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A friend of my friend's sister-in-law's co-worker reported this conversation between a missionary and a Hindu. <b>Admin. please move this overheard conversation wherever it fits:</b>
Miss: My son, save yourself with the light of Christ.
Hindu: Good for you, but no thank you.
Miss: My son, what does your "god" promise you? Does he grant you everlasting life?
Hindu: Sir, our God is different from the concept of God you have.
Miss: I see. Concept. So you will be "re-incarnated", is it not? Is that not your "concept"?
Hindu: Sir, what you think is "you" does not get re-incarnated. You say this is "my mind, my body, my soul". All those possessions of the "me" do not get re-incarnated. But that which calls itself "me" starts identifying with a different set of "possessions". The "me" never dies, nor was it born. It just changes clothes. That is my understanding, Sir, and I am quite happy with it.
Miss: All that is so much philosophy, my son! Come to the simple religion, the true religion. Christ will save you..
Hindu: Sir, my Lord Shri Krishna has said that he I will come to him if I pray to him. I do not need Christ.
Miss: (smirking) But all this "Krishna" stuff is myth, mumbo-jumbo...our Jesus Christ walked on water, raised the dead..
Hindu: There is a lot of proof for all our dieties, Sir. Krishna is an incarnation of God. And we have had hundreds of people in India over the ages that walked on water, raised the dead, travelled in space...
Miss: (smiling and shaking his head) But these are all superstitions, young man. You look like an educated person. Do you really believe all that superstitious talk?
Hindu: I see. So what my relatives, ancestors, and friends have seen over the years is all superstition, but what a bunch of white guys saw 2000 years ago is The Truth?
Miss: Now, now, lets not get too passionate! You are taught be quite violent, are you not? I have read your "Bhagwad Gita"..
Hindu: Sir, the battle in there is about a kingdom. A Hindu was cheated out of his kingdom by another Hindu. No religious slaughter, no anti-infidel wars, no ethnic cleansing. Just a "fight for your right" kind of thing. And that too after all other channels had been exhausted...
Miss: Son, "Just War" is a Christian concept. Do not covet what is not yours! Tut-tut!
Hindu: (laughing) Well, at least we Hindus invented the time-machine, then. To go back and put all these Abrahamic concepts into our scriptures millenia after they had been compiled.
Miss: I see. And who "compiled" all those hindu scriptures? Are they not revealed? Just "compiled"? Hmmm..
Hindu: Sir, revelations to thousands of holy men have been compiled. (smiling) Only, they are not "revelations" because they do not "revealed" to white people. No?
Miss: Why do you keep on bringing race into the discussion? Christianity is for everybody!! God loves each and every living thing!
Hindu: I have not seen any brown Jesus Christ statues, Sir. Not even a Mother Mary. Or a Mother Teresa...Follow the white man, that seems to be the message.
Miss: Son, we do have lots of preachers that look just like you..brown..
Hindu: And who pays them?
Miss: (Shaking his head) Son, which one is your god? Ramaaa? Krishnaa? Shivaa? Who?
Hindu: Sir, Ishwar is one. Have you heard of and Hindu talking about more than one Ishwar? The forms of Ishwar are many. Water poured in different cups takes on different forms, but its still water, is it not?
Miss: This is getting neither of us anywhere..You are not very repectful of Christianity, are you?
Hindu: Sir, whenever I attempt to defend myself from unsolicited condescension, they say "You are insulting other religions! Hindoooo fundamentalist!!" I love jokes, Sir. But I still have to hear a better joke than that one.
Bye bye then!
A friend of my friend's sister-in-law's co-worker reported this conversation between a missionary and a Hindu. <b>Admin. please move this overheard conversation wherever it fits:</b>
Miss: My son, save yourself with the light of Christ.
Hindu: Good for you, but no thank you.
Miss: My son, what does your "god" promise you? Does he grant you everlasting life?
Hindu: Sir, our God is different from the concept of God you have.
Miss: I see. Concept. So you will be "re-incarnated", is it not? Is that not your "concept"?
Hindu: Sir, what you think is "you" does not get re-incarnated. You say this is "my mind, my body, my soul". All those possessions of the "me" do not get re-incarnated. But that which calls itself "me" starts identifying with a different set of "possessions". The "me" never dies, nor was it born. It just changes clothes. That is my understanding, Sir, and I am quite happy with it.
Miss: All that is so much philosophy, my son! Come to the simple religion, the true religion. Christ will save you..
Hindu: Sir, my Lord Shri Krishna has said that he I will come to him if I pray to him. I do not need Christ.
Miss: (smirking) But all this "Krishna" stuff is myth, mumbo-jumbo...our Jesus Christ walked on water, raised the dead..
Hindu: There is a lot of proof for all our dieties, Sir. Krishna is an incarnation of God. And we have had hundreds of people in India over the ages that walked on water, raised the dead, travelled in space...
Miss: (smiling and shaking his head) But these are all superstitions, young man. You look like an educated person. Do you really believe all that superstitious talk?
Hindu: I see. So what my relatives, ancestors, and friends have seen over the years is all superstition, but what a bunch of white guys saw 2000 years ago is The Truth?
Miss: Now, now, lets not get too passionate! You are taught be quite violent, are you not? I have read your "Bhagwad Gita"..
Hindu: Sir, the battle in there is about a kingdom. A Hindu was cheated out of his kingdom by another Hindu. No religious slaughter, no anti-infidel wars, no ethnic cleansing. Just a "fight for your right" kind of thing. And that too after all other channels had been exhausted...
Miss: Son, "Just War" is a Christian concept. Do not covet what is not yours! Tut-tut!
Hindu: (laughing) Well, at least we Hindus invented the time-machine, then. To go back and put all these Abrahamic concepts into our scriptures millenia after they had been compiled.
Miss: I see. And who "compiled" all those hindu scriptures? Are they not revealed? Just "compiled"? Hmmm..
Hindu: Sir, revelations to thousands of holy men have been compiled. (smiling) Only, they are not "revelations" because they do not "revealed" to white people. No?
Miss: Why do you keep on bringing race into the discussion? Christianity is for everybody!! God loves each and every living thing!
Hindu: I have not seen any brown Jesus Christ statues, Sir. Not even a Mother Mary. Or a Mother Teresa...Follow the white man, that seems to be the message.
Miss: Son, we do have lots of preachers that look just like you..brown..
Hindu: And who pays them?
Miss: (Shaking his head) Son, which one is your god? Ramaaa? Krishnaa? Shivaa? Who?
Hindu: Sir, Ishwar is one. Have you heard of and Hindu talking about more than one Ishwar? The forms of Ishwar are many. Water poured in different cups takes on different forms, but its still water, is it not?
Miss: This is getting neither of us anywhere..You are not very repectful of Christianity, are you?
Hindu: Sir, whenever I attempt to defend myself from unsolicited condescension, they say "You are insulting other religions! Hindoooo fundamentalist!!" I love jokes, Sir. But I still have to hear a better joke than that one.
Bye bye then!