Religious Conversion has been a Foreign policy objective of the Christian West.
Conversion is political conquest, which is why faith and empire have always gone hand-in-hand.
Vedism remains a vibrant, cultural and religious force in the world today. To understand Vedism, it is necessary that we examine its history and marvel at its sheer stamina to survive in spite of repeated attacks across Bharat's borders, time and again, by Greeks, Shaks, Huns, Arabs, Pathans, Mongols, Portuguese, British etc. Bharat gave shelter, acceptance, and freedom to all. But, in holy frenzy, millions of Aryans were slaughtered or proselytized. Their cities were pillaged and burnt, temples were destroyed and accumulated treasures of centuries carried off. Even under grievous persecutions from the ruling foreigners, the basics of its civilization remained undefined and, as soon as the crises were over Hindus returned to the same old ways of searching for the perfection or the unknown.
For no other country in the world from east to west, faces the agony that the Hindus in India have to face. They are the injured party; but they are crucified by the 'so called' secularists—most of them themselves Hindus—at every stage. No country in the world has been so ravaged and raped by outside forces as Bharat has been down the centuries: Not Japan, not China, not Russia, none of the European countries, neither the Arab nations and certainly not the United States of America. Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagar Empire did not send his forces to Portugal to tear down churches, use force to convert Christians to Vedism and indulge in religious terrorism. Prithviraj Chauhan did not invade Afghanistan nor Central Asia and raise temples.
No Chola, Chera or Pandya (Bharat) rulers sent a fleet to Saudi Arabia to tear down the Ka’aba and build a temple to Meenakshi on its ruins or even next to it to demonstrate Hindu might. Bharat and Vedism have been ravaged beyond belief. Hindu missionaries did not accompany a conquering horde to Britain and under their benign rule set to convert Scottish peasants to Vedism—or even Buddhism. According to author Ram Gopal " A band of dacoits may loot a full busload of passengers at gunpoint but that does not make the dacoits more intelligent, cultured or superior beings."
No blood has been shed for religion in Bharat except by its invaders. Intolerance came with Islam and Christianity; the Moslems proposed to buy Paradise with the blood of “infidels” and the Portuguese, when they captured Goa, introduced the Inquisition into Bharat.
Introduction
The history of what is now Bharat stretches back thousands of years, further than that of nearly any other region on earth. Yet, most historical work on India concentrates on the period after the arrival of Europeans, with predictable biases, distortions, and misapprehensions. Many overviews of Bharat's history offer a few cursory opening chapters that take the reader from Mohenjo-daro to the arrival of the Moghuls and the Europeans. Bharat's history is ancient and abundant. The profligacy of monuments so testifies it and so does a once-lost civilization, the Harappan in the Indus valley, not to mention the annals commissioned by various conquerors. There is no shortage of good documentation for these thousands of years, however, there has been a shortage of scholars who know how to use it. In addition, there is a tendency to locate the source of social conflict in India's many religions - Historically, it was Europe, not Bharat, which consistently made religion grounds for war. The spreading of European power and civilization over the entire surface of the globe in recent centuries can be viewed as a continuing series of intrusions into the cultures of non-European world. Nowhere in Asia have the effects of this penetration been more profoundly felt than in Bharat.
"Bharat did not till recently take to the cult of the nation. We did not make our country a national goddess, with an historic destiny, a sacred mission, and a right of expansion. We did not worship Mother Bharat (Bharatmata) as others do, 'Britannia', 'La France', 'The Fatherland'. We did not tell the people that the enemy of Bharat is the enemy of God and if the enemy had a god, he could only be a false god. Our leaders did not proclaim to be the finest people on earth, the chosen race of the universe"
(source: Eastern Religions and Western Thought - By Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan p. 54 and Sources of Indian Tradition - editor Wm. Theodore De Bary Volume II p. 1).
Faxian a Chinese pilgrims to Bharat in the fourth century C.E. marveled a the peace, prosperity, and high culture of the Aryans. Having grown up in war-torn China, he was deeply impressed by a land whose leaders were more concerned with promoting commerce and religion than with slaughtering substantial portion of the population. (source: Hinduism - By Linda Johnson p. 38).
“The intolerance of narrow monotheism is written in letters of blood across the history of man from the time when first the tribes of Israel burst into the land of Canaan. The worshippers of the one Jealous God are egged on to aggressive wars against people of alien cults. They invoke Divine Sanction for the cruelties inflicted on the conquered. The spirit of old Israel is inherited by Christianity and Islam. He went on to remark: “Wars of Religion which are the outcome of fanaticism that prompts and justifies the extermination of aliens of different creeds are practically unknown in Hindu India.”
