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Who is Supreme - the Pope or the Supreme Court of India?
All the Trappings of Power

“The Bible is not a textbook in science. Its world view is that of the childhood of the race, and this primitive cosmology is seen in all its references to the physical world.

" The earth is conceived as flat and stationary. The sky is a canopy or vault through whose windows the rain falls. The sun, moon, and stars are contained within this vault. Beneath the earth is Sheol, the realm of the dead. The world and the creatures in it, according to the scripture, were made in six days."  

                                         - Fred Gladstone Bratton (1896) A History of the Bible  p 22. He was also the author of Crime Of Christendom: The Theological Sources Of Christian Anti-Semitism.

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Joao Felix Pereira (19th century) in Historia de Portugal, has observed about The Goa Inquisition:

"This Portuguese inquisition, this tribunal of fire, thrown on the surface of the globe for the scourge of humanity, this horrible institution, which will eternally cover with shame its authors, fixed its brutal domicile in the fertile plains of the Hindustan. On seeing the monster everyone fled and disappeared, Moguls, Arabs, Persians, Armenians, and Jews. The Indians even, more tolerant and pacific, were astounded to see the God of Christianism more cruel than that of Mohammed, deserted the territory of the Portuguese...' 

(source: Unprovoked, unwarranted Papal assault on India- I  - By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com).

The Pope wears two hats – one religious, as the global pontiff of the Catholics, and the other political, as the head of Vatican State. The second one gives him and the Catholic faith a global political and diplomatic status which no other faith can match. As the head of the Vatican State, the Pope relates to all heads of State as a political equal and more.

When the present Pope’s predecessor, John Paul II, came to India, he proclaimed that the Church planted the Cross on Europe first, then on Americas and Africa and now, he said, it was Asia’s turn to bear the Cross! Asia was ripe, he said, for harvesting the souls – read heathens – for Christ.

In Latin America, John Paul II abused the Protestant Christians as ‘wolves’ for targeting the Catholics for conversion! Why the hate for conversions in Latin America and love for it in Asia? Simple, the more efficient conversions by Protestants in Latin America are endangering the Catholics, but Asia, with its huge and weak heathen population, offers itself almost competition-free for the Church to convert.

Two weeks back when the new Indian ambassador to Vatican, Amitava Tripathi, presented his credentials to the Pope as the head of the Vatican state, the Pope shocked him saying that Indian laws against conversions offend freedom of faith and should be rejected as unconstitutional.

This angered even the normally timid, secular Indian establishment to react sharply, call in Vatican’s charge de affairs in Delhi and tell him sternly of the Indian Government’s strong disapproval of the Pope’s conduct.

But has the Pope the moral authority to fault others for lack of religious freedom? In the Pope’s own Vatican State no faith other than his own is allowed. The Vatican Constitution is named as ‘Apostolic Constitution’, that is constitution of Christian missionaries! Spain where till date Catholicism is the state religion has again a treaty with the Papacy. Will the Pope allow freedom of faith in Vatican and sermonise on freedom to those countries?

The MP Government did not wake up one fine morning and pass this law. In 1950s it had appointed a committee headed by Justice Neogi, which included a Christian member who was also a Gandhian, to study allegations of forcible and fraudulent conversions of tribal and illiterate people by foreign missionaries. The committee submitted a voluminous, unanimous report detailing fraudulent conversions by the Church. The MP Government then under the Congress party merely enacted the recommendations of the Neogi committee. The pontiff of Indian secularism Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru was then the Prime Minister. Justice Neogi, which included a Christian member who was also a Gandhian, to study allegations of forcible and fraudulent conversions of tribal and illiterate people by foreign missionaries. The committee submitted a voluminous, unanimous report detailing fraudulent conversions by the Church. The MP Government then under the Congress party merely enacted the recommendations of the Neogi committee. The pontiff of Indian secularism Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru was then the Prime Minister.

The Supreme Court has declared that religious conversion is not part of religious freedom in the Indian Constitution and Indian anti-conversion laws are constitutional. But the Pope asserts the other way round, that is, conversion is part of freedom of faith in the Indian Constitution and Indian anti-conversional laws are unconstitutional. The question is: who is supreme in India – the Pope or the Supreme Court?

(source: Who is supreme - the Pope or the Supreme Court? - By S Gurumurthy - newindpress.com).

