Demonizing Christianity has become a big business of many Hindus settled in Christian countries in the West. They look into outdated texts and historic incidents to justify this.
But my question is this: What did Christiniaty do against you? It invited you to their countries and you thrive there; create mammoth temples. You use Yoga as the missionary arm of Hinduism.
But nobody says anything against you.
Look back to India. What has Christianity done against Hindus or Hinduism? The colonialists might be Christians. But did they try to force Christianity in India? no. If so we would have seen many more Christians in India. They came for colonization and exploit India.
Has any Christian done anything against you personally because of your religion? No.
Now the question of conversion. Whose fault is it? If Christians proselytyse, no upper caste person will join Christianity. Only lower caste people will do so. Why? Who made them lower caste?
Also, dont they have their freedom to join any religion that they feel is beneficial to them? Who are you to say no?
Moreover, what is this big about Hinduism? It is as bad as
any other religion.
P Thomas
Do Hindus have a right to condemn Christianity?
Christians are offended when we Hindus criticize
Christianity and accuse us of demonizing Christianity. They wonder why some
Hindus who have settled in the Christian West, instead of being grateful to
Christianity, are critical of it. This article provides 10 arguments in
response to such complaints. Does anyone ever complain that we are demonizing
Nazism? In the case of Hitler and Nazis it is considered legitimate to evaluate
the facts and pronounce them as demonic. Why should the Christians protest when
the same yardstick is applied to Christianity? Here are a few reasons why
Christianity should be considered demonic and rejected. This is by no means a
comprehensive list which would be part of my forthcoming work, “Rejecting
Jesus.”
1. Christianity forces its decent followers to be hypocrites. The Bible
(Deuteronomy 22:13-21) teaches that a woman who is not a virgin on her nuptial
night should be dragged to her father’s doorstep and stoned to death, and exhorts
every onlooker to participate in this violent orgy. Jesus affirmed this cruel
teaching and wanted it to be fulfilled (Matthew 5:17-20). Nevertheless most
Christians are decent enough to firmly repudiate Jesus as far as this teaching
goes. Yet, by calling themselves Christians they have chosen to be hypocrites.
A religion that forces its decent followers to lead a life of hypocrisy
deserves to be condemned.
2. Christianity regards the acquisition of knowledge as the “original sin” of
man (Genesis 2:17, 1 Corinthians 20-21, 26-29). How can anyone tolerate a
religion which is against knowledge?
3. Christianity is a superstition which has been debunked by science. If one
were to believe the Bible, the Christian god created the earth first and the
sun later, a cosmological impossibility because the planets were formed from
the gaseous dust after the sun had come into existence! The Bible also informs
that the Christian god created the oceans and the whales first before he
created the terrestrial creatures. Science has proven it wrong and has shown
that the whales were originally terrestrial creatures that later relocated to
oceans! A reader may benefit from “At the Water's Edge - Fish with Fingers,
Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea” by Carl
Zimmer. A religion which science has debunked deserves to be rejected.
4. Christianity is an anti-Semitic religion. The Lutheran theologian Norman
Beck catalogues more than 450 anti-Semitic verses in his article, “Removing
Anti-Jewish Polemic from our Christian Lectionaries: A Proposal.” Many of
these verses were uttered by Jesus himself and were directly responsible for
two millennia of anti-Semitism which finally culminated in the Holocaust of
over six million Jews. A reader is directed to Daniel Goldhagen’s “Hitler's
Willing Executioners - Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust” or to my article
“From the Holy Cross to the Holocaust” (part of the anthology “Expressions of
Christianity with a Special Focus on India”) for details. A religion whose core
ideology is anti-Semitic deserves to be condemned.
5. The Inquisitions were the direct result of Christian teachings which spread
hatred against and intolerance towards non-Christian religions and peoples. The
Jews, Native Americans, and Hindus have been the prime victims of Christian
Inquisitions the most affected being the Native Americans who were virtually
wiped off the face of the earth while the rest were repeatedly persecuted for
centuries. A reader is directed to “The Goa Inquisition - Being a
Quarter-centenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition in India” by A K
Priolkar, “American Holocaust - The Conquest of the New World” by D E Stannard,
and “The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain” by B Netanyahu
for details. A religion whose core teachings lead to the persecution of others
deserves to be condemned.
