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Con
artists: Catholic priest in saffron
robe called 'Isai Baba'
Dressed in
saffron robe and sporting
long hair, he comes across as a sadhu but what differentiates
him from others is the fact that Aji
Sebastian is a Catholic priest and has donned this
look to promote the "Indian Christian identity."
A pass-out
of the CMC Seminary, Sebastian, who hails from Kerala, has now
become an Ayurvedic medic, yoga instructor and teacher for the
Fazirpur Kadia village in
Faridabad
district of Haryana. Known as the 'Isai Baba' (Christian sadhu),
he says, "The saffron dress helps me to connect with people
easily as they regard me as a religious person after seeing my
robe.”
(source:
Catholic
priest in saffron robe called 'Isai Baba'
- expressindia.com)
***
Evangelizing
the Sikhs of
Punjab
Holding
fierce pride in their identity, Sikhs have for decades been seen
as “off-limits” by the missionary machine but not anymore.
In a alarming trend, evangelism has begun to tread on the Sikh
faith as well.
Every aspect of Punjabi society is being overwhelmed with this
new wave of assertive Christianity.
Besides
nationwide programs in Hindi, Punjabi television channels have
been deluged by Christian programs even though the Christian
population of
Punjab
is less than 1%. Taking aim at Sikh youth, animated films and
children’s books on Christianity are freely distributed by
missionaries.
Because
of the strong adherence to tradition by Sikhs, missionaries have
attempted to repackage Christianity. Jesus is called “Satguru”,
church is referred to as “Satsang” and choir singing is
called “Kirtan”. Choir boys in Punjabi churches wear turbans
to attempt to minimize the variation between Sikhism and
Christianity.
However, despite these attempts to disguise
Christianity as a version of Sikhism, missionaries still cannot
hide their intent: to destroy the Sikh faith. Gurbachan
Singh Bachan, former Secretary of the Shiromani
Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee and a proud Sikh, says
"People who are converting from Hinduism and Sikhism to
Christianity are those who have lost understanding of their own
religion…
Christian
Evangelists, NGOs and INGOs hate anyone or anything being
nationalistic.
Guru
Nanak and Golden Temple.
Every aspect of Punjabi society is being overwhelmed with this
new wave of assertive Christianity. Meanwhile,
Christian media painted this incident as an example of
“Christian persecution.”
***
Such
provocative evangelism in
Punjab
does not always go unnoticed by the local community. The
Open Door Church run by Pastor
Harbhajan Singh, a landlord who converted to
Christianity from Sikhism, has aggressively converted over 2,800
members of the Khojewala village community. In February of 2004,
Singh made derogatory remarks against several Sikh gurus
including Guru Granth Sahib. This led to several protests by
Sikh youths in front Singh’s church in the. The conflict was
ultimately resolved by police intervention and an unconditional
apology by Harbhajan Singh.
Meanwhile,
Christian media painted this incident as an example of
“Christian persecution.”
(source: Evangelizing
the Sikhs of
Punjab
- info-sikh.com).
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Christian
Buddhist tension in South Korea
Lessons for India's Jains, Buddhist, Hindus and Sikhs.
Christianity's
Divine Insanity: God killed himself on the cross to save his own
creation from his own wrath. One God, father-son-ghost?
- A
bumper sticker
***
At
Jogye
Temple, normally an
island
of
Buddhist
serenity, plainclothes officers have staked out the exits,
waiting to grab any fugitives who venture out. Camped out on the
temple grounds are the leaders of fierce anti-government
protests who have been charged with instigating violence. They
have come to the temple seeking political sanctuary, not
spiritual uplift. One top government official has branded them
"Satans."
As a gong
echoes through the neighborhood of office towers in central
Seoul
, afternoon worshipers arriving at the temple - home to the
largest Buddhist order in
South Korea
- walk below a canopy of 6,200 lotus-shaped lanterns. The
lanterns are arranged by color to spell the English word
"OUT" - a highly unusual rebuke to President Lee Myung
Bak from the country's once-docile and normally apolitical Buddhists.
