In his explosive new book The Armies Of God: A Study In Militant Christianity, British-born, Malaysia-based academic Iain Buchanan blows the lid off a subject that most scholars and journalists tend to shy away from: the rise of US evangelism as a force in global affairs.
His book looks at how some of the powerful evangelical outfits operate — often as US government proxies — in countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, and of course, India, and the disastrous effects this has had on the relationship between the Christian West and non-Christian cultures, religious communities and nations. He also unmasks the role played by the seemingly secular 'success motivation' industry, and its leadership gurus such as Zig Ziglar and Ken Blachard, who are not only management experts but also conscious agents of US-style Christian evangelism. Excerpts from an interview:
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Dr. Nikhil Gupta, an instructor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, says his team is working on a proprietary technology to use coal fly ash to cut the weight of steel or aluminum without compromising the strength of the metal.
(I believe India is sitting on mountains of this fly ash).
"it's pretty evident that xtism is an expression of white imperialism"
True but with certain qualifications. There is nothing intrinsically "white" about Xtianity. Jesus and Paul if they existed at all were Jews from ME.
The first victims of Christian fanaticism and genocides were mainly "white" (i.e Greeks, Romans, Germanics, Balts etc). Lithuania used to be "heathen" as late as the 16th century.
Like all converted peoples they have selective amnesia and their governments also realized how Christianism can be used to perpetuate imperialism today just as it has been used in the past.
Same thing with Islam, the pagan Arabs opposed the cult but were defeated in battles. There was even a war of apostacy after Muhammad's death called Riddah. Soon they found the new cult to be politically expedient and began to go along with it.
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