11-08-2008, 01:55 PM
Swami Devananda Saraswati ('Ishwar Sharan'), Hindu Hero:
http://vivekajyoti.blogspot.com/2008/10/it...at-indians.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Oct 9, 2008
<b>It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception.</b>
Christianity has virtually destroyed South Korea and Korean Buddhists have become a minority in their own country and gone into hiding. China and India are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and conquer. <b>And the missionaries will succeed in their war of attrition on Hinduism if Indian leaders and Hindu religious teachers do not pay attention to this warning.</b> Hindus will have no cause to complain when their own people convert to the cult of Jesus and Mary and become Hindu India's own worst enemy. We see the kind of enemy of Hindu civilization that can be produced by this evangelizing work in the person of "Dr." Deivanayakam himself. Then there will be not one "Dr." Deivanayakam doing the dirty work of undermining and discrediting Hindu religion and culture, but dozens and hundreds and thousands, even as there is in South Korea today.
<b>As one great American thinker said: Before anything can be proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true. It has not yet happened.</b> Christianity is a personality cult based on authority. There is no logic or reason in it, or any verifiable facts, only extraordinary claims and a patently false doctrine of vicarious salvation. Is mankind really to be saved by the execution of a man who claimed to be a king, was tried for sedition and found guilty, and executed by the political power he tried to overthrow? What does this have to do with God and man, spirituality and religion? It is all politics from beginning to end and the search for world empire not peace of mind or a place in heaven. Before discussing any of the claims in this article, <b>first establish that such a man as Jesus lived. There is no evidence that he did outside of the New Testament story. The best Christian historians admit that there is no positive evidence for the existence of a man called Jesus or the virginity of his mother. Well, if this is the case, everything that follows is really of no consequence.</b> <b>Except for the invention of the concept of eternal damnation, which he threatened his critics with, Jesus contributed absolutely nothing new to the vast religious and philosophical literature of the world at that time.</b>
<b>It is Christianity that has copied the world's religions, not the other way round.</b> Its early theologians copied Buddhist and Platonist ideas, but they finally settled for Aristotle's philosophy as they could use it to reconciled their material interests and push for political power and world empire. <b>Christianity is a political ideology that claims divine sanction. That Hindus believe it is a religious system of service and sacrifice only shows up their own ignorance.</b>
-- Swami Devananda Saraswati
<b>From: Swami Devananda Saraswati</b>
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM,
Ref:
How did Jesus Change Hinduism?
www.sakshitimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=158&Itemid=43
(sakshitimes is a christoterrorist appropriation site)
<b>My Comment: Swami Devananda Saraswati</b>
<b>Christianity is a parasitical religion.</b> It has no life or content of its own except for the label "Jesus Christ". It maintains its life by feeding on the spiritual life-blood and religious culture of other religions: Judaism, Neo-Platonism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Having gorged itself on the spiritual body of these religions, it then claims that it has influenced them or that they have had their origin in Christianity. It is an old, old confidence trick that the Church plays. It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception.
Jesus did not change Hinduism. The fact that Hindus or serious scholars even consider the claim shows up their own extraordinary ignorance of Indian history and Christian history. If they do not know the context and details of these histories, they can not evaluate the claims being made for Christianity.
As for "Dr." Deivanayakam, he is a scoundrel and intellectual criminal who has been exposed many times over by serious scholars. The people that repeat his claims, which he cannot and does not support with hard evidence, are no better than he is when it comes to serious scholarship. I suspect the people who have written this article and quote him are his personal agents. Their bank accounts should be scrutinized and the amounts paid to them by Deivanayakam should be published.
This article is only mischief and Catholic propaganda. It is meant to deceive and entangle the reader in a maze of claims that cannot be proved or disproved or even sorted out. It is to be discarded and ignored.
Because modern day Hindu practices and religious culture are are based on the teachings of the medieval and early medieval Hindu acharyas, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, etc., Christian propagandists will argue that they were influenced by Christian missionaries because Christianity is the older institution and has been operating in India since the fourth century. Not earlier. The claim for St. Thomas is entirely bogus (see the Internet link below).
