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Absolute Freedom to destroy Ancient Culture of India?
World Domination?

"I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, as been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. "  

                     -  wrote Bertrand Arthur William Russell  (b.1872 - d.1970)  - Why I am Not a Christian. He was a British philosopher, logician, essayist, and social critic, best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy

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"Although the Bible says that "God is love," Christianity has shed more blood and perpetrated more cruelty than any other religion in the world."

                -  G W Foote and J M Wheeler, authors of Crimes of Christianity. Progressive Publishing Co. London. 1887.and The Burningcross

Refer to The Persecution Industry: What are the stakes? - By Ramapriya Abraham - crusadewatch.org).Refer to Former Catholic Sister Says Even Mother Teresa Is a Fraud - By By Greg Szymanski June 6, 2007

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In Meghalaya Christian missionaries have converted two-thirds of Hindus to Christianity. The Church in the north-east is engaged in smuggling across the borders, circulating fake currency notes and distributing arms. In December 1998, a Christian missionary, Bedang Tamjen, was arrested for printing fake currency notes.

Another fallout is the paedophilia activities of the Christian missionaries in India.  

In USA recently, the Christian Church paid 100 million US $ as compensation to children who became victims of Christian priests. Last year, a 62-year-old Christian priest Simon Palanthingal from Kerala and linked to St. Bedes and Don Bosco schools in Chennai was charged on four counts for sexual assault on a nine-year old American boy and can get maximum 20 years in prison on each of the four counts. He is being held in the US on a $1 million bail. In India, with no enforcement of law, it is a free run for these paedophile Christian missionaries. Yet some time back in Jharkhand, a court sentenced a Tamil Christian priest, Christudas, 48, who was principal of St. Joseph’s School at Guhiyajori, to three years' rigorous imprisonment for sodomising a 14-year old schoolboy. In March 2005, the Christian priest, Prasad Gonsalves, was arrested in Radhanpura town in Gujarat for demanding sexual favours from a woman. The Patan police superintendent, A.V. Vasava has reported that the Christian priest also promised to give her a house if she converted to Christianity. The widespread conversion activities and criminalities of the church is resulting in the creation of new Christian sects through US funding. They are called City of Faith, Exodus, Joshua, New Life, Master Ministry, Covenant, Hiel Gospel, City of Faith and High Land Trinity and they abhor rituals, episcopal hierarchy and all kinds of mediators, including saints. They discard the Church authority and the teachings of the Bible.

This is the type of religious freedom the American President Bush wants in India. It is the absolute freedom to destroy our culture as his forefathers from Western countries did in North America to its Native Red Indians centuries ago. What is happening in India is the modern-day vision of Christian aggression by USA on indigenous cultures of the world.

(source: NGOs work hand in hand with proselytisers - By N Krishna - organiser.org). Also refer to India is now 6% Christian - World Christian Database. Refer to VINDICATED BY TIME: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities - Christianity Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee 1956 and The Sunshine of Secularism. Also refer to chapter on Conversion and refer to How various parts of the world was converted to Christianity. Also refer to and Missionary's Dark Legacy and Dutch Christians Target Hindus for Conversion

Refer to Can Hinduism face the onslaught of Project Thessalonica? - By Alex Pomero and Christians have Destroyed Various Ethnic Cultures of the World - christianaggression.org and Christians have Destroyed Various Ethnic Cultures of the World - christianaggression.org. and Up to 10,000 Native Indian Missionaries to Attend Evangelism Conference - christianpost.com). Refer to The War of Religions and The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Refer to The Swami Devananda Saraswati Interview with Rajeev Srinivasan - christianaggression.org.

Refer to Bible thumpers: Americans are being increasingly stereotyped as stupid - By Arvind Kumar - indiareacts.com). Refer to Christian Supremacy: Pushing the Dhimmitude of Non-Christians in America.

Why this war on Hinduism?- These two (Christianity and Islam) hostile ideologies, flawed because they are not based on human experience but on spurious and fantastic literature, are based on a priori illusion that human beings are genetically flawed and can be redeemed only by symbolic conversion and the acceptance of their bookish deity. For instance, if the Christian and Islamic clergy do not propagate and force their sterile ideologies down the throats of unsuspecting or helpless people through dubious means, or do not force them to stay on with censure and punishment, their religions would be wiped out in decades. Europe is a primary example.

