suchandra Posted February 22, 2008 Report Share Posted February 22, 2008 Evangelical Missionary War on Hindus http://www.india-forum.com/hinduism/Evangelical-Missionary-War-on-Hindus-176.html 06 February, 2008 03:50:00 Dr.Babu Suseelan Font size: Evangelical Missionary War on Hindus Christian missionaries in India enjoyed much support from European Christian colonial masters who controlled the political, economic and educational institutions for centuries, to 1947. With the active support of the European Christian colonialists, missionaries founded churches, large scale political organizations, and educational institution. Even after independence, political parties handed over Christians an influential position in India. Leaders of the Church became key advisers and also exercised political, economic, and educational functions as government leaders. They have penetrated and controlled several national institutions that were taking shape after independence. Christian missionaries in India enjoyed much support from European Christian colonial masters who controlled the political, economic and educational institutions for centuries, to 1947. With the active support of the European Christian colonialists, missionaries founded churches, large scale political organizations, and educational institution. Even after independence, political parties handed over Christians an influential position in India. Leaders of the Church became key advisers and also exercised political, economic, and educational functions as government leaders. They have penetrated and controlled several national institutions that were taking shape after independence. Christians have created the press, economic institutions, commercial enterprises, as well as grabbed urban and forestland, established non-governmental organizations, schools, colleges and formed political parties. Coercive and deceptive conversion of Hindus increased the number of Christians which reshaped several states. No wonder that from the beginnings of 1950’s political Christianity made all the political, economic and educational decisions and controlled everything. Hindus could scarcely make their way in education, media and commerce. Political Christianity formed a special clique, finding their ideal in real estate, education, health industry, media, plantation and commerce. They operated in theory, that Christians should be strategically placed in policy decision bodies. The Church built large estates, business enterprises, banks, and educational institutions. Political Christianity in India maintains that Christians had first to constitute an appropriately divided Hindu society of classes. This they would accomplish only when they formed caste based organizations and regional political parties. Then Hindus would continue their class division and the Church would accomplish their goal. Historically, political, cultural, and economic Christianity had in common a sense of competition with Hinduism. Christians dismiss Hindu spiritual and cultural traditions. The Church clearly intent on liberating Hindus from their cultural roots and enslave them with rigid, closed, divisive and linear Christian dogma. Missionaries with the closed, rigid and non-compromising dogma are obsessed with the idea of converting Hindus who believe in pluralism, tolerance and the all inclusive Vedic philosophy. Comprehensive and spiritual Vedic thought has always posed a serious challenge and dilemma for the Christian Church. For centuries, unable to challenge the broader and systemic Hindu philosophy, Christian missionaries have resorted to deceptive mind manipulation strategies to trap and convert Hindus. Pseudo Political leaders and India’s alienated intellectuals failed to provide pride and dignity to Hindus and they despise and demean them. Political parties and secular leaders allowed Christians not only to influence government policies, but also tolerated their attack on Hindu spiritual practices. This political patronage enabled Christians to exercise an influential anti Hindu role in public life and in government. The power of the Church in India is enormous. Massive inflow of foreign fund helped the Church to influence the media, own large tracts of urban and forestland, control political parties, as well as own commercial and educational institutions. Their explicit purpose, among other things, is to stop Hindu consolidation and get them to fight on caste lines. In order to solidify their growing hegemony, Christians have made alliance with the Congress party, the Marxists, and regional parties as well as with parochial organizations. The explosive effect of this unholy alliance can be gauged by the emergence of Christian power in central and several state governments. Control of educational institutions, trade, plantation and real estate brought wealth to Christians in ways Christians had never known. All the while, Christian organizations received massive amounts from abroad for conversion activities. Christian conquests are more and more commercial and less spiritual. Well-established business, trade and commerce proved better, more wealth producing mode of occupation than spirituality. Concurrent with commercial success, the Church with the help of foreign fund elevated the role of political interference with absolute control of government in many states. Political influence of Christians in India marked the modern scene to an extent unknown