06-12-2008, 05:43 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Sauravjha+Jun 12 2008, 10:27 AM-->QUOTE(Sauravjha @ Jun 12 2008, 10:27 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->My aim is not to engage the missionary but the ordinary Christian , who doesn't have an agenda like the former. Not everybody is a ChistianoIslamocommunist. the ground realities are very different . And I am speaking from the ground up only.
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<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I had similar views when I first joined the forum.
But there is another aspect. Engaging common hindus. The unwarnished truth needs to be told to hindus. To tell them something sweetened, for whatever reasons, puts them on a disadvantage in a very asymmetrical conflict of ideas. Where christian ideologues are allowed to retain their exclusivist doctrines that hold hinduism worthy of contempt and elimination, while hindu ideologues are expected to be all sweet, all inclusivist type and refrain from pointing out or even acknowledging the great flaws and weaknesses in christian doctrines.
There may be advantages in "enageging" common christians. and for that sweetened pill may be useful. But what about engaging common hindus? If they aren't even aware of any faults of an ideology that comes to convert them while loaded with propaganda against their native religion, then don't they stand in a disadvantaged position? Current climate in India is that hinduism can be criticized by one and all, but christianity can't, in the name of secularism. This asymmetry needs to be removed.
So, this thread is not really about engaging christians. But about engaging hindus.
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<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->I had similar views when I first joined the forum.
But there is another aspect. Engaging common hindus. The unwarnished truth needs to be told to hindus. To tell them something sweetened, for whatever reasons, puts them on a disadvantage in a very asymmetrical conflict of ideas. Where christian ideologues are allowed to retain their exclusivist doctrines that hold hinduism worthy of contempt and elimination, while hindu ideologues are expected to be all sweet, all inclusivist type and refrain from pointing out or even acknowledging the great flaws and weaknesses in christian doctrines.
There may be advantages in "enageging" common christians. and for that sweetened pill may be useful. But what about engaging common hindus? If they aren't even aware of any faults of an ideology that comes to convert them while loaded with propaganda against their native religion, then don't they stand in a disadvantaged position? Current climate in India is that hinduism can be criticized by one and all, but christianity can't, in the name of secularism. This asymmetry needs to be removed.
So, this thread is not really about engaging christians. But about engaging hindus.