The attacks on Churches in Mangalore was a shameful act and there is no denial on that aspect….
Whats really makes me sad is the fact that after all the attacks and protest there, how the church in Mangalore has divided and divided to such an extent that they are ready to talk to our Hindu brothers on peace but not internally.
Roman Catholic Church Accuses New Life of being the Route Cause for the Riots
Why? How many of us have proofs of hindu’s being forcefully converted? How many of us know if foreign funds actually come in to these Churches? What right do we have to keep New life out of the Christian church. We may want to remember that Christ did not come in to establish a religion, but he came in to establish a way of life. While you expect the world to appreciate your religion, why do you want bring someone else down.
At the end of it, the attacks were made by fundamentalists who were scared of the Christians on the whole? May be they cant do what we do? they wonder how the christian church can involve in so much of social activity of helping and bringing up people when they have failed to do so for years now.
In all sense, the attacks were attacks on Christians and not just catholics. So why cant we acknowledge that as a union. with 2.3% that we are in India, if we further divide our selves where do we stand? what picture do we paint to other Indians who donot have a clue on how Christianity works? THey would just laugh at us.
Catholics Not Involved in Conversion: A Fallacy
catholics were never involved in conversion? The very fact that you and i are catholics is just because we were converted by the Portuguese Missionaries who were Catholics. I am not sure if it was by force or by will.. but we were!
Of all things that happened in this week, the saddest element and the one thats gone unnoticed was the way the Bishops house acted in the story.
What stopped the Bishop from issueing a peace statement to all Catholics to be NON VIOLENT?
What stopped the preists from organizing a day of prayer rather than protests. No policeman would harm us unnecessarily.
WHy was the Bishop ignorant, It looks to me that he waited for the situation to get worse and when it really got worse, he came up with his PEACE Statement.
Weird isnt it? If i were in his place( for that matter any sensible person) would ensure that i ask my people to be peaceful and pray rather than harming public property.
The action by BD was extreme, The reaction by catholics was extreme too. How many protestants took to the road? how many evangelicals took to the road. IF we begin to act like everybody else. How will our country grow? How will we grow. Think about it. You will have your answer.
Having said that, no one has that right to publish any derogatory comments on any religion. However, New Life Church has openly denied have any published any derogatory statements on Hindu Gods. Do you want to believe them or do you believe the Fundamentalists(Terrorists)
Forcible Conversions: Truth or Fallacy???
on forcible conversions, do you know if a Hindu/Christian girl has to marry a muslim guy. She needs to be converted and there is no choice there? For me thats forceful conversion. where you dont have a choice…
In Orissa, Christians( Dalits earlier) who have been chrisitans for generations have been forced to reconvert to Hinduism. They are forced to decorate their houses with Hindu Gods. If they fail to do that, The punishment is Death!!!
VHP gave a call to every christian there, to either reconvert or Die! Read through this article for further details. THat is forcible reconversion, We havent tasted that yet and the day we taste it. Believe me, you would desire death!
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main37.asp?filename=Ne190108re_convert.asp
http://www.theindiancatholic.com/report.asp?nid=10223
Read the story
Christians dying by the day in orissa
Have you heard of the NL Church doing this? i havent… if you have let me know… you have all the choice to follow or reject Christ’s way of life… so is it imposed on anybody.? my answer is no….
