Guest guest Posted February 2, 2000 Report Share Posted February 2, 2000 david kostinchuk <dkost (AT) mb (DOT) sympatico.ca> Newsgroups: alt.religion.vaisnava Thursday, January 27, 2000 5:35 AM THE RAPE OF INDIA >"THE RAPE OF INDIA" > > In the article " The Jungle Of Christ" I discussed the plans of the > television evangelists >and their assault on India. In this article I will deal with this subject >in a more detailed perspective. > >The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines rape as: 1. take by force. 2. commit >rape on. fig. forcible interference with institutions, country, etc. > >The rape of India is done in a model similar to a military model used to >invade, occupy, control, or subjugate a population of a given country. >Intelligence is considered essential to invading a country; language, >religion, culture, etc. are some of the variables considered. Division >among the given population is considered essential to gain political >control once inside the country. Religion can be the key variable to >accomplish this. Division of wealth, social status, ethnic diversity, etc. >are also variables that influence division of the population of a given >country. > >At the present time North India is considered the core target of >evangelists in their effort of world evangelism. They justify this to >Christians by using derogatory remarks like " 900 million Hindus are >spiritual bondage" (Baptist Press 10/99) or "900 million people lost in the >hopeless darkness of Hinduism" (Baptist Press 11/99) > >North India is a major population and political center. It is also >considered the religious hub of India, the most socially deprived, has the >lowest literacy rate, having the smallest percentage of Christians in its >population as well as having immense research done on the population. The >evangelists consider Hindus in North India as being the most accessible >target in their plan for world wide evangelism. In addition there is the >added incentive of having a Muslim population of 140 million. > >The AD2000 movement uses terms such as "spy out the land and its >inhabitants" to get an accurate complete picture of opportunities and >challenges of India. They have coined the terms PLUG, PREM and NICE to >describe their goals and methodology. PLUG refers to the target group. >People in every language, urban center and geographic division. PREM >refers to the techniques to use. Offering prayer, research must be done >and utilized effectively on the target group, an evangelist must be the >catalyst to provoke change and action and to encourage ministries and their >efforts to convert non Christians. NICE refers to how the work is to be >done. Networking, taking initiative when the movement is slowing down, >using an evangelist to speed action in evangelizing and to encourage >existing groups and cohorts in their efforts to convert people to >Christianity. ( http://www.ad2000.org/uters3.htm) >The Gospel For Christ and The Indian Missionary Association have put >together books to help evangelists evangelize India. The evangelists are >also using information from The Anthropological Society of India's work on >ethno-graphic studies which has been considered essential in facilitating >the evangelism efforts. This has been used to such a degree that the >diverse language groups of India have been divided into PIN codes. ( These >are similar to ZIP codes in the USA that divide the country into mailing >districts.) The ability to send evangelists that are familiar to language, >culture, etc. greatly facilitates the speed at which evangelism is able to >develop and is cost effective since tactics can be formed at the home base >which saves costly mistakes in the field. > > ad2000 ( http://www.ad2000.org/uters2.htm ) > >The Christian Broadcasting Network has a splinter group that is called The >Joshua Project. Their target is 2.2 billion people in 1685 groups that are >divided into Affinity Blocks and Gateway Clusters. Affinity groups are >groups of people who have bonding of language, religion, politics and >culture. Usually there is one culture that is dominate in the block. People >clusters are people that are closely related in name or culture so they are >clustered together. These groups usually consist of populations of over one >million. There goal is to have at least one hundred Christians or more in >every group of over 10,000 people. Joshua Project ( http://www.ad2000.org/ >) > >There are too many evangelist groups in India to cover in this article >however; I will discuss a few of them to give a picture of how they >proliferate. > >The Indian Prayer + Fellowship Association has a goal to reach all non >Christians to start cell groups. They have contacted over 16,000 houses, >made almost 900 home contacts and over 1700 personal contacts. Their goal >is to start cell groups than attach a full gospel group or plant a church >if needed. >They also supply tracts, literature etc. Indian Prayer And Fellowship >Association ( http:www.geocities.com/athens/troy ) > >Partners International has the goal of training indigenous people to >evangelize others. They are training a Christian who has converted to >Christianity every 13 minutes. They claim planting a church every ten hours >in Asia and Africa. >( http://www.partnersintl.org/aboutpi/welcome.html ) > > >The southern Baptists plan to have 4,700 southern Baptists working with >millions of international partners. Their goal is to have 15,000 career >missionaries, 50,000 volunteers, and 1,000 southern Baptist college grads >every year. The length of service for the college grads is to be two years. >( Baptist Press 11/22/99) > >The evangelists strategy for North India includes treating Indian missions >and Indian evangelists as equal considering that India has a strong GNP and >a growing middle class. Due to the large population base the evangelists >strategy includes dividing up the population base into smaller target >groups such as women estimated to number 487 million or girls under 15 >which is estimated to number 158 million. They plan to use literacy >programs o target the illiterate which is estimated to be 48% of the >population. They also plan to supply the Indian church with tools such as >translators, humanitarian relief, etc. so the churches can become self >sustaining and would not need outside assistance. >(http://www.gem-werc.org/mmrc9812.htm) > > >The evangelists India outreach teams -hbi ministries international India >provide schools, orphanages, medical centers etc. In a six week period >outreach teams ministered to 19,000 children and taught Hindu and Muslim >students in Christian schools. >( http://www.gospel.net/hbi/iot/ ) > >Dr. Houtsma of World Outreach Ministries stated that he has helped train >160,000 national ministers to continue his work when he leaves. He is >targeting Jammu, Vyara, Ludhiana, etc. ( http://www.wo.org/ ) One of the >variables in training indigenous missionaries is the decreased cost to >support missionaries. A foreign missionary cost at least $66,000 a year to >support. Native missionaries cost approximately $600 a year. This greatly >decreases the cost of evangelizing. Christian Aid. >( http://www.christianaid.org/ ) Native missionaries now do 90% of the >work in starting churches. These people are more effective in converting >people because They understand the language, customs, culture, etc. In >addition recent converts are often more zealous in their efforts to convert >people to their way of thinking. Hundreds of thousands of zealous converts >can also have a sever profound influences on the political system that is >in effect. > > >The reader of this article should be aware of the fact that these students >could be influenced toward Christianity by their teachers. In addition >orphanages can be the breeding ground for future evangelists. In an >orphanage children could be brainwashed and conditioned during school and >after school. The children in an orphanage can have their social life >controlled after school so they only socialize with evangelists. These >children have no family or other people outside of the evangelists to look >after their welfare so they can easily be programmed. > >It is interesting though sad to see the results that might occur as the >evangelists enter their last stage of evangelism in India. You can see >considerable backlash against evangelism as stated in the newspapers. >Evangelists cry to the politicians, civil right groups and newspapers in >the West. > >Some questions must be asked though. Do evangelists have the right to >disrupt society, culture, religion, and the family of people in other >countries? Do people have the right to combat the attack on the culture, >etc. of their country? > >I would welcome any comments or feedback on this article. > >David Kostinchuk > >VISIT MY WEBSITE: PEOPLE UNITED FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM > >http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~dkost/index.htm ______ 1stUp.com - Free the Web® Get your free Internet access at http://www.1stUp.com (Text COM:2964843) -------- ------- End of Forwarded Message ------ (Text COM:2979622) -------- ------- End of Forwarded Message ------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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