Buddhism
Under Siege in South Korea
Christianity
creating havoc to Native Traditions and Culture of South Korea.
Lessons
for Hindus
The Jogye
temple and Buddha statues in the Seoul, South Korea.
Religious
peace in our country is being threatened by those who dream of
turning it into a medieval Christian kingdom through a church
elder-president.
South
Korea
was after World War II nearly all Buddhist. It became the
special focus of Christian missionary activities for the next
several decades, with great success. It is a success story that
missionaries hope to repeat in other countries, specifically
India
. A notable one was the visit of Pope
John Paul II to
Korea
during Buddha's birthday, a
visit which served to disrupt the ancient celebration. Another
example is an official Korean textbook stating in 1984 that
Buddhism is a "fading religion."
Refer to Buddhism
under Siege in
Korea and Many
examples are of attacks against Buddhist monasteries and places
of worship.
***
"Religious
peace in our country is being threatened by those who dream of
turning it into a medieval Christian kingdom through a church
elder-president," said Park Jeong Kyu, a
spokesman for the Jogye Order.
Lee, 66,
is an elder at a Presbyterian church in Seoul. Since his election last December, Buddhists
have voiced a rising alarm over the country's conservative
Protestant churches. These churches support Lee, but
they also have irritated many Koreans - not just Buddhists -
with their assertive proselytizing and alleged disregard for
other faiths. In August, tens of thousands of Buddhist
monks and lay people marched in central
Seoul
, accusing Lee and his government of discriminating against
Buddhists and favoring Protestants. Buddhists
complain that of the 16 members of Lee's cabinet, 13 are
Christians while only one is a Buddhist.
Christian
Evangelists, NGOs and INGOs hate anyone or anything being
nationalistic.
Sonia Gandhi,
a devout Italian Catholic who is surrounded by Indian Christians
(Margaret
Alva, CM Rajashekara Reddy & co). Ms.
Sonia Gandhi has taken
care to see that there is not a single Muslim or Sikh in her
personal SPG protection. This was brought out in a story in
Outlook a year ago.
Why
is it that Sonia Gandhi remained silent in the face of the
on-going anti-Christian agitation rocking
India
—she cannot afford to answer questions about her religious
affiliations. But as someone who spares no opportunity to malign
organisations defending Hindu culture and civilisation, Smt
Gandhi must be asked to publicly explain her position on
conversions, especially as prominent Christians are spreading
the canard that the Constitution grants the right to convert. It
does not.
Protestant Lee Myung-bak of Korea has 13 Christians in his
cabinet and only one is Buddhist. Using
the government as a proselytizing tool. Conversion
meant much more than mere change of mode of worship. It cut at
the root of their cultural identity. That is why 150,000 South
Koreans took to streets last month protesting rising conversions
and increasing influence of Christianity. Today
the South Korean Buddhists are up in arms against their
Government for promoting Christianity aggressively because they
find Christianity as destroying their homes and families.
"They
(Christians) don't
respect or recognize other religions."
***
In the
spotlight of the dispute is Lee, who once outraged Buddhists by
vowing, when he was mayor of
Seoul
, to "consecrate" the capital
to the Christian God. In
August, a prominent Protestant minister was invited to say the
prayer at a lunch Lee hosted for the
U.S.
president, George W. Bush, at the presidential Blue House.
Buddhists seized on these and similar episodes to accuse Lee and
Protestant churches of "using the
government as a proselytizing tool."
Buddhism
is 1,600 years old in Korea, but it has lost ground, first to Catholicism and then to
Protestant denominations. Protestantism arrived here with
American missionaries only a century ago but has expanded in the
past several decades.
"They
(Christians) don't
respect or recognize other religions."
