They try to incite hatred for hinduism in the illiterate lower economic classes telling them they were persecuted for thousands of years by upper caste hindus based on a few exagerated documents. Should we be working together for reforms in the system or keep harping on the past. By that measure India should be at war with Britain if people keep harping on the past. Should blacks be killing the present whites for the slavery their ancestors suffered at the hands of the whites ancestors? Hell there's no documented proof of the atrocities happening for thousands of years in India.
2007-01-01 15:26:55 · 19 answers · asked by Rajan S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ever since Constantine converted to Christianity and made it a state religion with all the military powers thereof Christianity has been going around conquering and undermining indigenous cultures, usurping their gods, their traditions, their lands and their resources ... for the good of their heathen souls, of course.
nowadays Christianity doesn't have it's own official armies tramping across the globe forcing conversion on heathens. nowadays they use psychological warfare, that and the promise of food.
2007-01-01 15:35:44 · answer #1 · answered by nebtet 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
While I don't deny that some religious people might have used false incentives to convert some native people the fact is that this is probably pretty rare. You have to remember that there is a lot of bigotry against Christians in India. Also, the upper classes are very angry about conversions of the "untouchables" to Christianity because Christianity teaches them that there is no difference between individuals in God's eyes and, to Him, the untouchables are just as good as the upper classes. This idea of equality, as you can imagine, does not set well with the people who depend on the untouchables to do all the really dirty jobs and manual labor in society. The Untouchables are unhappy with their lot in life anyway and conversion to Christianity is just adding incentive for them to protest their treatment. This kind of thing encourages rumors and lies to be spread about Christianity on the premise that it can be driven out of India if they can convince the government that they are forcing people to convert or are kidnapping them to work on plantations. This is all a pack of lies. The Indian upper classes may believe it but Christians aren't stupid enough to believe that a coerced conversion means anything. The person who is coerced isn't really converted and will give up his "faith" at the first opportunity. A person who "converts" to get a loan hasn't really converted either and will go back to his former ways as soon as he can. This is garbage which is being done so that persecution against Christians can be increased and justified under the pretense that they are subjugating the people that they are working with. In actuality, it's the Indians with money and status that are subjugating the people and working them like slaves.
2016-05-23 05:00:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
These supposed Christians are pretty ignorant of the theology they are meant to put forward. Jesus was tolerant and open and never said to bash anyone's beliefs. Hinduism is more similar than different from Christianity in the ways that matter, in devotion to God and service to others. There's a trinity in Hinduism much like the one in Christianity, different "persons" to represent different aspects of the Godhead.
Past persecutions, real or imagined, are far less important than working to heal the sick, tending to the poor and homeless, comforting the lonely and suffering, feeding the hungry. A religion that puts "conversion" above any of those things is a hollow one indeed.
All Christians are not like that. I'm sorry that has been your experience.
2007-01-01 15:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
O.K. first of all that is a huge generalization, because you have not personally met every Christian missionary in India. And by the way, I have been to India on a short term mission, and the missionary I accompanied did no such thing. We preached the good news of Jesus Christ to the people in Calcutta, and the villages in the surrounding areas. We didn't have to talk to them about the caste system, because it had already been done away with. But just as you made a correlation with the racial tensions between blacks and whites, the prejudices die hard in India even after the caste system has been done away with. But that was not what we were there to address. We were there to proclaim the truth that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of all the people living in India. And He will have no other gods before Him.
2007-01-01 15:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by firebyknight 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Methinks it is more encouragement to claim their destiny as humans of value. One does not need to look for documents or history, but only as the closest slum to see the disgraceful and continuing discrimination taught through hinduism.
2007-01-01 16:04:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If denouncing the practice of parents selling their children, maiming their children, not giving all equal opportunities, considering some to be untouchables is bad mouthing Hindu beliefs then don't be suprised at the injustices that go on perpetrated to this day.
2007-01-01 17:34:03 · answer #6 · answered by Freddy F 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Funny, I don't remember Mother Theresa inciting hatred...
2007-01-01 15:34:05 · answer #7 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because they think their made up cult is the only "true" religion, so they bad mouth other religions to con followers of that religion to convert to their sick cult.
2007-01-01 15:48:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Christian missionaries dont "bad mouth" Hindus in India... They share the Gospel of Christ, they dont do it brutally or with threats .. no one beats the Hindus up if they refuse. My girlfriend is a Missionary and contrary to popular belief, they dont threaten anyone, refuse medical care or food if they dont convert or make much money doing it.
2007-01-01 15:34:46 · answer #9 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
They bad moth Hindu's because they have very strong faith in what they beleive in, they are also known as "hardcore Christians". Who will do anything to convert people to their religion. Because if you don't beleive in what they belive in, they believe you are a horrible person.They believe that their religion is the only correct one.
2007-01-01 15:31:32 · answer #10 · answered by GhOsT 1 · 5⤊ 2⤋