false. Violence occurred in Mangalore, Udupi, and
Chickmagalur districts. In other words, in an area spanning
about 200 km. What is interesting is that apart from Mangalore,
the other two districts have traditionally been the bastions of
Hinduism: Udupi, which has been home to some famous seers
belonging to Madhavacharya's
sect, and Chickmagalur, which houses the Shankaracharya
of Sringeri.
Mangalore's sizable Christian population owes to history when
several Jesuits camped there in the 19th Century, set up
educational institutions and began spreading Christianity. This
explains why sections of the media selectively focussed on
Mangalore as the 'hub' of attacks on Christian places of
worship. Chickmagalur, which lies in the heart of the
densely-forested
Western Ghats
, has been a special target for conversions. Over the past
decade, an astonishing number of churches, little chapels, and
other Christian worship-places have sprouted and are growing.
That is but part of the problem.
The adage that there's no smoke without
fire is worth revisiting here. Popular media accounts narrate
that these attacks were unprovoked. But reports from the ground,
which have now begun to come in, show that an evangelist
organisation called New Life (or New Life Fellowship Trust)
began an aggressive conversion campaign by circulating
literature Satya Darshani
that denigrated Hindu gods and goddesses.
Hence
the 'advisory mission' to Karnataka under the pretence of
safeguarding the interests of Christians. Destabilising the BJP
Government in Karnataka or dismissing it by misusing Article 355
or 356 may yield short-term benefits to the Congress. Without
doubt, it will earn the wrath of the people of the State who
have lived with instability for almost six years. More
dangerously, in the long run, the Congress
will have to pay dearly for playing with the fire of
communalism.
(source:
Burden
of the cross
- By Sandeep B - Op-ed
dailypioneer.com September 29 2008).
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Conversions
are Religious Intolerance
The
Church assumes an air of injured innocence?
The
conversion of even an individual causes grave disruption. His
family is torn apart. Tensions erupt in the community. The
individual is led to not just repudiate but to denounce gods and
rituals in which he has grown up, to do things which are
forbidden in his original religion or community.
Swami
Vivekananda wrote that discord and animosities would
result by conversion.
"Every
man going out of the Hindu pale is not only a man less, but an
enemy the more."
(source:
Harvesting
Our Souls - Missionaries, their design, their claims
- By Arun Shourie p. 1 - 3). Refer
to Project
Joshua and
jesusneverexisted.com.
In
the Forties, when
Christian missionaries were active in China,
this denationalization process
was summed up in the line,
“One
more Christian, one less Chinese.”
***
Global Evangelism plans: The main target - India
Targeting the Tribals
 Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
also known as Samuel Clemens, one of the most widely loved and
celebrated American writers since his first books were released
in the late 1860s. Many of his writings have reached the
pinnacles of American and world literature, including the
timeless Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn, The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A
Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court and Following
the Equator. Besides these easily recognizable classics,
Twain wrote fascinating Travelogue detailing his experiences in
Asia.
"You
believe in a book (the
Bible) that has talking animals, wizards, witches,
demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling
from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical,
absurd and primitive stories, and you say we are the ones that
need help?"
***
"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.
***
"The
world would be a much safer, happier place if Christians were to
convert themselves to Christianity. Minus its superstitions and
minus the mafia-like activities of the Vatican, Christianity is a beautiful religion. We could then bid
goodbye to a lot of evils: from colonialism to neo-colonialism
to consumerism, from Inquisitions to conversions to the
Holocaust to
India
's partition, from
Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki
to
Vietnam
,
Iraq
, Kosovo and
East Timor
."
- Sultan Shahin
author of Harvesting
Asian souls
In
Mayurbhanj, again in Orissa, World Vision
regularly organises spiritual development programmes as part of
its ADP package. The WV report says: "Opposition to
Christian workers and organisations flares up occasionally in
this area, generally from those with vested interests in tribal
people remaining illiterate and powerless. WV supports local
churches by organising leadership courses for pastors and church
leaders."
WV India is active in Bhil tribal areas and openly admits its
evangelical intentions: "The Bhil people worship ancestral
spirits but also celebrate all the Hindu festivals. Their
superstitions about evil spirits make them suspicious of change,
which hinders community development. ADP staff live among the
Bhil people they work with, gaining the villagers' trust and
showing their Christian love
for the people by their actions and commitment."
This
being the case it is not suprising that WV India was honoured
with the 2003 Mahatma
Gandhi Award for Social Justice. This award is
hosted by the All India Christian
Council. Incidentally, Joseph
D'Souza who was AICC's President during that year
also heads an evangelical network, Operation Mobilisation, in India.
OM, again, is an American TMO. It was founded by Georg
Verwer and today is a global ministry "committed
to working in partnership with churches and other Christian
organisations for the purpose of World mission."
Christian NGOs in India
Since
the USAID
funds Christian NGOs in
India
and also since US trans-national Chrisitian NGOs like World
Vision and CARE are heavily involved in development initiatives
in India, their role in evangelical activities is not a matter of
conjecture. It is, of course, another matter that USAID plays a
vital role in intelligence gathering operations for the CIA.
