01-26-2006, 08:00 AM
We have to remember that hinduism is an evolving religion
Casteism was much more brutal 75 years ago
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/20.Buddha%20...l%20Marx.htm#a4
has an essay of Ambedkar denouncing commies
A Desouza will not denounce islam or commies
A Desouza will not convert to an Indian religion
A Desouza will not condemn xtianity
Ambedkar has a lot of warts, but he is head and shoulders
above most politicians of India
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/25.%20Essay%...y_Religious.htm
The second reason for the absence of any urge is due I am afraid to the teachings of the Christian Church. The Christian Church teaches that the fall of man is due to his original Sin and the reason why one must become Christian is because in Christianity there is promise of forgiveness of sins. Whatever may be the theological and evangelistic basis of this doctrine there is no doubt that from a sociological point of view it is a doctrine which is fraught with disaster. This Christian teaching is a direct challenge to sociology which holds that the fall of man is due to an unpropitious environment and not to the sins of man. There is no question that the sociological view is the correct view and the Christian dogma only misleads man. It sets him on a wrong trail. This is exactly what has happened with the untouchable Christians. Instead of being taught that his fall is due to a wrong social and religious environment and that for his improvement he must attack that environment he is told that his fall is due to his sin.
The consequence is that the untouchable convert instead of being energized to conquer his environment contents himself with the belief that there is no use struggling, for the simple reason that his fall is due to the sin committed not by him but by some remote ancestor of his called Adam. When he was a Hindu his fall was due to his Karma. When he becomes a Christian he learns that his fall is due to the sins of his ancestor. In either case there is no escape for him. One may well ask whether conversion is a birth of a new life and a condemnation to the old.
Casteism was much more brutal 75 years ago
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/20.Buddha%20...l%20Marx.htm#a4
has an essay of Ambedkar denouncing commies
A Desouza will not denounce islam or commies
A Desouza will not convert to an Indian religion
A Desouza will not condemn xtianity
Ambedkar has a lot of warts, but he is head and shoulders
above most politicians of India
http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/25.%20Essay%...y_Religious.htm
The second reason for the absence of any urge is due I am afraid to the teachings of the Christian Church. The Christian Church teaches that the fall of man is due to his original Sin and the reason why one must become Christian is because in Christianity there is promise of forgiveness of sins. Whatever may be the theological and evangelistic basis of this doctrine there is no doubt that from a sociological point of view it is a doctrine which is fraught with disaster. This Christian teaching is a direct challenge to sociology which holds that the fall of man is due to an unpropitious environment and not to the sins of man. There is no question that the sociological view is the correct view and the Christian dogma only misleads man. It sets him on a wrong trail. This is exactly what has happened with the untouchable Christians. Instead of being taught that his fall is due to a wrong social and religious environment and that for his improvement he must attack that environment he is told that his fall is due to his sin.
The consequence is that the untouchable convert instead of being energized to conquer his environment contents himself with the belief that there is no use struggling, for the simple reason that his fall is due to the sin committed not by him but by some remote ancestor of his called Adam. When he was a Hindu his fall was due to his Karma. When he becomes a Christian he learns that his fall is due to the sins of his ancestor. In either case there is no escape for him. One may well ask whether conversion is a birth of a new life and a condemnation to the old.