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Evangelical
Imperialism combined with high moral fervor?
Can
Hinduism face the onslaught of Project Thessalonica?
 Theodosius
I (378 - 395)
The
Christian monarch who introduced the world to religious
totalitarianism.
"The first Spanish Inquisitor"
–
Hugh
Trevor Roper
the author of The
Rise of Christian Europe and
is best known as the author of The
Last Days of Hitler
(p 36).
The world’s
earliest totalitarianism – of Catholic Christianity – was
inaugurated by Theodosius. No wonder to Christian scribes he
became ‘the Great.’ In short order, the Roman world was
compelled to be Christian – on pain of death! The fall of empire
in the west was an acceptable price for the triumph of the Church
of Christ.
(source: Assault
on Paganism - jesusneverexisted.com).
Michael
Baffoe wrote:
"It
is the same ship that brought the Bible which also carried guns
and alcohol to Africa."
Denis
Diderot (1713-84)
he
was a prominent French
philosopher and figure in what became known as The
Enlightenment, and was the editor-in-chief of the famous Encyclopédie.
"Missionaries come 'with crucifix in one
hand and dagger in the other, to cut your throats or force you to
accept their customs and opinions".
(source:
Famous
Quotes - crusadewatch.org).
Refer
to
Swamy's
wake-up call to Hindus - newstodaynet.com. Refer to Vindicated
by Time: The Niyogi Committee Report On Christian Missionary
Activities Introduction - By Sita
Ram Goel
- voi.org.
Refer
to Chief Minister
Samuel Reddy - An
Appeal to Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
http://www.petitiononline.com:80/qa23124/petition.html
Mask
of White Religious Imperialism?
"If
there had been such Bills in the
Americas
400 years ago, today we would have a living Native American
culture, instead of a broken people withering away on
reservations, trying to piece together fragments of lost
traditions. For Hindus today, the story of native Americans is a
cautionary tale."
***
Dr.
M.B.Shankar Niyogi
who was appointed by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1954. In
the Niyogi
Committee Report
he states :
“Evangelization in India
appears to be apart Of uniform world policy to revive Christendom
for re-establishing western supremacy and is not prompted by
spiritual motives. The objective is apparently to create
Christian majority pockets with a view to disrupt the solidarity
of the non-Christian societies, and the mass conversion of a
considerable section of Adivasis with this ulterior motive is
fraught with danger to the security of the State.”
(source:
Report
of the Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, Madhya
Pradesh - By Justice Dr. M.B. Niyogi 1956, Vol. I,
p. 132). Also
refer to Holy
Vedas and Holy Bible - By Kanayalal
M. Talreja and
History
of Hindu-Christian Encounters - By Sita Ram Goel.
 Arun
Shourie (1941- ) is a
Rajya Sabha member and among India's best known commentators on
current and political affairs. His writings are backed by rigorous
analysis and meticulous research. Shourie
has been an economist with the World Bank, a consultant in the
planning commission and the editor of Indian Express. Among the
many honors and awards, he has received the Magsaysay Award, the
International Editor of the Year, the Dadabhai Naoroji and the
Astor Award. Author of several books, including Secular
Agenda, Eminent
Historians, Harvesting
Our Souls, Religions
in Politics.
Shourie writes:
"The
Church is obsessed
with numbers -- with the number of souls it had, to use the term
so favoured by churchmen, "harvested" for Jesus. Numbers
remain its singular obsession today.
The
Church is big business. Evangelization is big business. And this
business depends on that "harvesting" of souls. You just
have to scan American church publications, or those of Europe, to
see that one of the main grounds on which believers are induced to
donate funds to the church is that the money is needed for the
harvesting work."
"As
a rule, evangelists denounce nationalism."
(source:
Body-Counts
Have Become Big, Compelling Business
- By Arun Shourie).