The Christian desire for world dominion transformed the simple faith of Jesus into a fiercely proselytizing creed. After the time of Constantine, authorities, clerical and secular, displayed systematic intolerance towards other forms of religious belief, taking shelter under the words 'He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth."
(source: The Hindu View of Life - By Dr. S. Radhakrishnan p. 40 and Eastern Religions and Western Thought - By Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan p. 10 ). For more on Dr. S. Radhakrishnan refer to chapter on Quotes. Refer to The War of Religions and The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel.
Refer to Christian persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org. Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about Christianity and First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?' "Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror."
“You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.” “As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.”
In his 'Philosophical Dictionary', Voltaire gave a time-defying verdict:
"Pagan religion shed very little blood, while ours flooded the earth with it. Christianity has deluged the earth with blood for the sake of sophisms'."
About the atrocities committed by the Roman Catholic Church in Goa in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Voltaire in his 'Fragments of India's History' observed: 'Goa is sadly famous for its Inquistion, which is contrary to humanity as much as to commerce. The Portuguese monks deluded us into believing that the Indian populace was worshipping the Devil, while it is THEY who served him'.
"...It was the wealth of 18th century India which attracted the commercial pirates of England and France." "It was this wealth that the East India Company proposed to appropriate. Already in 1686 its Directors declared their intention to 'establish ....a large, well-grounded, sure English dominion in India for all time to come."
"The British conquest of India was the invasion and destruction of a high civilization by a trading company utterly without scruple or principle, careless of art and greedy of gain, over-running with fire and sword a country temporarily disordered and helpless, bribing and murdering, annexing and stealing and beginning that career of illegal and 'legal' plunder which has now gone on ruthlessly....It was a simple matter for a group of English buccaneers, armed with the latest European artillery and morals, to defeat the bows and arrows, the elephants and primitive musketry of the rajahs, and bringing one Hindu province after another under the control of the British East India Company."
Koenraad Elst (1959 - ) a Belgian Indologist has pointed out: "Hindu Society has been suffering a sustained attack from Islam since the 7thcentury, from Christianity since the 15th century, and this century also from Marxism. The avowed objective of each of these three world-conquering movements, with their massive resources, is the replacement of Hinduism by their own ideology, or in effect: the destruction of Hinduism.
"This concern is not at all paranoid (as the spokespersons of these aggressors would say), even if the conversion squads are remarkably unsuccessful in India. Consider the situation in Africa: in 1900, 50 % of all Africans practiced Pagan religion; today Christian and Islamic missionaries have reduced this number to less than 10 %.
That is the kind of threat Hinduism is up against."
Swami Aksharananda ( ) an Indian of Caribbean origin and holds a Ph.D. degree in Hindu Studies from the University of Madison, Wisconsin (USA) has observed:
"The concept that “All religions are one” as propagated by Gandhi incessantly is the most destructive concept that is affecting us all. It is not only silly but dangerous fallacy to propagate the idea that all religions are one. Hindus, who are under severe attacks every day by the same forces of Allah and Christ. Hinduism and other religions can’t be equated and called same because “religions” of the world have been born in the environment of hostility.
Sir V S Naipaul (1932 - ) Nobel laureate, He is the author of several books including Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples, Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, and India: A Wounded Civilization says:
“India has been a wounded civilization because of Islamic violence: Pakistanis know this; indeed they revel in it. It is only Indian Nehruvians like Romila Thapar who pretend that Islamic rule was benevolent. We should face facts: Islamic rule in India was at least as catastrophic as the later Christian rule. The Christians created massive poverty in what was a most prosperous country; the Muslims created a terrorized civilization out of what was the most creative culture that ever existed.”
(source: OutlookIndia.com, 15 November 1999 and http://www.indpride.com/vsnaipaul.html). Refer toEvangelical Intrusions - By Sandhya Jain Rupa Publications.
Naipaul has remarked:
“How do you ignore history? But the nationalist movement, Independence movement ignored it. You read the Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru, it talks about the mythical past and then it jumps the difficult period of the invasions and conquests. So you have Chinese pilgrims coming to Bihar, Nalanda and places like that. Then somehow they don’t tell you what happens, why these places are in ruin. They never tell you why Elephanta island is in ruins or why Bhubaneswar was desecrated.”
There is nothing either in the time-honored doctrines or the hoary history of Hinduism, which resembles even remotely the ideology, or history of Nazism, or for that matter, Christianity or Islam or Communism. Hinduism has always been and remains a deep-rooted tradition of spiritual, cultural and social pluralism with ample provision for all sorts of skepticism and democratic debate. Far from creating any machinery for heresy hunting and persecution of dissent. Hindus have given shelter to the persecuted people from many lands and in all ages. But what is most important, they have always regarded their own homeland as the only playfield for their chakravartins, and never waged wars of conquest beyond the borders of Bharata-varsha. India has been invaded by many foreign faiths, only to be absorbed in the vast Indian humanity until the advent of Islam which spread more by its fire and sword and later Christianity by more subtle means of inducements and compulsions. It is important that Hindus remember the atrocities of the past, for "Those who forget history will be condemned to repeat it."