(source: Why this war on Hinduism? - By George Thundiparambil - christianaggression.org). Refer to From De Nobili to Clooney: The Christian Methods of Inculturation and to Dinosaurs, evangelicals and the state - By Justin Webb - BBC).

For more on Christian Fundamentalism Agenda in USA, refer to:

A conflict between science and God - By Martin Kettle - Guardian and Quotes from The American Taliban and Christian Fundamentalists to Push Bible as Classroom "Knowledge" and Bush, the Neocons and Evangelical Christian Fiction: America "Left Behind" - By Hugh Urban and The Christian Right, Dominionism, and Theocracy - publiceye.org. and Dinosaurs, evangelicals and the state - By Justin Webb - BBC. and Cornell President Says "Intelligent Design" Religion, Not Science and American Fundamentalists.  Also refer to Battlefield Earth - By Bill Moyers and The Godly Must Be Crazy - By Glen Scherer and Rapture or Rupture? - By Bryan Zepp Jamieson. Refer to The Republican War on Science - By Chris Mooney and Resurgence Of Religious Right Among Top Concerns - totallyjewish.com.  More evangelicals turning up in elite circles, schools - By Laurie Goodstein and David D. Kirkpatrick - The New York Times/May 22, 2005. The Crusaders:
Christian evangelicals are plotting to remake America in their own image - By Bob Moser - rollingstone.com and Dominionist.

Invasion of Iraq and the Ushering in of Global Christendom and Pax-Americana ?

While the Western press is awash with stories, real and exaggerated, about ‘Islamic fundamentalists’, rarely is mention made about Christian fundamentalists, who, with their vast resources and close links with the current American administration, are a potentially more menacing threat than their Muslim counterparts. According to newspaper reports more than a third of Americans are associated with one or the other Christian fundamentalist outfit, most of which are fiercely anti-communist, anti-Muslim and are passionate advocates of free-market capitalism, global American hegemony and the myth of the civilizing mission of white America. In recent years, these fundamentalist groups have been engaged in aggressive missionary work in other countries as well, including in the so-called ‘Third World’. Fired by a passionate hatred for other religions, which they dismiss as ‘false’ and even ‘Satanic’, they are today among the most well-funded missionary groups in large parts of Asia and Africa.

(source: American Christian Fundamentalist Leader Calls for Global War - By Yoginder Sikand - christianaggression.org). Quotes from The American Taliban and Christian Fundamentalists to Push Bible as Classroom "Knowledge" and Bush, the Neocons and Evangelical Christian Fiction: America "Left Behind" - By Hugh Urban and The Christian Right, Dominionism, and Theocracy - publiceye.org. Refer to As America declines, the Bible thumpers take hold - By Ramesh Rao - indiareacts.com.

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Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery - excerpts

"The West, then, appears to me as a juggernaut which crushes people and cultures for insensate reasons."

                                                                  – Serge Latrouche, The Westernization of the World.   

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How pervasive is this phenomenon? So pervasive, in fact, that a cursory examination of Indian bestseller lists suggests that virtually no literary book by an Indian writer working in English will make it really big in demi-white enclaves such as Mumbai unless it impresses the hell out of the whites in London or New York. 

That’s the new destiny, the new Promised Land, the new karma of the favorite sons of Mother Ganga and has been, particularly since the mid-ninteenth century when Lord Macaulay, smuggling in the guise of educating the natives, dealt the coup de grace to an already battered Indian self-confidence. 

Indian poet and Mahatma Rabindranath Tagore complained that Indians noticed his existence only after he had won the Nobel Prize (and then they became insufferably, intrusively sycophantic). Even Gandhi was accepted as an Indian leader only after he had impressed the whites in South Africa, and as a world leader only after he had impressed the whites in America and England. 

What a yogic feat, what a giant leap for one of the world’s oldest, greatest, and philosophically exalted cultures: from becoming one with Brahman, from escaping the cycle of maya and rebirth, to impressing the whites in our lives…. 