"I was born to Catholic
parents and raised by a missionary Catholic mother and an abusive,
born-again Christian, who I will refer to only as "my
mother's husband". I was raised in an "ideal"
Christian environment, and would have followed my parents'
footsteps and would have spread hate against other religions, if
it weren't for a fortuitous meeting I had with a Chinese friend of
my dorm roommate. Little did I realize then that the chance
encounter would end up being a turning point in my life.
The Chinese student was Buddhist who talked about meditation and
its advantages. Finding it curious I checked with my University
library for some books on meditation. After some searching, I
found a book on Transcendental Meditation (TM), a meditation
technique founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That book sparked a
profound spiritual and emotional transformation in me and I have
never looked back. My thirst for knowledge led me to read more
about TM and its roots in Hinduism. I started reading every book
on Hinduism I could lay my hands on. In
the Ramayana,
I came across the life of Lord Rama and his only wife Sita. Hindus
consider Rama and Sita to be the ideal couple and the path shown
by them as the perfect man-woman relationship. It was a refreshing
change from the abusive relationship I had witnessed and
experienced in my own Christian family.
The wisdom and spirituality that I found
in Hinduism has no parallels. There is practically no aspect of
life that is not dealt with in detail by the innumerable texts
that are a part of Hinduism. There are texts which deal with the
mundane aspects of day-to-day living and those which deal with
more profound questions such as those about life and death. To me,
the most fascinating aspect of Hinduism was that it was inclusive,
respectful and tolerant of all people and their various beliefs,
in stark contrast to the exclusivity that pervaded my native
religion. Unfortunately the adherents of the latter seem to be on
a mission to destroy Hinduism."
Destruction of
ancient cultures? Magnificent obsession of the Church. Evangelical
Imperialism combined with high moral fervor?
If
there had been such Bills in the
Americas
400 years ago, today we would have a living Native American
culture, instead of a broken people withering away on
reservations, trying to piece together fragments of lost
traditions. For Hindus today, the story of native Americans is a
cautionary tale. Christianity's
claims to an exclusive and universal salvation with a naked grab
for global resources. 10/40 window.
This window includes the world's great unreached people for the
Church. It encompasses the majority of Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus,
Jains, Parsis, Sikhs and many others.
***
Project
Thessalonica is a sub-project of Joshua Project II. Joshua
Project II set the scope and
strategy for converting the "heathen" of the world in 10-40
window (regions that lie between
the latitudes of 10 and 40 degrees north) whereas project
Thessalonica (called PT) prioritizes the tasks to be taken.
Joshua Project II strategized the methodology called
'Adopt-a-peoples' wherein every mission agency or church adopted a
'people group'. Tribals were the first
and easy missionary targets. Unfortunately the
missionary activity didn't weaken Hinduism as the church
strategists had anticipated - many of the converts still
celebrated and attended Hindu festivals and continued to follow
Hindu traditions. As a counter measure Project Thessalonica was
started in 2004. Before getting into the details of Project
Thessalonica it will be useful to look at the origins of the name
of the project.
Thessalonica was a
major port city strategically located at the junction of the main
land route from Italy to the east and the main route from the
Danube down to the Aegean Sea. It was the capital of the Roman
province of Macedonia, a free city ruled by a popular assembly and
magistrates. The people of this city were rich, technologically
advanced and culturally distinct. Paul and Silas, during the
Apostle's second missionary journey, visited Thessalonica to
preach the Gospel and propagate Christianity. However, Paul's
teachings received a lukewarm response from the people. Some
locals irritated by Paul's teachings got a hold of Jason and his
brothers, who were hosting Paul, and took them to city officials.
They were charged with harboring traitors, but faced no physical
harm. They were eventually made to post a bond and set free. In
390 AD, the Christian ruler Theodosius
the Great,
punished a revolt by the inhabitants of
the city by massacring more than 7000 people. Much
of the city was eventually converted to Christianity.
 (Note:
In AD 391 pagan
temples were closed and all of
their worships were forbidden by threat of harsh punishment, then
what followed was a enforced Christianization of the empire.