Seoul
is home to
11 of the world's 12 largest Christian congregations. Yoido
Full
Gospel
Church, whose chief minister recited the prayer at the Lee-Bush lunch,
boasts 800,000 members. Protestant churches stage all-night
prayer marathons. Their evangelical zeal made news last year,
when 23 Presbyterians were kidnapped in Afghanistan
by the Taliban and two of them were murdered.
The Buddhist furor escalated in recent weeks as videos
circulated on the Internet showing zealous Protestant preachers,
one of whom led his congregation in shouts for the "collapse
of Buddhist temples." In another clip, a
leading preacher, Jang Kyong Dong, says: "Buddhist
monks are wasting their time. They should convert to Jesus. Is
there any Buddhist country in the world that is rich?"
(source: Christian
Buddhist tension in South Korea - iht.com). Refer
to chapter on European
Imperialism
***
How
Norway
Funds Terror in India and Sri Lanka
Norway
is a rabidly evangelical country
that is acting as a poodle of the
US
and allying its international activities with it.
Norway
is acting as the new Crusader of the
Cross in
South Asia
. Its missionaries are majorly active in
Maoist-affected tribal areas of
India
. This is a country that has to be kept at an arms length from
India
and indeed the whole of Indian Subcontinent. All their
liberalism and secularism stops at their own borders. In their
foreign policy and international activities, these are nothing
but Christian crusaders rolling in the mud of Christian
fundamentalism and religious hatred of the pagans.
The
following report has been prepared by Norwegians Against
Terrorism (NAT), an NGO from
Norway
. It shows that instead of acting as an honest mediator,
Norway
is engaged in funding and arming the LTTE. This is no surprise
since the LTTE movement has been hijacked by the church through
conversion of its top leadership. It is now being used as a
cat’s paw against both Hindus and Buddhists of Sri Lanka. No
wonder, White Christians are running amock all over the world in
support of LTTE and dumping on the Sri Lankan government.
They are trying to take over
Sri Lanka
through the LTTE, just like they have taken over
Nepal
through the Maoists (whose top leadership is Christian too).
This
two-bit country from Scandanavia has to be taught a lesson. It is
trying its ”Christian terrorism” trick in
India
too through its missionaries. For example, the Naga
International Support Centre is hosted on a Norwegian
server. Can Indian government cure these crusaders of their
evangelical medievalism and stop them from spreading their
“love” in
India
?
(source:
How
Norway
Funds Terror - indianrealist.wordpress.com).
A
Tiny Christian minority - The Church is the Second Largest Land
owner in India?
India
’s two mighty, internationally-backed
minorities are displaying renewed zeal to respectively dominate
the physical polity and the cultural-civilisational landscape.
The saving grace in the current situation is that the respective
crusades against Hindu civilisation are separate and
distinct—Muslims quietly withdrew support from Christians
after the West stepped up its campaign to demonise Islam, while
humiliating Muslims in occupied Muslim lands.
Tens
of billions of dollars worth of land in India is owned by the
Church, and in Mumbai, the Church is the second largest land
owner, the largest being the Indian military. Most of
this land was given under land grants by the British to the
Church, and by subsequent Indian governments. Such
generosity to a minority religion followed by only 2.5% of the
Indian population has gone unreported. Given
the foreign controlled nexus of the various Churches, this is
tantamount to giving billions of dollars to subsidiaries of
foreign entities that are engaged in social re-engineering of
Indian society. The US government has never
contemplated such generosity towards minority religions,
especially those controlled from overseas.
(source:
Indian
minorities: Exterminatory zeal - By Sandhya Jain and
The
Axis of Neocolonialism - By Rajiv Malhotra - sulekha.com).
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Asymmetric
Evangelism in Polynesia and Kenya
Stripping Natives of their Cultural Identities
 Bilinda Straight a cultural anthropologists
writes about "Killing God"
in the latest volume of Current Anthropology. In this case, the
"god" was a Kenyan divinity
named Nkai. In 1935, an
Anglican missionary, Charles Scudder, fired his gun into the
cave where Nkai was believed to reside. Nkai was thought to have
been vanquished, and the worship of Nkai ended at that site.
