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Who
is Supreme - the Pope or the Supreme Court of India?
The
Papacy and 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."
 Adolf Hitler
"The
greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations
for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the
ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and
fighting for its own doctrine."
“I
am doing what the Church has done for 1,500 years. I am simply
finishing the job.”
(source:
Famous
Quotes - crusadewatch.org).
***
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.
Pope
Pius XII Religious head of the Vatican State in an unequalled ceremonial pomp and Adolf
Hitler with a Christian Cardinal. "The
Pope is surrounded by the trappings of Splendor -- vast
cathedrals and palaces and Fabulous museums full of Zillion-dollar
paintings and sculptures... and all the Trappings of Power."
- says Richard
Bernstein
Pope
Pius XII (sometimes called Hitler's Pope) leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II and
The
Holocaust, remains the subject of continued historical
controversy. 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.
***
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.
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).
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 p. xvii.
***
 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:
"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).
 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.
***
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.
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 Forced
conversions: SC commission steps in - rediff.com. Watch
Sex
crimes and the Vatican - videogoogle.com.
Media
Hype?
Conversion damp squib
Mumbai, Oct. 14 2006: The mass conversion rally in Nagpur,
where a million Dalits were to change their religion today, turned
out to be a damp squib with only 600 of
them in attendance.
The VIPs, too, decided to give the event a miss. The only
people who had turned up in strength were
reporters
from across the world.
Titled World
Freedom of Conscience and Freedom of Religion Day,
the rally was planned to coincide with the 50th anniversary of B.R.
Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism. V.P. Singh and Mayavati were
on the guest list, but there was no sign of the two, although
Mayavati was in the city to address a BSP meeting.
(source:
Conversion
damp squib - telegraphindia.com). Refer to Media
Hype over conversion by the BBC and
Refer
to War
For Souls And Empire In Christ's Name - countercurrents.org.
Right-wing evangelical American Christian groups in
America are among the most vociferous supporters of Bush's global
'war on terror'. As they see it, all
religions other than (their version of) Christianity are nothing
less than inventions of the Devil. Their followers, they insist,
are doomed to eternal perdition in hell. For them,
America's current 'war on terror' is nothing less than a divine
mandate to America to break down the walls of heathendom, paving
the way for them to pursue what they call their global commission
to spread the 'good news' of Christianity.
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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.
Andhra
Pradesh CM Samuel Reddy and Pope Bendict.
Pope
John Paul's war-cry against the Hindus and Buddhists of Asia. 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.
***
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.
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).
Also refer to Pope's
top exorcist says Harry Potter is 'king of darkness' - cbc.ca.
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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!
Maharashtra
Congress Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and former Australia
cricket captain, Steve Waugh, a
well
known as a rabid evangelist.
Former
Australia cricket captain, Steve Waugh, wished to set up a 100-400
acre ' Christian township ' in Mumbai.
***
I
see from last year's press cuttings that former
Australia cricket captain, Steve
Waugh, wished to set up a 100-400 acre ' Christian
township ' in Mumbai. Well known as a
rabid evangelist, Waugh also
donated millions of rupees for the conversion of tsunami
victims. Maharashtra Chief
Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh also appointed State
Industry secretary as nodal agency for the proposal, possibly in
the light of instructions from Catholic Sonia Gandhi.
In
2005, Dharam Singh, the Congress Chief
Minister of Karnataka, brazenly facilitated Benny
Hinn's evangelical blitzkrieg, which mercifully fell
flat, causing embarrassment even to the official church. In the
earlier Congress regime of S M Krishna, Sangliana, a Christian
Officer from North-East openly sided with missionaries when the
Ma Bhagavati temple in Devanahalli (Bangalore Rural) and Sri
Durgamba Temple in Banaswadi (Bangalore) were demolished and
churches erected in their place in 2002. In both cases, the
Chief Minister and important Congress leaders supported the
evangelicals. It is hardly surprising to learn, therefore, that
as many as 84 Churches have sprung up in this area in the last
two years.
Dharam
Singh, the Congress Chief Minister of Karnataka, brazenly
facilitated Benny Hinn's evangelical blitzkrieg,
A
great crusader for Christian causes is Y Samuel Rajasekhar Reddy
(YSR), Congress Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. A practicing
Seventh Day Adventist, Reddy reportedly had 350 farmhands
converted by the Adventists on his own farm, and is now building
a church for them. Reddy is openly pro-missionary and
anti-Hindu.