These claims for Christian influence are easy to make and don't have to be proved, as many practices between different religious systems have what appear to be similarities. So the prasad offered in Hindu temples is said to be a copy of the central Christian rite of Mass. Except that food and drink is utilized in both rites, they have no other relationship. The Christian Mass is a substitute ritual for human sacrifice and is therefore a form of ritual cannibalism. Protestant Christians will say it is symbolic but Catholics will claim that the bread and wine in the ritual are turned into the actual flesh and blood of Jesus. In both cases it is a cannibalistic ritual, symbolic for Protestants and "real" for Catholics.
What does this have to do with the prasad of a Hindu deity? Nothing whatsoever. Prasad is food or other articles offered to the Deity is sanctified and then distributed among the faithful as a blessing. There is no cannibalism in this rite and so no influence from Christianity, whatever "Dr." Deivanayakam may say.
But this discussion is really a waste of time and energy. Christian propagandists entangle their interlocutors in a mass of claims and details when the basic questions have never been answered or even reviewed.
As one great American thinker said: Before anything can be proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true.
It has not yet happened.
Christianity is a personality cult based on authority. There is no logic or reason in it, or any verifiable facts, only extraordinary claims and a patently false doctrine of vicarious salvation.
Is mankind really to be saved by the execution of a man who claimed to be a king, was tried for sedition and found guilty, and executed by the political power he tried to overthrow?
What does this have to do with God and man, spirituallity and religion?
It is all politics from beginning to end and the search for world empire not peace of mind or a place in heaven.
Before discussing any of the claims in this article, first establish that such a man as Jesus lived.
There is no evidence that he did outside of the New Testament story. The best Christian historians admit that there is no positive evidence for the existence of a man called Jesus or the virginity of his mother.
Well, if this is the case, everything that follows is really of no consequence.
The Christianity practiced today was the invention of the 218 bishops who gathered at Nicaea in 325 AD and persuade the Roman emperor Constantine to make their guru cult--in Hindu terms Jesus is no more than an acharya guru--into the state religion. They promised him all political support for his effort and they all bowed down to his feet. Constantine remained to the end of his days Pontifex Maximus, i.e. Pope, and it is only after his death that the Bishop of Rome inherited the title. So there was no St. Peter in Rome to get crucified upside down as Deivanayakam and his disciples suggest.
The first question to be decided by the Council was whether Jesus was a god or not. Two bishops from Libya dissented and were assassinated that night. The vote the next day was a unanimous 216 for deifying Jesus.
Prior to the Council of Nicaea, there was neither Bible nor cross nor a Virgin Mary cult. Some historians will state that the Roman cross used as the identifying mark of Christianity did not come into popular use until the seventh century. It probably came into use a little earlier, say fifth century, but certainly there was no Christian cross in the first century.
The whole of Christianity that is known today is a creation that came after the fourth century. The Bible itself was edited, rewritten, and collated by Constantine's bishops a year after the Council of Nicaea, in 326 AD.
In the first century BC/AD Alexandria was the intellectual center of the Roman Empire. It was a world academic center with a famous library and university. As Alexander himself had established the city and had later travelled to India, there is historical evidence to show that Buddhist monks and Brahmin pundits were in Alexandria during the period that Christianity was being formed by the Church fathers in the first three centuries.
Christianity shows very profound Buddhist and Hindu influences. The glaring example is the Sermon on the Mount which all historians agree is not a Christian text. Some say it is Buddhist, others say it is Neo-Platonist. All agree it is not Christian and a later interpolation into the New Testament.
Except for the invention of the concept of eternal damnation, which he threatened his critics with, Jesus contributed absolutely nothing new to the vast religious and philosophical literature of the world at that time.
It is Christianity that has copied the world's religions, not the other way round. Its early theologians copied Buddhist and Platonist ideas, but they finally settled for Aristotle's philosophy as they could use it to reconciled their material interests and push for political power and world empire. Christianity is a political ideology that claims divine sanction. That Hindus believe it is a religious system of service and sacrifice only shows up their own ignorance.