Straight also recounts tales of John
Williams, a British missionary to Tahiti
and the
Society Islands
. Williams gathered the sacred relics and "gods" of
different communities, then publicly humiliated them in his
chapel.
The
"gods" were publicly exposed, hanged, burnt, and
possibly shipped back to
England
as curiosities.
Straight points out that there was a double standard at work in
these Christian missions. On one hand, they relied on brute
force and sometimes science to demonstrate the invalidity of the
religions they opposed. The native gods could not stand up to
modern technology, and were therefore defeated. On the other
hand, the missionaries simultaneously
claimed that their Christian god was above scientific scrutiny.
 Christian
missionaries of course understood that the Polynesian
view of divinity was different than the Western view. They told
the Polynesians that the Christian God was mightier than any of
the old gods; he resided in Heaven but his power flowed over the
entire world. As evidence (and understanding their audience)
they demonstrated their military power. A polynesian would be
convinced: these foreign visitors had near-godlike ability to
build and to destroy; clearly their God must be as powerful as
they say He is. A Christian could destroy a native god, and with
that same power could destroy an entire native village with a
handful of men, suggesting that the vanquished god's protection
was indeed worthless against the might of the Christian God. A
native could desecrate a crucifix, but yet the Christians would
remain just as powerful; their claim that their God resided in
the heavens seemed to stand to scrutiny.
(source: Asymmetric
Evangelism - democraticunderground.com).
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Chennai’s Own Holocaust Deniers
The
destruction of Jain and Buddhist temples along with all of the
buildings of the
Kapaleeswarar
Temple
on the Mylapore beach
In
November 2006 Pope Benedict XVI
had categorically stated that St.Thomas never visited South
India.
All
eminent historians writing on colonial India
describe the devastation of Mylapore
and its environs by the Portuguese in the 16th century. The
respected Mylapore archaeologist Dr. R.
Nagaswami, who has worked on San Thome Cathedral with
the Jesuits, tells of the destruction
of Jain and Buddhist temples along with all of the buildings of
the
Kapaleeswarar
Temple
on the Mylapore beach.
Before
him the Portuguese historian Gaspar
Correa describes a holocaust that extended from
Mylapore to Big Mount, south of the
Adyar
River. Even the
St. Thomas
protagonist Archbishop Arulappa admitted
that Hindu temples once stood on the sites now occupied by St.
Thomas–related churches in
Madras
, at Mylapore, Saidapet, and Big Mount now called St. Thomas
Mount.
 But
the true story about the annihilation of Mylapore,
the ancient Hindu and Buddhist pilgrimage town established long
before the Christian era, is not to be told by today's
self-appointed guardians of Chennai heritage. The truth is not
overtly denied, it is simply not admitted, and is covertly
replaced by a fabulous Christian tale about St. Thomas coming to
Mylapore in 64 C.E. and getting himself killed eight years later
on Big Mount. The tale turns the victims of a holocaust into the
slayers of an important Christian saint, the doubting apostle of
the Gospels, and–yes!–the twin brother of Jesus, no less.
With this story to cover up the true story of Mylapore, Hindus
can be made into “Christ
killers” just like the Jews
before them, and treated accordingly—damned and reviled by the
Christian power then, the Portuguese, and damned and censored by
the Christian power now, the Americans who, like the Portuguese,
use Christianity to give them moral authority for their imperial
expeditions, and as a means to gain influence and sympathy
through converts in an India that they wish to dominate.
Refer to The
Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple -
hamsa.org) and Victims
of Christian Faith.
The main
champion of St. Thomas in Madras today, besides the Catholic
Church who owns the shrines and collects the money, is the Sri
Lanka-returned journalist and producer of picture books, S.
