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Don't
Convert!- A rejoinder by Dr. Hilda Raja
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Rev.
John P. Jones in his book: India: Its Life and Thought observed that:
"It
is a curious fact that the hideous and bloody monster of
religious intolerance was hardly known in India
until, first the followers of Mohammed and, secondly, the
disciples of the meek and lowly Jesus, began to invade the land
."
(source: India: Its Life and Thought - By John P Jones).
Refer to
Mother
Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee and
The
disadvantaged Hindus, pampered Minorities
- By R K Ohri
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Conversion
is process of Cultural alienation and Creates Western Clones
‘Don’t
target Converts ‘by Michael
Pinto (Times of India 8th October)
poses many questions than it answers. No amount of provocation
can justify violence is easily said but humanly not easy to
follow. All are not Gandhians or Jesus to show the left cheek
when slapped on the right. Some countries follow a justice
system which is based on ‘eye for an eye’. Aggressive policy
of conversion followed by some fundamentalist churches and
fundamental Christians cannot justify taking law into one’s
hand and no amount of provocation can justify violence is
correct theoretically and logically. But if such logic rules the
hearts and minds of men/women why is there so much of violence
in the world? Why do countries violate the rights of other
countries? Why do law makers turn into law breakers? Why do
those in the Khaki who have to operate the law on the streets
become violators of human rights? In the midst of such
oppression, exploitation can we expect the people to meekly be
submissive and subservient? Or is the author’s theory held
good only in the provocation rising in the business of
conversion?
The
heinous murder of Swami
Laxmananda Saraswati - valiant warrior for Hindu civilization
and Kashmiri Hindu refugees.
When
the Brahmin pundits were killed and chased away from their homes
in the Kashmir Valley and forced to become refugees in their own
country under ethnic cleansing no voices were raised against
such an abuse and violation? When a holy man held in great
reverence was brutally murdered with his three disciples in his
own ashram will the author’s theory be strong enough to hold
back the emotional, social, and religious upheaval of the hurt
psyche?
Why
are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to
live in peace in pluralist societies?
Refer Mother
Teresa The Final Verdict - By Aroup Chatterjee and
jesusneverexisted.com.
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When
Indira Gandhi was
assassinated why thousands of Sikhs
were butchered in the capital? Was it not justified
by the Congress party? When
the Brahmin pundits were killed and chased away from their homes
in the Kashmir
Valley and forced to become
refugees in their own country under ethnic cleansing no voices
were raised against such an abuse and violation? When a holy
man held in great reverence was brutally murdered
with his three disciples in his own ashram will the author’s
theory be strong enough to hold back the emotional, social, and
religious upheaval of the hurt psyche?
Depiction
of Samudra Manthan at Thailand airport.
A Glorious Hindu Legacy: Indic influence in Southeast
Asia.
A unilateral war against Hinduism is
being waged by anti-Hindu forces to wipe out Hinduism the way
other native religions and cultures have been destroyed in the
world. It is tragic that frontiers of Hinduism which used to
extend from
Afghanistan
to
Indonesia
are shrinking and getting confined to less and less area.
Hindu
Civilization in Thailand.
Christianity
has virtually destroyed
South Korea
and Korean Buddhists
have become a minority in their own country and gone into
hiding.
China
and India
are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and
conquer.
Christian
Love? Christianity
has destroyed Native cultures around the globe from Australia,
New Zealand to India to Africa and the Americas.
Tragically
Native Americans/African Americans have been stripped of their
Cultural Identity. Hair
styles, clothing and even names and body languages were changed.
The intention was to completely erase the Indian way of life.
Indeed,
in order to destroy completely not only their African heritage,
but also their very African identity psychologically, they were
forced to change their names to Arabic and Christian names...
Museum
pieces? Christianity's morbid desire to retire and gawk at
Ancient cultures and religions in Museums.
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Every
action has a reaction. When a nun is raped then all
hell breaks loose. Daily children are sexually
violated and raped and murdered, no protest voice is heard -no Church
rallies are held, no Archbishop/bishop
rebukes Chief Ministers and express pain and anguish.
And no European Union raises
the issue with the PM in a foreign land.
So
Christians have global brokers and Christian lives become sacred
and the PM is accountable to foreign powers for their
safety.-the lives of others can be snuffed out without even a
whimper. What is the root cause of this
warped perception but religion? Does
a crime become more heinous because the victim belongs to a
particular religion?
It
is a utopia that Michael Pinto is envisaging when he states that
no amount of provocation can justify violence. This is armchair
wistful thinking. When
the Christians were oppressors this theory vanished. The tables
are turned and when there is an assertion of the Hindus to
retain their culture, their religion and their heritage then the
drum beating of the Constitutional guarantees is heard. It is
the right of the Hindus to protect the Hindu ethos of this
country which they feel is threatened. Was
Art 30 not enacted to ensure the Right of the Minorities to
establish manage and administer institutions to safeguard their
ethos?
It is shocking that politicians
are equating the Bajrang Dal and the VHP with the SIMI.