<b>Propagandist's like Deivanayakam simple repeat their claims endlessly until their opponents get exhausted and either collapse or surrender. That is what he is doing now. The best Hindu scholars have discredited him (see the Internet links below), yet we find the authors of this article taking him seriously. How extraordinary!</b>
The problem is not with Deivanayakam. He a Christian propagandist and intellectual confidence trickster doing his work for Jesus and the Church. The problem is with the Indians who take him at his word and don't investigate his background and claims. <b>When it comes to Christianity and its claims, Hindus are the most gullible--stupid--people in the world.</b> They will believe anything they are told and will not question the claims or do their homework and find out the facts. The worst offenders are Hindu religious leaders and godmen. Pious and ignorant men and women who know nothing about Christianity or Jesus but will promote both because it satisfies their own spiritual egotism and enhances their reputation for being broadminded and universal in outlook.
None of them can critique Christianity because they know nothing about it, have never studied its scriptures or history or theology, but at same time they will hold up Jesus as the standard that all Gods and saints are to be measured against. How extraordinary!
Christianity has virtually destroyed South Korea and Korean Buddhists have become a minority in their own country and gone into hiding. China and India are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and conquer. And the missionaries will succeed in their war of attrition on Hinduism if Indian leaders and Hindu religious teachers do not pay attention to this warning. Hindus will have no cause to complain when their own people convert to the cult of Jesus and Mary and become Hindu India's own worst enemy.
We see the kind of enemy of Hindu civilization that can be produced by this evangelizing work in the person of "Dr." Deivanayakam himself.
Then there will be not one "Dr." Deivanayakam doing the dirty work of undermining and discrediting Hindu religion and culture, but dozens and hundreds and thousands, even as there is in South Korea today.
-- Swami Devananda
* * *
Note on the deification of Jesus and the writing of the Bible from http://hamsa.org/01.htm
[4] The traditional dates and authors of all the New Testament books, whether they are accepted in the canon or not, are pure conjecture as there are no extent early manuscript versions predating the fourth century C.E. (Common Era). Emperor Diocletian destroyed all Christian writings in 303 C.E., and in 326 C.E., a year after the Council of Nicea raised Jesus from the position of mortal prophet to that of immortal God by an ecclesiastical vote of 218 for, 2 against (the bishops who said nay were from Libya), Emperor Constantine sanctioned the confiscation and destruction of all works that challenged 'orthodox' Christian teaching. Five years later Constantine commissioned and financed new copies of the Bible, and as there were no longer any original documents to work from, the bishops, intent on promoting the Pauline salvation cult in their own interest, were free to revise, edit and rewrite the Bible in accordance with their own tenets. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, show that the Bible, and accepted Christian tradition, is an arbitrary collection of borrowed and often fabulous tales, the historical truth of which has never been established by the best biblical scholars.
See also "Indian Historian Makes a Mockery of Indian History" at http://hamsa.org/jihc.htm
-- SDS
"Dr." Deivanayakam reference.
http://hamsa.org/deivanayakam.htm
"Dr." Deivanayakam and Tiruvalluvar
http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=...29&id=8961
St. Thomas and India
http://hamsa.org/konrad.elst.htm
Planning the Demise of Hinduism
http://hamsa.org/demise.htm
Jesus Christ - An Artifice for Aggression
http://hamsa.org/intro-toc.pdf
The Hindu Origins of Christianity by Francios Gautier
http://www.francoisgautier.com/Written%20M...u-christan.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Swami Devananda Saraswati writes on the page http://hamsa.org/09.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vasco da Gama's mistake was corrected when he returned to Malabar in 1502 and was met by a deputation of Syrian Christians. They identified themselves, surrendered their ancient honours and documents, and invited him to make war on their Hindu king.
K.M. Panikkar, in Malabar and the Portuguese, writes, "More than this, they suggested to [Vasco da Gama] that with their help he should conquer the Hindu kingdoms and invited him to build a fortress for this purpose in Cranganore. This was the recompense which the Hindu rajas received for treating with liberality and kindness the Christians in their midst."
<b>The Syrians had of course acted on the exigencies of their Christian religion, which harbours in its heart a demon that divides mankind into friend and foe on ideological grounds.</b> King Shapur of Persia had not been mistaken about the allegiances of his Christian subjects in the fourth century.