Muthiah, who got his stripes sitting at the feet of the
notorious Indian Express columnist Harry Miller, Muthiah's
current patron is The Hindu,
an obloquial communist rag that is known up and down Mount Road
as “The Dinosaur” because it is big and old and dumb, and
makes so much noise as it lumbers along through the capitalist
swamps of secular, socialist India. Its editor is an ideological
Neanderthal called N. Ram. His
forte is “secularism” which, in today's political parlance,
means he is anti-national and anti-Hindu. He believes
that China is the great leader and assiduously follows the
Chinese two-systems system in his newspaper–economic freedom
and political oppression for all. His opinion columns are filled
with gloom and doom, and the rest of the paper is given over to
the celebration of consumer goods for the urban rich. One of the
special items for sale on January 7th, 2004, was the tale of St.
Thomas in an article called “The Mount of Thomas” by S.
Muthiah.
(source: Chennai’s
Own Holocaust Deniers - christianaggression.com
and The
Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple -
hamsa.org). Also refer to
Catholic
Priests Molest Third World Nuns to Avoid AIDS
The
Anti-Christ -
Attempt
at Critique of Christianity - By Friedrich Nietzsche
[1895] Translated by Walter Kaufmann.
For more refer to chapter on
European
Imperialism and
Glimpses_XV
and Christianity
Dying In The West?
- By M S N Menon -
organiser.org.
Refer
to Fraudulent
myth of the tomb of St Thomas - IV
and The
Swami Devananda Saraswati Interview with Rajeev Srinivasan -
christianaggression.org. Refer to One
of the ‘holiest’ subterranean alliances in the history of
Christianity in India! - vivekjyoti.blogspot.com.
***
Evangelisation
and methods of blasphemous distortions
A Tamil weekly magazine has reported the following in its
latest issue (dated 14th November 2008):
'On Friday 24 October, the devotees of the world famous 'Sri
Kapalishwarar Temple' Mylapore,
Chennai were literally shocked when they were given
five booklets each containing defamatory write-ups about Hinduism,
Vedas, Vedic heritage, Hindu Shastras, Hindu culture &
tradition, Sabarimala Ayyappan and denigrating
articles on Sage Thirumoolar, Nayanmars
and others, by a bunch of mean-minded Christian evangelists just
in front of the Temple entrance! For example, in the book titled
'Light in darkness', it is
written that, the word 'Sadhaa' in the verse 'Sadhaa
Shivaaya' means 'forever' and there is only one God, who blesses
and takes care of this world forever, and he is 'Jesus' and the
verse 'Sadhaa Shivaaya' denotes only him! All the five books are
said to have contained more defamatory stories about Hindu Gods
and Religious Gurus. Many people have called up this magazine
and sent mails to it giving complete details about what happened
in front of the temple that day'.
Evangelization
and methods of blasphemous distortions - Light in darkness and
Sacred Ash? Or, The Cross? and Hindu hating atheist Tamilnadu
Chief Minister Karunanidhi. He
who waxed eloquent on the 'supposed' history of St.Thomas,
despite having excellent knowledge on Thiruvalluvar and
Thirukkural.
Refer to
The
Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple -
hamsa.org and Victims
of Christian Faith.
***
Incidentally,
the Santhome Cathedral stands
on the ruins of the original
Kapalishvarar
Temple
, which was destroyed by the Portuguese
invaders and now the evangelical
invaders are trying to destroy the Hindu culture and religion in
front of this reconstructed
Kapalishvarar
Temple
.
This outrageous incident has brought out the following
facts:
- The
evangelists have the temerity to distribute blasphemous
literatures and conduct a hate-campaign against Hinduism,
that too in front of a very famous historic temple.
- The
minority appeasement policies of a 'minority' government,
which openly said that it is committed to the welfare of
minorities, and its anti-majority stand have emboldened
these evangelists to indulge in this kind of illegal
activity.
- The
policemen who have been posted near the temple for security
(Mylapore temple is under terror threat) have turned a blind
eye to this venomous act, probably due to fear motivation
from the 'minority' government or money motivation from the
evangelists.