before. Deceptive Practices Of Evangelical Missionaries One of the more alarming trends in India in recent years is the growing number of evangelical Christian organizations. This growth has been accompanied by an astonishing increase in Christian missionary activities which target Hindus for conversion. Well over 3,000 missionary groups which obsessed to convert Hindus spend over a billion dollar each year for conversion work in India. Evangelical Christian groups sponsor hundreds of full-time missionaries. They also sponsor television and radio programs. Missionaries have sponsored thousands of non-governmental organizations for overt and covert activities for furthering Christian causes. These evangelical Christians use deceptive tactics to attract secular Hindus, journalists, academicians and westernized intellectuals. Evangelical missionary groups use Hindu names for their organizations to attract and trap innocent Hindus. They frequently misquote, mistranslate and misrepresent Hindu scripture and texts in order to use it as a bait and switch game. Evangelical missionaries are specially trained in mental misdirection and psychological war. They know well how to conceal, camouflage, and distortion of reality and power play. This deceptive game involves getting Hindus to trust, like, and feel comfortable with their bait and switch game, so they will want Hindus to do what they want to do. They use sophisticated psycho programming for softening people up for the kill. Like most power plays, softening people up for the kill is dangerous. It is not transparent enough for Hindus to see through and choose not to say to buy into it. Missionary Agenda We See, Agendas We Don’t Evangelical Christian organizations advertise under the heading of Human Rights, Dalit Organizations, Solidarity movements of the oppressed, Environmental Protection groups and social service agencies. Their goal is to mentally misdirect Hindus, to fabricate false reality, erase memory, and soften them for “thought implant”. Pamphleteering and false advertisement of evangelist Christians are on the increase. There is an upsurge in Christian pamphlets being distributed at Hindu festivals, temples and sacred places of pilgrimage. Missionary groups aggressively distribute Christian publications to denigrate Hindu deities at Sabarimala, Thirupathi, Guruvayoor, Ujjain, Benares, Palani, Uduppi, and Sivagiri where Hindus congregate in large numbers. In addition, missionary groups employ scare tactics, intimidation and violence to discourage and prevent Hindus from organizing protest against deceptive conversion tactics. Evangelical missionary groups engage in a variety of relatively benign deceptions intent to leave secular Hindus with a more positive impression on them. The real purpose for engaging in hidden agenda power plays is conversion of innocent Hindus. Hidden agendas, psycho programming and mind manipulation techniques are used to entice unsuspecting Hindus. The secret they keep from others and the camouflage they use to disguise their true intentions has dangerous consequences for Hindu society. Beneath the polished exterior of Christian educational institutions lies a burgeoning political and cultural war machine that strikes at the traditional spiritual values of India. Evangelical Chrisitian Culture Warriors The Christian missionaries have already infiltrated religious organizations, media, social agencies, political parties and institutions of higher learning and threaten to bring down Hindu society. They continue to poison our cultural tradition, moral values, spiritual beliefs, and thus destroy the social fabric of our nation from within. It is a massive culture war which has disastrous consequences for Hindus and India. Their game plan is to misdirect Hindus and delegitimize Hinduism by claiming that Christianity is the only path to salvation. Several missionary organizations disguise as human rights and social service organizations. In fact, they fraudulently represent themselves as human right and social activists, and these so-called human right and social service organizations are elaborately disguised Christian front organizations. Most of these non-governmental organizations that receive foreign fund exhibit “messiah madness” and manifest a great sense of urgency to convert as many Hindus as possible for creating a Christian vote bank. Recent Christian violence in Orissa, Bihar, Kerala and Tamil Nadu are perfect example of the deceptive practices used by evangelical proselytizing groups. There are at least 500 Christian proselytizing organizations that operate with foreign fund in Orissa and Bihar alone, which are actively targeting Hindus for conversion. Recently deceptive and aggressive conversion efforts have led to escalating tension throughout Bihar. Facing The Evangelical Culture War Incredibly, many of the evangelical Christian aggression are the direct result of certain government policies to appease Christians. Policies of Christian and Muslim reservation, quota system and special privileges are in fact, effective in promoting mischievous Christian power play and aggressive conversion tactics. There has been an ominously deafening silence from secular political leadership at all levels. This silence itself is complicit in creating a favorable atmosphere for Christian conversion groups. Phony secular leaders engage in ineffective maneuvers to maintain the status quo and avoid unpleasant