The Syrian Christians would soon come to grief for their treachery. The Portuguese regarded them as heretics and schismatics who were no better in True Religion than their Hindu neighbours.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->People keep underestimating the terrorist ideology of christianism. It is at least as dangerous as islam.
http://vivekajyoti.blogspot.com/2008/10/it...at-indians.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Oct 9, 2008
<b>It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception.</b>
Christianity has virtually destroyed South Korea and Korean Buddhists have become a minority in their own country and gone into hiding. China and India are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and conquer. <b>And the missionaries will succeed in their war of attrition on Hinduism if Indian leaders and Hindu religious teachers do not pay attention to this warning.</b> Hindus will have no cause to complain when their own people convert to the cult of Jesus and Mary and become Hindu India's own worst enemy. We see the kind of enemy of Hindu civilization that can be produced by this evangelizing work in the person of "Dr." Deivanayakam himself. Then there will be not one "Dr." Deivanayakam doing the dirty work of undermining and discrediting Hindu religion and culture, but dozens and hundreds and thousands, even as there is in South Korea today.
<b>As one great American thinker said: Before anything can be proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true. It has not yet happened.</b> Christianity is a personality cult based on authority. There is no logic or reason in it, or any verifiable facts, only extraordinary claims and a patently false doctrine of vicarious salvation. Is mankind really to be saved by the execution of a man who claimed to be a king, was tried for sedition and found guilty, and executed by the political power he tried to overthrow? What does this have to do with God and man, spirituality and religion? It is all politics from beginning to end and the search for world empire not peace of mind or a place in heaven. Before discussing any of the claims in this article, <b>first establish that such a man as Jesus lived. There is no evidence that he did outside of the New Testament story. The best Christian historians admit that there is no positive evidence for the existence of a man called Jesus or the virginity of his mother. Well, if this is the case, everything that follows is really of no consequence.</b> <b>Except for the invention of the concept of eternal damnation, which he threatened his critics with, Jesus contributed absolutely nothing new to the vast religious and philosophical literature of the world at that time.</b>
<b>It is Christianity that has copied the world's religions, not the other way round.</b> Its early theologians copied Buddhist and Platonist ideas, but they finally settled for Aristotle's philosophy as they could use it to reconciled their material interests and push for political power and world empire. <b>Christianity is a political ideology that claims divine sanction. That Hindus believe it is a religious system of service and sacrifice only shows up their own ignorance.</b>
-- Swami Devananda Saraswati
<b>From: Swami Devananda Saraswati</b>
Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:45 AM,
Ref:
How did Jesus Change Hinduism?
www.sakshitimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=158&Itemid=43
(sakshitimes is a christoterrorist appropriation site)
<b>My Comment: Swami Devananda Saraswati</b>
<b>Christianity is a parasitical religion.</b> It has no life or content of its own except for the label "Jesus Christ". It maintains its life by feeding on the spiritual life-blood and religious culture of other religions: Judaism, Neo-Platonism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Having gorged itself on the spiritual body of these religions, it then claims that it has influenced them or that they have had their origin in Christianity. It is an old, old confidence trick that the Church plays. It is rather astonishing that Indians and Hindus still fall for the deception.
Jesus did not change Hinduism. The fact that Hindus or serious scholars even consider the claim shows up their own extraordinary ignorance of Indian history and Christian history. If they do not know the context and details of these histories, they can not evaluate the claims being made for Christianity.
As for "Dr." Deivanayakam, he is a scoundrel and intellectual criminal who has been exposed many times over by serious scholars. The people that repeat his claims, which he cannot and does not support with hard evidence, are no better than he is when it comes to serious scholarship. I suspect the people who have written this article and quote him are his personal agents. Their bank accounts should be scrutinized and the amounts paid to them by Deivanayakam should be published.
This article is only mischief and Catholic propaganda. It is meant to deceive and entangle the reader in a maze of claims that cannot be proved or disproved or even sorted out. It is to be discarded and ignored.
Because modern day Hindu practices and religious culture are are based on the teachings of the medieval and early medieval Hindu acharyas, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, etc., Christian propagandists will argue that they were influenced by Christian missionaries because Christianity is the older institution and has been operating in India since the fourth century. Not earlier. The claim for St. Thomas is entirely bogus (see the Internet link below).
