Poor Hindus Bribed To Convert to Christianity
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Economic help and jobs so poorly needed, at the cost of relinquishing your faith. I can't help but call this one "low."
This is just sad.
The Hindustan Times reports:
Christian missionaries arrested in Chhattisgarh
Raipur, December 25, 2006
As many as 11 Christian missionaries have been arrested in Chhattisgarh for allegedly bribing poor Hindus to embrace Christianity, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday night in Jalampur area of Dhamtari town, 80 km south of capital Raipur."The missionaries were caught bribing poor Hindus in a slum colony to convert to Christianity," Bharat Singh, the police superintendent Dhamtari district, said over telephone. "They were promising people economic help and jobs in exchange for conversion."
Economic help and jobs so poorly needed, at the cost of relinquishing your faith. I can't help but call this one "low."
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During the famine in Irish history Protestant missionaries did the same thing.
If you converted to Protestantism, changed your name to Anglicise it (ie drop the O's and Mc's) you were given life saving food.
This usually happened at the soup kitchens these missionaries set up. To this day it is a big insult to be called a "souper". That is someone who would give up who they are for various enticements.
I am not a big of Hinduism, with its religiously based class system that forces people into systems and ghettos for life and calls them "untouchable", as well as the multiple gods they worship. However, if you are claiming to do just and charitable work in the name of G-d, then doing something like this is unthinkable.
Also, are you aware that some states in India actually BAN religious conversion? Many Hindus were leaving their religion to switch to other religions, ie Islam, Christianity and Buddhism, that didnt hold them to their low class status. So much so that they banned it in some states.
Posted by: Abu Sinan | December 29, 2006 10:54 AM