During all his reign Theodosius took severe measures against the
surviving remnants of paganism. In 388 a prefect was sent around
Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor for the purpose of destroying temples
and breaking up pagan associations; it was then that the Serapeum
at Alexandria was destroyed).
Also
refer to Christmas’
pagan origins - By Kelly Wittmann East
Texas Review
December
21, 2006).
Project
Thessalonica aims to stop or limit Hindu activity by converting
people who form the pillars of Hindu culture, festivals,
traditions and activity. Traditionally missionaries hate any
public expression or display of heathen religions in the form of
festivals and temples. Missions want to ensure that no new temple
construction activity starts. With this objective they are
converting masons, craftsmen and others involved in temple
construction activity.
The
First Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee
adopted towns where the annual Kumbh Mela takes place and has
been actively converting the locals so that visitors face extreme
hardship during their next visit trying to find services and
supplies. Another mission group is adopting boatmen of Kasi where
Hindus drop rice balls in river Ganges as an offering to their
forefathers. The boatsmen are being trained in other fields so
that they abandon this profession. They are making environmental
groups raise the voice so that Ganesh
processions, Kumbh Melas and Jagannath Rath Yatras are
limited. One big worry seems to the extremely popular Hindu
television programs. Christian agencies have decided on buying
these prime slots at a premium and are actively working with
programming sources. Over the past 20 years, missionaries also
appear to have invested a lot in handling the political
leadership, so much so that their activities appear to be almost
immune to the ruling political party. It seems that a good section
of media is also on their side to such an extent that any group
opposing their activity finds itself identified as a militant or
extremist group in the news media.
With
Christian Jihadis like Josh at the forefront of missionary
activities in India, one can only hope that Hindus don't face the
same fate as the people of Thessalonica.
(source:
Can
Hinduism face the onslaught of Project Thessalonica? -
By Alex Pomero in a Croatian Newspaper). Refer to
chapter on European
Imperialism. Also
refer to
Poll:
Christians 'addicted to pornography'.
Refer
to Assault
on Paganism - jesusneverexisted.com
***
Christianization
of Asia's Heathens
Relegating
Hinduism to Museums and Anthropology Texts?
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I
could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of
Christian dogma."
- Abraham
Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th president and the Great Emancipator, who
opposed the expansion of Slavery.
 Sir
John Woodroffe (1865 -1936) the well known British scholar,
Advocate-General of Bengal and sometime Legal Member of the
Government of India. He served with competence for eighteen years
and in 1915 officiated as Chief Justice.
"Conversion
detaches Indians from their original faith. This in turn distances
them from their past. In addition, Christianity is a religion
closely intermingled with politics.."
(source: Challenges
from Christianity - hindujagruti.org).
Catholic
Churches Dogmatic Global Ambitions to destroy World Cultures
 Richard
Dawkins (1941 - ) Is the eminent British
ethologist evolutionary theorist, and popular science writer who holds the
Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford
University.
He is the author of The
God Delusion.
He
has observed:
"the god of the old testament is
arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction. jealous and
proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a
vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic,
homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal,
pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously
malevolent bully."
(source: The
God Delusion - By Richard Dawkins).
During
his 1998 visit to India, for example, Pope
John Paul II bluntly stated that the Christianization
of Asia is "an absolute priority" for the Catholic
Church in the new millennium. He openly likened the
Vatican agenda for that region to its conquest of the Americas in
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His language, says Sanal
Edamaruku, founder of New Delhi-based Rationalist International,
leaves little room for interpretation, even among secular and
progressive-minded Indian citizens. "It is, in fact, not the
fantasy of [Hindu nationalists]," he states, "but hard
reality ... nothing less than the
conversion of ... the Hindus of the world is targeted."
Pope
John Paul II
The spread of
"world" religions such as Christianity and Islam has
destroyed most of the world's traditional religions.
Many beliefs once
sacred have now been regulated to museums and anthropology texts.