Even Indians in India know that in the larger scheme of things, it is the West that makes the rules. Once you impress the Westerners – by being an immaculate ape of their best, safest writers, with Indian spices occasionally blended in for authenticity and local color – Indians will worship you. If you impressed them, you really must be good. Thus even in India, it is the West that makes and breaks reputations…. 

Fifty years after we received our independence from the British, at least according the history books and the official documents, fifty years after the British judges and magistrates and complaint-takers had finally departed, Indians are still going to the British and to other Westerners with complaints about their fellow Indians: wife beaters, caste-minded bigots, bride burners, and sexists. And all of us were doing it, from an unemployed engineer to Arundhati Roy! It was intolerable!   

Why milking the West is a major Third World industry 

Pankaj Mishra, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Arundhati Roy.

The product of an expensive and exclusive privately run school modeled on English “public schools” such as Eton, Harrow, and Rugby.  

And it is this small circle that is projected by the Western media to Western readers as the India. …all these public school writers suffer from the disease of Subcontinental Shame…

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

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Pankaj Mishra is the quintessential Macaulay’s Child, as all English-speaking Indians are to greater or lesser degree. For, like almost every other successful male Indian writer writing in English these days and receiving some Western recognition of Western proxies in India, he is a public school product-meaning, the product of an expensive and exclusive privately run school modeled on English “public schools” such as Eton, Harrow, and Rugby.  

While Rushdie attended the original article, Eton in Mother Britannia, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and others are alumni of the top Indian public schools; Seth, Ghosh and Arundhati Roy were personally known to each other in Delhi long before they became stars. What a coincidence, indeed! Truly a small world. 

And it is this small circle that is projected by the Western media to Western readers as the India. …all these public school writers suffer from the disease of Subcontinental Shame…

(source: Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery - by Richard Crasta  p. 1-16  and p. 93 - 94 and 115 -116). Refer to articles and The End of Imagination - by Arundhati Roy and The vicious circle - By  Francois Gautier. 

Also refer to Deepa Mehta: Godmother of Anti Hinduism - By Ron Banerjee - indiacause.com. Refer to Who Killed Our Culture? We Did - By Youki Kudoh - time.com  May 3 1999.

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Insulting a Nation! Do secularists tolerate this? - By M V Kamath 
A slap on every Indian citizen’s face.

There is rejoicing in our secular quarters that Modi has been slapped in his face. They do not realise that a slap on Modi’s face is a slap on every Indian citizen’s face and some day they may know the consequences if they care. Our intellectuals are good at bowing and scraping. Their ancestors did that to the British.  

Nazi Christian priests

 Modi has been tarnished (by the jholawalas or rent-a cause activists) as a villain who is “Nazi-inspired”, a “Hindu fundamentalist” whatever that means...

Refer to The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis - by Gregory S. Paul - secularhumanism.org and The Nazis were Christians Too

The Concordat between the Vatican and the Nazis

Cardinal Secretary of State, Eugenio Pacelli (later to become Pope Pius XII) signed the Concordat between Nazi Germany and the Vatican at a formal ceremony in Rome on 20 July 1933. The Concordat effectively legitimized Hitler and the Nazi government to the eyes of Catholicism, Christianity, and the world.

Refer to Nazi photos - nobeliefs.com

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In turn they are doing it before the Americans. Modi has been tarnished as a villain who is “Nazi-inspired”, a “Hindu fundamentalist” whatever that means besides being an active participant in crime against humanity, no less. A vicious article in the Indian media by one Angana Chatterji, described as Associate Professor of Anthropology at California Institute of Integral Studies is an example of the depths to which our intellectual degradation can go.

(For more refer to How we made U.S deny visa to Modi - By Angana Chatterji and  US in Iraq: ‘not in our name’ - By Angana Chatterji - dailytimes.com and Petition to California Institute for Integral Studies.and Red Badge of Umbrage – By Narayanan Komerath - indiacause.com). Refer to Quotes from The American Taliban. Refer to Paris Burning - Riots in France and Intifada in France and Cars, windows smashed in Sydney race riots - Australia and The Burningcross

Refer to The Persecution Industry: What are the stakes? - By Ramapriya Abraham - crusadewatch.org.

Refer to A crime worse than Modi's - By Saisuresh Sivaswamy - rediff.com.  For the Plight of Hindus refer to Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Kashmir - By Hindu American Foundation HAF. Refer to Communismwatch and cpmterror.