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Pope targets India For Conversion

"With the Christian God established under state protection as the source of all wisdom, and the highlighting of miracles as a sign of God's favour, scientific and mathematical research became redundant."

                         - Charles Freeman  - The Closing of the Western Mind, xvii.

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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was the Father of the Nation and among India's most fervent nationalists, fighting for Indian independence from British rule. A devout Hindu, he has remarked:

"Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find."

"Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul.

" I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism." 

" I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living."

(source: Young India 1-12-26). For more refer to chapter on Quotes).(source: Outlines of Hinduism - By T. M. P. Mahadevan - p. foreword). (source: The Essence of Hinduism - By M. K. Gandhi p. 205). Refer to Christian Atrocities and Inquisitions - The Burning Cross

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Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday appointed Cardinal Ivan Dias of Mumbai the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples (CEP). He will oversee territory spanning 64 million sq km across five continents, in areas "where Christianity is still young".

The appointment comes a day after the Pope upbraided India's new ambassador to the Holy See, Mr Amitava Tripathi, about attempts by the BJP government in Rajasthan to enact anti-conversion laws.

The late Pope John Paul II had said in India a few years ago that the earlier centuries saw Christianity in Europe and the West, and that the 21st century was Asia's turn. 

(source:  Pope targets India conversion - The Asian Date: May 21, 2006).

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Stop proselytizing! - says Mindelle Jacobs

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

              -   Kenneth Humphreys  -  jesusneverexisted.com

" The barren and lumbering theology of the Church crowded out the Muses from their earthly walks, and the world became a prison after having been the home of man. One by one the great lights went out; Athens was no more, Rome was dead. The bloom had vanished from the face of the earth, and in its place there fell upon it the awful shadow of a future hell.'

                 -  Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian (1859 - 1943) - The Rationalist, May 1915.

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Religious officials are currently meeting in Italy to figure out a refined way to delicately suggest to non-Christians that their beliefs are inferior.

Well, the Vatican and the World Council of Churches (WCC) wouldn't put it quite like that. They say they've launched a three-year project to develop a "shared code of conduct" on the touchy issue of conversion.

But if Christians are worried about offending people while looking for converts, there's a simple solution: stop proselytizing.

It annoys a heck of a lot of people.

I realize making such a plea is like spitting into the wind. Christianity is based on the notion of spreading the gospel. It's just that, as a Jew, I've always had difficulty swallowing such an approach.

Jews don't go out looking for converts.  Jews don't go out looking for converts.  

You can dress it up, but proselytism is still an ugly concept. 

Ron Banerjee, director of the Hindu Conference of Canada, dismisses the plan by Christian churches to draw up guidelines on conversion as nonsense.

"We don't approve of conversion, period. We don't think that there is a polite way of doing it," he says.

"They're trying to find a very sophisticated and a very nice-looking knife with which to slit our throats."

The code-of-conduct project is simply an attempt to sugar-coat an unacceptable practice, Banerjee adds.

Respect for diversity and evangelism are very strange bedfellows, indeed.

(source: Stop proselytizing! - By Mindelle Jacobs - Edmonton Sun  Sun, May 14, 2006). Refer to The Dangers of Monotheism in the Age of Globalization - By Jean-Pierre Lehmann - theglobalist.com). 

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Pope blesses YSR to turn AP into 'Christa Pradesh' 

The November 9 edition of the "Deccan Chronicle" newspaper carried an interesting news-story. The Pope Benedict XVI, the global head of the Roman Catholic Church, has reportedly sent his blessings to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. Samuel Rajasekhar Reddy, an evangelical Protestant of the Seventh Day Adventist church.

The blessings were conveyed by Archbishop of the Hyderabad Diocese, Marampudi Joji, who visited the Vatican city on November 7. Recalling his meeting with the Pope, Joji said: “The Holy Father enquired whether the Church in our state faced any difficulty in carrying out her mission. I told him that in Andhra Pradesh, the Church faces no persecution, and we carry out their ministry without much difficulty."

“The Pope is keenly aware of the rising trends of evangelical sects and he asked me about the Catholic Church’s relationship with other churches.” The Archbishop reassured the Pope that the “ecumenical relationship shared with other Churches is very good”. Joji explained that in his diocese of Hyderabad, there are 100,000 Catholic [converts], 600,000 Protestant [converts], and four Protestant bishops, and they all consider him to be their Patriarch and Archbishop.