These claims for Christian influence are easy to make and don't have to be proved, as many practices between different religious systems have what appear to be similarities. So the prasad offered in Hindu temples is said to be a copy of the central Christian rite of Mass. Except that food and drink is utilized in both rites, they have no other relationship. The Christian Mass is a substitute ritual for human sacrifice and is therefore a form of ritual cannibalism. Protestant Christians will say it is symbolic but Catholics will claim that the bread and wine in the ritual are turned into the actual flesh and blood of Jesus. In both cases it is a cannibalistic ritual, symbolic for Protestants and "real" for Catholics.
What does this have to do with the prasad of a Hindu deity? Nothing whatsoever. Prasad is food or other articles offered to the Deity is sanctified and then distributed among the faithful as a blessing. There is no cannibalism in this rite and so no influence from Christianity, whatever "Dr." Deivanayakam may say.
But this discussion is really a waste of time and energy. Christian propagandists entangle their interlocutors in a mass of claims and details when the basic questions have never been answered or even reviewed.
As one great American thinker said: Before anything can be proved by the Bible, the Bible itself must be proved to be true.
It has not yet happened.
Christianity is a personality cult based on authority. There is no logic or reason in it, or any verifiable facts, only extraordinary claims and a patently false doctrine of vicarious salvation.
Is mankind really to be saved by the execution of a man who claimed to be a king, was tried for sedition and found guilty, and executed by the political power he tried to overthrow?
What does this have to do with God and man, spirituallity and religion?
It is all politics from beginning to end and the search for world empire not peace of mind or a place in heaven.
Before discussing any of the claims in this article, first establish that such a man as Jesus lived.
There is no evidence that he did outside of the New Testament story. The best Christian historians admit that there is no positive evidence for the existence of a man called Jesus or the virginity of his mother.
Well, if this is the case, everything that follows is really of no consequence.
The Christianity practiced today was the invention of the 218 bishops who gathered at Nicaea in 325 AD and persuade the Roman emperor Constantine to make their guru cult--in Hindu terms Jesus is no more than an acharya guru--into the state religion. They promised him all political support for his effort and they all bowed down to his feet. Constantine remained to the end of his days Pontifex Maximus, i.e. Pope, and it is only after his death that the Bishop of Rome inherited the title. So there was no St. Peter in Rome to get crucified upside down as Deivanayakam and his disciples suggest.
The first question to be decided by the Council was whether Jesus was a god or not. Two bishops from Libya dissented and were assassinated that night. The vote the next day was a unanimous 216 for deifying Jesus.
Prior to the Council of Nicaea, there was neither Bible nor cross nor a Virgin Mary cult. Some historians will state that the Roman cross used as the identifying mark of Christianity did not come into popular use until the seventh century. It probably came into use a little earlier, say fifth century, but certainly there was no Christian cross in the first century.
The whole of Christianity that is known today is a creation that came after the fourth century. The Bible itself was edited, rewritten, and collated by Constantine's bishops a year after the Council of Nicaea, in 326 AD.
In the first century BC/AD Alexandria was the intellectual center of the Roman Empire. It was a world academic center with a famous library and university. As Alexander himself had established the city and had later travelled to India, there is historical evidence to show that Buddhist monks and Brahmin pundits were in Alexandria during the period that Christianity was being formed by the Church fathers in the first three centuries.
Christianity shows very profound Buddhist and Hindu influences. The glaring example is the Sermon on the Mount which all historians agree is not a Christian text. Some say it is Buddhist, others say it is Neo-Platonist. All agree it is not Christian and a later interpolation into the New Testament.
Except for the invention of the concept of eternal damnation, which he threatened his critics with, Jesus contributed absolutely nothing new to the vast religious and philosophical literature of the world at that time.
It is Christianity that has copied the world's religions, not the other way round. Its early theologians copied Buddhist and Platonist ideas, but they finally settled for Aristotle's philosophy as they could use it to reconciled their material interests and push for political power and world empire. Christianity is a political ideology that claims divine sanction. That Hindus believe it is a religious system of service and sacrifice only shows up their own ignorance.
