Wednesday, September 24, 2008

The Beam In Your Eye: Two kinds of Christianity

sep 23rd, 2008

kamath is being too kind. there is only kind of christism: the satanic kind. they are into devil-worship, as their yhwh is actually lucifer -- and i am not making this up. their god is their devil, too. yhwh is the demon ialdoboath who usurped the title of god, and this is why the bugger is so insecure and jealous.

christists are not the problem; christism is.

those christists who have left christism are absolutely wonderful people; historical examples include many of the founding fathers of the US, such as jefferson, paine, et al, who have said extraordinarily truthful things about christism. one of them said that when he started tearing out pages in the bible that were offensive, cruel, inhuman, depraved, etc., he found that he was left with nothing between the covers.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: A


The Beam In Your Eye
 
M. V. Kamath.
 
I have often wondered whether Christians realise how much offence their
missionaries give to non-Christians in India, mainly Hindus, by their
activities.
There are two kinds of Christianity. One is that of simple god-fearing
people who go to church, say their prayers, do what little they can for
lessening the suffering or ignorance of their fellow citizens, and be at
peace with the world around them. They are respected, loved and
honoured.
The other is the 'Institutional Christianity', which came to India with
the marauding Portuguese in the 16th century. It is this Christianity
that has been causing trouble in India in recent times.
The argument adduced by Institutional Christianity is that it is God's
command that his good word be spread all over the world. They insist on
their 'right' to convert people becuase God ordained that people must be
converted. Such an attitude is insulting to non-Christians.
Some time in late January, the South Asian correspondent of Le Figaro,
France's most popular newspaper, wrote a scathing peice against
missionary activity in the Hindustan Times. Francois Gautier must have
felt really incensed at the insensitivity of Indian Christians.
More recently, Jon Stock, New Delhi correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
(a London paper) wrote a revelatory piece in the Spectator, another
British journal, about the activities of missionaries in India. Put
simply, Stock wrote, "The Indian subcontinent has become the principal
target for a wide range of western Christian missions determined to
spread the Gospel to India's 'unreached' people before the year 2000."
Christian missions in the US have become particularly nasty and
offensive.
Stock quotes what the US-based Bethany World Prayer Centre has been
writing about Hinduism. Any American who wants to pray for the Ho
tribals of south Bihar and northern Orissa, for example, is given a
photo, he says, a detailed map and a description of how tribals live and
what they believe in, with the suggestion: "Pray against the spirits of
animism and Hinduism that have kept the Ho in spiritual darkness for
centuries." Stock comments: "Bethany's exhortation to pray against
animism and Hinduism is hardly a mark of respect." He's being kind. I
call that a downright insult to Hinduism. But we are not supposed to
protest.
Then Stock quotes 'The Native Missionary Movement in India' as saying
about Orissa: "Satan has successfully camouflaged his grip on the people
of Orissa with a thin veneer of religion." Is Hinduism satanic? As for
'AD 2000 and Beyond,' it says that Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest city, is
full of temples dedicated to Shiva, "an idol whose symbol is a phallus.
Many consider the city the very seat of Satan." Why are our Indian
Bishops quiet in this matter?
But Stock goes further. He writes: "Hundreds and thousands of dollars
are being channelled into India through well-organised US-based
evangelica missions. The meticulously researched ethnographic data they
are compiling on the region ensures that funds (as well as prayers) are
being directed with military precision ot the right places, even to
specific PIN codes, in remote tribal districts."
Stock quotes 'AD 2000 and Beyond' as saying: "God is allowing us to spy
on the land that we might go in and claim both it and its inhabitants
for Him." The kind of language being used by US evangelical missions to
describe Hinduism is appaling. But there is not a word of apology from
our Christian bishops.
According to Suresh Kumar Unnithan, writing in the Observer (March 23),
"A detailed strategy for massive conversion of tribals, Dalits and
backward classes and large-scale church planting was formulated at a
meeting of church and missionary leaders in Bhpal recently."
Unnithan quotes a document prepared by one Dr. Victor Choudrie,
co-ordinator of 'Harvest Consultant' (a proselytisation programme of the
Protestant Church) and present at the meeting, as saying that "the goal
is to plant about 30,000 churches and reach over 10 million 'unreached'
in the state by the year 2007." According to the report "MP has 70
million people in 70,000 villages and only 70,000 Christian families. We
should strive to have one church in every village by 2010."
I call this Institutional Christianity and it seems to be hell bent on
creating trouble in the name of religion. And the money for all these
church-building activities comes from the USS, where Christianity hardly
exists. Fro that matter, what sort of Christianity exists in Europe? In
Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are at each others' throats. Not one
of Christ's preachings are practised anywhere. Germans sent god alone
knows how millions Jews to death during the Nazi era. The French ravaged
Vietnam and Nigeria. Italians almost destroyed Ethiopia. The record of
the Spaniards is despicable as is that of the Portuguese. Americans
almost levelled Vietnam - a small nation that had done them no harm - to
dust.
Is this Christianity in action? And they have the cheek to come to India
to instruct us in pacifist ways? Eurpoean Christianity is the very
antithesis of Christianity. It is an insult to Christ. US evangelists
dare not send money to support proselytisation in Muslim countries. Let
them try to do so in any Muslim country and they would know what would
happen. In India we allow our religion to be trampled upon, our gods
insulted - all in the name of secularism.
I would like to know what Sonia Gandhi thinks of all this and what her
Indian National Congress Party's veiws are on this matter.
The government needs to be warned in advance so there is not repetition
of the Staines incident. The missionaries need to be told to cry a halt
to their activities. And foreign church bodies should be told to lay
off.
The point can be made that if non-resident Indians can support the
International Hindu Council (Vishwa Hindu Parishad or VHP) financially,
why shouldn't foreign Church bodies finance Indian churches?
The point is that these expatriates are not attempting to convert
Christians. In any event, it is a matter of Indians supporting Indians.
The people needing conversions are Europeans and Americans. We do not
need US-style or European-style Christianity in India; thank you. We are
quite happy and at peace with the local variety.
 

2 comments:

ramesh said...

u are absolutelty right. This religion is actually "devil worship." or what in sanskrit will be termed "asura marga." Their is no other explanation for its terrible history and for the fact that most of its so-called saints were largely a bunch of psychopaths, perverts, sodomizers, and power and gold hungry fanatics. No other relgion (not even Islam) has indulged in som much bloodletting as Christianity, right uptil the 20th century. In some ways this religion is even more dangerous & insidious than that other plague on mankind -- Islam.

Shahryar said...

Swami Vivekananda during his historic visit to the U.S., a hundred years earlier, wrote: "Part of the Sunday School education for children here consists in teaching them to hate everybody who is not a Christian, and the Hindus especially, so that, from their very childhood they may subscribe their pennies to the missions .... What is meant by those pictures in the school-books for children where the Hindu mother is painted as throwing her children to the crocodiles in the Ganga? The mother is black, but the baby is painted white, to arouse more sympathy and get more money. What is meant by those pictures which paint a man burning his own wife at a stake with his own hands, so that she may become a ghost and torment the husband's enemy? .... If all India stands up, and takes all the mud that is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean and throws it up against the Western countries, it will not be doing an infinitesmal part of that which you are doing to us."