This news was also reported in the November 11 edition of the "Asia News" website, an Italian Catholic portal whose banner is the previous Pope John Paul's war-cry against the Hindus and Buddhists of Asia.

What is alarming here is that Christian fundamentalists across opposing sects have joined hands to convert the Hindus of Andhra Pradesh - a revealing tale of "ecumenical co-operation" among the wolves to hunt the sheep.

The results of the state-sponsored mass-conversion of Andhra Hindus are evident everywhere:

1) Hundreds of crores of rupees collected from 'hundis' (donation boxes) in Hindus temples are being diverted by the Andhra Pradesh State Government and the Endowment Board to building new churches and Christian run schools across the state.

2) The sacred Tirupati and Simhachalam temples are the target of land-grabbing and church building with the connivance of Christian officials. Ancient temple mandapams are being demolished at Tirumala.

3) Christian missionaries freely hand out bibles to Hindu students at Government and private schools in Hyderabad to convert these impressionable ones while the teachers look the other way.

4) According to a survey commissioned by the Revenue and Endowment Board of Andhra Pradesh, Christian churches outnumber Hindu temples in most districts of the state.

Christian Crosses replaces 'Satyameva Jayatae' in Indian Coins 

The Central Government (UPA) headed by Sonia Gandhi has issued a new 10 Rupee Coin with a ‘Christian crusader’s cross’ on side of the coin presented on the right above.

Refer to Now it is the turn of the 10 rupee coin!

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Will the Pope's blessings to Y. Samuel Rajashekhar Reddy bring in a larger flood of Christian missionaries and dollars to turn Andhra Pradesh into 'Christa Pradesh'? Or will the people of India and Andhra Pradesh rise up to defend their honor and halt the spread of this malignant evil?

(source: Pope blesses YSR to turn AP into 'Christa Pradesh' - christianaggression.org). Refer to Lurid drama of proselytism after 1947- I - By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com).

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India’s Mediocre Leaders ?
Maharashtra's Congress Government sanctions a Christian township!

To quote the appropriate words of Sandhya Jain, a front rank journalist and crusader for the cause of Sanathana Dharma: India's secular State extends undue patronage to the Church; as a result Hindu patience is beginning to wear thin. The situation has deteriorated with the rise of the Sonia Gandhi-led Congress in some states. So we have a situation in which BJP-ruled Rajasthan has to change the name of a colony named after the Goddess Sati, but Maharashtra sanctions a Christian township! 

Hindus have suffered a succession of setbacks in recent years, intensifying a retreat that dates back to the partition of India, indeed earlier. The electoral fortunes of their putative defenders seem to make little difference to their political circumstances. 

Their ethnic cleansing from Jammu & Kashmir continues unabated and the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh remains desperate, echoing the fate of Hindus earlier in Pakistan.

Islamic terrorists are routinely attacking their places of worship within India itself. And elected political leaders have sought to crush one of their supreme spiritual leaders, the Kanchi Acharya. 

India’s religious minorities are also displaying a truculent assertiveness that underlines Hindu powerlessness and hints at yet darker times ahead.

Yet, perhaps all is not lost and a measure of historical perspective is required to assess what is likely to happen in the circumstances Hindus encounter. Once Greek thought was virtually eradicated by the combined onslaught of the Germanic invasions and the upsurge of Christianity (which became seriously intolerant after 500 AD) it took almost another 500 years for the European Renaissance to begin re-discovering Greek logic and reason. The revival did not triumph wholly even after the Enlightenment and the intolerant barbarian supremacists are still with us right now. Islam had already joined Christianity in the race for world conquest and domination. It reached an apogee under the Ottomans in the sixteenth century, having swept aside much of the Christian Byzantine world earlier.

  The Islamic lust for political power and Christian quest for world domination remain an unfinished agenda and military conquest the principal instrument for its attainment.

This same catastrophe could befall Hinduism because the beginnings of their intellectual revival in the late 18thC have stalled since independence – a coincidence?

Hindus are also facing the most diabolical and sophisticated assault from the Church, both Catholic and the various Protestant denominations. The Church enjoys a huge presence in the global media and within India too as well as possessing huge economic and organisational resources. 