thoughts to the back of their minds because thinking about deceptive missionary conversion practices only make matters worse. Consequently, what they do in the name of maintaining equilibrium only deceive them. It is a self-defeating behavior that may lead to disaster. Most frightening are the bogus intellectuals, journalists and alienated intellectuals and armchair academicians, who at the helm of this Christian invasion, try to force insidious and deeply harmful Christian dogma upon the throats of Hindus under the name of mindless universalism. These pseudo secular leaders smug their attitudes as they ridicule us of our spiritual values. Defeating The Enemy As Hindus face the ongoing deceptive conversion gang and their sponsors around the world, we must cope with the continuing scourge of denial, accommodation and cowardice. Hindus need to recognize the dangers of putting our faith in mindless universalism-when the times call for decisive action. For only through strong defense of our spiritual culture, freedom at home and abroad, can we preserve, practice and promote our tolerant and all inclusive thought system in the dangerous world. Hindus must exercise constant vigilance to educate about the true nature of the hidden agendas of Christian groups and non-governmental organizations funded and directed by foreign agencies. Their mission is couched in ecclesiastical terms but their ulterior motive is to diminish Hindu population by coercive conversion. Hindus must be aware that the value of free speech and the basic right to free expression is not absolute under the Indian constitution. Hindus have the right to oppose Christian hate speech and deceptive practices that deem offensive. Awareness, education and assertive protest seem to be the best way of confronting deceptive missionary proselytizing. Teaching and informing Hindus that Hindus need not believe in the Christian dogma, not to tolerate intolerant and deceptive conversion practices and Christian churches are to deceive the Hindu community are important first steps. Though many political and community leaders have sought economic development and social reform, particularly globalization, they have generally been unwilling to see the power play and hidden agendas of the Churches. One key to the success of evangelical Christian deceptive conversion is that Hindus tolerate the hidden agendas and sinister games of the missionaries. The trouble with tolerating coercive religious conversion, of course, is that while we’re averting our eyes, the evangelists grows and festers around India. Their goal is political domination and this has been true for the past few centuries. Indeed, the greatest threat to our nation is Christian and Muslim appeasement policies-and selfish opportunism-of the pseudo secular politicians. The Congress party, the Marxists and several parochial regional parties are ideologically inclined toward appeasement and special privileges for Christians and Muslims. These corrupt, antinational political parties dismiss or understate hidden agendas of evangelists. And of course, rather than containing or confronting political agendas of the missionary groups, they acquiesce with them. Hindus can no longer afford to remain silent or passive when Hindus encounter Christian bigotry and hatred. The consequences of silence and passivism are too dangerous for our nation and for the Hindu civilization. We must not surrender the public arena to the forces that seek to promote hatred and polarization amongst various communities in our nation. Deceptive evangelical missionary conversion tactics must be actively resisted and responded to so that such hidden hatred and subversive plan become totally unacceptable in our country. If unchallenged and unchecked, coercive religious conversion can erode and destroy our spiritual tradition, dismantle our social fabric and destroy our moral foundation. Every Christian statement is a deliberate attack on the pluralistic and spiritual tradition of our society and on our sacred values that demand respect, tolerance, and kindness for all who live in the world. Hindu organizations must see diverse Hindus as a people with a vision not of what was, but of what in order to be. Hindu leaders must take that vision and transform into fact. Hindus must now break the wall of denial. No way around it. At some point, every Hindu is confronted with danger of deceptive conversion ploys. How we choose to combat that challenge is often life-defining. Hindus can face injustice and fraudulent conversion plans head-on or run from them, or ignores them until they consume every Hindu. But no one escapes conflict and confrontation. Hypocritical politicians see no evil in deceptive evangelical missionary practices, ever seek or act against it. These pseudo secular politicians who do not acknowledge evil are spiritually lost. Tolerance, complacency, avoidance, apathy and acquiesce of deceptive missionary practices will not lead to spirituality. It leads to confusion, chaos and immorality. Only by ignoring evil practices can a nation embrace deviance that ends in weakness and decadence. It is time for Hindus to wake up, join together and show courage and determination to discriminate between good and evil to create a strong nation. It is a culture war, a paradigm conflict. It is a political invasion from within. It is a bloodless war for the minds, hearts, and souls of Hindus. It is being waged with