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) the English novelist and essayist, born into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of the English ruling class, author of Perennial Philosophy (ISBN 0060901918) also notices:
"Islam's black record of holy wars and persecution - a record comparable to that of later Christianity."
"The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time)Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people."
"Most European and American authors of books about religion and metaphysics write as though nobody had ever thought about these subjects except Jews, the Greeks Christians of Mediterranean Basin and Western Europe. Like any other form of imperialism, theological imperialism is the threat to world peace".
Watch The Crescent and the Cross. Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth. Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn and Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq
For Cruelty inflicted by Christianity - Watch Constantine's Sword movie - By Oren Jacoby and The Great Scandal: Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis - Gregory S. Paul - christianaggression.org and Red Cross and the Vatican 'helped thousands of Nazis escape
M V Kamath (?) the Indian columnist has written eloquently:
"For no other country in the world from east to west, faces the agony that the Hindus in India have to face. They are the injured party; but they are crucified by the secularists—most of them themselves Hindus—at every stage. No country in the world has been so ravaged and raped by outside forces as India has been down the centuries: Not Japan, not China, not Russia, none of the European countries, neither the Arab nations and certainly not the United States of America. Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagar Empire did not send his forces to Portugal to tear down churches, use force to convert Christians to Hinduism and indulge in religious terrorism. Prithviraj Chauhan did not invade Afghanistan nor Central Asia and raise temples. '
"No Chola, Chera or Pandya ruler sent a fleet to Saudi Arabia to tear down the Ka’aba and build a temple to Meenakshi on its ruins or even next to it to demonstrate Hindu might. India and Hinduism have been ravaged beyond belief. Hindu missionaries did not accompany a conquering horde to Britain and under their benign rule set to convert Scottish peasants to Hinduism—or even Buddhism."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931 - ) is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
"It was Christians, you know, not Pagans, (Heathens) who were responsible for the Holocaust.
It was Christians, not Pagans, who lynched people here in the South, who burned people at the stake, frequently in the name of this Jesus Christ"
(source: Famous Quotes - crusadewatch.org). Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn. Refer to Christian persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org and Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq
Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth. Refer to World Conquering Creeds - By Dr. Koenraad Elst - chapter on Glimpses XVI
Might does not make it right
Gore Vidal (1925 - ) well known American writer, the eminent historian, and a public figure for over fifty years, in his Lowell Lecture at Harvard University given April 20, 1996 observed:
“When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago,… inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions. ………
“From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three antihuman religions have evolved --Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal --God is the omnipotent father-- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years. The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family home."
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race …” “More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.” "Christianity is such a silly religion."
(source: Lowell Lecture at Harvard University given - By Gore Vidal - April 20, 1996 and positiveatheism.com and Gore Vidal, in Time magazine, September 28, 1992, p. 66, from James A Haught, ed., 2000 Years of Disbelief). Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel and Watch The Crescent and the Cross
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was the foremost disciple of Ramakrishna and a world spokesperson for Vedanta. India's first spiritual and cultural ambassador to the West, came to represent the religions of India at the World Parliament of Religions, held at Chicago in connection with the World's Fair (Columbian Exposition) of 1893. He observed:
“We who have come from the East here have been told day after day in a patronizing way that we ought to accept Christianity because Christian nations are the most prosperous. We look about us and see England as the most prosperous nation in the world, with her foot on the neck of 250 million Asiatics. We look back in history and see Christian Spain's wealth beginning with the invasion of Mexico. Such prosperity comes from cutting the throats of fellow men. At such a price the Hindu will not have prosperity.”
(source: Vivekananda quotes).
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Trader, Tank and Missionary Axis
"It is the same ship that brought the Bible which also carried guns and alcohol to Africa ."
- Michael Baffoe author of Demonizing African Culture in the Name of Christianity
Refer to QuickTime trailer and Part One of the film The God Awful Truth. Refer to World Conquering Creeds - By Dr. Koenraad Elst - chapter on Glimpses XVI. Refer to Christian persecution against the Hellenes - ethnicoi.org. Watch The Bible is Bullshit - Penn & Teller examine the Bible. Refer to Oppose Christian Missionaries and Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq
Refer to Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress - By Howard Zinn
Karl Marx (1818-1883), German social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern Communism, and author of Das Kapital, was not a sympathizer of imperialism or capitalism.
