Christian “Science” Monitor is queasy because Himachal Pradesh realized the dangers of allowing unfettered conversions. Read and enjoy the pure spin.
To others, however, Himachal Pradesh’s anticonversion law and its “re-conversion” ceremonies give little cause for happiness. Rather, they are a troubling indication of a rising intolerance toward India’s tiny Christian minority. [..] But recently, these concerns have been used to justify a number of violent attacks on missionaries, and an increase in controversial anticonversion laws.
Name just one violent attack, that is, one attack where Hindus weren’t provoked by the Peddlers of the only True God and his Son. As to anti conversion laws, there can be nothing controversial provided a simple, unequivocal sentence is present: Peddling religious conversion is illegal.
Tags: Commentary, Indian Politics, Pseudo Secularism Hall of Shame, Society & Culture
On 05.29.07 zena says:
The christian world is a hodge podge of paganism, shamanism, idolatory and pure hypocrisy, and full of lies!
Christians are at a loss to say which of their christain sect - the word rightly attributed to them by the Pope in his recent visit to Latin America - leads one to the christian heaven or hell or limbo? They can’t save their own soul for their own sake yet they pontificate on the sea of “heathens” whose soul need to be saved.
Hypocrites! Liars! who distort the bible passages to justify their plunder and enslavement of people; from the Azetecs to the Indians, Africans and wherever else their filthy kind proselytise. They say: “who says we are looting? We do not. The bible clearly indicates that the heathens hold what is rightly ours till such time we take it back” That’s the kind of muckiness the “heathen” world has to contend. Do it the Azetec way: send them all over the cliff - one way!
On 05.29.07 Vikas says:
The Pastor also mislead us and threw the sacred Ganga Jal in the toilet and the idols and pictures of Gods and Goddesses were thrown in nearby nalla. {me: nalla=drain} - Lajja Devi
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Perhaps Christian Science{Oxymoron alert, thx Sandeep} Monitor can point me towards the ‘rising intolerance’ keeping in mind the above.
On 05.29.07 Vikas says:
My bad @ Link
http://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=673&Itemid=121
On 05.29.07 Ot says:
I have always been intrigued by the journal’s title. Does it stand for Christian monitoring of science, to make sure maybe that scientists don’t pose a threat to Christianity; or is it a monitoring of “Christian Science”, as in science invented by those who are practising Christians?
On 06.06.07 David Perry says:
–I have always been intrigued by the journal’s title. Does it stand for Christian monitoring of science, to make sure maybe that scientists don’t pose a threat to Christianity; or is it a monitoring of “Christian Science”, as in science invented by those who are practising Christians?–
In case anyone is still paying attention to this. . .”Christian Science” is the name taken by a particular group of Christians, who essentially believe that the only meaningful reality is the spiritual one, and that material existence is relatively unimportant and often deceptive. (A bit of an oversimplification, but basically correct.) They are most famous for refusing to use conventional medical techniques to cure illness, because they believe that ultimately, all problems have a spiritual basis, and therefore prayer and other spiritual techniques should be more effective against disease then mere “material” treatments. The Monitor was created by the church’s founder partly to provide a counterpoint to negative publicity that she and the church were receiving at the time (early 20th century), and partly because she felt that facing the world and its problems honestly was a necessary step towards spiritual renewal and progress. While it doesn’t deal much with religion, to the extent that it does, it expresses the opinion of a particular denomination rather than Christianity in general.