force, foreign fund and deception on our television, in the class rooms, in the media and in the political fields. It is a constant and continuing war on our spiritual values in order to weaken our nation. We must stand up and take sides in this war for the minds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maadhav Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 I agree with the last para that reads: "It is time for Hindus to wake up, join together and show courage and determination to discriminate between good and evil to create a strong nation. It is a culture war, a paradigm conflict. It is a political invasion from within. It is a bloodless war for the minds, hearts, and souls of Hindus. It is being waged with force, foreign fund and deception on our television, in the class rooms, in the media and in the political fields. It is a constant and continuing war on our spiritual values in order to weaken our nation. We must stand up and take sides in this war for the minds. " Just as we need to know and understand our problems, we also need to unite in our neighborhoods and cities, and states and in the nation, and finally globally, to act to counter the anti-vedic forces, and preserve and spread vedic dharma and culture. One thing that can help is to make the constitution of Bharat pro-vedic. Remove any anti-vedic laws. That, when done will open more ways to counter the dushmans' activities. jai sri krishna! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suchandra Posted February 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 I agree with the last para that reads: "It is time for Hindus to wake up, join together and show courage and determination to discriminate between good and evil to create a strong nation. It is a culture war, a paradigm conflict. It is a political invasion from within. It is a bloodless war for the minds, hearts, and souls of Hindus. It is being waged with force, foreign fund and deception on our television, in the class rooms, in the media and in the political fields. It is a constant and continuing war on our spiritual values in order to weaken our nation. We must stand up and take sides in this war for the minds. " Just as we need to know and understand our problems, we also need to unite in our neighborhoods and cities, and states and in the nation, and finally globally, to act to counter the anti-vedic forces, and preserve and spread vedic dharma and culture. One thing that can help is to make the constitution of Bharat pro-vedic. Remove any anti-vedic laws. That, when done will open more ways to counter the dushmans' activities. jai sri krishna! Thanks Maadhav but is India actually ruled by Hindus? So far India seems to be ruled by the Wall Street which in return is ruled by the London markets. Looks like that members of other ethnic minority groups in Canada feel terribly outraged by Dr. Babu Suseelan article. Two Bigots' Wrongs Don't Make a Right BY: HARAKUMARA DASA Feb 23, CANADA (SUN) — It was with bemused dismay that I, since I read almost everything new everyday on this website, had to take the time to go through that miserable unfortunate piece, Evangelical Missionary War on India's Hindus by a Dr. Babu Suseelan, offered for our consideration through the agency of, as it seems, two bigots. The irrational article, a paranoid hyperbolic subviolent rant, resembled a pep talk for the BJP or the VHP. Srila Prabhupada never talked like that. Since we are unable to decide to whom we owe the image and the byline--the first bigot or the second--we should discuss them first before we examine the contributions of the two bigots. The fiery image states that the wicked shall be turned into Hell. Well, wicked is as wicked does. It is enjoined in the scriptures that murder is forbidden [thou shalt not kill, especially kill human beings, such as the innocent Christians recently brutally murdered by rampaging Hindu mobs in Orissa (Asia News & UCA News) because man is made in the image of God and is capable of being God conscious] and that murderers are destined to undergo future hellish punishment for violating this eternal law. Modern India has another problem with this law; see the article entitled India's Two Plagues . Also, considering the unfortunate facts presented by Radha Govinda in Please Don't Send Your Children To India on this website, we would do well to treat the basis of Babu Suseelan's fears of an erosion of Hindu 'morality' by Christianity with a healthy dose of scepticism. The byline, the first portion of which I shall address later, implies that there is a "conversion problem". Problem, what problem? In 1971, Christians of all kinds constituted 2.6% of the population of India, and in 2001 they were just 2.3%; so the proportional Christian population of India is declining . The Christian proselytizers don't seem to be all that effective. Perhaps the "problem" lies in the minds of the two bigots and their friends. These factual statistics, being what they are, point out the utter hypocrisy and spiritual bankruptcy of the opponents, verbal and physical, of the divinely mandated right of the Church to proselytize everywhere. Srila Prabhupada never did like that. The first bigot, Babu Suseelan, who is the more irrational of the two, is also quite objectively a hypocrite because he disguises his violent reactionary canards as a concern about religious conversion of born Hindus to Christianity with ostensible solicitude