In The British Rule in India he wrote:
“There cannot, however, remain any doubt but that the misery inflicted by the British on Hindustan is of an essentially different and infinitely more intensive kind than all Hindustan had to suffer before. They destroyed it ( India ) by breaking up the native communities, by uprooting the native industry, and by leveling all that was great and elevated in the native society. The historic pages of their rule in India
“Did they not, in India
While they prated in Europe about the inviolable sanctity of the national debt, did they not confiscate in India India , a country as vast as Europe , and containing 150 millions of acres, are palpable and confounding.”
Gideon Polya, a professor at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, made the following observation:
“The wartime Bengal Famine has become a ‘forgotten holocaust’ and has been effectively deleted from our history books, from school and university curricula and from general public perception. To the best of my knowledge, Churchill only wrote of it once, in a secret letter to Roosevelt dated April 29th 1944 in which he made the following remarkable plea for help in shipping Australian grain to India: ‘I am no longer justified in not asking for your help.’ Churchill’s six-volume History of the Second World War fails to mention the cataclysm that was responsible for about 90% of total British Empire casualties in that conflict, but makes the extraordinary obverse claim: ‘No great portion of the world population was so effectively protected from the horrors and perils of the World War as were the people of Hindustan. They were carried through the struggle on the shoulders of our small island.’”
(source: How Sir Winston Churchill Starved 4 Million Indians - By Ramtanu Maitra). Watch European Imperialism and Colonialism in 10 Minutes: The Scramble For Africa and Introduction to Colonialism in Africa
Refer to Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II - By Madhusree Mukerjee and The Flaws in the Jewel: Challenging the Myths of British India - By Roderick Matthews
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) poet, author, philosopher, Nobel prize laureate. Tagore was deeply critical of the British Raj in India. He also made some statements to the press about the ghastly book by Katherine Mayo called Mother India, which was then a huge bestseller in the U.S. He wrote:
“The chronic want of food and water, the lack of sanitation and medical help, the neglect of means of communication, the poverty of educational provision, the all pervading spirit of depression that I have myself seen to prevail after over a hundred years of British rule make me despair of its beneficence.”
“Rudely shaken out of my dream I began to realize that perhaps in no other modern state was there such hopeless dearth of the most elementary needs of existence. And all the time before our eyes Japan Russia India smothered under the dead weight of British administration lay static in her utter helplessness”.
Dharampal (1922 - 2006) a Gandhian and author of several books including The Beautiful Tree and Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth century.
He wrote extensively of the damage the British Raj inflicted on India and Indians:
"The conquered in their view, had ultimately to disappear, if not wholly physically, at least as a culture and civilization. In Australia, and New Zealand practically all the local inhabitants were wiped out soon enough; in North America near complete elimination happened, over 300-400 years, and in Ireland only partially. The indigenous population of the Americas had been estimated at 112 to 140 millions in 1492.
In India a large number perished by British brutality and deliberate creation of famines, violation of persons bodies and dignity; in Palnad in Andhra, half of the population was said to be have perished every ten years, during several decades after the subjugation of the areas by Britain. It seems as if the intellectuals and leaders of Britain hated India, and felt outraged that in spite of all their brutalities, smashing of Indian institutions, high extortions, and tortures, men made famines and expropriation of Indian resources to the British state, and thus the all round breakdown of Indian society, the Indians on the whole, could not be wiped out that easily. "
(source: Despoliation and Defaming of India – By Dharampal published by Bharat Peetham, Wardha Other India Press, Goa p. 1 - 17). Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com
Atrocity Literature and blaming Native Culture
Justification for Colonial Rule in India
Rajiv Malhotra ( ? ) founder of The Infinity Foundation, a non-profit organization in Princeton, New Jersey and author of the book,Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines has observed:
"Atrocity literature played its part in downgrading women’s right, too. Veena Oldenburg’s seminal book, Dowry Murder, gives details on how the British encouraged the Indians to dish out cases of atrocities that could then be blamed on the native cultures. They systematically compiled these anecdotes, mostly unsubstantiated and often exaggerated and one-sided. This became a justification to enact laws that downgraded the rights of common citizens. The book shows how the dowry extortions that have become so common in middle-class today, were actually started when women’s traditional property rights were taken away by the British through convoluted logic."
(source: Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines - By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan p. 5). Refer to chapter on Women in Hinduism and British aristocracy ‘ate human flesh’
Christianity, Commerce, and Civilization or Gold, God and Glory
Note: Refer to Scramble for Africa - Six European powers sliced up Africa like a cake. In 1885 Berlin Conference - Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Italy partitioned Africa among themselves and acquired 30 new colonies and 110 million subjects. - The "dark continent" was systematically raped by Europe. At center stage are a motley band of explorers, politicians, evangelists, mercenaries, journalists and tycoons blinded by romantic nationalism or caught up in the scramble for loot, markets and slaves to make a fortune, all in the name of the "3 Cs": Christianity, Commerce, and Civilization. The "3 Cs" served as the foundation for most European imperialist of the time.