The loss of so many "living" religions is a profound
blow to human culture. (The loss of languages and other cultural
traditions due to increased secular homogenization is a similar
issue). Beliefs such as a spiritual connection to dead ancestors,
or a nature that is filled with spirits, or even much-maligned
polytheism, have provided humanity with a rich and beautiful
diversity of worldviews.
Christianity's
claims to an exclusive and universal salvation with a naked grab
for global resources. The
Vatican, in a letter approved by Pope John Paul II, warned
Christians against spiritual dangers deriving from
Eastern methods of contemplative meditation used in Yoga and Zen
Buddhism. He said that it could lead to ''a kind of mental
schizophrenia which could also lead to psychic disturbance and,
at times, to moral deviations.''
(source: God
Wars: The triumph of Jealous Gods - crusadewatch.org).
***
The
church's "soldiers" in the field get the message.
As
a Mumbai (formerly Bombay)-based missionary whom we shall call
Paul attests (he asked that his real name be withheld), he and his
colleagues in India have been unequivocally instructed by their
superiors to "work extra hard in the conversion process and
choose any means possible to convert these heathens." With
such marching orders, earthly consequences can be cavalierly
disregarded. "It's not how we convert that matters,"
Paul insists. "Conversion is what counts."
A Group of Hindu
boys after their mundan ceremony.
Perhaps no mission tactic galls more bitterly than the
intentional targeting of any society's most vulnerable members--its
children.
***
In
India, considered one of the richest "harvest grounds"
in the Unreached
Bloc, the
methods employed by missionaries like Paul have stirred seething
bitterness and resentment among the "heathen"
public. Perhaps no mission tactic galls more bitterly than the
intentional targeting of any society's most vulnerable members--its
children. In a
1923 report to Rome gleefully titled "The
Spiritual Advantages of Famine and Cholera,"
the Archdiocese of Pondicherry related how a famine had
"wrought miracles" in a local hospital where
"baptismal water flows in streams, and starving little tots
fly in masses to heaven."
The
practice of allurement, or providing "inducements" to
the poor in return for their conversion to Christianity, is quite
common, and one that many missionaries readily admit using. It is
also nothing new. In the days of the Portuguese
invaders, the Jesuits simply paid Hindus by the hundreds to
participate in mass baptisms. Today's methods are more subtle:
conversions are now "bought" with food, medicine,
promises, and micro-loans.
(source: Their
Other "Dirty" Linen: Evangelism's Quest to Conquer the
World - By S R Welch - secularweb.com).
Refer
to
A
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
- By Andrew Dickinson White - umich.edu.
The trend of the
global religious competition for market share and influence is
clearly towards the dominance of the two “Jealous-God”
religions: Christianity and Islam.
Both have replaced many traditional
belief systems and continue to use any means necessary to
suppress the animist religions of Africa,
much of Asia and the Pacific Islands, and the surviving remnants
of native beliefs in the New World and Australia. It is
obvious that the dominant religious belief for the century to come
will be quasi-monotheistic (if you ignore the angels and devils
and the Christian Trinity and the Catholic emphasis on Mary) and
based on the ideas that god is a creature that thinks and designs
and plans (in other words, these religions idolize human traits
just as much as any pagan Greek). Even
those religions that have not yet been crushed (Hinduism,
Buddhism, Sikhism) are being forced to adapt to the dominant
ideology. Polytheism, Pantheism, and other worldviews are no
longer politically correct due to the constant propaganda of
Christians and Muslims.
(source: God
Wars: The triumph of Jealous Gods - crusadewatch.org).
Refer to South
American native cultures destroyed by missionaries -
crusadewatch.org).
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Are
we heading towards a Christian India? - By Francois Gautier
 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:
" I
am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living."
"Hindu
Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The
deeper you dive the more treasures you find."
(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).