6. Christian predations against other innocent peoples are continuing even
today unabated. The recent genocide of 1.3 million Iraqis is a Christian deed
which was motivated by Christian religious teachings. Similarly, the genocide
of 4.5 million Vietnamese Buddhists by Christians was also a deed that was
entirely justified from the pulpit of the churches and enthusiastically
received in the pews. In contemporary India, in the states of Nagaland
and Tripura, as soon as the church converted a majority of Nagas to
Christianity it used intimidation and terrorism to gain hegemony. It also
advocated active massacre of Hindus especially Hindu children. A reader may
refer to my article “The Christian ‘right’ to proselytize” in American Atheist
Quarterly, 1Q, 2011 for details. A religion whose core message leads to
terrorism against innocent people should be condemned.
7. Jesus sold his own brother into slavery. The Acts of Thomas reveals that
Jesus once took his unsuspecting twin brother Thomas to the marketplace and
sold him into slavery for just three silver coins. This is shocking behavior to
say the least. Even Judas Iscariot, who supposedly betrayed Jesus, took 30
silver coins to betray his teacher. A reader may refer to “The Acts of
Thomas, From the Apocryphal New Testament" by M.R. James. Jesus
stooped low to sell his own twin brother for a mere three coins! Such a person
deserves to be condemned. My forthcoming Tamiḷ book, “பொய்த் தேவன்,” (The False
god) aims to document 108 such episodes from the Bible and the narratives of
Jesus.
8. The Bible condemns vegetarians as possessed by the Devil and to hell (Acts
10:9-13, Romans 14:2, 1 Timothy 4:1-3). Hindus, Buddhists, Jainas, and Sikhs,
as well as many decent people rightly consider vegetarianism to be a noble
principle based on compassion, whereas Christianity condemns it and advocates
cruelty towards animals. Such a religion deserves to be condemned.
9. Jesus, so claims the Bible, performed faith-healing on the sick and to revive
the dead. These are biological impossibilities and should be dismissed with
contempt. Taken literally, these stories depict Jesus as a liar and a heartless
person - the story of Jesus reviving Lazarus being the best example. Lazarus is
dead and his family is grieving. Jesus utters a few words to revive Lazarus
(John 11:1-45). Since Lazarus is not around today, and was never again
mentioned in the Bible, one can reasonably conclude that he died again. His
family would have grieved all over again. Is it not cruel to make a family
grieve twice over the death of a dear one? Jesus not only was heartless but
also misled the family into thinking that death could be overcome. That makes
him a false teacher who deceives the unsuspecting.
The Buddha, on the other hand, comes across as an honorable teacher who
enlightens. A wailing young woman once tells him that her five year old
daughter has died and pleads with the Buddha to revive the child. The Buddha
says he would revive the dead child but on one condition. The mother must fetch
a mustard seed from a house that has not seen death. The young mother takes
leave of the Buddha. She returns in the evening and declares: “Teacher, I went
from one house to another; from one village to another. I found out that there
is not a house that has not witnessed death. I have realized that death is
natural to everyone. I no longer fear death. I have memories of my child to
cherish. You have given me wisdom.” (adapted from the Story of Kisa Gotami and
the mustard seed from the Buddhist text Khuddaka Nikaya - Theri Gatha, 10:1). A
false teacher such as Jesus deserves to be condemned.
10. Christianity is the first religion ever to be proven false. The Bible (1
Corinthians 15:12-20) asserts that Jesus was resurrected and if his
resurrection was false then Christianity itself is false. If he was resurrected
one should not expect to see his bodily remains on earth. Recent archeological
discoveries have uncovered the family tomb of Jesus including the casket of
Jesus. This proves that he was not resurrected. By the Bible’s own criterion
now Christianity is a false religion. A reader may refer to the Discovery
documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” or the book “The Jesus Family Tomb - The
Evidence behind the Discovery No One Wanted to Find” by Simcha Jacobovici and
Charles Pellegrino for details. A Christian cannot complain when we reject a
falsified religion.
A Hindu settled in the West has the dhārmic duty to criticize Christianity and
to usher in various aspects of dharma wherever he or she lives. Dharma is about
harmony and knowledge and every society benefits from it whereas Christianity
is a false, violent, and dangerous creed. If you are a Hindu American like me
then think of yourself as a good parent and the USA as your child. A good parent
chastises the wayward child to make his life better whereas a bad parent will
yield to the child and pave the way for his destruction. If an American Hindu
turns a blind eye to this virus called Christianity he allows the USA to persist
in its violent ways such as waging wars against innocent peoples. Instead, by
helping eradicate Christianity from the USA
we are helping America
become a peaceful and harmonious society which could then pursue knowledge.