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Religion of Love?
The Meek are send to torture
chambers?
Atrocities
committed by the Christian Missionaries in Goa - (Gomantak)
Paul Williams Robert
says in his book Empire of the Soul:
Some Journeys in India.
Some Journeys in India.
pg
82-83:
 "In the wake of the
warriors came the priests. First, the Franciscans, then the Jesuits, then the Dominicans,
and lastly the Augustinians. It must have made their holy blood boil to find their old
foes, the Muslims and Jews openly and brazenly practicing their religions. The men of God
set about clearing what the Dominican termed this "jungle of unbelief" with the
ardor of Amazon lumber barons. Just like the mullahs who had marched into Goa two hundred
years before with the Bahamani sultans, these Catholic clergy were prepared to go to any
lengths to spread their faiths. Initially they pestered the Portuguese king for special
powers, then they pestered the Pope to pester the king on their behalf.
The first of these special powers arrived in 1540 when the viceroy
received authority to "destroy all Hindu temples, not leaving a single one in any
islands, and to confiscate the estates of these temples for the maintenance of the
churches which are to be erected in their places. Five years later, the Italian cleric
Father Nicolau Lancilotto reported that "not a single temple to be seen on the
island."
 The island in question was
Teeswadi, the main field of operations for the two
priestly orders then on the scene. A glance at the absurd profusion of churches standing
cheek by jowl in Old Goa still conveys some idea of the spiritual excesses indulged in by
these competing orders of the day.
This Olympiad of Christianization scared the hell out of the locals, and thousands of
family fled across the river. To them, the harshness of the Moghuls still governing the
adjacent territories must have been preferable to the rabid monomania of papist clerics. A
saying still exist in Konkani, the language of Goa:
"Hanv polthandi vaitam" ( I'm
leaving for the other bank ), one half of its double meaning implying to this day that a
person is rejecting Christianity.
Although their temples had been razed. The Hindus who remained continued to
practice their religion in secret. More extreme methods were therefore instituted to bring
the heathen into the
church's loving embrace. Hindu festivities were forbidden; Hindu priests were forbidden
from entering Goa; makers of idols were severely punished; public jobs were given only to
Christians.
Soon it was announced that anyone practicing in private was declared a crime. The penalty
was confiscation of property. Also Hindus, dying without a male heir could pass their
estates only to relative who had embraced Christianity.
Death was no easier than life for Hindus in
mid-sixteenth-century Goa. To them, the cruelest piece of legislation passed by the
Portuguese prohibited cremation of the dead - an inviolably sacred part of Hindu
faith. As
a result, death had to be kept a secret; the wailing grief of the women had to be
smothered; family members had to go about their business as if nothing had happened;
children were sent out to play, washing was done, work was performed - all as usual. In
the dead of the night, a boat would be loaded with firewood down on the riverbank, then
the dead body would be placed on it, covered by more wood. The pyre would be set alight
and the boat pushed out to drift on the river's currents as the funeral party ran back
into the safety of shadows. The missionaries simply could not grasp that another people's
faith could be as dearly cherished as deeply embedded as their own. The missionaries
obviously had no idea how resilient Hinduism could be, and indeed is. It had survived
Islam's scimitar, and it would survive the sword that so much resembled the cross in whose
service it was now employed. Total of 200 temples had been demolished.
Says Andre Corsalli to Giuliano de Medici
Jan 6, 1516:
 " In a small island near this, called Divari, the Portuguese , in order to
build the city, have destroyed an ancient temple ... which was built with marvelous art
and with ancient figures wrought to the greatest perfection, in a certain black stone,
some of which remain standing, ruined and shattered , because these Portuguese care
nothing about them. If I can come by one of these shattered images, I will send it to your
Lordship, that you may perceive how much in old times sculpture was esteemed in every part
of the world."
To the non-Christians, there are many aspects of Christianity
that are perplexing and, in some instances, downright bizarre. The Church decided the best
way of resolving these problems would be to start a reign of terror to frighten the
savages into submission. It set up a kind of tribunal. The palace in which these holy
terrorists ensconced themselves was locally known as the Vodlem gor - The Big House.
It became the symbol of fear. Ceremonies were conducted behind closed doors. People in the
street often heard screams of agony piercing the night.
Here are some gruesome details:
"Children were flogged and slowly dismembered in
front of their parents, whose eyelids had been sliced off to make sure they missed
nothing. Extremities were amputated carefully, so that a person could remain conscious
even when all that remained was torso and head. Male genitals were removed and burned in
front of wives, breasts hacked off and vaginas penetrated by swords while husbands were
forced to watch."