Conversion from time
immemorial has a concomitant-violence. Indian history is replete
with it. The oppression, force, torture, massacre of the Indians
to convert them to Islam, and Christianity is not a fable. The
Inquisition and all that it wrought is world record. Again it is
in the name of religion. What you sow you reap. Violence begets
violence-this is nature’s order.
Immature
Monotheism (Islam and Christianity),
stands out as especially dangerous, repressive and loony.
World
conquering movements
Monotheism's
discontent. Prophetic
religion is severe, militant, uncompromising, intolerant, while
mystic religions are renouncing, and peaceful.
Nations were
ruthlessly converted to Christianity by the sword just like
Islam converted Arabia, Central Asia, and Africa by the sword. Clash
of monotheism? Islam vs. Christianity. In the world today, one
religious ideology, monotheism, stands out as especially
dangerous, repressive and loony.
The oppression, force, torture, massacre of the Indians
to convert them to Islam, and Christianity is not a fable.
When
the Brahmin pundits were killed and chased away from their homes
in the Kashmir
Valley and forced to become
refugees in their own country under ethnic cleansing no voices
were raised against such an abuse and violation?
Why
are monotheistic traditions (Christianity and Islam) unable to
live in peace in pluralist societies?
Refer
to The
Goa Inquisition and Refer
to Secularism
has degenerated as the backbone of terrorists & evangelists
- By
Dr Gautam Sen and
Nomenclature
terrorism - By Rajeev Srinivasan - haindavakeralam.com.
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In ‘don’t target converts’ the author finds it
strange that converts are targeted in a country which
constitutionally upholds the right to preach and propagate
one’s religion.
But then to preach and propagate one’s religion
does not mean to force and use fraudulent means to pressurize
people to change from one religion to another.
 Money
is flowing from foreign based churches and the gods of these
churches need recruits-the greater the strength the greater the
power of these gods and hence the brokers of these gods are all
out targeting
the poor. The inducement-a plate of rice, a loaf of bread to the
hunger, shelter for the homeless, and also the promise of the
green pastures in the next world. The strategy has first an entry
point-first denigrate,
abuse, degrade and demolished their gods and icons. Second
instill in these victims the doubt that their gods are false and
then promise to lead them to the true god. A vulnerable victim,
with a vacuum inner self is then ready for the initiation into a
“New Life”/to be “Born Again”. The
false propaganda is vicious because of its attack on another
religion. This kind of provocation is not easy to overlook
because human nature is to refute and repel this atrocious
slander/blasphemy.
When
posters depicting Jayalalitha as a Virgin Mary appeared in
Chennai there were massive rallies and protests. But if Madhuri
Dixit is depicted as Durga and the goddess is painted nude it
comes under the freedom of expression of a painter. Only
difference is that the same painter will not dare to let his
artistic acumen and constitutional right to freedom of
expression to depict Allah even in the best form. This is how we
perceive the operation of guarantees/Rights enshrined in our
Constitution.
If opting for a “New
Life”/ “Born Again”, demands discarding of one’s
culture, social practices, adapting a western life style and
adapting western forms of worship then the convert becomes an
alien to the Indian/Hindu ‘ethos’, and is sucked into a
process of alienation. This has other ramifications.
Why
did East Timor break away from
Indonesia
when its Christian population swelled to 27percent just in a
matter of ten years?
World
history and Indian history is replete with the experience that
‘peace cannot co-exist with conversion. The reason being
conversion has an inbuilt violence: physical, psychological,
social and cultural. It may even abet one to be anti-national. I
belong to the Catholic Church and my understanding of conversion
is that it is a process-a life long search for truth. Conversion
is a private affair and not a street tamasha-neither is it an
activity intended to swell numbers.
When
conversions are a threat to peace then it needs to be banned.
Like the curfew order-the ban to strike etc. The million dollar
question is why conversion? Is it a prerequisite for development
work? Why are the foreign agencies funding conversion
activities? It is strange that the fundamental Christians and
the churches to which they belong do not turn their attention
and energy in this salvation ensuring business to the Muslims.
Development and upliftment of the poor is the camouflage of
evangelization all the more why the need for the churches to
work with the Muslims. Because according to Sachar report the
Muslims are the lowest in
India
-both economically and educationally. Is it not strange that not
a single Muslim has been converted? Conversion has been
commercialized by the Fundamentalistic churches.
The
number of converts is co-related to the quantum of funds that
flow in.
Refer
to Foreign
contributions to India 2006 - 2007
and Christian
Institutions Top List of NGOs Operating in India in 2007
This
must not be overlooked. Why not ban
foreign funds and watch how evangelization evaporates?
All
laws have their accompanying lacunae/loopholes and difficulties
in implementation, do we on such grounds fight shy of enacting
laws? Conversions
must be banned to ensure peace and harmony. Let us give peace a
chance-for peace and conversion cannot co-exist.
(source:
Don't
Convert!- A rejoinder - By Dr. Hilda Raja).
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