- The
Hindus have just exposed their 'dhimmitude' by remaining
passive without acting against those evangelists. Sadly, not
even one devotee has exhibited the courage to lodge a police
complaint against them. The traders near the temple have not
bothered to drive away those Christian rapscallions.
Certainly the number of devotees must have easily
outnumbered those evangelists and they must have caught them
with their collars and taken them to the Mylapore police
station. Instead of doing all this, some people have written
to this particular weekly magazine.
Similarly, in
Coimbatore
, on 24 September, five staff of Chennai based '
East Coast
Christian
Matriculation
School
' have been arrested by the police for distributing
blasphemous literatures propagating Christianity and degrading
Hindu Gods and engaging in evangelisation. The police action has
been prompted by the complaint given by the local people
belonging to BJP and Hindu Makkal Katchi, who caught those
evangelists and took them to the nearby police station.
Ironically those evangelists have asked the students (most of
them are Hindus) to distribute those pamphlets and the innocent
students have obeyed the order out of fear. This has been done
while taking the students on an excursion (study tour) to Ooty.
If this is the way study tours are conducted by a
Christian
School
, one can imagine the standard of education imparted by it.
In this context, it must be noted that in most of the
schools run by the various Christian denominations, Hindu
students (who obviously are more in number) are not allowed to
sport 'Thilaks' on their
forehead and girl students are not allowed to have flowers on
their heads. Last year a boy was reprimanded and sent out by the
management of a Christian school in Chennai city for having
applied 'Mehendi' in his
palms. His parents were made to run from pillar to post to
reinstate him. In another school in Dindigul, some boys, who
were 'fasting' for Sabarimala pilgrimage,
were allowed to write their examinations only after having a
haircut and removing their 'Tulasi
Maalaas'. In certain schools 'Bible'
is being taught and the Hindu students are forced to
attend such classes. The parent community is also aware of these
kinds of tortures undergone by their wards, but they prefer to
keep quiet in the fear that their wards' education would be
affected.
Recently in a Church in Kakkan Nagar, in the Ambedkar slum
dwellings of Adambakkam, a Chennai suburb, the pastor, during
morning prayers, had openly ridiculed the practice of Abishekams
of Amman Deities
saying that 'they are nude & naked
worships performed with an erotic motive'. As the
Pastor was addressing a group of 'converts', his blasphemous
speech was heard by the slum dwellers through loud speakers. A
Hindu woman, who was drawing drinking water from a nearby
Municipal water-pump, got outraged by the blasphemous speech,
threw out the water from her vessel and filled it with gutter
from the nearby ditch and threw it inside the Church. Only then
the Hindu men realised the seriousness of the issue and
reportedly damaged the windowpanes of the Church. The Pastor
lodged a police complaint and the police promptly booked those
Hindus, who damaged the windowpanes, and the Pastor, who was the
real culprit as per the law of the land, went Scot-free!
These incidents may look like isolated due to the fact that
the Hindus rarely exhibit courage to take on those evangelists,
but these strategies adopted by the Church and missionaries are
a regular phenomenon going on for years in the state. Mariamman
and Aiyappan
are two Deities, which attract millions of devotees,
particularly the Scheduled Castes, as evidenced by the Sabarimala
pilgrimage and Melmaruvaththur
pilgrimage. Since the SCs are the targeted audience
of the evangelists, the Churches come out with literatures,
pamphlets and books denigrating Goddess
Amman and Swami Aiyappan
and ridiculing their worship.
An evangelist by name Dr
Theivanayagam has founded an organisation by name 'Diravida
Aanmeega Iyakkam' (Movement of Dravidian Spiritualism) to
spread the concept of 'Thomas
Christianity', in the name of 'Aadhi
Christhuvam' (Early Christianity). Through this
concept, he attempts to project Shivisim
and Vishnavism as sub
sects of Christianity. He wrote a book titled 'Vivliyam
(Bible), Thirukkural, Saiva Siddantham - Oppu Ayvu' (Comparative
Research) and published it in 1985-86 and has been
steadfastly campaigning on this concept since then. Very
recently, he convened 'Agila Ulaga
Dravida Samaya Maanaadu' (International Dravidiyan Spiritual
conference) under the aegis of Mylapore diocese, in
which the following blasphemous distortions were projected as
researched facts:
- 'Aadhi
Christhuvam' (Early Christianity) was promulgated and
established in Tamilnadu by St.Thomas is the original
religion of the Tamils.