for their welfare, and likely weakening spiritual health of the Hindu nation by the "hidden agendas" of the "powerful" Christian forces. Reading his article reminded me of that erstwhile German corporal, conspiracy theorist and disastrous political leader writing about the Jews in interbellum Germany. There is the same intense paranoia (about the sinister enemy within: "...political Christianity made all the...decisions and controlled everything " e.a.), the same hyper-envious resentment (about the failure of the Hindu nation to arise, which is blamed entirely on a convenient Christian scapegoat), the same self-righteous anger and hyperbolic rabid rhetoric ("...hidden agendas/hidden hatred and subversive plan/ power play/evil/culture war [kulturkampf]/hate speech/hatred and polarization/sinister games/scourge of denial...and cowardice/political invasion from within/war for the minds/conversion gang/hidden hatred/ poison our...destroy the social fabric/evil/hypocritical politicians/ embrace deviance that ends in weakness and decadence/create a strong nation...") and the same politicized quasi "messianic madness" (actually the only madness evinced here is of the anti-messianic garden variety). Babu Suseelan is a virtual shill, and it is very clear what political party he is shilling for. He criticizes the Congress party, the Marxists and several parochial regional parties ("corrupt, anti-national political parties"), so it is the party that he avoids to mention that we should watch out for (rather, Be Just Particular to avoid, if we know what is good for us). Although born in India, Srila Prabhupada never identified with the Fascistic Hindu, nor even with the Hindu, species of the bodily concept of life, but always realized that he is an eternal servant of Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And his eternally perfect situation just counterpoints the obvious illusion of this conditioned soul, Babu Suseelan. The cheating propensity of the same soul is also very evident as hypocrisy in full swing, in two directions. Foreward, we have here his misrepresentation of the real nature of that so-called "conversion problem". As shown by the statistics above, objectively there is no problem at all, except perhaps for those to whom the facts don't matter because they want much more power to pursue a fascistical political agenda (truth NOT, SEE maya). But in truth, as acknowledged by most untendentious observors, both Hindu and otherwise, the conversion issue has less to do with religious doctrine or practice and more to do with Hindu caste society. The elite members of the upper castes, who claim to be real brahmanas, &c. merely on the basis of birth (and not on the basis of guna-karma-vibhagasah) want to claim their lifelong 'birthright' of riding on the backs of the lowly poor downtrodden masses. They are opposed to the advancement of the 'untouchable' Dalits, whom they want to keep under their thumb of repression. They are very solicitous to conserve the power they wield from the top of that anti-human system of oppression. Christianity, and especially Catholic Christianity which effectively promotes the spiritual evolution and development of the whole human being, is extremely liberating. So when lowborn (as is often the case) persons convert to Christianity, they joyfully escape from this stagnant perverted wretched disgraceful adharmic caste system. But when the elites see this, they don't feel joy that their brothers (not their view), having found their God, are on their way home, but rather they feel anger in their sinful polluted hearts because some of their human assets have been permanently alienated. Consequently, to complement the gunda gangs in their employ, they cultivate pseudo-intellectual flacky shills and politicized hacky point men, such as the author of this wretched article, to apologize for their presumptuous perversion of varnasrama-dharma and to serve their kama-krodha-lobha-mada-moha-matsara by attacking Christians and Christianity. So religious conversion is not really the issue. If they are really afraid of religious conversion, then why do very many of these same upper class people strive to place their children in Christian-run schools for a superior education? Babu Suseelan accuses the Church of being "intent on liberating Hindus from their cultural roots", but is that such a bad thing for a Dalit? What's in it for him? If the people above him do not hate his guts, at least they don't care whether he lives or dies, and don't lift one finger for him ("it's his karma"). But if he tries to do something for himself, they will put him right back in his place ("that's our karma"). But if Christianity, with a social conscience second to none, does something for him, then those people become most aggressively antipathetic. This is iniquity. All of the upside of power and honor, and none of the downside of protection and service. And it is also hypocrisy. The elites cover their sin of neglecting to assist their inferiors by projecting evil motives onto Christians who help them socially. By using this word "liberating", Suseelan tacitly admits that there is something very wrong with Hindu society. Suseelan then spins around and writes "enslaving them with rigid, closed, divisive and linear Christian dogma". Dogma, you say? What about this dogma: that if you are born as an 'untouchable', then that makes you just another inferior specimen of human garbage