President John F Kennedy had established USAID, along with the
Peace Corps and the
Alliance
for Progress, "all three designed in part to stem the
spread of communism." The link between the CIA
and Christian missionary groups is USAID. In
fact, CIA-supported missionaries were embroiled in
counter-insurgency operations, civil wars and were more often
than not conduits for arms and armaments for Christian insurgent
groups all over the world.
Imperial
Arrogance and interference in India's internal affairs.
Felice
Gaer, Chair of Commission
on International Religious Freedom and President
George W Bush.
Arrogant
Interference from the Vatican, Italian and American Government
in internal matters of India?
America: A
nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs
of slaves, wants to sermonize India?
Insulting India: A country which rained death
and destruction on Iraq by
flaunting a tissue of lies, indulged in unspeakable atrocities
in Abu Ghraib and for the
last eight years, is keeping Muslim detainees in Guantanamo
Bay without trial and treating them as worse than
vermin, denies visa to Narendra Modi
to the resounding applause of self-styled secularists who do not
realise the egregious nature of the insult to the entire nation.
Under President
George Bush's fundamentalist Christian government,
the era of CIA-USAID-Evangelicals partnership has come back with
a roar. What
has angered Hindu opinion is the manner in which Hindu deities
and objects of reverence are defamed and defiled by those
propagating the supremacy of Christianity. Such abusive
literature has been distributed by missionaries in other States
with unhappy results. Sadly, the Catholic Church, which claims
to follow the strait and the narrow in matters of conversion,
has shown no interest in denouncing the falsification of Hindu
gods and goddesses and their wilful defilement by missionaries
funded by groups in Europe and the US.
In
the Forties, when
Christian missionaries were active in China,
this denationalization process was summed up in the line, “One
more Christian, one less Chinese.”
Hindu
Nationalism is a threat to Christian Evangelism and Islamic
Jehad.
Refer
to Chinese
communist turn Christians -Stunning growth of Christianity in
China - economist.com.
Refer
to Project
Joshua and
Discuss
religious freedom with Dr Singh, Bush told
and
Wanted:
A balanced approach. Refer
to 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
***
Under President
George Bush's fundamentalist Christian government,
the era of CIA-USAID-Evangelicals partnership has come back with
a roar. And
given the fact that Bush administration officials regularly hold
consultations with Church groups and leaders, it is not
surprising that American evangelical missions have found a deep
reservoir of support with the
US
government for their activities in
India
and elsewhere.
(source:
Preparing
for the harvest .
- By Tehelka.com). Refer to Who
are the British creationists? - BBC
Project
Joshua and secularism?
Converting with Military Precision
Evangelists
are protected by people in power, like George
Bush in the United States. Bush is an honest man. He
claims to be a born-again Christian and not a secularist. As
late as January 29, 2001 Bush apparently took a faith-based
policy decision and established an office for an organisation
called Project
Joshua whose official mission was conversion in
India. According to reports, the office was opened in the White
House and was headed by a man called Jim Howey who is believed
to have been legal counsel to Mother Teresa in the 1980s. In an
article by one Debdas Thakur in The New Indian Express
(September 10), a plan was prepared for conversion “with
military precision”. According to him “all
ethnographic information about India’s every nook and corner
was made available in the US at the click of a mouse through
transnational missionary organisation (TMOs)”.
(source: Project
Joshua and secularism? - By M V Kamath - organiser.org).
***
Setting right Thampu’s
Skewed Perception of the Conversion Problem - By Hilda Raja
The
minority in
India
is today more powerful than the majority because of its vote
bank leverage
The violent, thundering and crusading fanatic
Christian groups think that it is their mission--to convert--the
goal justifies the means. They confuse the beliefs of the
Hindus, denigrate and abuse their gods, indoctrinate them that
they are doomed. Those who evangelize have a well funded kitty
which is correlated with the number of people converted. They
make the vulnerable poor look to them for help--called
development in return they should be prepared to accept their
god. These evangelists can be compared to the politicians who
offer freebies for the votes, the people are deceived--because
they sell their ‘birthright’ for may be a color TV.
 In
‘Clash
of conversions’ Valson
Thampu (Indian Express 23rd Oct)
has put in black and white his skewed perception of the
conversion problem.
It
goes to prove that no matter how high and educated one is, the
Christian mindset is warped when it comes to the question of
conversion. His first premise is on ‘force, fraud and
allurement. His contention is that a 2.18 percent of Christians
cannot use force to convert anyone.
He
furthers his illogic by saying that it is the other way--meaning
that it is the majority which uses force against the minority to
convert/reconvert. The author has no proof for this but history
is the proof that it is the minority which used forced to
convert. Again the present scenario in
India
it is the Minority community which is involved in violence
against the ordinary citizens who are about their daily
business. Hence his stand that force is against the minority
stands demolished. Force does not depend on muscle power
/physical strength. A one man force was able to drive the
British from
India
. Coming
to numbers--the minority in
India
is today more powerful than the majority because of its vote
bank leverage.