- The
Aryan invaders distorted Thoams Christianity and conceived
new concepts called Shivism and Vishnavism and hence they
must be treated as the sub sects of Thomas Christianity.
- The
'holy trinity' of 'Father-Son-Holy Spirit' is denoted by
'Shiva-Muruga-Shakthi' and the same is also denoted by 'Brahmma-Vishnu-Rudran'
- The
'holy trinity' concept has beautified the Indian Religions.
The 'Holy Spirit-Father' combination can be identified with
'Arthanarishvarar' and 'Sankaranarayanar' formations.
- St.Thomas's
teachings were abounding in Thirukkural and Sage
Thiruvalluvar was a disciple of St.Thomas.
All
these things go to show that a sustained campaign has been going
on for years and the momentum keeps on increasing with foreign
aids and local support. The Dravidian political parties, which
are bent on alienating the Tamils from the Hindu fold, have been
aiding and abetting these anti-Hindu forces and this unholy
nexus between them is creating havoc in the society. Though the
Religious Gurus are deeply concerned about the speedy
developments in this area of evangelisation and the alarming
rate of conversion going on in the state, they feel helpless and
fear the Dravidian rulers. So, the onus lies purely on political
and social Hindu organisations to take legal actions against
persons like Deivanayagam and their organisations for destroying
the Hindu cultural heritage and Religious traditions posing a
danger to communal harmony.
Evangelism
has gone beyond the limits of tolerance by abusing the
constitutional provisions for freedom of religion and the
general public must also be aware of their moral responsibility
to act against those who indulge in blasphemy against their
religion and the government machineries must also act as per the
rule of law instead of dancing to the tunes of political
masters.
Many
such blasphemous distortions
were presented in the conference. Close on the heels of the
conference the inauguration of the Rs.50 crore production of a
movie on St.Thomas was also conducted. The Chief Guest of the
inauguration was none other than the Tamilnadu
Chief Minister Karunanidhi, who waxed eloquent on the
'supposed' history of St.Thomas, despite having excellent
knowledge on Thiruvalluvar and
Thirukkural. Dr Deivanayagam has recently
released a book titled 'Thiruneeraa,
Siluvaiya?' (Sacred Ash? Or, The Cross?), in which,
he has again brought out blasphemous distortions.
A
few examples are given below:
- The
Hindu practice of applying 'sacred ash' on the forehead has
actually started from 'Ash Wednesday' the first day of the
'Penance' (lent-days). The sacred ash comprises within it
all the three stages of 'Death, Resurrection & Pardon
due to the fact that the 'ash' cannot be destroyed, as how
the resurrected body cannot be destroyed.
- When
Visnavism got separated from Shivism, the
style of applying sacred ash was changed from horizontal
pattern to vertical pattern.
- Shiva
is supposed to have given his left half to Shakthi.
If that left half is worshipped as woman, it becomes Shivism
and if the same is worshipped as man it becomes Vishnavism.
- 'Thiruneetru
Pathigam', a collection of Shivite Hymns sung by Sage Thirugnaana
Sambandhar comprises a number of messages of
Christianity.
- All
Shivite literatures namely 'Thirumurai', 'Thevaram', 'Thiruvasagam'
and 'Thirupathigam' do not talk about the four Vedas
namely Rig, Yajur, Sama and Adharvana. Also,
as they carry the messages of Christ the 'Bible' is the only
'Veda'.
(source: Evangelisation
and methods of blasphemous distortions - By B R Haran -
newstodaynet.com).
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