The Churches have cleverly insinuated themselves into the imperial ambitions of their Western home states, reinforcing the political support they receive from these states for their nefarious engagement with the weak and the poor of the third world. 

The resulting danger of subversion is visible in everything from the vicious campaign by Elitist Harvard Professor Michael Witzel and his colleagues against Hindus in California to the way the Dalit movement has been seized and subverted by various Churches. 

The latter rightly perceive the Dalits to be the most promising vehicles for forcing the retreat of those who identify themselves as Hindus and demoralising them. 

I would recommend Peter Brown’s, The Rise of Western Christendom, and Robert Bartlett’s, The Making of Europe in particular, for a start, to understand the immense longevity of their project for world domination. Islam remains their sole global rival. Hindus merely constitute a sideshow despite their supposed numerical strength, which is an oft-repeated empty fact that obfuscates by creating a silly sense of reassurance. 

In India anti-national forces, especially the Left and the Muslims and increasingly the Church (as distinct from traditional Indian Christians who are patriotic members of the Indian air force and navy in particular) have made sure that any move to advance a national consciousness is instantly labeled communal and anti-secular. Foreign governments, especially the US, have had a major role in this successful attempt to keep India divided in the past. The US government may now be changing its priorities because of geopolitical reasons, but the Church is unlikely to allow Indians to learn patriotism since that would contradict their proselytising activities - whatever would happen to their potential converts?

India’s mediocre leaders unfortunately chose a parliamentary system of government in 1947 because they failed to look beyond their noses, i.e. beyond Westminster in the UK. Large societies need presidential systems of government to prevent small groups (read minorities in India) having a veto over the political system. 

While the forces seeking to cut India down to size seem potent there are some countervailing factors. There is growing Hindu anger and despair that can be organised though not by the present discredited Hindu politicos, who are, alas, beyond redemption. Urbanisation, which is proceeding apace in India, is connected to this sense of Hindu outrage because it tends to replace an essentially parochial consciousness with a more national perspective.  

(Refer to chapter on Aryan Invasion Theory and chapter on Glimpses XVIII).  

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Did You Know?

About Christian  Missionaries in Africa 

"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible." 

- Jomo Kenyatta  (1897?-1978), first prime minister (1963-1964) and then first president (1964-1978) of Kenya.  Kenyatta was Kenya's founding father, a nationalist who led the East African nation to independence from Britain in 1963.He changed the history of Kenya by freeing the African majority from the white-settler minority rule; he gave the Africans back their land and created a untied Kenya. 

The Scramble for Africa

In Africa, behind the missionaries came the European mining prospectors, merchants, and soldiers, whose mission - innocently described by Britain's Queen Victoria as "to protect the poor natives and advance civilization" was to plunder the continent for their own economic benefit. Missionary-explorer, David Livingstone, put great emphasis on the commercial as well as the spiritual challenge of Africa. His message delivered to packed audiences in lecture hall throughout Britain, his gospel message was distinctly worldly: Missionary work in Africa could succeed only if it marched hand in hand with commercial enterprise. Together, he argued, Christianity and commerce produced civilization. By the end of the century, more than 90 % of the continent had been claimed by the imperial powers of Europe.  The whole African continent had become an exclusive poker game in which no player dared leave the table for fear that another might walk off with the pot. 

"A sun of disaster has risen in the West," wrote an African poet. "The Christian calamity has come upon us like a dust cloud."

(source: Colonial Overlords: Time Frame Ad 1850-1900  - Time-Life Books. The Scramble for Africa ASIN 0809464667 Noon of the Raj. p. 75-77). Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel

Christianity is understood in Africa to have come hand-in-hand with colonialism. Some missionaries ignored the message of God and grabbed resources including land from the people. Later, as black consciousness grew and African nationalists took arms against colonialists, some church leaders continued to support colonial rule.

In his analysis of the role of Christianity in southern Africa in a formal address to the WCC assembly late last, President Robert Mugabe said that churches had played midwife to colonialism, "succumbing or voluntarily surrendering God to the racism of colonial structures."

As Joshua Nkomo, now vice president of Zimbabwe, noted three decades ago when he was addressing a rally in the then Rhodesia:

"The Christian churches have failed. Ministers have preached to people that they are the same in the eyes of God, at the same time have supported a social system that divides these people into groups of unequals. 

For more refer to chapter on European Imperialism and Christian Aggression.

Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel

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