Angana Chatterji obviously does not know the history of riots in India, of their origins and of their consequences. She is obviously not aware that there have been scores of riots in different parts of the country at different times, some more gruesome than others, all occurring under Congress-ruled states and Congress Chief Ministers, without a single honourable exception.  

If one were to describe them, as anti-Modi historians have attempted to describe the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat, they would come out more blood-soaked than the killings witnessed in Gujarat in 2002. Were Angana to get a full report on how innocent Sikh men, women and children were brutally killed by Congress goondas following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, for three continuous days without interference either from the police or the Army, Angana would possibly temper her language in cursing Modi. 

And Angana would be surprised to know that more Sikhs were killed during those riots than were Muslims in Gujarat. Incidentally many Hindus were also killed during police firing. The point is not that Congress in some ways is a more criminalised party than the BJP. We in India are living in times of stress but what happens in India is our business, not that of the United States of America.   

Smt. Indira Gandhi and Jagdish Tytler

A Full report on how innocent Sikh men, women and children were brutally killed by Congress goondas following the assassination of Indira Gandhi

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Religious freedom? Is there religious freedom in Saudi Arabia? Will Riyadh permit a Hindu temple to be set up in forget Mecca or Medina even Riyadh itself? And yet Saudi princes get royal treatment when they visit the United States. What sort of religious freedom is there in Pakistan where scores of Hindu temples have been desecrated and where, until a couple of weeks ago, not even a crematorium was allowed to be set up? 

And while we are at it, may one ask whether there is any chance for a Hindu who dies in Spain or Portugal to get cremated there? A dead Hindu in these states has to have his body flown over to London for getting cremated. Cremation is not permitted in Catholic countries. The US has falsely implicated the National Human Rights Commission (India) for damning Modi. But a top NHRC official has denied condemning Modi. The news agency UNI quotes the official as saying, that the Bush Administration has blown its observations over the 2002 riots out of proportion. 

The manner in which US soldiers have been ill-treating Iraqi and Afghan prisoners of war is shocking beyond words. Some of them are not even POWs but plain detainees.

The California professor speaks of genocide. What the US under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon practised in Vietnam was genocide, pure and simple. What Pakistani Jehadis are practising in Jammu & Kashmir (Refer to Called And the World Remained Silent and Refer to Kashmir Holocaust  http://www.hinduhumanrights.org/kashmirspecial.pdf) is again, genocide. Thousands of Kashmir Pundits have been driven out of their homes and are living in utmost degradation because of sheer terrorism practised by Pakistani terrorists supported by successive Pakistani regimes. Are the hands of General Musharraf clean? Why is he being honoured and feted?

Violence does not pay. As for our secularists, the less said the better. By supporting the US government they have shown their true face. Cowards come in many colours. And they are the first ones to sell their country to a foreigner.

(source: Insulting a nation! Do secularists tolerate this? - By M V Kamath - samachar.com). For more on Indian secularists, refer to Lies catch up with Arundhati Roy - outlookindia.com and State Repression in the Narmada Valley - by Angana Chatterji - dissidentvoice.org). Also refer to India is now 6% Christian - World Christian Database. Refer to VINDICATED BY TIME: The Niyogi Committee Report  On Christian Missionary Activities - Christianity Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee 1956 and The Sunshine of Secularism. Also refer to chapter on Conversion and Catholic Priests Molest Third World Nuns to Avoid AIDS refer to How various parts of the world was converted to Christianity.  Refer to Christian Supremacy: Pushing the Dhimmitude of Non-Christians in America .

Refer to White House Defends Human Rights Record and Iraq Torture - memory hole.org and Human Rights News. Refer to Can Hinduism face the onslaught of Project Thessalonica? - By Alex Pomero and Christians have Destroyed Various Ethnic Cultures of the World - christianaggression.org. Refer to Bible thumpers: Americans are being increasingly stereotyped as stupid - By Arvind Kumar - indiareacts.com).

Refer to A crime worse than Modi's - By Saisuresh Sivaswamy - rediff.com.  For the Plight of Hindus refer to Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Kashmir - By Hindu American Foundation HAF Refer to Paris Burning - Riots in France and Intifada in France and Cars, windows smashed in Sydney race riots - Australia.