Protests
against Sonia Gandhi representing Mohandas Gandhi
Endorsed by Forum for saving Gandhi Heritage consisting of Mahatma
Gandhi International Foundation, Indo Caribbean Council, Kashmir
Pandits Association, Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue
(Christian against Proselytization) & Foundation of Nepalis in
America
& others.
Refer
to Christian
Indian-American group expresses concern over HP Conversion Bill
Robert
M Price has observed:
"Jesus Christ"
functions as a symbolic cloak for several hidden agendas."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
a vegetarian
and Nobel
Laureate in Literature. He was an active
socialist on the executive committee of the Fabian Society along
with Annie
Besant. Famous British Author and
Playwright, of books such as Pygmalion. He
has remarked:
"Beware
of the man whose God is in the skies."
(source:
Famous
Quotes - crusadewatch.org).
***
I
am a little uneasy when I see how much Christianity is taking over
India under the reign of Sonia Gandhi: according to a 2001
census, there are about 2.34 million Christians in India; not
even 2,5% of the nation, a negligible amount.
Yet there are today
five Christian chief ministers in Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya,
Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.
Ambika Soni,
Oscar Fernandes, M K Anthony, Rev. Valson Thampu, Margaret Alva
and CM Samuel Reddy are all Christians.
***
One should add that the majority of politicians in Sonia Gandhi's
closed circle are either Christians or Muslims. She seems to have
no confidence in Hindus. Ambika Soni, a
Christian, is General Secretary of the Congress and a
very powerful person, with close access to Sonia Gandhi. Oscar
Fernandes is Union Programme Implementation Minister.
 Margaret
Alwa is the eminence rise of Maharasthra. Karnataka is
virtually controlled by A K Anthony,
whose secretaries are all from the Southern Christian association.
Valson Thampu, a Hindu hater,
is Chairman NCERT curriculum Review
Committee, John
Dayal, another known Hindu baiter, has been named by
Sonia Gandhi in the National Integration Council; and Kancha
Ilaya, who hates Hindus, is being allowed by the Indian
Government to lobby with the UN and US Congress so that caste
discrimination in India is taken-up by these bodies.
John
Dayal bleats “persecution” to tarnish
India
abroad - This should hardly be news. But, how
does John
Dayal live with himself after spreading such
diabolical falsehoods day in and day out? Conversions through
force, fraud and allurement is a fundamental right? Denigrating an
ancient civilization to advance an imperialistic cult is freedom
of religion? Refer to Based on one email letter -
Australia
is a breeding ground for Hindu Fundamentalists? Says John Dayal
Since
Sonia Gandhi a Roman Catholic is at the top, Christian conversions in India seem to
have gone in overdrive.
More than 4,000 foreign
Christian missionaries are involved in conversion activities
across different states. In Tripura, there were no Christians at
independence, there are 120.000 today, a 90% increase since 1991.
The figures are even more striking in Arunachal Pradesh, where
there were only 1710 Christians in 1961, but 1,2 million today, as
well as 780 churches! In Andhra Pradesh, churches are coming-up
every day in far flung villages and there was even an attempt to
set-up one near Tirupati. Many of the North-East separatist
movements, such as the Mizo or the Bodos, are not only Christian
dominated, but also sometimes function with the covert backing of
the missionaries. In Kerala, particularly in the poor coastal
districts, you find "miracle boxes" put in local
churches: the gullible villager writes out a paper mentionning his
wish: a fising boat, a loan for a pukka house, fees for the son's
schooling… And lo, a few weeks later, the miracle happens ! And
of course the whole family converts, making others in the village
follow suit. During the Tsunami, entire Dalit villages in Tamil
Nadu were converted to Christianity with the lure of money.
 Belgium historian Konenraad
Elst laments that " When over a thousand Hindus
are killed and a quarter million Hindus ethnically cleansed in
Kashmir, the world media doesn't even notice, but watch the
worldwide hue and cry when a few local riots take place and a few
missionaries are killed by unidentified tribal miscreants.
