US:
The Home Of Fanatic Christian Missionaries
BY Ramesh Agasthya (Chennai,
Tamil Nadu)
http://www.swordoftruth.com/swordoftruth/articles/readersvoice/readersvoice3.html
I read with great interest the views expressed by Mr.
Shiva K Akula in his epistle Majority
Of Christians In US Are Ignorant. I heartily welcome his suggestion that
good articles should be sent to papers like Washington Posts etc, and spread
awareness. It could be tried out, but Christian control is far reaching and
strangulating, and hence would it be published? Bhagavad Gita advises us to do
the work and leave the results to Him. I think Mr. Shiva Akula's suggestion
should be taken in that spirit. I find it difficult as to how Shri Ram Swarup,
Shri. Sita Ram Goel, Shri A.K.Priolkar and host of other teachers could have
carried their difficult work in such an hostile environment, had they thought
about the reception that it would receive.
However,
I disagree that Christians in US are ignorant. US has sent to India one of the
most fanatical of latter day Missionaries, Rev. Billy Graham, who spread the
darkness of untruth deep south (Tirunelveli and other areas) in the 1970's and
who held USA as the example of only true nation in the world laid as per the
blueprint given in the Bible. I have read his books and in one of them he says
that all the scriptures of the world are bibles, but experience has shown that
only the Christian Bible is true. After making such sweeping statements, he does
not say what kind of "experience" renders it true. He describes his
"Objective" experience in going to the temple in yet another book, he
finds nothing except that the images are black (it reminds him of Satan) and the
unwashed, sweat dripping priests, and the dirty water of the temple tank.
In America, Billy Graham has been held as the
"model" evangelists who is said to have "led millions to
Christ". At the height of his influence, he has spread several untruths
about India and Hinduism and collected huge sums to "evangelise" us,
heathens. When I last read about him, he seemed to have doubts about his earlier
assertion ie. whether USA was really the kingdom of God. However, he had by that
time come to preside over an empire of money, radio stations, tv channels,
books, videos, music, many copyrights, and lived a life of power and pelf, all
in the true tradition of the "humble servant of Christ".
However, this is just a tip of the iceberg. I request
some enlightened reader to throw light on the activities and damage done by Rev.
Billy Graham, both here and in US.
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