Christian Subversion And Missionary Activities - 6

[Husky]

A heading in MSN.in states that Mr Buhpati, son of rabid christist Mrs Buhpati, is now married to Lara Dutta.

No Hindu-origin person involved! It's a miracle.



- Wasn't Lara a catholic? In christianism, the wife decides the religion of the children (the dad determines the political leanings of the family/the way they vote). And catholics are more determined than other established christist cults in this matter. So catholic wife means kids will be catholic.

But the mother-in-law is a rabid born-again fundy...

"Who will win?" (Who cares.)



In general, Lara's church won't be pleased at all with her marrying a renegade christian sheep. (Unless she converts them - like a good papist - or at least ensures the kids are exclusively catholic.)

Interesting, though, that the sort of pairings that are never allowed to happen in the British Isles (e.g. marriage between catholic Irish and heretic/protestant Irish is a total taboo in church and faithful society, and is just not done; excepting backsliders) is happening in India. Then again, the same churches - who can't stand each other outside India and plot to steal-or-convert sheep from each other - unite in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka against the indigenous religions. "Curious".

*Not*. It's planned - an agreement between the various christian cults. It's no secret. Recently mentioned example. Another example:



web.archive.org/web/20070726001128/freetruth.50webs.org/D4h.htm#Nepal

World Council of Churches against converting Christians to other Christian denominations



The WCC opposes a certain form of proselytising: that of Christians converting other Christians to their denominations, which cause strife within Christianity.

It is noteworthy that this objection only holds in non-Christian countries, because it is otherwise quite a common spectacle in the US, where Baptists target Catholics and Mormons, who in turn target everyone. Likewise, the Pope has expressed consternation over Catholics in South America being converted by fundies from the US. On the other hand, members of the Eastern Orthodox Churches are hounded by the Catholics, and now by the Mormons too. And all traditional Christian forms in Europe (Anglican, Lutheran, Catholic, Orthodox, Presbyterian, etc) are seen as a grazing ground by America's born-again fundies. There's little to be wondered at that it's open season on non-Christians.

the World Council of Churches made the following observation in 1997:

"We decry the practices of those who carry out their endeavours in mission and evangelism in ways which destroy the unity of the body of Christ, human dignity and the very lives and cultures of those being ‘evangelized’; we call on them to confess their participation in and to renounce proselytism" (WCC 1997: 11).



But closer examination of the document Towards Common Witness (1997) brings out something different. The concern of the WCC has to do with the competitiveness among various Christian denominations such as what is going on today between evangelical groups and more established Christian denominations in Sri Lanka, or competitiveness among evangelical groups themselves. The WCC defines proselytizing in the following words:

"--- the encouragement of Christians who belong to a church to change their denominational allegiance , through ways and means that ‘contradict the spirit of love, violate the freedom of the human person and diminish trust in the Christian witness of the church" (WCC 1997: 7).

Thus, even the WCC is concerned with the appearance of inter-denominational rivalries and conflicts that may emerge from that, rather than from situations of proselytizing among non-Christian groups as is the case in Sri Lanka and Nepal.



...In the context of the preceding discussion, one would have to conclude that given the premises and general principles upon which contemporary evangelism in South Asia is based, the possibility of conflict is quite real. In fact we have already seen the emergence of such conflict in specific local contexts. For such conflicts to evolve into violence it may take more time. But then, such processes are never predictable unilineal processes. [color="#800080"](Actually, where christoislamism is involved, conflict is guaranteed. So is genocide, ultimately (genocide of the unsaved kaffirs; then eventually persecution of the heretics, etc). It's the one certainty people can bank on.)[/color]

They often happen as a result of a single incident. What is dangerous is that the hierarchical organization of evangelical groups, the power emanating from their resources and networks, their interest in church expansion and proselytizing, and the close correlation between service and religion has assured that evangelism has now become a contentious political issue in both Nepal and Sri Lanka. If this scenario is typical of South Asia in general, and if avenues are not explored to difuse the tensions and find alternate means of experiencing religious freedom, then the alternatives would be the addition of yet another conflict dynamic into the realm of inter-religious and inter-group dynamics in the region.

Link http://www.rcss.org/publication/policy_p...es%205.pdf

(I'm guessing a 'native' anthropologist wrote that. The utter lack of conception of what is on the verge of being lost is very palpable.)



Anyway, this "don't antagonise each other/steal each others' sheep/badmouth each other in public" is also extended to islam to a significant extent: "don't let the heathens curb islam, but promote islam among the heathens and protect its terrorisms". (This christian mandate of protectionism for islam holds only in the heathen parts of the subcontinent, of course.) After all, heathens are Enemy #1 and christianism will get absolutely nowhere in the subcontinent without islam's help. And islam really can't have Bharatam without christianism. Synergy.