***
But
the man who clinches the first prize as a great crusader for
Christian causes is Y Samuel Rajasekhar
Reddy (YSR), Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. A
practicing Seventh Day Adventist, Reddy reportedly
had 350 farmhands converted by the Adventists on his own farm,
and is now building a church for them. Reddy is openly
pro-missionary and anti-Hindu. Last year, when it was found that
a church was being constructed on lands belonging to the famous Bhadrachalam
Rama Temple, given to a Christian organization for
setting up a school, the Chief Minister prevented restoration of
the land to the temple. So now the church is coming up and
conversion activity is in full swing at an exceedingly sacred
Hindu site. What happened on 21 May, is only the culmination of
one small episode in the mischievous evangelization process
initiated by YSR last year.
Mahatma Gandhi, was a
proud and devout Hindu, in the 20th century have wasted no end
of breath to demolish the dogma of Christianity.
Smt. Sonia Gandhi, a Roman by birth and a Catholic by faith.
***
Hindus from 17th
century Pundits of Tamilnadu to Mahatma
Gandhi in the 20th century have wasted no end of
breath to demolish the dogma of Christianity. But it has hardly
made any difference to the arrogance of Christian theologians
and missionaries. Sita Ram Goel in his path-breaking work
History of Hindu-Christian Encounters (AD 304 to 1996) sharply
concludes: This is because the dogma
was never meant for discussion. It is an axiom of logic that
that which has not been proved cannot and need not be disproved.
Mahatma
Gandhi would be dismissed today by Sonia
Gandhi, Dr Y
Samuel Rajasekar Reddy and all other Congressmen as communal and
saffronized because he loved ' Ram 'a as his personal God and he
wanted to create a Rama Rajya.
(source:
A
haven for State-abetted Evangelism on stilts
- By V Sundaram - newstodaynet.com).
World Domination of Semitic Faiths
The
Uncertain Future of Hindus - By Prof. Gautam Sen
"Think
not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send
peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance
against his father, and the daughter against her mother..."
- Matthew
10:34-35
 George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) while commenting upon
Biblical Science, the famous playwright, critic and essayist who
was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925, observes
“Bible
is hopelessly pre-evolutionary; its descriptions of the origin
of life and morals are obviously fairy tales; its astronomy is
terracentric; its notions of the starry universe are childish;
its history is epical and legendary: in short, people whose
education in these departments is derived from the Bible are so
absurdly misinformed as to be unfit for public employment,
parental responsibility, or the franchise."
(source:
voice
of dharma).
Refer to
America
’s Holy Warriors
- By Chris
Hedges - TruthDig
December 31 2006. Watch
Christian
Evangelists Denying Scientific Evidence - A British scientist
interviewing Rev
Ted
Haggard.
“A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the
mission of Muhammad [the Prophet]. "
- Dictionary of Islam (1885, reprinted 1999) - by
Thomas Patrick Hughes.
"India is still under
the spell cast by two ghosts from her imperialist past. One is
Macalayism imposed by European
Imperialism and the other
dhimmitude forced by Islamic
rule. The latter is proving to be
far more lasting and debilitating to the national psyche."
- says
N S Rajaram - Encirclement
from within. Watch
Jesus
Camp movie: An Alarming documentary.
***
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).
General
J F R Jacob and Arab Lobby
No Bharat Ratna for a Jewish General ?
 When
President's rule ended and elections were called in Goa, people
took to the streets with the slogan that they preferred to be
ruled by Jacob instead!! The good General used to stand outside
government house at 8.30 am, looking at his watch and listing
who was coming into work on time!
By
the way, he is also India's greatest military hero since Shivaji,
but the Arab lobby
made sure that he was not Bharat Ratna
because he is Jewish.
In
1972 a British military commentator described his victory in
East Pakistan as one of the six greatest military triumphs of
the 20th century, truly a period of gigantic
wars.
Lt.
General Jacob is the author of the book: Surrender
at Dacca : Birth of a Nation.
(source: The
uncertain future of Hindus - By Gautam Sen - india-forum.com.
Prof
Gautam Sen has formerly taught political economy at
the London School of Economics
for more than two decades.
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