to be disrespected and abused for the rest of your life. Get used to it. "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here", as was written on the gate of Dante's Inferno. By the way, don't let us see you talking to those devious Christians over there, because that might give you false hopes, and we might have to take care of things. Just know your place and don't get uppity, because unlike us you're just a lowlife. &c. I think that Suseelan should pay more attention to fighting this enslaving dogma. And I think it should be obvious to every decent clear-thinking person that this sort of 'dogma', so characteristic of the caste system, is really rigid, certainly closed, definitely divisive and linear in that it railroads its victims into lifelong virtual slavery with no practical opportunity for human development, such as we enjoy in the West. Now, just what is it about European history, as compared to Indian history, that has led to this distinction? Think about it. Why was Srila Prabhupada ordered to preach (in English) in the West, when he could have stayed to preach in Bharata? Of course there are several reasons, but we should closely consider all of them. But Babu Suseelan will not do that because he is busy trying to criticize Christian service and apologize for Hindu exploitation. I could not help but notice while reading this piece that Suseelan's mind appears to be quite agitated. In fact, at times he gives one the impression of someone running scared. What is he scared of? If Hinduism, such as it is, really has something and is not spiritually bankrupt, could it not stand the test of freedom? Is it sanatana-dharma, or is it asad-dharma, threatened with non-existence just because some Christians are trying to do the will of God by proselytizing on the order of their Master? Suseelan's existential nervousness does not bode well for the future of Hinduism, but the fault is his. His friends should have done more for the lower classes. Certainly, banging his head against the wall of Christian Truth, including the dogma he cluelessly tries to attack, will not help him. But considering his rhetoric, perhaps he is more interested in politics than in truth. Every swing moves in two directions and so it is with Babu Suseelan's hypocrisy in full swing. Backward, we notice that he has developed the ability to speak from both sides of his mouth at the same time. He writes "...only through strong defence of our spiritual culture, freedom at home and abroad, can we preserve, practice and promote our tolerant and all inclusive thought system in the dangerous world", and then "every Christian statement is a deliberate attack on the pluralistic and spiritual tradition of our society and on our sacred values that demand respect, tolerance and kindness for all who live in the world". Now the latter statement is bigotry, in the context of an attempt to demonize Christianity and its adherents [All fanatical ideologues and totalitarian states attempt to demonize the 'other' (minority, ideology, party, country) to compensate for their lack of sattva. They "give the dog a bad name and hang it". Therefore we should understand, despite all possible protestations to the contrary, that this attempt is justification or preparation for persecution. Lies and murder go together, because they come from the same source.]. Unconscious of his own projections, Suseelan writes of "Christian bigotry and hatred"; this means that he is bigoted and hateful (atmavan manyate jagat). But his hypocrisy leads him to couch his exercise of bigotry on a bed of Hindu virtues (he wants to have his cake and eat it too). He writes of an all-inclusive thought system, but it can't accomodate Christianity. He writes of fostering this tolerant system, but he wants to behave intolerantly. He writes of freedom, and a pluralistic tradition, but these are not known to be BJP/VHP values. Freedom? What about freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, freedom to convert to Christianity, freedom to do the will of God by proselytizing? Freedom from govern- ment interference in one's spiritual life? Freedom from persecution? Suseelan elsewhere tries to justify his desire to strangle true freedom by writing "Hindus must be aware that the value of free speech and the basic right to free expression is not absolute under the Indian constitution". That means that the Indian constitution is not sastra, because if a human right is basic, then it is based on the natural or divine order. Thus it is inalienable, and hence, as it were, absolute. Once again Suseelan is entangled in illogical perplexity and contradictory duality, because all hypocrisy is irrational. ["Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue."] He continues to mention his sacred values that demand respect, tolerance and kindness for all who live in the world. It appears to me that the Christians live in the world and I think they deserve a little more respect than is shown by Babu Suseelan's fanatical ranting. Tolerance means tolerance, not intolerance. As far as kindness goes, India's poorest of the poor would almost surely prefer the ministrations of a Mother Theresa to what they could expect from the upper crust of the bullsh*t caste system. Suseelan's inability to see these obvious things is evidence of spiritual blindness and further proof that if one doesn't have genuine spiritual faith, Krsna conscious or otherwise, one simply