Christian Naga terrorists have been killing non-Christians for
decades on end, and this has never been an issue with the world
media, except to bewail the "oppression" of the Nagas by
"Hindu India" ".More
than 20,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in Assam
and Manipur in the past two decades. As recently as last week,
four paramilitary Assam Rifles soldiers were killed in an ambush
yesterday by the outlawed United National Liberation Front (UNLF).
In
my country, France, a Christian majority nation , it would be
unthinkable to have Hindus - or even Indian born French for that
matter - in so many positions of power. Impossible also to find a
non-elected, non French, non-Christian person being the absolute
ruler of the country behind the scene as Sonia Gandhi is in India.
Indians like to say that the greatness of India is that it accepts
a foreigner and a Christian like Sonia Gandhi. But is'nt it rather
a weakness, and an aberration ? Can't we find a worthy leader
amongst one billion Indians ? This is an India where you see today
Swami Avimukteshwarananda Saraswati of Dwarka Peeth, made to
disembark from an Indian Airlines flight for carrying his holy
dand, a thin bamboo stick which is a symbol of their spiritual
designation, inside the aircraft cabin.
Are
we heading then towards a Christian India under Sonia Gandhi's
helm? It would be a tremendous loss not only to India, but also to
the world. For in India, you find the only living spirituality
left on this planet.
(source: Are
we heading towards a Christian India? - By Francois Gautier). Refer
to Christian
Indian-American group expresses concern over HP Conversion Bill
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Seizing
India
with some help from Hindus
All
the debates about Indian history, the politics of contemporary
India
and the grossly misleading depiction of Hinduism by the media are
irrelevant. These disputes are only a part of the relentless
warfare being waged against Hindus by powerful enemies seeking to
subjugate them. The real goal is the
subjugation of Hindus and everything else represents subsidiary
gratuitous violence. The world is a pitiless place that has no
respect for the weak. And Hindus are weak, retreating on virtually
all fronts. Yet the mere mention of militant resistance prompts
Hindus to shrink in fright, indeed some descending to
self-righteous profanities against all thoughts of resistance to
evil enjoined by their very own holiest text!
Islam,
Christianity and Hindu renegades are hell bent on extirpating
Hinduism. This is an imperative injunction for Islam and
Christianity, a necessity for them both to destroy idolaters
through conversion or death in order to vindicate their own
religious imperialism. Every supposedly patriotic Indian Muslim
would instantly exchange the Caliphate and their own imperial rule
over Hindus to the secularism that has institutionalised
extraordinary privileges for them. Christians too look forward to
the conversion of
India
to the true faith and have no sympathy whatsoever for Hinduism.
The blatant opportunism of the latter, as exemplified by the
Christian overlords of
Delhi
's premier college, in seeking to crush Hindus under
India
's contemporary Christian political dispensation makes them the
most dangerous enemy of Hindus. Hindu renegades themselves are
mainly greedy for money and the gratification of personal status
aspirations since defiling Hinduism now guarantees reward from the
dominant Islamic and Christian faiths that enjoy effective primacy
today.
The genocidal
war being waged against
Iraq
and its people by the Anglo-American imperialists is therefore
unlikely to occur in India. Seizure
of
India
's sovereign authority by means of political manoeuvre is in fact
already proving deceptively easy.
One by one the institutions
of the Indian state and society are being captured and subverted. The
incumbent government of
India
itself is being run indirectly by a group of four or five
Christians. And much of the
Indian media and many of
India
's political parties are already operating at the behest of
foreign interests, judging by their determination to foist a
thoroughly compromised nonentity as President on
India
. As an aside, it may be noted that there are grounds for
suspecting that one self-declared
Hindu Swami, who enjoys
frequent exposure on a Christian-owned New Delhi
news channel, is probably a covert Christian himself. This
fraudulent religious figures constantly refers to Swami
Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi while opposing everything they
actually believed in practice. The political party claiming to
represent Hindu interests has turned out to be their worst enemy,
pre-empting and subverting protest by them for reasons that demand
the closest scrutiny. Once again, Hindu thirst of petty, immediate
personal gains as well as complete lack of foresight is leading
India
towards calamity.
