<!--QuoteBegin-dhu+Mar 22 2007, 04:38 AM-->QUOTE(dhu @ Mar 22 2007, 04:38 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://newstodaynet.com/2007sud/mar07/210307.htm
<b>An assault on the soul of the nation</b>
<b>V SUNDARAM</b>
I had gone to the Landmark book shop on Nungambakkam High Road Monday evening. When, I got a new 2 Rupee Coin minted in 2006 as loose change towards the balance that was payable to me ... (the christo coin)[right][snapback]65959[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Landmark is a christo store. I shopped there last year (didn't know for certain that it was a christo store until I came to the checkout).
(1) While browsing for Hindu books in the Hindu book section, right there, in the middle of the Gita and some other sacred books, what do I find, but the book 'Why I'm not a Hindu' (by Kancha Illaiayah, isn't it). And isn't this is the book where the author wants to goad people into a <i>bloody</i> revolution against 'brahmins and their oppression'?
Meanwhile, the well-argued and non-hatred-inciting books of 'Why I'm not a christian' by the humane agnostic Bertrand Russell and the 'Why I'm not a muslim' by Pakistani Ibn Warraq (of SecularIslam.org) were nowhere to be found in the christian and islamic book sections respectively. (Yes, I checked.) Bet they were nowhere in the store either. Probably not a single book by Joseph McCabe there nor the ('blasphemous') brilliant Age of Reason by the great Thomas Paine.
(2) At the counter, there was a donation box. Box was labelled clearly indicating where the donations would go. It was some christian missionary charity.
(3) While waiting for my stuff and looking around, noticed that every single dude at the checkout counter on that day that I was there was a christian - from the namebadges on their blue shirts. Ironic that the dude who served me was a 'Justin' - as in a pre-christian Roman name. (When will these confused converts stop stealing the noble names of peoples murdered by christos and whose civilisations were purposefully destroyed by christoterrorism?)
After that I decided I'd never shop in Landmark ever again. As far as I can recall, it was my first and only time.
Not surprised that this would be the store where they'd start issuing the christo coins.
<b>An assault on the soul of the nation</b>
<b>V SUNDARAM</b>
I had gone to the Landmark book shop on Nungambakkam High Road Monday evening. When, I got a new 2 Rupee Coin minted in 2006 as loose change towards the balance that was payable to me ... (the christo coin)[right][snapback]65959[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Landmark is a christo store. I shopped there last year (didn't know for certain that it was a christo store until I came to the checkout).
(1) While browsing for Hindu books in the Hindu book section, right there, in the middle of the Gita and some other sacred books, what do I find, but the book 'Why I'm not a Hindu' (by Kancha Illaiayah, isn't it). And isn't this is the book where the author wants to goad people into a <i>bloody</i> revolution against 'brahmins and their oppression'?
Meanwhile, the well-argued and non-hatred-inciting books of 'Why I'm not a christian' by the humane agnostic Bertrand Russell and the 'Why I'm not a muslim' by Pakistani Ibn Warraq (of SecularIslam.org) were nowhere to be found in the christian and islamic book sections respectively. (Yes, I checked.) Bet they were nowhere in the store either. Probably not a single book by Joseph McCabe there nor the ('blasphemous') brilliant Age of Reason by the great Thomas Paine.
(2) At the counter, there was a donation box. Box was labelled clearly indicating where the donations would go. It was some christian missionary charity.
(3) While waiting for my stuff and looking around, noticed that every single dude at the checkout counter on that day that I was there was a christian - from the namebadges on their blue shirts. Ironic that the dude who served me was a 'Justin' - as in a pre-christian Roman name. (When will these confused converts stop stealing the noble names of peoples murdered by christos and whose civilisations were purposefully destroyed by christoterrorism?)
After that I decided I'd never shop in Landmark ever again. As far as I can recall, it was my first and only time.
Not surprised that this would be the store where they'd start issuing the christo coins.