cannot be rational (cf. Bg 2.66). Srila Prabhupada never thought like that. Now we come to the role of the second bigot. The second bigot is more problematic to understand than the first. He could be more of a borderline (tatastha) bigot, but still definitely on the wrong side of the line. I suspect that he is much more rational than Suseelan, and much more adept at sociopolitical analysis, but that on certain issues his intelligence can be swayed by his own personal likes and dislikes. On the basis of the conclusion of the previous paragraph therefore, we can conclude that he is much more spiritually advanced than Suseelan. Perhaps he has been initiated by Srila Prabhupada. Although I would not now care to publicly speculate as to who he might be, he is the one responsible for the decision to launch Suseelan's flaming anti-Christian diatribe. One wonders why, considering that in the past, as I believe, he has written of his distaste for rant, as opposed to soundly reasoned discourse. I guess that his personal distaste for Christianity overcame his personal distaste for rant. If true, that speaks volumes about his personal dislike of Christianity. If I am correct, in other articles he has expressed his personal distaste, directly or indirectly, sometimes in ways that seem to border on the irrational. If I am correct in assuming that he is also responsible for posting all the other more or less anti-Christian articles on this website, then his predilections would go a long way to account for the tendentious (heavily biased) tenor of the Sampradaya Sun on this topic. One is evaluated by the company one keeps, or by the quality of those to whom one grants favor. So if someone is wont to facilitate the messages of bigots, then one can only conclude after some time that he is at least a borderline bigot. But a Sun should be a source of light and truth, not darkness and error. And a Sampradaya should be what is exemplified by the Acarya, Srila Prabhupada. Frankly, when I consider that the one responsible for posting these things may well be a disciple of Srila Prabhupada, I am puzzled. Srila Prabhupada, although critical in his way, never deliberately denigrated the verity of Christ and his Church, and never entertained fanatical bigots associated with those who have Christian blood on their hands. Srila Prabhupada knew better than that. I wonder why the second bigot does not also know better. I wonder why, in the byline to Suseelan's article, Vaisnava preachers are presumptuously assumed to agree with the irrational opinions of such a benighted fanatic. A real Vaisnava preacher, such as Srila Prabhupada, does not have to resort to these kinds of asama-dosa things to expedite the propagation of Krsna Consciousness because his premamayi bhakti is founded on the brahman platform (nirdosam hi samam brahma), the "only platform of pure devotees". I hope that the one responsible for these editorial misadventures (alas, as it seems, the second bigot) will rise soon to the brahman platform of pure devotional service. Then the daily rising of the Sampradaya Sun will be much more pleasantly enlightening for all. Let all the black snakes of Hindu fascism be turned back into the hellholes of Orissa. Editor's Note: Our purpose in publishing the recent article, "Evangelical Missionary War on India's Hindus", was in hopes of eliciting responses just like the excellent rebuttal offered here by Sriman Harakumara dasa. As the presence of ISKCON grows worldwide, we can expect increasing pressure to be put on the devotees to take sides on political issues like the Christian conversion debate. The sheer number of Srila Prabhupada's followers worldwide increasingly creates the perception that the "ISKCON opinion" has value in social, political and cultural debates of all sorts. Regardless of how "GBC-centralized" such "ISKCON opinions" are (and in fact, nearly all are independent, not institutional), to the world they count as the opinions of a cohesive, branded society. Just as we are now seeing in the contentious issues coming out of Jagannath Puri, where attempts are being made to put ISKCON in the hotseat on issues like non-Hindu access to the temple, or the dates Ratha Yatras are held, we can expect ISKCON to become the focus on many other so-called "Hindu issues". As we noted in the original article byline, "There is no stronger force than Gaudiya Vaisnava preachers to confront and solve the conversion problem." That holds true for all problems faced by the world today. Srila Prabhupada's sannyasis and leaders should be preaching, loudly and publicly, both in Jagannath Puri and throughout the world press about the Jagannath Temple banning of devotees of the Lord based on some bodily conception. Similarly, we hope to see strong preaching on issues like the Christian "conversion problem", which will benefit greatly from an infusion of Krsna consciousness. So while we do not add the disclaimer, "Articles published in the Sampradaya Sun do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Editors", we trust that our regular readers can identify instances when articles like Dr. Babu Suseelan's are published here in order to spark responses like the one above. We trust that such exchanges will result in better informed opinions from a Krsna conscious perspective on social and political issues of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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