(source: Seizing
India
with some help from Hindus - by
Dr. Gautam Sen - vigilonline.com).
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Sacrilege at Tirupati hills
Creating a Christian oligarchy in India ?
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965), English playwright and novelist wrote:
"...I
couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars
that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures
Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocrisy,
the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency.
And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter
burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the
starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing pleasures of
a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the
devil his due."
Percy
Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822), English poet:
"The
same means that have supported every other popular belief, have
supported Christianity.
"War,
imprisonment, assassination, and
falsehood: deeds of unexampled and incomparable atrocity have made
it what it is."
(source:
What
Some Famous People Have Said About Christianity
- burningcross.com and
Famous
Dead Nontheists).
Church
fears Indian/Hindu Nationalism and Secularism?
Thomas
Fanshawe Middleton
(1769 - 1822) Anglican Missionary remarked
'the
surrender of the Christian Church to the rising powers of
nationalism is the major betrayal of Christ'
'The
nationalism of India, China and Japan, of India in particular,
rankles in the heart and eyes of both the Christian capitalism and
imperialist Christianity'
Rufus
Matthew Jones (1863 - 1948) an American Quaker
declared that,
''the
greatest rival of Christianity in the world today is not
Mohammedanism, Buddhism or Hinduism or Confucianism but a
worldwide secular way of life. (Jerusalem Meeting
Report Quoted by Bharti p. 37). For
Rufus Jones, the world conflict was between Christianity and
secularism.
(source:
Challenges
from Christianity - hindujagruti.org and Edinburgh
to Salvador: Twentieth Century Ecumenical Missiology - By T.V.
Philip.
Refer
to
Bishopaccountability.org
***
It is almost Midnight for India's
Hindu Community ?
The current initiative of Sri
Swarupanandendra Swami of the Visakhapatnam-based Sri Sarada
Peetham to mobilise Hindu seers to protect dharma in
the face of rising depredations by evangelists has not come a day
too soon. While religious conversions are innately offensive, the
rising political eminence of an Italian-born Roman Catholic has
witnessed a corresponding growth of aggressive proselytising at
famous Hindu pilgrimages and holy sites.
Ms Sonia Gandhi a
Roman Catholic, has
reinforced missionary muscle
by sponsoring the rise of Christians in
Congress State Governments and party units on an
unprecedented scale. Non-Christian
Congress Chief Ministers have been made to acquiesce in missionary
activities, and outrageously 'leaky' welfare schemes have been
floated for the benefit of the tax-free NGO industry, most of
which is anti-Hindu.
The latest affront to India's civilisational ethos comes from
missionary activities at Tirumala and Simhachalam, where police
were compelled to take the offending preachers into custody. This
has forced the normally quiescent authorities of Tirumala
Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) to urge Chief
Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy to enact legislation to
prohibit propaganda by non-Hindu faiths on the seven Tirumala
hills, traditionally regarded as the sacred
body of Sri Vishnu.
Sri
Venkateswara. The ancient and sacred
temple of Sri Venkateswara is located on the seventh
peak,Venkatachala (Venkata Hill) of the Tirupati Hill.
The
temple of Sri Venkateswara has acquired unique sanctity in Indian
religious lore. The Sastras, Puranas, Sthala Mahatyams and Alwar
hymns unequivocally declare that, in the Kali Yuga, one can attain
mukti, only by worshipping Venkata Nayaka or Sri Venkateswara.The
benefits acquired by a piligrimage to Venkatachala are mentioned
in the Rig Veda and Asthadasa Puranas. In these epics, Sri
Venkateswara is described as the great bestower of boons.
All
the great dynasties of rulers of the southern peninsula have paid
homage to Lord Sri Venkateswara in this ancient shrine. The
Pallavas of Kancheepuram (9th century AD), the Cholas of Thanjavur
(a century later), the Pandyas of Madurai, and the kings and
chieftains of Vijayanagar (14th - 15th century AD) were devotees
of the Lord.
