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2. http://christianaggression.com/item_displa...S&id=1068707969
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Writing in The Statesman (March 12, 1999), Mr B P Saha made the point that "growing enlightenment has been provoking them (tribals) to dislike conversion and look askance at the foreign missionaries, the so-called benefactors".
Attempts at conversion should be considered a mortal assault on local cultures and should be totally banned. Conversions are forbidden by law in China. Here we take a lenient view of conversion and Christian bodies have been taking advantage of the Hindu sense of tolerance. According to Mr Jon Stock, New Delhi correspondent of the British paper The Daily Telegraph, "put simply, the Indian subcontinent has become the principal target for a wide range of western Christian missions which are determined to spread the gospel to India's 'unreached' people before the year 2000".
Writing in The Spectator, Mr Stock says: "There is little doubt that the current communal tension in India would not be serious if foreign-funded missionaries had been content with giving Indians the choice of Christianity and left it at that."
According to Mr Stock, "hundreds of thousands of dollars are being channelled into India through well-organised, America-based evangelical missions", the meticulously researched ethnographic data they are compiling on the region ensuring that funds are being directed "with military precision to the right area, even to specific pin codes in remote tribal districts".
Mr Stock quoted a statement from a Colorado-based Group of World- wide Christian Missions calling itself AD 2000 and Beyond as saying: " 'Flashes of light' seen all around the North India-Hindu belt, particularly among the tribal groups, are encouraging us to believe that the Sum of Righteousness is indeed ready to rise upon these unreached peoples."
Violence Justified
AD 2000 and Beyond described Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest city as full of temples dedicated to Shiva "an idol whose symbol is a phallus", and as a city whom many (?) consider the "very seat of Satan". One Rev R V Paricha has been described (Observer, March 24, 1999) as having authored a plan, on behalf of 94 Christian organisations, to target Orissa for conversion efforts, on the grounds that the caste structure of Orissa lacks the polarisation of the high-and-low caste characteristics of South India.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2. http://christianaggression.com/item_displa...S&id=1068707969
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Writing in The Statesman (March 12, 1999), Mr B P Saha made the point that "growing enlightenment has been provoking them (tribals) to dislike conversion and look askance at the foreign missionaries, the so-called benefactors".
Attempts at conversion should be considered a mortal assault on local cultures and should be totally banned. Conversions are forbidden by law in China. Here we take a lenient view of conversion and Christian bodies have been taking advantage of the Hindu sense of tolerance. According to Mr Jon Stock, New Delhi correspondent of the British paper The Daily Telegraph, "put simply, the Indian subcontinent has become the principal target for a wide range of western Christian missions which are determined to spread the gospel to India's 'unreached' people before the year 2000".
Writing in The Spectator, Mr Stock says: "There is little doubt that the current communal tension in India would not be serious if foreign-funded missionaries had been content with giving Indians the choice of Christianity and left it at that."
According to Mr Stock, "hundreds of thousands of dollars are being channelled into India through well-organised, America-based evangelical missions", the meticulously researched ethnographic data they are compiling on the region ensuring that funds are being directed "with military precision to the right area, even to specific pin codes in remote tribal districts".
Mr Stock quoted a statement from a Colorado-based Group of World- wide Christian Missions calling itself AD 2000 and Beyond as saying: " 'Flashes of light' seen all around the North India-Hindu belt, particularly among the tribal groups, are encouraging us to believe that the Sum of Righteousness is indeed ready to rise upon these unreached peoples."
Violence Justified
AD 2000 and Beyond described Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest city as full of temples dedicated to Shiva "an idol whose symbol is a phallus", and as a city whom many (?) consider the "very seat of Satan". One Rev R V Paricha has been described (Observer, March 24, 1999) as having authored a plan, on behalf of 94 Christian organisations, to target Orissa for conversion efforts, on the grounds that the caste structure of Orissa lacks the polarisation of the high-and-low caste characteristics of South India.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->