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<b>GFA missionaries arrested at Ardh Kumbh</b>
January 23, 2007
Crusadewatch.org
Allahabad: Police arrested six Gospel for Asia missionaries for tresspassing at Ardh Kumbh festival. Scores of Gospel for Asia leaders and missionaries camped at the Ardh Kumbh location to "offer the pilgrims an alternative to the traditional rituals by introducing them to Jesus".
Some piligrims got into an argument with some missionaries who were denigrating Hindu gods. Police sensed trouble and asked missionaries to leave the place as it is against law to deinigrate other religions. The women's team retreated while the men's team was belligerent. Police arrested the leaders and released them a day after. The missionaries claimed that they had talked about Christianity to over 200,000 pilgrims.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]63732[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just had a lightbulb moment - probably a dim one, but hey, it's a lightbulb!
(1) During every major Hindu festival or Kumbh, we know the losers will turn up to bother us and missionize.
(2) Gospel for Asia people are the 'native missionaries' that the western missions keep bragging about. These 'native missionaries' infiltrate into non-christian regions and basically go under cover in those places where the western missionaries stick out like a sore thumb or places where proselytisation is banned.
(3) Therefore, this is the perfect time to get the reconverting organisations of Hinduism together (VHP, Arya Samaj representatives). They should be present on all such occasions, and the Hindu pilgrims should be informed about them.
The reconverting organisations should keep an eye out on the confused Gospel for Asia people and approach them to inform them about Hinduism and dispell the lies about it that the missionaries fed to these converts.
Hindu pilgrims who are bothered by any GFA missionaries can help in pointing these troublesome converts out to the reconverting people as well.
One of two possibly good things might result:
(a) Gospel for Asia missionaries get annoyed by being presented with Hinduism and want to go home rather than hear about what they think is demonic. Mild taste of their own medicine, they'll learn what it's like to be on the receiving end (and we don't do 'witnessing', so actually their experience would be far better than what we get to hear from christos). Next time, if they know Hindu organisations are ready for them, they might not turn up to our special Hindu occasions!
(b) Gospel for Asia missionaries might reconvert.
Other option is that the usually intolerant christos will probably become hypocritically indignant and either fake persecution or start a riot (riots and christoviolence must be prevented at sacred occasion, but they already got pilgrims upset with insulting Hindu beliefs at our own Ardh Kumbh and other events, and disturbed the harmony that way).
<b>GFA missionaries arrested at Ardh Kumbh</b>
January 23, 2007
Crusadewatch.org
Allahabad: Police arrested six Gospel for Asia missionaries for tresspassing at Ardh Kumbh festival. Scores of Gospel for Asia leaders and missionaries camped at the Ardh Kumbh location to "offer the pilgrims an alternative to the traditional rituals by introducing them to Jesus".
Some piligrims got into an argument with some missionaries who were denigrating Hindu gods. Police sensed trouble and asked missionaries to leave the place as it is against law to deinigrate other religions. The women's team retreated while the men's team was belligerent. Police arrested the leaders and released them a day after. The missionaries claimed that they had talked about Christianity to over 200,000 pilgrims.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]63732[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Just had a lightbulb moment - probably a dim one, but hey, it's a lightbulb!
(1) During every major Hindu festival or Kumbh, we know the losers will turn up to bother us and missionize.
(2) Gospel for Asia people are the 'native missionaries' that the western missions keep bragging about. These 'native missionaries' infiltrate into non-christian regions and basically go under cover in those places where the western missionaries stick out like a sore thumb or places where proselytisation is banned.
(3) Therefore, this is the perfect time to get the reconverting organisations of Hinduism together (VHP, Arya Samaj representatives). They should be present on all such occasions, and the Hindu pilgrims should be informed about them.
The reconverting organisations should keep an eye out on the confused Gospel for Asia people and approach them to inform them about Hinduism and dispell the lies about it that the missionaries fed to these converts.
Hindu pilgrims who are bothered by any GFA missionaries can help in pointing these troublesome converts out to the reconverting people as well.
One of two possibly good things might result:
(a) Gospel for Asia missionaries get annoyed by being presented with Hinduism and want to go home rather than hear about what they think is demonic. Mild taste of their own medicine, they'll learn what it's like to be on the receiving end (and we don't do 'witnessing', so actually their experience would be far better than what we get to hear from christos). Next time, if they know Hindu organisations are ready for them, they might not turn up to our special Hindu occasions!
(b) Gospel for Asia missionaries might reconvert.
Other option is that the usually intolerant christos will probably become hypocritically indignant and either fake persecution or start a riot (riots and christoviolence must be prevented at sacred occasion, but they already got pilgrims upset with insulting Hindu beliefs at our own Ardh Kumbh and other events, and disturbed the harmony that way).