08-19-2009, 03:34 AM
Quote:not all christian like that. I am from Syrian church. It is mostly Catholic and evangelical church that do like that, bribe for conversion etc. Syrian christian also in India persecuted by catholics.
That not all Christians are murderers and rapists is a trivial conclusion. We can say the same about any group anywhere in the world at any time. It tells us nothing about what Christianity is. It tells us nothing about, for example, why all the heathen cultures encountered by Christianity have been deliberately and systematically demonized and destroyed (and what could not be destroyed outright have been rendered as "morally oppressive" by their secular "enlightened" twins).
When Indians point out Christian/missionary actions, we are given a line about "perfect christian beliefs" and when we start to investigate the "perfect Christian beliefs" (which has turned heathen-baiting and anti-semitism (ie hatred) into an affair with scientific exactitude, premise, and rationale: one only true god stuff), we get another line: "not all christians are like that", "Christians have cute haircuts", and so on.
Don't you think it is time to investigate further into the reasons why Asia has been turned upside down by this Christian ideology which purports to "save" all our souls, has been doing so violently and aggressively for past 2000 years, relentlessly, and with supreme arrogance. And which has mutated into every stripe of ideology from manifest destiny, to Nazism, to communism, Orientalism, and white man's burden.
Christianity is the mask of (western) imperialism. The "teachings" of Jesus Christ are quite simply propagandistic diversions. When the missionary says "love", it is simply a euphemism for accepting the conqueror as your savior. This is clear from the latest research on Christian origins which has been described here:
http://ascendantasia.blogspot.com/
The Missionary has always preceded the Conquistador, whether in the Native Americas or in Asia. Anyone can say "love thy neighbor"; just declaring such does not make any community into a functioning, kind, or caring community as claimed by Christianity (especially when we see just the opposite visited by Christianity on native communities).
What Christianity uniquely claims is that the presence of an inimitable individual, the Christ, an exemplar, "saves" mankind from all-damning "original sin". The unique claim of christianity is that having the "right belief" is "soul-saving". But we know from Balagangadhara that "right belief" does not impact social reality in the least. It is a false construct, through and through. At most, "right belief" "dissolves" all "problems" into an inchoate mix. Indeed, it creates, out of nothing, a whole class of problems: hypocrisy, the "stress" of not conforming to "cosmic principles", eg the endless pro-abortion, anti-abortion theological miasma which creates endless rancor out of 'human suffering' in the "west" and leads to a never-ending spiral of one-upmanship in "righteousness".
This "right belief" is, thus, the leverage of the colonizer. But, the heathen can never be "righteous" in the eyes of God (or the secular Law) because he does not have the "right belief"; indeed, he does not even have a minimum fig leaf of "consistency" in beliefs (ie a belief system), which is, of course, worse than contemptible. We love our demons, Kumbhakarana and Vibhisana, as mush as we love our gods. Even our Ravana attained Moksha.
So, based on this shady and problematic formulation, the entire culture of India (or Asia) has been deemed "regressive" "oppressive" and "heathen", and has been slated for elimination by the Christians, out of "love", of course!!!
Now why don't you tell me what we should do? And don't say something like I am syrian Christian persecuted by my catholic brothers. India's culture is too important and wonderful be dismissed by such ad hocs.