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Evangelists in Orissa: Converting against all odds

Orissa: VHP turns violent and burns Churches. Hmm! ok. There is a history to Orissa-Christianity-Tribals. "The VHP launched its violent onslaught claiming it wants to stop conversions to Christianity, accusing Churches of proselytising." - AsiaNews.IT (Fact file of conversions happening since 200 years among Tribals of Orissa is given below) So they mean there were no conversion attempts? Is it a false claim by VHP? They DO NOT Convert Hindus and Tribals to Christianity? What other agenda do their missionaries have? On Christmas Day it (VHP) celebrated for instance the “return” (barbaratan or ‘coming home’) to Hinduism of 82 families or 187 Christians, 103 men and 84 women, at a ceremony in the village of Chikita in Sundergarth District (Orissa) that included receiving images of Hindu divinities. 82 families or 187 Christians were Hindus earlier! They accept that fact don't they? Now the same converts are willingly coming back to Hindu fold. Why? Why couldn't they hav...

London Queen for Indian KinderGarten Kids!

Indian children learn English History, English Values, England Queen and London Bridge right from Kindergarten. All our poems, literature for the kids are derived or modified from English literatures. Every character in the story is English. This has not changed ever since the British nailed into our great grandfathers' brains that whatever is English is high above anything Indian. Those veterans still hold the Britishers in high esteem for their governance and education. I feel ashamed when my grandfather feels so. I feel ashamed that we are not proud of whatever we are. I have hated to have learned about the British Queen and London Bridge in my school poems ever since I started to love my country. But that love did not come from this education. It came from my upbringing and from being associated with various groups at an young age. I should talk about myself here only to believe that there are millions of Indians who have also felt the same but are as helpless as I am now. But ...

The Truth that is....

For you and me, the Hindu way of life (it was never a religion) existed even longer than 10 thousand years before Christ was even created. Any other man made religion of the world can only be a segment of Hindu philosophy since to fathom the vastness and depth of Hindu philosophy it would take every other religion to first master their own first. When that cannot happen, none of them can ever even compare Hindu to any other religion, simply because of its practical truths (not what God supposed to have "said" as in case of Mohammad or Christ) are derived directly from the life of humans, wealth of the universe, metaphysical dimensions of the world and beyond. And still, Hindu philosophy is not about GOD its about the Mystery of this Universe we live in and how us humans relate and blend with it. So, I read these articles, one forwarded by a good friend of mine, and I read further into the New Advent of Christianity. Now do not laugh reading this: The pessimism of Schopenha...