to "Sister Usha"

[Guest guest]

 Dear Sister Usha,

Thank you for calling me astute.

 

I am so sorry for your being “saddened by hearing such hatred coming from people

who profess to be Hindu”, and I want to reassure you. Nobody is hating anyone,

we are just exposing facts.

If you believe that telling historical facts and objecting to the unquestionable

so-called superiority of Christians amounts to hatred and persecution, I am all

the more sorry for you and for those who think you are wise.

 

I recently read one Christian preacher who was interviewed and said that

Christians in US are today suffering from the worse persecutions that anyone has

ever suffered in history – maybe because they are not allowed to overrule the

laws of the country or imposing their Ten Commandments as the basis of the

American culture (oh yes, together with McDonald’s hamburgers, I almost forgot).

 

Regarding the “charity” of Christians, especially the Catholics, the Vatican has

immense wealth, properties and banks, and some of this wealth is proudly paraded

in their rituals. Personal jet planes, innumerable estate properties, invaluable

art pieces and jewels are not exactly what I feel should be the showcase of the

representative of Jesus. If Jesus was a homeless drifters, his current “vicary”

drifts along quite comfortably. His old car has been auctioned for a pretty sum,

too. How much of that money will go to “the poor”?

When I see cardinals and popes travelling on second class seats on trains, I

will start to believe that they practice what they preach to others.

 

Hindus are not “above this sort of things”, i.e. truth and justice. They have

been sleeping for hundreds of years, after being convinced they were a bunch of

superstitious backward pagans and they had no right to say anything. I hope they

are waking up now.

 

Regarding your experience with Christians, I don’t think that you can have a

better experience than me. Born and raised in Italy in a Catholic family, I went

to Catholic nun school up to graduation. In the last two years, the Sisters paid

some extra tuition for me so that I could sit for 3 years exams at the time,

graduate and get out of the school because nobody could answer my questions.

Italy has a very long and interesting history of persecutions BY the Christians,

having sustained its brunt for longer and harder years than any other place in

the world.

I believe I was born there because I had to get some first hand experience, to

integrate my previous lives, also very interesting.

When someone directly remembers the experiences under the middle ages

inquisition and the stake, you can’t lullaby them back to sleep with empty

niceties, sentimentalisms and commonplace stories.

Although I don’t think you believe in reincarnation, being a Catholic (I do not

believe a gram of the story that you are a worshiper of Kali).

 

Saying that Christians are evil as an organized philosophical system and

religious institution is not hateful and DOES make the world a better place,

because it may save India from suffering the same fate that Europe and the

Americas had to suffer. Already it is happening.

It fosters mistrust just like exposing a fraud does – saving potential victims

of the clever cheats.

 

If you want to dismiss systematic genocide, mass torturing, razing of temples,

burning of libraries etc as “occasional mistakes by a few who claimed to be

Christians”, it’s your choice – it’s not the first time that I hear such a

statement from Christians. And I am not the only one who heard it and

disbelieved it.

Don’t say that I am blaming Jesus: Christians are committing the most heinous

offences by ascribing their horrible mentality and behaviors to Jesus’ orders.

Still, they are not giving up their “mistakes”. They still carry them on in

practice and theory, all the while proclaiming their sanctity, and that

“unfortunately someone who may claim to be a Christian may commit mistakes”.

 

Here are just two quotes:

 

George Grant, Executive Director of the Coral Ridge Ministries in the US,

expresses such beliefs in his book "The Changing of the Guard: Biblical

Principles for Political Action": "Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a

commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ, to have

dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and

godliness. But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice. It is dominion we

are after. Not just influence. It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.

It is dominion we are after. World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned

us to accomplish. We must win the world with the power of the Gospel. And we

must never settle for anything less... Thus, Christian politics has as its

primary intent the conquest of the land – of men, families, institutions,

bureaucracies, courts and governments, for the Kingdom of Christ." (p. 50-51)

Christian coalition field director Bill Thompson echoes this attitude in

speaking about opposition in the United States: "We are going to run over them.

Get around them, run over the top of them, destroy them – whatever you need to

do, so that God's word is the word that is being practiced in Congress,

townhalls, and State legislatures. That's your job."

 

My book “The Roots of Globalization” is simply based on historical facts over

2000 years, including the present day, and the analysis of “Christian” ideology:

philosophy, theology, sociology, with quotes from famous Christian writers that

anybody with a culture can verify.

If you want to supply verifiable information about “hundreds of Christian

organizations” I am ready to accept it gladly and include it in my book,

together with the information about the verification.

 

The dark Middle ages of Europe started with the estabishment of Christianity,

the “first millennium” when the “cross was planted on the soil of Europe”.

The detailed history of how culture, ethics, philosophy, science, freedom and

prosperity were destroyed in the process, is appalling. Yet, the history books

written by Christians claim it was a “civilization process”.

The second millennium saw “the cross planted on the soil of the Americas and

Africa”. The results were the almost total annihilation by genocide of the

indigenous populations of the Americas and the complete annihilation of their

culture, and immense damage to the populations of Africa by mass slavery and

almost complete annihilation of the local culture.

South America has an overwhelming majority of Christians, but it is still known

as a continent torn by dictatoriships, civil wars, genocide, drug trafficking,

degradation, cruelties of all kinds, corruption and environmental disasters.

Africa is still in the same situation, with the added problem of AIDS and all

sorts of diseases and malnutrition.

In both places, for centuries the worst local people have been put in command

positions by Christians in order to better control and exploit the population.

 

Nobody in Hinduism has ever created an organized hyerarchy that systematically

debased, abused and destroyed all other faiths and declared the aim of complete

dominion all over the planet.

I believe that you do not have sufficient information about the

historical/ideological facts in Christianity and I strongly suggest that you

correct your ignorance on the subject.

 

And still killing is going on, like in Indonesia and in north east India. The

Rwanda massacres were amply supported by the Christian church, so much that some

clergy members were found guilty at the international court in Hague, Europe,

for crimes against humanity.

Let’s not speak about the systematic covering of abuse of children by priests,

for which Cardinal Bernard Law was rewarded by the Vatican with the prestigious

seat in St. Maria Maggiore, Rome, and he got to say the funeral mass of the old

pope. So much for love and charity.

 

 

PKD