<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->So making the head of state xtian is a way to make the more education / urban classes to become xtian, instead of just the rural poor.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Rome was converted by the sword. Many of the intellectuals (who refused to convert) were killed off - same in Greece. Of course, Rome's population of that time is not to be compared with that of India today, so I don't think mass-genocide is on the cards. Although mass genocide is what the Vatican had begun to resort to in their frustration in converting Buddhist Vietnam in the 50s and the non-Catholics of the Croatian part of Yugoslavia prior to WWII (both are far smaller populations than India).
Japan does not have Catholic leadership - so the Japanese populace made a natural choice. That's why it doesn't compare with Rome and Greece, 50s Vietnam (Catholic dictator), pre-WWII Croatia (Catholic nazi party). But killing out the unwilling was the oldest pattern of the Church: a Chinese Empress in the 16th or 17th century was converted to Christianity, then she got herself baptised as Helena and her child as Constantine; the intent is clear. Thereafter began the large-scale persecutions of the Buddhists and others which culminated in the unconverted Chinese rising up and ending the reign of terror. Similar pattern in Japan and some other Asian countries.
Today, I don't think the Vatican can get away with genocide on such a large scale. At worst, it would be on smaller scales, like the evangelicals have achieved in Nagaland. Two things haven't changed though: the Church is always willing to use any means, if it thinks it can get away with it; it doesn't get caught (its amazing how the immense evidence of their involvement in the various genocides during WWII is entirely denied and hushed up by their powerful political and media arms). History is written by the winners, and the Church so far has always won.
But the real worry of Christian government in a non-Christian country today is that significant increase in conversions of the Indian population will result in (attempted) seccession or ethnic cleansing in regions, like is happening in the NE. The unconverted regions, slowly made smaller, will then be the target. In India's case, these can then be more easily divided up between the different, yet ulimately same, ideologies of communism, Islam and Christianity.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The urban ones who abandon Hinduism today will just become agnostic/ materialistic with no spirituality but probably won't convert to Xtianity, a lot like Japan<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Why do you think non-religious Americans fear the increased lobbying by Christians for Christianising the education system (teaching Intelligent Design alongside evolution, prayers in school) and never send their children to Christian schools (where there are Christian classes with bible study)? It's because the vulnerable younger generation will be brainwashed into the religion like had been done to previous generations in the US until recent decades. This is what many great American authors of the 19th century and before complained about: the compulsory Christian education that had stunted them as children and continued to stunt many adults. When Christianity is made pervasive (education, laws, judicial system), as it would be when there's a majority Christian population and Christian government (Christianity does not believe in State-Church separation, it is [non-pseudo] secular people who do - like the ancient Romans), it will trickle into the lives of non-Christians. Freethinkers may be free, but their children can be captured.
It took the enlightenment for Europe to shake of Christianity, Indians are learning medieval Christianity. Even Catholicism today appears slightly less medieval - if that were possible - compared to the brain-numbing nature of born-again Christianity that evangelicals are spreading.
Japan does not have Catholic leadership - so the Japanese populace made a natural choice. That's why it doesn't compare with Rome and Greece, 50s Vietnam (Catholic dictator), pre-WWII Croatia (Catholic nazi party). But killing out the unwilling was the oldest pattern of the Church: a Chinese Empress in the 16th or 17th century was converted to Christianity, then she got herself baptised as Helena and her child as Constantine; the intent is clear. Thereafter began the large-scale persecutions of the Buddhists and others which culminated in the unconverted Chinese rising up and ending the reign of terror. Similar pattern in Japan and some other Asian countries.
Today, I don't think the Vatican can get away with genocide on such a large scale. At worst, it would be on smaller scales, like the evangelicals have achieved in Nagaland. Two things haven't changed though: the Church is always willing to use any means, if it thinks it can get away with it; it doesn't get caught (its amazing how the immense evidence of their involvement in the various genocides during WWII is entirely denied and hushed up by their powerful political and media arms). History is written by the winners, and the Church so far has always won.
But the real worry of Christian government in a non-Christian country today is that significant increase in conversions of the Indian population will result in (attempted) seccession or ethnic cleansing in regions, like is happening in the NE. The unconverted regions, slowly made smaller, will then be the target. In India's case, these can then be more easily divided up between the different, yet ulimately same, ideologies of communism, Islam and Christianity.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The urban ones who abandon Hinduism today will just become agnostic/ materialistic with no spirituality but probably won't convert to Xtianity, a lot like Japan<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Why do you think non-religious Americans fear the increased lobbying by Christians for Christianising the education system (teaching Intelligent Design alongside evolution, prayers in school) and never send their children to Christian schools (where there are Christian classes with bible study)? It's because the vulnerable younger generation will be brainwashed into the religion like had been done to previous generations in the US until recent decades. This is what many great American authors of the 19th century and before complained about: the compulsory Christian education that had stunted them as children and continued to stunt many adults. When Christianity is made pervasive (education, laws, judicial system), as it would be when there's a majority Christian population and Christian government (Christianity does not believe in State-Church separation, it is [non-pseudo] secular people who do - like the ancient Romans), it will trickle into the lives of non-Christians. Freethinkers may be free, but their children can be captured.
It took the enlightenment for Europe to shake of Christianity, Indians are learning medieval Christianity. Even Catholicism today appears slightly less medieval - if that were possible - compared to the brain-numbing nature of born-again Christianity that evangelicals are spreading.