Note: In rejecting Modi's Diplomatic visa, the US really said to the effect: We have no faith in the Indian constitution, judiciary and democracy. This was a wrong and hasty move on US's part. Eventually the US will realize that. While the US denied Modi a visa based on religious and human rights violations, it paradoxically ignores the Human Rights Watch’s denunciation of countries such as Saudi Arabia, China, and Pakistan (all autocracies) when granting diplomatic visas to their leaders. Surely, these countries aren’t exactly a shining epitome of religious freedom.

Eagle is blinded 

While the US State Department's 'human rights' rap induces a yawn, it is by far the most laughable sign of US blinkeredness and hypocrisy. Here are two priceless nuggets in the pompously titled report, 'Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The US Record 2004-2005'. The UPA has been patted for addressing "human rights concerns" by rewriting school textbooks to rid them of 'Hindu nationalist propaganda'. US President George W Bush has never been strong on general knowledge.

So one may excuse his regime's cluelessness about the Indian Left's commie-pamphleteering with school textbooks, or the Congress's similar feat with Nehru-Gandhi hagiography. But since the report bashes the Gujarat regime for not recalling old textbooks, the US should have checked the facts. If, as is obvious, it refers to eighth grade social studies books which mention Adolf Hitler, the US State Department should have wagged its finger at the Congress which fixed the 1986 curriculum, not Mr Modi. Again, the report regrets tardy Gujarat riots-related judicial processes and "witness intimidation". For Globocop, it would seem, the Godhra carnage never happened. Nor did star witness-turned-star perjurer Zaheera Sheikh bash her own 'secular' champions.

Rent-a-cause Activists ?

Clearly, the US has lent ear to the jholawalas and Arundhati Roy-type "global citizens" of the world, who have made India-bashing a profitable career. But itself accused by these worthies of every crime from neo-imperialism to terrorism, the US should be aware of the antecedents of its input-providers. Rent-a-cause activists and NGOs have one agenda: To weaken the authority of states-that's what brings in funds (from dubious sources) and publicity. Uncle Sam isn't exactly their pin-up boy. India has been trashed for supping with America's capitalist sharks. It has been bashed for globalising. Its developmental model has been spat at as 'West-inspired'. Its reforms process has been called a sell-out to 21st century colonisers. If the US is appeasing these axe-grinders.

A pogram?  India has for the first time published detailed figures on the number of people killed in the religious riots in the western state of Gujarat in 2002. The government told parliament that 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus were killed, 223 more people reported missing and another 2,500 injured.

(source: Gujarat riot death toll revealed - BBC). Refer to Anti-U.S. Riot Turns Deadly in Afghanistan -abcnews.com.  Anti-U.S. Protests Erupt in Afghanistan Over Quran Desecration Report; 4 Dead, 71 Injured - Shouting "Death to America!" more than 1,000 demonstrators rioted and threw stones at a U.S. military convoy Wednesday, as protests spread to four Afghan provinces over a report that interrogators desecrated Islam's holy book at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay).

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has only just condemned US abuses in Iraq. And Amnesty International has mocked it for sermonising without turning the mirror inward-Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are just two monstrous warts it would see. Indeed, the US's rights report has been ridiculed as "a business ethics manual published by Enron"! 

Finally, if one granted, for argument's sake, that India has erred, it has done so with its own people. If it were to match the US's 'rights' record, it would need to use a nuke or two a la Hiroshima, or develop butchering techniques a la Vietnam's My Lai. Or, perhaps, it would have to go with its own WMD into sitting duck nations falsely accused of building WMD. Thankfully, India is too civilised to have a 'preemptive' bible telling it that other people's human rights weigh less than its own.

(source: Eagle is blinded - The Pioneer Edit Desk - dailypioner.com  April 1, 2005). Also refer to India is now 6% Christian - World Christian Database. Refer to Communismwatch and cpmterror.

'Revoke visas of Congmen accused in '84 riots'

Shiromani Akali Dal has joined political shadow-boxing over the US revoking diplomatic visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The party wants similar retribution against Congress leaders accused of flaring anti-Sikh 1984 riots. "Washington has cited a law banning foreign officials deemed responsible for severe violation of religious freedom. This law should also apply to certain ruling Congress politicians blamed for the killing of thousands of Sikhs in the aftermath of the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi," Mr Dhindsa said.  