(source: The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912 – By Thomas Pakenham).
Noam Chomsky (1928 - ) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of several books including Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project).
His book, Year 501: The Conquest Continues is a devastating and scathing critique and indictment of Western capitalism. It is the essential book for understanding the reasoning and motives behind the annihilation of the indigenous population of the world and the countries that were enriched by it.
He has observed that:
'Places like India and Bengal ( Bangladesh ) which were highly advanced industrial societies by the mid-1700's but all of the industries which were superior to their counterparts in Britain India and Bangladesh became extremely poor, feudal agricultural countries supplying Britain
(source: Year 501: The Conquest Continues - By Naom Chomsky). Refer to It's Imperialism, Stupid - By Noam Chomsky. Refer to Iraq: The Hidden Cost and Iraq, which is why they began a calculated genocidal war against it. The mere removal of Saddam Hussein, whom they themselves had put into power decades earlier and nurtured cynically, was clearly inadequate for their goal of dismantling Iraq Iraq ’s museums and libraries it was clear that the contemporary descendants of the Mongol scourge, Hulegu (destroyer of Baghdad The brutal Romans, though more civilised than modern Americans, would have recognised the imperial logic of scorched earth to secure rule). Prince Andrew rebukes US on Iraq US UK US might listen and learn from our experiences". Watch No end in sight documentary (2007) and refer to The Looting of Baghdad museum: US Baghdad Museum is a tragedy that has no parallel in world history; it is as if the Uffizi, the Louvre, or all the museums of Washington D.C.
Refer to Islam – Christianity’s angry sibling? - faithfreedom.org and The Jesus Police and Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher and writer. He was one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th century. He was the first Western philosopher to have access to translations of philosophical material from India, both Vedic and Buddhist, by which he was profoundly affected. Counted among his disciples are such thinkers as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, as well as Sigmund Freud, who takes a large part of his psychological theory from the writings of Schopenhauer.
He comments on the atrocities inflicted on the Hindus:
"...on the fanaticism and endless persecutions, the religious wars, that sanguinary frenzy of which the ancient had no conception! Think of the crusades, a butchery lasting two hundred years and inexcusable, its war cry 'It is lasting two hundred years and inexcusable, its war cry 'It is the will of God,' Think of the orgies of blood, the inquisitions, the heretical tribunals, the bloody and terrible conquests...in three continents, or....in America, whose inhabitants were for the most part, not looked upon as human! And above all, don't lets forget India,the cradle of the human race, or at least of that part of it to which we belong, where first.. were most cruelly infuriated against the adherents of the original faith of mankind. The destruction or disfigurement of the ancient temples and idols, a lamentable, mischievous and barbarous act still bear witness to the monotheistic fury...carried on from Mahmud, the Gahaznevid of cursed memory, down toAurengzeb, the fratricide, whom the Portuguese...have zealously imitated by destruction of temples and the auto defe of the Inquisition of Goa..."For the sake of truth, I must add that the fanatical enormities perpertrated in the name of religion are only to be put down to the adherents of monotheistic creeds...We hear nothing of the kind in the case of the Hindoos and Buddhists."
(source: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - By T. Bailey Saunders p. 42 - 43). Watch The Crescent and the Cross
Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) German philologist and Orientalist. He repeatedly drew attention to the uniqueness of the Vedas and awakened interest in Indology among educated people.
He did more than any other scholar to popularize philology and mythology, e.g., his lectures Science of Language. Muller is best known for his series Sacred Books of the East.
"Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death."
(source: crusadewatch.org). Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com. Refer to Evangelical Intrusions - By Sandhya Jain Rupa Publications.
Cannibalizing Cultures
Religion, money and armed might, the unholy trinity of Neo-Imperialism.
Sesha Samarajiwa ( ? ) from Sri Lanka is interested examining foreign religious agents’ role as Fifth Columnists of neocolonialism/neoimperialism. He has written:
"Evangelists belong to a long line of pests from the West who have come and keep coming like locusts to colonize our souls and cannibalize our cultures.
The latest incursions are merely a continuation of the 500-year-old sorry saga of Asia, Africa and South America , which began with the arrival of the Portuguese and the Spaniards. Some have never recovered from the machinations of their priests and the savagery of their conquistadors. The baton of imperialism has passed from the Europeans to the Americans. That is not to say that the rest of the West has dropped out. They have not. They are very much in the game. It’s just that the Americans are in the lead, the new Romans on the rampage.