According
to Sardar
K. M. Panikkar: " The The Papacy took in hand the
organization of the Holy Office to control missionary activities 123 years after
Vasco da Gama's arrival in India. In 1534, Goa was made a bishopric with
authority extending over the entire Far East. Special instructions were issued
to the Portuguese to root out the infidels. Hindu temples in Goa were destroyed
and their property distributed to religious orders (like the Franciscans) in
1540. The Inquisition was established in 1560.
Intolerance of things Indian became henceforth the
characteristic feature of missionary zeal in India.
Any compromise with Hindu life or religion was avoided,
e.g. the eating of beef was held to be necessary as it would put the convert
altogether out of the pale of Hinduism."
(source: Asia
and Western Dominance - By K. M. Panikkar
p.
281-282). Refer
to The
Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple.
Refer to Jesus
Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Refer
to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The
God Awful Truth.
Refer
to Columbus,
The Indians, and Human Progress
- By Howard Zinn
.
Refer
to World Conquering Creeds - By Dr. Koenraad Elst
- chapter on Glimpses
XVI
Procession to the Auto de Fe. At
the head of the procession is the banner of the Holy Office,
followed by the friars, prisoners.
An
auto da fe is literally a “judicial sentence or act of faith,” usually
ending with the public burning of heretics. In June of 1680, the largest
auto da fe of the Spanish
Inquisition took place.
Autos
de fe also took place in Mexico,
Brazil and Peru: contemporary historians of the Conquistadors
such as Bernal Díaz del Castillo record them. They also occurred in the Portuguese
colony of Goa, India following the establishment of Inquisition there
in 1562-1563.
Mexico,
Brazil and Peru would enjoy the delights of the auto-da-fé long after it lost
its charm in Europe. Mexico witnessed its last auto-da-fé as late as 1850.
Did wonders for the conversion of
the natives.
(source:
jesusneverexisted.com
and wikipedia.com).
Celebration of
the Auto de Fe in the church of St. Francis (Goa).
Refer
to Things
They Don't Tell you about Christianity.
Refer
to Documentaries - The
Holy Inquisition – History Channel
and
Secret
Files of the Inquisition – PBS
Watch
video - Church's
Inquisition -Torturing Those Who Disagreed (1 of 6)
Refer
to Index
of Forbidden Books
and
Mexican
Inquisition
***
So notorious was the Inquisition in Portuguese India that word of its horrors even reached
home. Such then is the history of Christian persecution in Goa. And
yet the cruelest of these proselytizers from the past are supposed to be treated
as 'Saints" by the very nation that was victimized by them! Stating
the facts about the past tyranny of the Church in India, quickly becomes an
"earth shattering" conspiracy by the "fascist" Hindu
extremists. The signs of India's humiliation and oppression at the hands of her
Christian aggressors is present everywhere in the nomenclature of innumerable
roads, buildings and educational institutions named after the very criminals who
sought to annihilate all traces of India's vast and ancient repertoire of
advanced knowledge.
"The missionary brought with him an attitude
of moral superiority and a belief in his own exclusive righteousness. The
doctrine of the monopoly of truth and revelation, was alien to the Hindu and
Buddhist mind. To them the claim of any sect that it alone possesses the truth
and others shall be 'condemned'
has always seemed unreasonable. In addition, the association of Christian
missionary work with aggressive imperialism introduced political complications.
Even in the days of unchallenged European political superiority no Asian people
accepted the cultural superiority of the West."
(source: Asia
and Western Dominance - By K. M. Panikkar p.
296). Refer to Jesus
Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel
To conclude, While the non-Europeans, in holy frenzy, slaughtered
millions of Hindus and proselytized a large number in the then India from Baluchistan to
Bengal and carried their accumulated treasures of centuries and the women population for
sale, the European with their subtle and crafty ways just conquered the whole of India by
sucking out more wealth than all their predecessors had done together by brute force.
Lamenting this bloodiest story in history, Will Durant
in his book Our Oriental Heritage
(pg
463) advises
peace living people never to trust the barbarians again and be always prepared to pay the
price of civilization.
 "The bitter lesson that may
be drawn from this tragedy is that eternal vigilance is the price of civilization. A
nation must love peace, but keep its powder dry."
(For more information on Goa
Inquisition please visit Hindu
Holocaust). Refer to Jesus
Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel and
Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the
film The
God Awful Truth.
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