Shattered Truth

Orissa Clash and Christian Missionaries

The recent clashes between Hindus and Christians in Orissa during Christmas where many churches were burned again shed light on the complexity of religious conditions in India. As usual, the Hindus and Hindu organizations are being blamed. But before entering these games to blame, it is important to point out the facts.

Orissa has been a favorite destination of Christian missionaries for proselytizing.
Illegal Conversions being carried out by the missionaries in the tribal areas. In Kandhamal District alone the Christian population has increased from 6% in 1970 to 27% in 2001, despite a law enacted by the Orissa Legislature in 1967 to prevent conversion of seduction, coercion, bribery and cheating1. On the eve of Christmas, the community had organized for a mass conversion "in a tribal camp area.2 When Hindu majority Indian tribes under the leadership of SWMI Lakshmanananda protested against of this, he was attacked. It all started from this unprovoked attack by the Christian goons on Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati who was visiting the village of his disciples in Darsingbadi Kandhmal District on December 24.

The issue again highlights the ugly face of religious fundamentalism in this case Christian fundamentalism. This raises the questions about the motive and inspiration behind the "proselytizing."

Missionary work are not new. According to the documents of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, the Biblical authority for missions begins quite early in Genesis 12:1-3, where Abraham is blessed so that through him and offspring, all peoples "of the world would be blessed. Others point to the will of God, often expressed in the Bible, that all peoples of the earth will worship him. Therefore, Christian missions go where worship is not, so that the worship of God.3 In the 16th century, the Asian proselyization was linked to the Portuguese colonial policy. As soon as Christianity came to power, pagan temples were closed and out of use and revenues transferred to the Church. "We order that all their (pagan) Fanes, temples, shrines, if even now any remain at all will be destroyed by the command of judges "was the order of the day. (Code of Theodosius, 380 AD). In Britain and Germany, the priests and the monks moved to destroy forests and sanctuaries of the people. The last regions to lose their religions in Europe Prussia and the Baltic States.

Change in attempts to eliminate the infidels and heretics often proved to be insufficient, so the Holy Inquisition was created by Pope Gregory IX in 1231 to make the efforts more organized and efficient. Burning was quickly decided on the official punishment. In 1245, the Pope gave Inquisitors the right to absolve their assistants of any acts of violence that may be committed in the performance of their duties. Torture of suspects was authorized by Pope Innocent IV in 1252. The Inquisition was not limited to Europe, as Spanish brought to the Americas and used it to punish the native inhabitants. Through the 1500s, 879 trials for heresy occurred in Mexico alone.4 The historian Hernando del Pulgar estimated that the Spanish Inquisition had burned at the stake 2,000 people and reconciled another 15,000 by 1490 only a decade after the Inquisition began. (Quoted in Kamen op. Cit., P. 62.). Zumárraga, first bishop of Mexico, written in 1531, stated that he personally destroyed over 500 temples and 20,000 idols heathens.5 The Goa Inquisition, which lasted from 1560 to 1812 is considered as the most violent inquisition ever executed by the Portuguese Catholic Church. procedures of the Inquisition were held behind closed blinds always and doors closed. The Hindus were interrogated brutally beaten, and slowly dismembered in front of their families. The eyelid was cut and the limbs were amputated carefully6. Viceroy D Constantine de Braganza issued an order on April 2, 1560, instructing that Brahmins should be thrown out of Goa and other areas under Portuguese control.7 late 1567, 300 Hindu temples were destroyed.8

These incidents are not just something to read on the pages of history, but it is much happening today. Laxmanananda Saraswati Swami said: "There was no problem when Christians were not here in Paikia. With an increasing number, the force took the Hindu girls and forced the neo-converts to eat beef. They set several temples on fire. Be Birupakhya Mahadev temple or temple or my Ashram Malarimaha Rupagoan Christians conspired to set them on fire. They threw mortal remains of cows in Mandirs. Goddess Dharani Mata Kondh tribal places of worship in several villages were violated. The sacred sword in a Bramhanigaon temple was forcibly taken away by the converts who melted the sword in public and prepared their weapons with that looted material "9

The report Lausanne "Christian Witness to Hindus," they said in the details of the methods to be taken to convert the various sections of Hindus. Discuss on Evangelism Rural, Urban Evangelism and Student Evangelism. They explain how "miracle cure" helps to convert people. Dan the strategies to be used for media use, social gatherings, and seminars for its advantage.10

The report gave details of how Niyogi had been produced in which Western countries with the total of Rs. 29.27 crores received by Christian missions in India from January 1950 to June 1954. Notes that U.S. United Kingdom, Canada and France contributed about 21 million rupees, Rs 5 million, 2 million rupees and lakhs 8, respectively. The report revealed that the greatest part of this foreign money was ostensibly for the maintenance of educational and medical institutions was spent on proselytization. It has been argued, the report said that most of the amount will be used for the creation of a class of professional proselytizers, both foreign and Indian. There were 480 foreign missionaries working in Madhya Pradesh at that time. Out of them as much as 236 were Americans. The report gave specific examples of how mission schools were used to influence young minds. Harijan and Adivasi students was the subject of special attention. They were given free boarding, lodging and books, that they attended Christian prayers. Bible classes were required to be considered as absent throughout the day, students who could not be present in those classes. School celebrations were used to show the victory of the cross over all other symbols. The hospitals were used to put pressure on poor class patients to embrace Christianity. The richest of the harvest, without But it was harvested in mission orphanages which collected orphans during famines and other natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes. "No wonder" the report noted, "That the greatest number of converts is such backward classes living in areas where, due to various causes only schools and hospitals there Mission. Most conversions have been doubtless insincere certainly produced in the hopes of social services and other material considerations "11

