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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