We know well how the Europeans won the West. They won it through mass genocide of the native populations in North and South America . In South America , hundreds and thousands of natives who resisted conversion were garroted. There is a poignant painting depicting such conversions. It shows armored Spanish soldiers garroting native priests, while a Spanish priest holds up a large cross. More terrified natives await their turn. On the side, another Spanish priest feeds stacks of ancient gold-leaf books of the Mayans into a fire. On the face of the Mayan priests, a look of utter sadness mixed with resignation.
In places like India and Sri Lanka India Australia , in Canada , in New Zealand
(source: Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing - By Sesha Samarajiwa - Asian Tribune October 9, 2007). Refer to First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists- livescience.com
C K Raju (1954 - ) holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute. He taught mathematics for several years before playing a lead role in the C-DAC team which built Param: India ’s first parallel supercomputer. His earlier book ‘Time: Towards a Consistent Theory’ set out a new physics with a tilt in the arrow of time. He has been a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study and is a Professor of Computer Applications.
He has observed that:
"Doctrine of Christian Discovery - According to which only Christians could be regarded as discoverers.
The church decreed that ownership of a piece of land must go to the first Christian to spot it. (Hence, the claim that Columbus “discovered”America , or that Vasco da Gama “discovered” India ). The people already living on the land did not matter, and the church encouraged their killing on a mass scale, where possible, as actually happened on three continents.
This doctrine was made into a law by the US supreme court, and that is where the current US law on land-ownership vis-a-vis the “Red Indians” stands.
(source: Newton as Theologian - By C K Raju). Refer to Five Hundred Years of Injustice
Note: The Doctrine of Discovery provided that by law and divine intention European Christian countries gained power and legal rights over indigenous non-Christian peoples immediately upon their “discovery” by Europeans. Various European monarchs and their legal systems developed this principle to benefit their own countries. Refer to Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny - By Robert Miller
Christian Europe has always believed that it has the divinely ordained mission of bringing all heathendom under the domain of the Church; similarly at the dawn of modern period, Imperial Europe felt heavily the “white man’s burden of civilizing the world”.
Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (1859 – 1938) German philosopher says:
“Naturally the “Europeanization of all foreign parts of the world” is the destiny of the earth. God made Europe in His own image and now the rest of mankind will be made in the image of Europe .”
Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) Raised as a Roman Catholic, a German philosopher and author of Being and Time, also refers to the “complete Europeanization of the earth and of mankind.”
(source: On Hinduism – By Ram Swarup p. 120 - 123).
According to author Ram Gopal
" A band of dacoits may loot a full busload of passengers at gunpoint but that does not make the dacoits more intelligent, cultured or superior beings."
(source: Hindu Culture During and after Muslim Rule - By Ram Gopal p. 63). Refer to Evangelical Intrusions - By Sandhya Jain Rupa Publications.
Dr Charles Sabillon ( ?) author of several books, has observed in his article Christianity and Islam: Which is the Worst?
"The origins of both religions are based on the claims of two men, Jesus and Mohammed, and both men proved equally incapable of demonstrating their divine mandate. From that perspective, the two creeds are equally based on false propositions and can be classified as nothing more than lies. Mohammed ordered his followers to do it by the sword, and that is what they did once he died. They launched into one of the most enthusiastic conquering ventures the world has ever seen and forged an empire that extended from Central Asia to the southwest of Europe.
Nations were ruthlessly converted to Christianity by the sword just like Islam converted Arabia, Central Asia, and Africa by the sword.With his armies, Charlemagne preached the Gospel of the cross to the Saxons, the Germans, the Bohemians, and the Hungarians. This was not the only evangelizing military operation. There were also the infamous Crusades from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, the Inquisition, and the conquest of the American continent from the sixteenth century onwards. Throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, the Christian Church was the most militarily powerful organization in that continent. Being the largest landowner and the biggest tax collector provided the Pope with huge amounts of money, which were used to solidify his power by establishing a potent armed force.
(source: Christianity and Islam: Which is the Worst? - By Charles Sabillon - americanchronicle.com). Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about Christianity. Refer to First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com
Refer to Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq Honolulu: Aloha Press. For more refer to chapter on Glimpses XIX
Refer to Holy warriors in the US and Christian embassy and Officers Christian fellowship and Ambassadors for Christian Dominion in UniformUnited States military-industrial complex and its involvement in the wars led by the United States
Civilizational Graveyards? Modus Operandi of Christianity around the Globe
Trader, Tank and Missionary Axis - Pax Britannica to Pax Americana ?
Andrew Jon Rotter, an American historian, and professor at Colgate University, writes:
"Most Westerners see expansion as the logical extension of power, if you have it use it. Westerners imagine space as available, beckoning those outside to occupy it, settle it, master it.
“The history which Europeans constructed for themselves was part of a growing process of control over space.” – writes Bernard S Cohen.
