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By: V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
January 27, 2007
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Under the Christianity-embracing, Islam-wooing, Hindu-baiting and
Hindu-hating Seventh Day Adventist Government of Dr Samuel Rajashekara
Reddy in Andhra Pradesh, Hindu students and children are being targeted
for conversion without tears or persecution with Christian compassion.
With Christmas 2006 round the corner, a very bizarre incident symbolic of
"Christian compassion" and "Christian Brotherhood" took place in a school
called St Christ Church School a few days ago. A Hindu student Sarvesh
Yadav studying in the fifth standard in this school was allegedly beaten
up by his Christian teacher for attending the school with kumkum on his
forehead and wearing a mala (garland) round his neck. He had gone to the
school after taking the Ayappaswamy Diksha. It is understood that he was
also not allowed to appear for his examinations.
His mother, Jyoti Yadav, has said she had not been told that her son
should not wear a kumkum on his forehead when he goes to school. She has
asked a reasonable question: "How can wearing a bindi be this big an
issue?" But the school authorities have denied the allegations. The
Headmistress Miss S Solomon has stated, "all these days, we have allowed
him to wear that dress. .... We don't have any religious bias and treat
all children equally. Be it Christians, Muslim or Hindus."
In the UPA sponsored India of minority rights, by minority rights, for
minority rights, Hindus in majority have been reduced to the level of
third-class citizens treated with pseudo-secular contempt and hatred by
the minorities. With Prime Minister playing the role of High Priest of
Hindu-hating Super Minority's, all the ministers in the UPA Government
have geared themselves up to the declared UPA Government Policy of
ensuring the transcendental ruin of Hindu society and Hindu culture. To
quote the appropriate words of Sita Ram Goel from his brilliant book -
Pseudo-Secularism: Christian Missions and Hindu Resistance, High-sounding
theological blah blah notwithstanding, the fact remains that the Christian
dogma is no more than a subterfuge for forging and wielding an
organizational weapon for mounting unprovoked aggression against other
people. It is high time for Hindus to dismiss the dogma of Christianity
with the contempt it deserves, and pay attention to the Christian
Missionary apparatus planted in their midst. The sole aim of this
apparatus is to ruin Hindu society and culture and take over the Hindu
homeland. It goes on devising strategies for every situation, favorable
and unfavorable. It trains and employs a large number of intellectual
criminals ready to prostitute their talents in the service of their
paymasters, and adept at dressing up dark designs in high-sounding
language. The fact that every design is advertised as a theology in the
Indian context and every criminal euphemized as an Indian theologian,
should not hoodwink Hindus about the real intentions of this gangster
game. Hindus are committing a grave mistake in regarding the encounter
between Hinduism and Christianity as a dialogue between two religions.
Christianity has never been a religion; its long history tells us that it
has always been a predatory imperialism par excellence. The encounter,
therefore, should be viewed as a battle between two totally opposed and
mutually exclusive ways of thought and behavior. In the language of the
Bhagawat Gita, it is war between daivi (divine) and asuri (demonic)
sampads (propensities). In the mundane context of history, it can also be
described as war between the Vedic and the Biblical traditions.
The avid pseudo-secular suckers of the anti-Hindu UPA Government? I mean
the learned English media journalists, all the leading TV channels, global
stars like Arundati Roy, Medha Patkar, Shabana Azmi and the like, not to
speak of the Marxist Historians of Messianic Hindu hate? would love to
dismiss the above observations of Sita Ram Goel as emanating from a
communal, non-secular and saffron zed obscurantist and ignorant Hindu, not
worthy of any notice or mention. In this context, I would condescend to
invite the benevolent attention of such malevolent and self-proclaiming
trumpeters of Hindu-hate to the beautiful words of Edward Gibbon (an
Anglican Christian of non-saffron zed amplitude!): But how shall we
excuse, the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those
evidences which are presented by the hand of Omnipotence not to their
reason but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and
of their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed
by many prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed,
the dead were raised, demons were expelled and the laws of Nature were
frequently suspended for the benefit of the Church. But the sages of
Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the
ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any
alteration in the moral or physical Government of the world. The names of
Seneca and the younger Pliny of Tacitus, of Plutarch, of Galen, of the
slave Epictetus, and the emperor Marcus Antonius, adorn the age in which
they flourished, , and exalt the dignity of human nature. They filled with
glory their respective stations, either in acting or contemplative life;
their excellent understandings were improved by study; philosophy had
purified their minds from the prejudices of the popular superstition, and
their days were spent in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Yet all these sages (it is no less an object of surprise than of concern)
overlooked or rejected the perfection of the Christian system. To the
total dismay and distress of all the pseudo-secular VIPs and busy-bodies
shamelessly prostrating themselves, cardinally prostituting their minds
hearts and souls, before the Pope craft of Sonia Gandhi, Edward Gibbon
confirmed that Christians were little known in the first two centuries of
the Christian era, or, if known to some notables in the Roman empire, were
dismissed as obstinate and perverse enthusiasts? not worthy of attention
of men of sense and learning.
What happened to a Hindu boy called Sarvesh Yadav in the St Christ Church
School in Hyderabad cannot be dismissed as an isolated miniscule incident.
Truly it has been said that to a clear eye the smallest fact is a window
through which the Infinite may be seen. Thanks to the minority appeasement
policy of the UPA Government, we as a nation seem to be going back to the
Dark Ages. History tells us that civilization collapsed as the Church took
control of education, science, medicine, technology and the arts.
Crusaders marched into the Middle East, killing and destroying in the name
of the one Christian God. The Inquisition established a precedent in the
Middle Ages for the systematic policing and terrorization of society. The
Protestant and Catholic Counter Reformation sparked wars where Christians
slaughtered other Christians, each convinced that theirs was the one and
only true path. And the holocaust of the witch hunts plumbed the depths of
horror as it eradicated countless women and men as well as the belief in
earth-based divinity. Keeping all this glorious and divine record of
Christianity in view, a Sanathana Christian (neither a Sanathana Hindu,
nor belonging to the RSS or the Sangh Parivar), called Thomas Jefferson
wrote in 1785: "Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the
introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined,
imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has
been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the
other half hypocrites. To support error and roguery all over the earth."
Today is Christmas Day. Millions of people have started going to Churches
from Midnight yesterday in all the countries of the world, and they will
be doing so today from morning till late at night. In this age of
uncertainty, all of them are experiencing a kind of sadness,
dissatisfaction and undefined aspiration towards an undefined ideal.
Albert Schweitzer said of Christ: "He comes to us as one unknown, without
a name". For Schweitzer and Mahatma Gandhi, what they finally encountered
in Jesus Christ meant the end of theology and the beginning of practical
action. Albert Schweitzer chose to become a Doctor in Africa. Mahatma
Gandhi chose to become a freedom fighter in Africa and India. Both of them
loved their enemies. In this context, I fully endorse the beautiful words
of Richard Holloway, the former Bishop of Edinburgh: "What we have here is
an understanding of human nature that is both fiercely challenging and
tenderly forgiving.... It is why many people are still drawn to the man
without a name, even though they have long since abandoned the institution
that carries his memory. Thousands of them will turn up at Churches
midnight, not quite sure why they are there, almost against their will,
but responding instinctively to something they don't have words for."
Against this background, I earnestly hope that a proper fact-finding
official enquiry would be ordered by the Andhra Pradesh Government to
enquire into the ugly incident and that effective action would be taken to
prevent the recurrence of such incidents in schools run by Christian
Missionaries. No civilized Government can concede the right of the
minority to ride rough shod over the feelings, sentiments and emotions of
the majority.
V Sundaram, IAS, Retd.
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