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Posted on: 24-07-06 22:26:36
Dear gb0000..........
Hinduism believes in practicing not preaching. A Hindu is born not made. What irks the people of other faith is the tenor and aggesssion.
This is the statement from an indigenous women during the days of apartheid in South Africa.
"When they(Missionaries) arrived they had Bible we had land. They asked us to close our eyes and prey. When we opened our eyes they have land and we have Bible."
The first and worst victim of Evangelist is the indegineous culture and people.
Hinduism is good for upper castes especially brahmins. Bad for lower castes.
This is my personal opinion.
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Originally posted by shankaracharya
Balaji please save yourself in this secular country before you become history in this cyber world.
Seems like Vinod Khanna trying to make a crusade against Amitabh Bachhan
hmmmm!!!!
Meghal
Christianity and Conversion in India http://india.indymedia.org/en/2003/02/3105.shtml
Gandhi was one of those Hindus who had studied the scriptures of all the important religions with open mind and without prejudice. During his prayer meetings, parts of the Bible were read out and at times Psalms were sung along with ‘bhajans’. The Sermon on the Mount “went straight to his heart” he used to say. During his life-time Gandhi had developed friendship with several Christians. Some of them had become his followers like C.F. Andrews, Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur; Madeleine Slade (Mirabehn), and J.C. Kumarappa, to name just a few. The great French writer and philosopher Romain Rolland (who also wrote Gandhi’s biography) used to call Gandhi a ‘second Christ’. In fact Gandhi had shocked the Christian world by living like Jesus without being a Christian. Like Jesus he disowned all property as well as his relatives; became a celebate at the age of thirty seven, lived a simple life adorned by Truth and like Jesus he had gathered around him followers (apostles) who were prepared to do his bidding without demur. His life-style and his preachings added to his charisma. He had become a phenomenon, an enigma, a saint worshipped by millions of people in India.
Christian missionaries were greatly tempted to convert a man like Gandhi. They thought that if Gandhi was converted millions of his followers will automatically follow suit
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You know you are a desi when ........ You spew forth the virtues of India, but don't want to live there...............You've never had a tanning salon membership
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Originally posted by Loser
Christianity and Conversion in India http://india.indymedia.org/en/2003/02/3105.shtml
Nice link:
'Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles.'
This is exactly what I meant when I said in my last post that
Its my personal belief that anyone **capable** of really understanding hinduism would not convert to any other religion.
If the defenders of the 'hindu rashtra' could focus on this aspect of Hinduism instead of the 'born hindu'(sure, hindu newborns have a trishul inscribed on their foreheads...please!) variety, they would have nothing to fear from any other religion. The reason people convert is probably because they only know the rituals and rites aspect of hinduism rather than the philosophy and the spirituality aspects behind the rites and rituals. Maybe those who are not capable of understanding the depth of hindu philosophy are better off as converts anyway(I dont say this in a condescending way).
Bottomline...let people choose whats right for them. Superficial Indegineous culture and people are always under threat from everything including washing machines and a booming economy. Deep spiritual roots can withstand external pressures better.
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Caste system is not a Hindu thing, it is more the way the society was.
Even in Europe there was the landed gentry (Zamindar) , the priest class the warriors (Knights) and the peasents.
They had no plumbing so the "night soil" was removed by hand by some peasent.
The differnece is in Europe due to Industrilisation everything got done by machines.
Now in Canada a famer alone takes care of 160 acres whereas in india even a farmer with 50 acres needs labourers for his field. So being a lobour intensive country there is a large (300 million) class of poor people living on daily wages on farm.
This is the target group of religous conversion from the days of Babar till today.
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You know you are a desi when ........ You spew forth the virtues of India, but don't want to live there...............You've never had a tanning salon membership
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
Sankaracharya,
There was a show on Benny Hinn's programme (This is your day ! CTV) 12 months back when the chief minister's son-in-law (a Christian Evangelist) was interviewed. The son in law talked about christians and christianity in India . This also prompted Benny Hinn to choose Hyderabad as a venue for his proposed massive crusade in Hyderabad around Dec. 10th. of this year. I am sure that the Son-in-law and the Chief minister of AP will be there at his crusade like when Deva Gowda was at the Benny Hinn's crusade at Bangalore.
TK A
TK feels Benny Hinn's trips are Crusades !!!!!!!!!