Beginning with the 17th century, European settlers saw space as an opportunity. Americans moved West if they failed in the east, for the West would allow them to start life over again. Space was a necessity. Space was exciting, democratic, more liberated and more dangerous than what passed for civilization in the East. Space was a White American right, and Native Americans who challenged the right of a White American to move west must be removed or destroyed. “Expansion lies at the center of the American Weltanschauung (world view)."
(source: Comrades at Odd: Culture and Indo-US relations 1947-1964 – By Andrew Kotter p. 40). and How Super Was Our Power Anyway? - thenation.com. Refer to Hooked on War: Thomas Friedman's Deadly Addiction - New York Times Thomas Friedman is the man who called invading Iraq "one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad." Also refer toUSA
Refer to What Every "Ugly American" Must Know about the "Civilized British - www.larouchepac.com. Refer to Mandela Slams Bush - "What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust." And that wasn't all. He attackedAmerica United States of America
Radha Rajan is editor of vigilonline. In her article titled - European, American Museums: Fortified Havens For Plunder From India she has remarked that:
"Should the people of India, Greece, Egypt and Africa, and Native American peoples succeed in getting American and European museums and libraries to ret urn all objects which constitute the tangible roots of ancient civilisations, and thousands of years of history pre-dating the cults of Jesus and Mohammed, then the Louvre, British Museum, Smithsonian, Vatican and the Kunsthistoriches Museum to mention just five, would be emptied of all their prized possessions.
European and American museums and libraries are no more than fortified thieves’ dens and state-sponsored and supported safe havens for Abrahamic plunder; they house the spoils of Christian war and genocide against African peoples, against the nations of now extinct and almost extinct Native American peoples, colonial loot from Asia, and from archaeological and anthropological pseudo-science expeditions, which European marauders undertook across continents. "
(source: European, American Museums: Fortified Havens For Plunder From India - By Radha Rajan - organiser.org).
William Dalrymple (1965 - ) author of The Last Mughal, and award-winning travel writer and historian, says:
'Islamic fundamentalism and Western imperialism have often been closely and fatally intertwined'
"You see so many parallels. The evangelical politicians, including George W Bush, cast their opponents and enemies in the role of 'incarnate fiends' as the British did the mutineers in 1857. The Western politicians also conflate armed resistance to invasion and occupation with 'pure evil' as the British did in 1857. Like the British in 1857, Western powers today are stubbornly blind to the effects their policies have on the wider world... they are not examining their own policies."
Refer to Holy warriors in the US and Christian embassy and Officers Christian fellowship and Ambassadors for Christian Dominion in Uniform
John Shelby Spong, Episcopal Bishop of Newark (NJ) in 'Why Christianity Must Change or Die' writes:
“The familiar Christian God acknowledged by almost all of our European ancestors not only blessed the imperialistic and colonial expansion of those nations in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries but also declared that this colonialist domination of the underdeveloped peoples of the world was the very will of the Christian deity. So under the banner of Christ, native population in what we today call the third world were subjugated and converted, while the resources of those conquered nations were being extracted from their soil to bring wealth to the Europeans".
(source: The Ethics of Proselytizing - By Rajiv Malhotra). Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com
Due acknowledgement must be done for the massacres of millions of our ancestors, so that the wounds can finally heal. Their deaths and untold suffering were by and large solely due to their being Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs. These non-Semitic Indic faiths have a great affinity for true secular practices and this rapport will not be threatened by letting truth prevail.
On the contrary, true secularism is undermined and damaged when the leadership - political and intellectual - conspire to hide historical truth under the festering scab of pseudo-secularism.
Sheldon Pollock Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Columbia University has said,
"Colonialism nearly killed India's capacity to know its past; globalization threatens to destroy its will."
(source: Digital Memory - By Sugata Srinivasaraju - outlookindia.com).
Atanu Dey economist at Netcore Solutions in Mumbai has remarked that the British were not some sort of saviors for India:
"The British did not manage India. They colonized India and did what it took to extract and exploit India India
Whatever “development” the British did was to ensure that they could effectively exploit the country. They “built” railroads so that they could move stuff (cotton to the British mills, for example) and for administering the large population they built a rudimentary telecommunications system. They “built” an education system that was just about adequate to churn out clerks that were needed for office work. They needed mid-level management (there were only so many Englishmen for the job) and so they created the Indian Civil Services. If I was the colonizer, I would do precisely what the British did. It is rational and sensible thing to do for a colonizer. What the British also did — and very effectively at that — is to create an education system that churns out people who have no idea of how rapacious the British were."
(source: India needs a New Set of Rules, not Rulers - By Atanu Dey - deesha.org).
Sore Losers of Empire?
British would prefer the Balkanization of India
The subconscious memories of the former British empire inspire some UK elements that want to see India balkanized. Sporadic voices near the centers of power seem to want to push India towards violence and fragmentation.