<b>Propagandist's like Deivanayakam simple repeat their claims endlessly until their opponents get exhausted and either collapse or surrender. That is what he is doing now. The best Hindu scholars have discredited him (see the Internet links below), yet we find the authors of this article taking him seriously. How extraordinary!</b>
The problem is not with Deivanayakam. He a Christian propagandist and intellectual confidence trickster doing his work for Jesus and the Church. The problem is with the Indians who take him at his word and don't investigate his background and claims. <b>When it comes to Christianity and its claims, Hindus are the most gullible--stupid--people in the world.</b> They will believe anything they are told and will not question the claims or do their homework and find out the facts. The worst offenders are Hindu religious leaders and godmen. Pious and ignorant men and women who know nothing about Christianity or Jesus but will promote both because it satisfies their own spiritual egotism and enhances their reputation for being broadminded and universal in outlook.
None of them can critique Christianity because they know nothing about it, have never studied its scriptures or history or theology, but at same time they will hold up Jesus as the standard that all Gods and saints are to be measured against. How extraordinary!
Christianity has virtually destroyed South Korea and Korean Buddhists have become a minority in their own country and gone into hiding. China and India are next on the missionary list of cultures to subsume and conquer. And the missionaries will succeed in their war of attrition on Hinduism if Indian leaders and Hindu religious teachers do not pay attention to this warning. Hindus will have no cause to complain when their own people convert to the cult of Jesus and Mary and become Hindu India's own worst enemy.
We see the kind of enemy of Hindu civilization that can be produced by this evangelizing work in the person of "Dr." Deivanayakam himself.
Then there will be not one "Dr." Deivanayakam doing the dirty work of undermining and discrediting Hindu religion and culture, but dozens and hundreds and thousands, even as there is in South Korea today.
-- Swami Devananda
* * *
Note on the deification of Jesus and the writing of the Bible from http://hamsa.org/01.htm
[4] The traditional dates and authors of all the New Testament books, whether they are accepted in the canon or not, are pure conjecture as there are no extent early manuscript versions predating the fourth century C.E. (Common Era). Emperor Diocletian destroyed all Christian writings in 303 C.E., and in 326 C.E., a year after the Council of Nicea raised Jesus from the position of mortal prophet to that of immortal God by an ecclesiastical vote of 218 for, 2 against (the bishops who said nay were from Libya), Emperor Constantine sanctioned the confiscation and destruction of all works that challenged 'orthodox' Christian teaching. Five years later Constantine commissioned and financed new copies of the Bible, and as there were no longer any original documents to work from, the bishops, intent on promoting the Pauline salvation cult in their own interest, were free to revise, edit and rewrite the Bible in accordance with their own tenets. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, show that the Bible, and accepted Christian tradition, is an arbitrary collection of borrowed and often fabulous tales, the historical truth of which has never been established by the best biblical scholars.
See also "Indian Historian Makes a Mockery of Indian History" at http://hamsa.org/jihc.htm
-- SDS
"Dr." Deivanayakam reference.
http://hamsa.org/deivanayakam.htm
"Dr." Deivanayakam and Tiruvalluvar
http://newstodaynet.com/col.php?section=...29&id=8961
St. Thomas and India
http://hamsa.org/konrad.elst.htm
Planning the Demise of Hinduism
http://hamsa.org/demise.htm
Jesus Christ - An Artifice for Aggression
http://hamsa.org/intro-toc.pdf
The Hindu Origins of Christianity by Francios Gautier
http://www.francoisgautier.com/Written%20M...u-christan.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Swami Devananda Saraswati writes on the page http://hamsa.org/09.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Vasco da Gama's mistake was corrected when he returned to Malabar in 1502 and was met by a deputation of Syrian Christians. They identified themselves, surrendered their ancient honours and documents, and invited him to make war on their Hindu king.
K.M. Panikkar, in Malabar and the Portuguese, writes, "More than this, they suggested to [Vasco da Gama] that with their help he should conquer the Hindu kingdoms and invited him to build a fortress for this purpose in Cranganore. This was the recompense which the Hindu rajas received for treating with liberality and kindness the Christians in their midst."
<b>The Syrians had of course acted on the exigencies of their Christian religion, which harbours in its heart a demon that divides mankind into friend and foe on ideological grounds.</b> King Shapur of Persia had not been mistaken about the allegiances of his Christian subjects in the fourth century.
The Syrian Christians would soon come to grief for their treachery. The Portuguese regarded them as heretics and schismatics who were no better in True Religion than their Hindu neighbours.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->People keep underestimating the terrorist ideology of christianism. It is at least as dangerous as islam.
Death to traitors.