Opinion Conversion
in any form is
Destruction of Culture
Conversion in any form is the
destruction of the culture of a community and a nation. Conversion of
Hindus in India to Islam and Christianity is the cruel destruction of the
culture of India.
Christianity and Islam are the two great religions of this world. True
that every one should have the right to convince some one else about his
beliefs and ideas. True that there is nothing wrong for a Moslem or a
Christian to tell a poor Hindu all about his beliefs. We need free flow of
thoughts during this age of confusion and conflicts. Unluckily,
missionaries inject lies about Hinduism when they preach about their
religion. They falsify the facts and figures documented in the world
history. They prey upon the "poor and sick" of India.
What a paradox! One is not even allowed to carry a copy of the Holy Bible
in Saudi Arabia; One is not allowed to convert a Jew into any other
religion is Israel; One is not allowed to convert a Muslim to any other
religion in Malaysia, Pakistan, Jordan and even Turkey; but in India,
every one is allowed to convert any Hindu into any other religion
forcefully or other wise.
Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first elected Prime Minister (1963-1964) and
President (1964-1978) said: "When the missionaries arrived, the Africans
had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray
with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had
the Bible." Hope and pray that this will not happen to India.
Most of the conversions in India are rice converts, people
converting to other religions so that they can have free food. Hindus do
not have the bank balance Moslems and Christians have. As such nobody is
discussing every aspect of Hinduism in a market place. It is a shame that
claims of Christians and Moslems, about the superiority of their
religions, are going unchallenged through out the world.
I fully agree, like all other religions and cultures in the world,
Hinduism has the good, the bad and the ugly aspects in it. Caste system is
a disgrace and it is a curse on Hinduism. It only brought misery to India.
I am sick of the humiliation lower castes subjected in India. I am for
first complete eradication of caste system and then for stoppage of
forcible conversion all over India.
At the same time, Please remember that Slavery was part and parcel of the
Holy Bible. There are many verses in the 66 books of the Holy Bible
supporting SLAVERY and that was the reasons why, good, loving, caring,
Church going Christians kept African Americans as SLAVES for hundreds of
years. Slavery was sanctioned by Old Testament of the Holy Bible. Biblical
verses such as Genesis 9:25-27, Leviticus 25:46, Exodus 21:1-6; Deut.
15:17; Exodus 21:7-9; support slavery. Moses did not condemn slavery.
Jesus did not condemn slavery. In fact Jesus did not even address the
issue at all, even though slavery was widespread in Palestine during
Jesus' time. Slavery is even mentioned in the New Testament of the Holy
Bible..
During Civil War, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of
America, said that " Slavery was established by decree of Almighty
God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to
Revelation." George Washington, the father of our country, owned slaves.
The great Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence
owned many slaves. Patrick Henry, who said, "Give me liberty or give me
death," was a slave owner. They owned slaves since they felt nothing wrong
about it at all. I admire Christians and Christianity for eradicating
slavery. Like Christians We should eradicate caste system, which is
nothing but slavery..
If we study world history, we will see that the whole idea of conversion
does not make any sense at all. History shows slow development in thinking
process of men. Even though every religion claim that Almighty God wrote
their scriptures, it was men who wrote all scriptures. Nobody has the
monopoly on God or truth. Those things are universal.
First Man was a nomad and
this nomad man settled on the banks of rivers of the world.
First thing man did after
settling is agriculture. When man started cultivation, he had problems
with nature.
So he worshiped all natural
powers like Sun, Moon, rain, thunder, serpent etc as gods. Then finally
man started worshiping one and only God instead of many. Hindus and Jews
worshiped many gods.
When man settled on banks of
rivers, for the proper functioning of society, he made many laws and
regulations such as Manu Smriti in in Hinduism and Ten
Commandments in Judaism.
So first man started
cultures all over the world near river banks. Then out of these cultures
came organized religions.
Hinduism and Judaism are two
ancient cultures and all organized religions of the world today came
from those two "mother cultures".
Islam, Christianity, Bahaism
etc came from Judaism. Holy Koran mentions the name of Jesus Christ many
times in its chapters.
Buddhism, Sikhism,
Zoroastrianism and to some extent Jainism came from Hinduism.
Everything that is coming
from the west has its roots in Judaism like the Ethics and morality
segments of Islam & Christianity.
Similarly, everything you
see in the East has its origins in Hinduism. Believe it or not, even the
rituals in Christianity that people in the east follow has close
resemblance with Hindu rituals.
Sixty six books of the Holy
Bible deals with the trails & tribulations of the Jews. You will only
read about Jews and their history in the Holy Bible.
Similarly, in the Hindu
scriptures one is studying about the culture of India, the culture of
the people who gave up their nomad life style and settled on the banks
of the rivers such as Ganges, Brahmaputra, Godavari, Indus etc.
Sixty six books of the Holy
Bible does not mention about the prosperous Indian Hindu civilization
nor about the Chinese civilization, since Holy Bible was written by Jews
about Jews and for Jews. Holy Bible does not even mention about the
American Continent. World came to know about its existence only after
Columbus stumbled upon it on his way to India.
According to the Holy Bible,
Jews are the chosen people of God. Jesus Christ was a Jew. Jesus did not
intend to break away from Judaism. He came to make Judaism better by
eradicating the evil things that have crept into it.
Today, all organized
religions are amalgamations of many civilizations. No culture or
religion can boast its tenets or concepts are unique nor it alone has
the monopoly on God and Truth.
My point is that all cultures
in the world are the result of "slowly developed thought process in the
man" and organized religions came from those cultures. Nobody has the
answer even for a question like "whether there is a God or not or are we
speculating?"
History is stained with the
blood of millions of human beings who fought in the name of their personal
God and religion. Let us not repeat history. Let us study from history and
learn the fact that all religions are belief systems and not
scientifically or historically documented facts.
Nobody has monopoly on God or truth. God and truth are universal. Nobody
can describe what God is! As such We have to and we should respect each
other�s beliefs, since nobody can prove or disapprove any one's belief.
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