Hindus
are a minority globally and hence they do not have global power.
The globally power to bargain, to threaten and to hold to ransom
is with the Christians and the Muslims.
But when it comes to conversion the author selectively states
that a few individuals and segments among the Christians and
Muslims try to convert. In this context he tones down the whole
conversion business as ‘efforts of a few individuals and
segments of Christians and Muslims’ and they only ‘try’ to
convert.
Reconversion –yes, if there is conversion why not a
reconversion. Stop conversion then the need to reconvert will
disappear. A return to the former mother religion is different
from making them throw away what they were born in and making
them alien to their own culture.
What
has Valson Thampu to say to the Islamic countries where no
worship of other religions is allowed? Mr Valson Thampu as a
principal of a minority college cannot and should not delink the
past and the present. What did the
Dutch, the French, the Portuguese do in India
? Did the East India Company stop with trade or pushed itself to
conquer and subjugate this country. Did it stop with that or
extend its pursuit into converting the ‘infidels’ and
justified the demolishing of temples and using torture to
forcefully convert the poor and oppressed people? Are torture
and the Inquisition the weapons the Hindus used or do these form
part of the legacy of the Christian parampara? This is not
confined to
India
alone what happened in
Africa
--first the conquest then the Bible followed with it came the
pauperization of the Africans. Christianity is soaked in blood
so too the Islam religion. But today both state that there is
only brotherhood and love which their respective religions stand
for.
(source:
Setting
right Thampu’s Skewed Perception of the Conversion Problem
- By Dr Hilda Raja). Dr. Mrs. Hilda Raja is a Retired Professor of Social
Science from "
Stella
Maris
College
" (a Minority managed Catholic college) in Chennai. She
regularly writes Letters to the Editors and occasionally writes
Columns too. Apart from being a practicing Catholic Christian,
she is a true nationalist, who values the cultural heritage of
this great country and respects the Hindu tradition too.
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Harvesting
Asian souls
The
methods may have changed, but the ends remain the same.
 Indologist
Koenraad
Elst
(1959 -) Dutch historian, born in Leuven,
Belgium, on 7 August 1959, into a Flemish (i.e. Dutch-speaking
Belgian) Catholic family. He graduated in Philosophy, Chinese
Studies and Indo-Iranian Studies at the Catholic University of
Leuven. He is the author of several books including
The
Saffron Swastika, Decolonising
The Hindu Mind - Ideological Development of Hindu Revivalism
and Negationism
in India: Concealilng the Record of Islam.
He
has pointed out:
"Hindu
Society has been suffering a sustained attack from Islam since
the 7th century, from Christianity since the 15th
century, and this century also from Marxism. The avowed
objective of each of these three world-conquering movements,
with their massive resources, is the replacement of Hinduism by
their own ideology, or in effect: the destruction of Hinduism.
This
concern is not at all paranoid (as the spokespersons of these
aggressors would say), even if the conversion squads are
remarkably unsuccessful in India. Consider the situation in
Africa: in 1900, 50 % of all Africans practiced Pagan religion; today
Christian and Islamic missionaries have reduced this number to
less than 10 %. "
That
is the kind of threat Hinduism is up against.
(source:
Negationism
in India - By Koenraad Elst p 78 -
79).
 Pope
John Paul II’s millennium-eve call to Christian
missionaries across
Asia
for a massive 'harvest' of new converts from the continent has
shocked into silence the apologists for Christian missionaries
in the country. However, a study of the history of the people
who adopted Christianity as their faith and the life and deeds
of their 'spiritual' leaders reveals that the Pope's call is in
no way surprising.
It is,
indeed, quite in keeping with their centuries-old conduct.
A recent study by a Libyan scholar, For
Whom The Cross Is Set
- By Dr
Salem Ibrahim Ben Amer, brings
to light gory details of this history not commonly known to us.
The study is entirely based on original works by Christian
historians themselves.
The
movement to convert Asia and
Africa
to Christianity is a continuation of what was known in the
colonial days as the ‘white man's burden' to civilize
these regions.
But what the Christians more
appropriately the White Christians of Europe, America and
Australia - conveniently forget is that Asian and African
nations have a history of civilisation dating back over three
thousand years before Christ.
While the
Church has made a habit of denouncing other cultures like
Hinduism for idolatry and superstition, the Popes themselves
introduced several un-Christian and pagan tenets into
Christianity. Dr Salem Ben Amer’s For Whom The Cross Is Set
contends that though the Christians say
the cross was set for Jesus Christ, in reality it was set
‘long before the birth of Christ and long after him, it goes
on and continues to be set.’ Even today, it is set on the
people of Asia and
Africa
.
The
methods may have changed, but the ends remain the same.
(source:
Harvesting
Asian souls -
By Sultan Shahin The
Weekend Observer January 29, 2000).
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