The Akalis, part of the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA), have consistently blamed Congress administration in Delhi at the time for turning a blind eye when several thousand Sikhs were targeted in mob violence. "Unfortunately, the people who have faced trials for the 1984 massacre are occupying key positions in the Congress government today. The US should apply the same approach towards them also, Mr Dhindsa said.  

Carnage was organised by Congress leaders: Nanavati 

Justice GT Nanavati Commission report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots is certain to resurrect the ghost of the biggest ever holocaust of post-independence India. Describing the riots of 1984 as an "organised carnage," the report says, "local Congress leaders and workers had either incited or helped the mobs in attacking the Sikhs. But for the backing and help of influential and resourceful persons, killing of Sikhs so swiftly and in large numbers could not have happened.” Although the report exonerates the Congress High Command, it indicts Delhi Police of dereliction of duty and points an accusing finger at prominent Congress MPs of the time, notably Dharam Das Shastri, HKL Bhagat, Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler

(source: 'Revoke visas of Congmen accused in '84 riots' - dailypioneer.com  and Carnage was organised by Congress leaders: Nanavati -  dailypioneer.com - August 9 2005). Refer to My People, Uprooted: "A Saga of the Hindus of Eastern Bengal"  - By Tathagata Roy

Refer to A crime worse than Modi's - By Saisuresh Sivaswamy - rediff.com.  For the Plight of Hindus refer to Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Kashmir - By Hindu American Foundation HAF. Refer to White House Defends Human Rights Record and Iraq Torture - memory hole.org and Human Rights News. Refer to Paris Burning - Riots in France and Intifada in France and Cars, windows smashed in Sydney race riots - Australia.

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Christianize America ?

(Note: Hindus are labeled as Fascists, Communalists, Nationalists, fundamentalists, thier activities are termed as Saffronization, Hindutva is considered regressive, Muslims are labeled as Terrorists in Western Media, but what about Conservative Christians and Christian Fundamentalists who want Christianize America and have a separate state ?).

D. James Kennedy, one of the most important and influential of today’s evangelical leaders: 

“Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. We are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.” 

Abraham H Foxman writes: "Make no mistake: We are facing an emerging Christian Right leadership that intends to “Christianize” all aspects of American life, from the halls of government to the libraries, to the movies, to recording studios, to the playing fields and locker rooms of professional, collegiate and amateur sports, from the military to SpongeBob SquarePants. Southern Baptists want to convert us while we are alive, and Mormons want to convert us when we are dead."

(Note: Christianity is the largest religion in the USA - 76.5%, Judaism - 1.3%, Islam - 0.5%, Buddhism - 0.5% and Hinduism - 0.4%). Refer to Christian Supremacy: Pushing the Dhimmitude of Non-Christians in America and The Burningcross.

Refer to The Persecution Industry: What are the stakes? - By Ramapriya Abraham and Refer to Former Catholic Sister Says Even Mother Teresa Is a Fraud - By By Greg Szymanski June 6, 2007

(source: Religion in America’s Public Square: Are We Crossing the Line? - By Abraham H. Foxman  ADL National Commission Meeting).  Refer to Intelligent designers are out to Christianize America - Advocates of intelligent design aren’t really scientists. They’re theologians. And they’re determined to root every last vestige of non-Christianity out of American culture.  

Why American Christian Evangelicals support Israel? 

The primary reason is that according to the Old Testament, Israel was given to the Jews by God. Fundamentalist Christians believe that in order for Jesus to return, two preconditions are Jewish control of the land of Israel and the conversion of the Jews to Christianity.  

(source: Plans for Holy Land theme park on Galilee shore where Jesus fed the 5,000 - guardian.co.uk).  Refer to Robertson blamed Sharon stroke on policy of "dividing God's land".   Refer to chapter on Conversion. 

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A state of Christianity?

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." - U.S. Senate ratified in 1797.

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In the South Carolina of their dreams, abortion would be illegal, the Ten Commandments would be proudly displayed, public schools would be a thing of the past, taxes would be severely limited, and property rights would be paramount. 
And if the federal government tried to interfere, well, they'd secede. Their idea, however, is as old as America: a haven for like-minded people with a government run according to their particular religious lights.