Christianity has been following a policy of "inculturation." This means that it adopted the pagan elements in Christianized form with To facilitate the transition from paganism to Christianity. Pagan gods became Christian saints. Pagan festivals became Christian festivals. In this process of inculturation, the Christian Church in forms appropriate to their age new message, but said that through the Pagan veneer the Christian doctrine was impressed by converts12. "Indigenization" says Kaj Baag, is evangelization. This is the seed of the gospel in another culture, another philosophy, another religion.13 " In case of India, "inculturation" or "indigenization" means "the incorporation of Jesus in the spiritual tradition of India '. P.. Beda said: "In India we have a Christian and a Christian Yoga Vedanta is a system of theology which makes use not only of the terms and concepts, but the whole structure of thought of the Vedanta "14

Sita Ram Goel divide between Hindus and Christians meeting in 5 phases. The first phase began with the arrival of Portuguese and San Francisco Javier, which uses all crude and violent methods of proselytism. This ended with the end of Portuguese rule. The second phase began the establishment of British rule, where the language and methods of the missionaries was as raw as before, but were not allowed to use physical methods. This ended with the rise of Hindu reform movements of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Dayananda Saraswathi and Swami Vivekananda. The third phase began with the arrival of Mahatma Gandhi and his slogan of sarva-dharma-samabhava forcing Christian missions to change and soften their language. This phase ended with the Conference of the International Missionary Council Tambram (IMC) in 1938, which decided to reformulate Christian theology in the context of India. The fourth phase, which began with the arrival of Independence, where the Right Christian to convert Hindus joined in the Constitution. The missionary apparatus multiplies rapidly and became dominant. Christianity has never done so well in its history in India. The gap only in the lute was the "Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities" published by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, in 1956, and Bill Om Prakash Tyagi in "Freedom of Religion 'introduced in the Lok Sabha in December 1978. The fifth phase is currently running began with the Hindu awakening that resulted in Ram Janmabhumi movement.15

During this long period of contact between Hindus and Christians, followers only language and methods "of Jesus has changed, but the reason has always remained the same. Lausanne report in its introduction says:" We thank God Almighty for his act of grace of salvation in Jesus Christ, which has allowed the entry into the Kingdom of God for more than 565 million Hindu people dispersed throughout the world, with most in the Indian subcontinent.
We rejoice in the fact that the saving Word of God preached faithfully by God's servants has brought about a Christian population of approximately 19 million people in India. However, we know that God desires that all Indian people to know Jesus Christ and live by these words of his Lordship16 "rule clear that the sole purpose of the missions have been Christianization of the world including India and in the process of destroying the world's cultures.

This desire Christianize the whole world due to the fact that the doctrines of Christianity are intolerant of other religions. The biblical God is jealous and violent. It is assumed that Jesus means "Peace" and the message of Christianity is peace and equality. But the Bible says:
"Think not that I came to bring peace on earth: I came not to send peace but a sword." (Matthew 10/34)
'God is jealous and avenging God, the Lord vengeful and full of indignation, the Lord will take revenge on his enemies, and he reserveth wrath of his enemies. (Nahum, 1 / 2)
The biblical God is intolerant, ask their followers to torture non-believers, to break the idols and images.
And since they were not killed, but should be tormented five months, and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
(Rev. 9 / 5)
But thus shall ye deal with them, then you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. (Deuteronomy, 7 / 5)
If a man remains in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered, and men gather them and throw them on fire and burned. (John 15 / 6)

It is this intolerance that inspired the "Followers of Jesus" to commit great crimes. The source of proselytization by force and fraud is in the Christian doctrines, which have been criticized much by Nietzsche, Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bertrand Russell. But it is still common in the brigade secular to say "all religions are equal." How can you equate a religion which is so intolerant, whose God is jealous and tyrant and an exclusive religion like Hinduism which is tolerant, inclusive and spread peace? The best solution to counter the Christian threat is against Christian dogma, which is the source of proselytism.

"Auspicious to all, peace be to all;
Wholeness are all prosperity, is all.
May all be happy! That all free disabilities!
May all hope that the good of others!
Let no one suffer from pain "(Shanti Mantra)

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3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_ (Christian)

4 http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/christian/blfaq_viol_inquisition.htm

5 http://www.voiceofdharma.org/books/ca/app5.htm

6 http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=ARTICLES&id=1111142225

7 http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/mar/16gupta.htm

8 http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=ARTICLES&id=1111142225

9 http://www.blogs.ivarta.com/india-usa-blog-column59.htm

10 http://www.lausanne.org/pattaya-1980/lop-14.html

11 Niyogi Committee Report On Christian missionary activities published by the Government Madhya Pradesh in 1956

12 Salvation: Hindu influence on Christianity by Dr. Koenraad Elst.

13 Kaj Baag, pioneers of Christianity Indian Madras, 1969, p. 85

14 Bede Griffiths, op. cit., p. 24.

15 http://www.voiceofdharma.org/books/ncr/2one.htm

16 http://www.lausanne.org/pattaya-1980/lop-14.html Int #

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