Hindu-Christian tensions rising and are here to stay
With Christian missionaries invading India in hordes and converting Indians by deceitful and shameful means, tensions with the majority Hindu population were only waiting to happen. The trigger was the cowardly murder of four swamis in a Hindu ashram in Orissa this week. Understandably, all the pent-up anger against the mushrooming Christian population gave way to riots. Hindus went about burning prayer halls - the tiny, thatched-roof churches that missionaries build in every village as soon as they convert one villager.
It was extremely disappointing to me when I was touring southern Tamil Nadu last year to see entire villages converted. I knew this because every house in these villages sport a prominent cross on their outer wall. The money for these decorations and building churches come from wealthy Western countries, of course. The rate at which these missionaries are changing India’s religious demography is not only alarming but also dangerous. It is only inevitable that riots will ensue, as they have in Orissa.
Hardly five state governments have passed laws against unethical conversions. When such a law is passed, Christians protest in huge numbers decrying Indian secularism and the Hindu elite is only too supportive to better their personal image. These laws do not ban conversions totally, but are only framed against conversions based on bribery, cheating or violence. It is therefore perplexing that any intelligent person would be against such a law.
When riots inevitably result, everyone points a finger at the Hindus without trying to understand or resolve the underlying cause. The missionaries, who are themselves youth, students, families or priests from the West enter India on tourist visas which specifically prohibit conversion activities. Yet they indulge in these illegal activities and should on any legal count be put behind bars. The underlying cause of Hindu-Christian tensions being the rate of conversion activity, the government should try to limit the rate instead of alienating the majority Hindu population. But of course, political parties in India are too busy vying for votes and any minority that forms a vote bank is looked upon by these parties as a group to pocket by appeasement.
While any riots are not to be condoned simply because they result in harm to life and property, tackling the underlying issue will go a long way instead of reacting to the riots per se.
Have you suffered from Christian persecution or seen your poor neighbours converted? Share your story or opinion below.
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Hi all,
It is time to know reality what is happening in Hinduism and Christianity. It is not problem with either Hindusim or Christinity. Both are great religions to follow. But in every religions there are some people who misinterpret what each religions says. Because of this mindset some times the other religions has pay more including their lives. There is history saying: in riots hindus are killed and christians are killed. But why ? I appreciate bloggers if they point exact reason. I will give some examples: which may be wrong in som cases.
Why some hindus are converted to christians: basic needs of a common man is food, shelter and cloths, and frequently he is suppressed by higher community people. He wants solutions, he needs root from where he can grow. Some christian groups are supporting this and they adopting christianity and following. with their own point of view it is correct? Like this there may be many reasons. Could you please do some research on social life and findout reasons and hence solutions also. Blogs should be platform not for fighting for giving solutions to humanity with mixed discussions and solutions.
Hey Suraj aka corpophage, do you have any shred of proof to back up your paranoia ?
Christianity in India is dated from 50 AD and India has been under European rule for 400 yrs. Yet with the “hordes of missionaries”, the christian population has never exceeded 2.5 percent. Wonder why ?
Swami Lakshmananda has been campaigning against conversions in Orissa for years, the same state where the Freedom of Religion Act(1967) exists to curd forced conversion. And hardly a couple of Christians were booked under the Act despite the anti-conversion efforts of Swami and Monkey Dal.
Maoists had taken responsibility for the murder of the swami. But VHP would not allow that technicality to stand in the way of a Gujaratesque opportunity to purge another minority religion.
Collect some village idiots, distribute unlimited booze and burning torches , give a couple of fiery speeches, add a dead hate-mongering swami and you have a working mob ready to rape and burn. It worked in Gujarat, Karnataka and Orissa. And the instigators can rest assured that there would be people like intelegent person aka sticky face aka wad breath aka Suraj to attribute genocide to “pent up anger” and “underlying causes” whatever.
You’ve been to southern Tamil Nadu. How come ? You saw entire towns converted ? Crosses on EVERY HOUSE ? Waw. And decorations bought with money from the West!! HELP!! Missionaries are changing the demographics and have converted 2.3% to christians within just the last 2000 years. Let me guess. Is it the heroin needled into your penis or the alcoholic rectal enema before breakfast.
Let begin again. No more personal abuses and insults OK. You talk of the “rate of conversion activity”. Give me the stats - hard facts not fantasia quoted from VHP press or christianitysucks@blogspot.com. How do you explain the abysmal levels of christianity in India with all the conversion activity(all of them forced)when the first missionary arrived 2000 years back and India was under western rule for centuries ?
Who cares if missionaries convert or not. We need some excuse to rape and loot and burn. Anything. Gujarat riots was fun. Killed over thousand mussulmans in days. You know what, a christian missionary(mercenary) gave a pamphlet to my neighbour’s wife’s sister’s friend’s son. The dogs! Our culture and demographics is being destroyed by the pamphlets. Lets get together and booze and burn some christians.
yeah zibbin. Tell us about the riots and the burning children. I’ll warm the oil and both me and Suraj can relax and pull out our pricks and stroke away to greater hindu glory.
Christianity in India is dated from 50 AD and India has been under European rule for 400 yrs. Yet with the “hordes of missionaries”, the christian population has never exceeded 2.5 percent. Wonder why ?
Swami Lakshmananda has been campaigning against conversions in Orissa for years, the same state where the Freedom of Religion Act(1967) exists to curd forced conversion. And hardly a couple of Christians were booked under the Act despite the anti-conversion efforts of Swami and Monkey Dal.
Maoists had taken responsibility for the murder of the swami. But VHP would not allow that technicality to stand in the way of a Gujaratesque opportunity to purge another minority religion.
Collect some village idiots, distribute unlimited booze and burning torches , give a couple of fiery speeches, add a dead hate-mongering swami and you have a working mob ready to rape and burn. It worked in Gujarat, Karnataka and Orissa. And the instigators can rest assured that there would be people like intelegent person aka sticky face aka wad breath aka Suraj to attribute genocide to “pent up anger” and “underlying causes” whatever.
You’ve been to southern Tamil Nadu. How come ? You saw entire towns converted ? Crosses on EVERY HOUSE ? Waw. And decorations bought with money from the West!! HELP!! Missionaries are changing the demographics and have converted 2.3% to christians within just the last 2000 years. Let me guess. Is it the heroin needled into your penis or the alcoholic rectal enema before breakfast.
What kind of an article is this? There is absolutely no evidence and also MR. SURAJ needs to be tested mentally. You dont have any right to accuse something which is not the Truth. NO ONE FORCES ANYONE TO CONVERT, IT IS A PERSONAL DECISION. I THINK CHRISTIANS DONT ONLY SPEAK DEMOCRACY BUT FOLLOW IT. SEE THE ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS IN INDIA AND THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO BACKLASH. I was wondering if Mahatma Gandhi would been killed by a Muslim or any person belonging to different religion how all the so called “HINDU EXTREMISTS” would have behaved. I have friends who are Hindus but they dont take law in their own hands and absolutely absurd for indiblog.com to allow such an article to be published. I totally condemn it.
What the hell you know about the riots?
You don’t know anything and you simply read newspaper and watching news and telling that everything happened because christian.
World knows what is Christianity and who are Christians.