Intent on protecting themselves from such worldly influences as the theory of evolution and the seductions of Hollywood, conservative Christians often cited a biblical injunction: ''Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you." To Cory Burnell, founder of Christian Exodus, that political activity isn't enough. He wants something more radical -- a kind of Christian free state. 

''We believe that Christ's admonition to go and make disciples of all nations does not exclude any facets of life,""Our Christian republic has declined into a Pagan democracy," says Cory Burnell. Burnell, 29, said by telephone from his Valley Springs, Calif., home. ''We're asking people to move and do something new. Our intent is to put men in office who will do what [ousted Alabama Supreme Court chief justice] Roy Moore did -- defy the federal government." The group's goal is to have 2,500 members in two upstate South Carolina counties by September 2006, and as many as 12,000 by 2008.

(source: A state of Christianity? - By Paul Nussbaum, Knight Ridder 7/31/2005 and The Dark Side of Christian History - By Helen Ellerbe p. 183). Christians look to form'new nation' within U.S. Refer to Bible thumpers: Americans are being increasingly stereotyped as stupid - By Arvind Kumar - indiareacts.com). 

For more on Christian Fundamentalism Agenda in USA, refer to A conflict between science and God - By Martin Kettle - Guardian and Hindus and Sikhs Protest Curriculum Changes in Calif. Textbooks and Quotes from The American Taliban and Christian Fundamentalists to Push Bible as Classroom "Knowledge" and Bush, the Neocons and Evangelical Christian Fiction: America "Left Behind" - By Hugh Urban and The Christian Right, Dominionism, and Theocracy - publiceye.org. and Dinosaurs, evangelicals and the state - By Justin Webb - BBC. and Cornell President Says "Intelligent Design" Religion, Not Science.  Also refer to Battlefield Earth - By Bill Moyers and War against Christmans and The Battle against Christmas  and The Godly Must Be Crazy - By Glen Scherer and Rapture or Rupture? - By Bryan Zepp Jamieson.

Refer to The Republican War on Science - By Chris Mooney. Refer to Christian Supremacy: Pushing the Dhimmitude of Non-Christians in America.

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War against Christmas?

Conservative Christians claim there is a stealthy "war on Christmas" under way, and they are gathering their forces, mostly lawyers and talk-show hosts, to fight back. They argue that Christmas has become almost a dirty word in a politically correct society, where "merry Christmas" is being replaced by "happy holiday" on greetings cards and public displays so as not to make people of other faiths feel excluded.

Christmas Tree – A Pagan Custom ?

Some Christian groups and conservatives like Bill O’Reilly are outraged that a small handful of businesses and communities have started calling Christmas trees, “holiday trees. They see this as an attack on Christmas. Apparently Christmas trees are now sacred. But there once was a time when many Christians considered Christmas trees to be sacrilegious.

Evergreen trees were originally a pagan symbol used in celebrations marking the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, which falls on December 21 or 22. Ancient pagan religions in Northern Europe used the boughs of evergreen trees as symbols that life continued despite the waning of the sun. Germans adopted the trees as a Christian symbol sometime in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The tree as a symbol of Christmas slowly spread throughout Europe. While some Christians embraced it, others condemned it. 

(Note: The pagans (like Hindus celebrate Nature) of northern Europe celebrated the their own winter solstice, known as Yule. Yule was symbolic of the pagan Sun God, Mithras, being born, and was observed on the shortest day of the year. Mithras is the Roman name for the Indo-Iranian god Mitra, or Mithra, as he was called by the Persians. 