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It is inconceivable
that the TTD authorities are unaware that the Chief Minister
avidly promotes the activities of his Seventh
Day Adventists sect, and has even built a church upon
his family lands.
The coy usage of the term
"constitutional benefits," instead of specifying caste
or community-based reservations, suggests that the NCRLM's real
objective is to recommend a blanket extension of all
constitutional benefits of Hindu SC/ST groups, to Dalit
Christians. This will provide backdoor political reservations for Dalit
(Oppressed ?) Christians by helping
them to contest from and grab the existing SC/ST parliamentary and
Assembly seats.
This would be consistent with the
UPA agenda of fragmenting the nation by privileging non-Hindu
social groups. It also explains Ms Gandhi's indiscreet overtures
to the Muslim community on the issue of reservations in Government
(Andhra Pradesh's failed attempt), educational institutions (Aligarh
Muslim University), and armed forces (Mr Sachar's infamous but
aborted head count). Worse, like Minto-Morley,
she recently instigated Muslims to demand greater representation
in public life, which certainly suggests communal reservation in
Parliament and the State Assemblies.
Of course, Ms Gandhi does not
actually intend to empower the Muslim community. Repeating the
familiar Western political subordination of Muslim communities all
over the world, her intention is to create a Christian
oligarchy in India, with Muslims
serving as beasts of burden (captive vote-banks). Hence the
mollycoddling of the Muslim community in a manner designed to
raise the hackles of Hindus, with obvious repercussions for the 'winability'
of Muslim candidates. This is expected to drive the community back
into the Congress embrace. An NCRLM recommendation to
extend SC/ST constitutional guarantees to converts will,
therefore, mainly benefit the Christian community.
(Refer
to
Delhi
fiddles while the northeast burns
- rediff.com - We
lost Taxila,
Karachi
,
Dhaka
. Post independence, we lost 1.25 lakh square
kilometres of land to
Pakistan
and China.
Beijing
still eyes Arunachal Pradesh. Then Indians lost lands and homes in
the Kashmir valley and became
refugees for the 'sin' of supporting
India. Now, jihadis, Maoists and church-supported insurgents want their
share. Where will this all lead to?).
Lord
Minto (1845 - 1945) Viceroy of India and Lord Morley (1838 -
1923).
He
and his colleague John Morley sponsored the Morley–Minto Reforms
Act (1909). The act moderately increased Indian representation in
government but was criticized by Indian nationalists because of
its creation of separate electorates for Hindus and Muslims.
***
If there is no resistance to this diabolical scheme, Ms
Gandhi could soon have a significant Christian lobby in
Parliament, through a fraudulently procured amendment altering the
basic structure of the Constitution.
An East
Timor-like situation (one of the two predominantly
Christian
country in Asia, the other being Philippines
with 90% Christian population) could develop in any part of the
country where Western Christian nations
have a geo-strategic or purely economic
interest. Their lust for
the mineral-rich north-east predates independence and is fostered
by insurgency movements backed by various church denominations.
Indians need to acknowledge the
abiding kinship between the Church and political power in the
West. Christianity underwrites Western civilisation, a fact its
ruling elite never loses sight of, unlike India, where it is
fashionable to use Euro-centric slogans to undermine the native
ethos. Little wonder Ms Gandhi's Indian ascent has seen the
appointment of Indian Catholic
theologian Ivan Dias as ex-Cardinal
Ratzinger's heir to the (renamed)
office of Grand Inquisitor.
It is almost midnight for India's
Hindu community.
(source:
Sacrilege at Tirupati hills - By
Sandhya Jain - dailypioneer.com - Edit
page June 27'06).
Note:
'Dalit' theology is being promoted by Christian evangelical and
proselytizing groups to promote the 'spreading of the Gospel'
which is an euphemism for
achieving conversions by any means.
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