Mitra is part of the Hindu pantheon. As the Sun God grew and matured, the days became longer and warmer. It was customary to light a candle to encourage Mithras, and the sun, to reappear next year. The tree is the one symbol that unites almost all the northern European winter solstices. Live evergreen trees were often brought into homes during the harsh winters as a reminder to inhabitants that soon their crops would grow again. Evergreen boughs were sometimes carried as totems of good luck and were often present at weddings, representing fertility. The Druids used the tree as a religious symbol, holding their sacred ceremonies while surrounding and worshipping huge trees. In 350, Pope Julius I declared that Christ’s birth would be celebrated on December 25. The holiday of Christmas has always been more Pagan than Christian, with it's associations of Nordic divination, Celtic fertility rites, and Roman Mithraism. That is why both Martin Luther and John Calvin abhorred it, why the Puritans refused to acknowledge it, much less celebrate it, and why it was even made illegal in Boston!  And many of them (like Oedipus, Theseus, Hercules, Perseus, Jason, Dionysus, Apollo, Mithra, Horus and even Arthur) possessed a narrative of birth, death, and resurrection that was uncomfortably close to that of Jesus. And to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the Christian Saviour).  

Mithraism was a formidable competitor of early Christianity. Renan’s observation has often been quoted that if Christianity had failed, the whole of Europe would have been Mithraist. Before Mithraism, which no longer survives as a form of worship, could be suppressed and its temples in Rome demolished by Christians, Christianity adopted many of its doctrines and ceremonies. The Mithraic traditions and doctrines are collected in the Avesta, and a yasht, a special hymn of praise, is dedicated to Mtihra. Mithra is the Persian name of the Vedic Mitra, the deity of light and truth, warring against the powers of darkness in association of Varuna. In India he was, in fact, regarded as the sun. In Vedic texts, the connection between Mithra and the bull, which later became the focal point of Mithraism, is perhaps more cleary found than in the Avesta. Mithraism appears to have come to the Roman Empire from Iran. The worshippers of Mithra were called “Soldiers of Mithra” which is probably the origin of the term “Soldiers of Christ’ and the exhortations to Christians to “put the armor of light”, Mithra being the God of Light. Mithra was also called the Good Shepherd and Mithra was addresses as Dominus, Sunday must have been the “Lord’s Day” long before Christian times. Concepts such as “the blood of the Lamb” or “Taurus the Bull” were similarly borrowed from Mithraism.  

Oliver Cromwell (1500 - 1658) the Lord Protector of England (1653 to 1658) and a devout Calvinist, preached against “the heathen traditions of decorating Christmas trees and condemned any joyful expression of Christmas as desecration of “that sacred event. 

Colonial Puritans (those men who supposedly established the United States as a ‘Christian nation’) considered the display of Christmas trees “pagan mockery of Christmas.

(source: America's right rally to protect a Christmas 'under siege'  and India and World Civilization  By D. P. Singhal Pan Macmillan Limited. 1993. p. 98 - 103 and  Oh Christmas Tree - By Michael Coblenz - interventionmag,com and Pagan Holidays).  Refer to The Battle Against Christmas and Concerned Women for America. Refer to The Republican War on Science - By Chris Mooney and The Burningcross

For more refer to chapter on Nature Worship and Hinduisms influence.

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Disturbing 'Christian' Website Mixes Killing & Evangelism ?

The website is FORCEMINISTRIES - http://www.forceministries.com/ and sports a flashy animated intro featuring men with automatic weapons ready, willing and able to kill... apparently for Christ! "Imparting" faith in Christ with an AK-47?? The website is listed officially as part of the TBN (Trinity Broadcasting Network).

(source: Disturbing 'Christian'Website Mixes Killing & Evangelism -  rense.com).

Refer to Christian Televangelist Calls for Venezuelan President's Assassination - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and founder of Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate,  suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming ''a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.'' 

(Watch the video of Robertson's statement, thanks to MediaMatters.org, at: http://mediamatters.org/items/200508220006  

(Note: The infamous evangelist Pat Robertson has on many occasions called Hindus “demonic” and mocked them by saying "Hindus are looking for the wrong God" while on a recent missionary tour in India). 

Refer to Christian Pat Robertson Denounces Hinduism as "Demonic - Hinduism Today July 1995. Refer to Bible thumpers: Americans are being increasingly stereotyped as stupid - By Arvind Kumar - indiareacts.com).  Refer to Quotes from The American Taliban. Refer to The Historical Roots of America's Christian Fundamentalism and The Psychology of Christian Fundamentalism and  American Christian Fundamentalist Leader Calls for Global War - By Yoginder Sikand - christianaggression.org). Refer to The Republican War on Science - By Chris Mooney. Refer to Christian Supremacy: Pushing the Dhimmitude of Non-Christians in America .

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