For example in 1991, within a week of the brutal assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by LTTE, the Times of London, a voice for the British Foreign Office, wrote an editorial stating that India faced ‘the same bloody strains and ignored solutions’ that had resulted in the breaking up of the Soviet Union. It compared India with the former Soviet Union and recommended that ‘the way forward’ without ‘murders and riots’ was to allow States and sub-states their own economic policies, and bring in as much foreign investment and as many free-market principles as they like.’
This separatist message disguised as the economic independence of ‘states and sub-states’ was further developed and articulated into full-blown balkanization by Max Madden, a member of the British parliament. Speaking in Denmark at a conference on Kashmir, Madden demanded India’s self-annihilation. Remembering the disintegration of the Soviet and British empires, he wondered: ‘Why should the Union of India and its present boundaries continue forever?’ He questioned India’s status as the world’s largest democracy in the world; many of us question that very fundamentally’. Madden suggested that the United Nations should oversee Kashmir’s independence, a role that could be extended beyond Kashmir: ‘And it may involve the whole region. So be it.’ Such suggestions are kept alive to this day. For example, in the website www.countercurrents.org, a decade old Times of London article was extensively quoted to conclude that India’s best course from the beginning would have been to split into a hundred Hong Kongs.
(source: Breaking India: Western Inventions and Dalit Faultlines - By Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan p. 297 -300).
Refer to Why Indians Should Reject St. Thomas And Christianity - By Koenraad Elst
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Imperial Crusaders
"I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human"
- Hugo Grotius (1583- 1645) Dutch legal scholar, playwright and poet. One of the pioneering natural rights theorists of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
"Every aspect of the Empire was an aspect of Christ" - James Morris author of Pax Britannica: Climax of an Empire. Refer to Loot: in search of the East India Company - By Nick Robins and How India became poor - indiarealist.com
(source: hamsa.org. Refer to Jesus Christ: Artifice for Aggression - By Sita Ram Goel. Refer to World Conquering Creeds - By Dr. Koenraad Elst - chapter onGlimpses XVI
" Evangelism was on the ascendant in the 19th century as the dominant ideology of the British Empire builders in India. Evangelists equated the material superiority of the West with the moral superiority of Christianity."
- Partha Mitter, author of Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art p. 238. Refer to Think tank alleges British MPs involved in promoting evangelism in India - hinduvoice.co.uk. Refer to Things They Don't Tell you about Christianity and Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq
“Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,
With the cross of Jesus going on before.
Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe;
Forward into battle see His banners go!"
- wrote Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (1834 – 1924). Refer to British Imperialism: Gold God Glory - By Robin W Winks. The motives for classical imperialism were frequently associated with the three G’s - Gold, God and Glory. Refer to First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com
"Baptize the nations, far and high
The triumph of the cross record
The name of Jesus glorify
Till every kindred call him Lord. "
- An Anglican hymn.
"Onward Chartered Soldiers, on to heathen lands,
Prayer books in your pockets, rifles in your hands.
Take the glorious tidings where trade can be done,
Spread the peaceful gospel --- with a Maxim gun.
Tell the wretched natives, sinful are their hearts,
Turn their heathen temples into spirit marts.
And if to your teaching they will not succumb,
Give them another sermon with the Maxim gun...
When the Ten Commandments they quite understand,
You their Chief must hocus, and annex their land;
And if they misguided call you to account,
Give them another sermon --- with a Maxim from the Mount."
- When Cecil Rhodes embarked on war with Lobengula in Matebele, his troops used a new "secret weapon:" the Maxim which could fire 500 rounds a minute. In 1893, in the battle of Shangani River , 1,500 Matebele warriors were killed while only four British died. The English Liberals penned a bitter satire on the victory, which Rhodes ' men --- the
"Jesus Christ" functions as a symbolic cloak for several hidden agendas .
- Robert M Price, author of The God Who Wasn't there. Refer to Oppose Christian Missionaries and Radical Christian Missionaries in Iraq
"Evangelical Christianity, born in England and nurtured in the United States, is leaving home."
- Paul Nussbaum, author of Evangelical Christianity shifting outside West - Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 20, 2006. Refer to First English Bible Fueled First Fundamentalists - livescience.com. Also refer to USA - What does the Constitution say about religion? - WBIR.com 8 December, 2007
“Christianity has been--and continues to be--a religion of empire.” - By Tim Mitchell
"When the missionary came he had the Bible and we had the land; now we have the Bible and he has the land." - An African has said. That pretty well sums up the fact that capitalism follows the Bible-thumper and destroys not only the culture, but the economic basis of the country. - By Roy Brown.
Refer to Why Evangelical Christians march on the Iraq - ReligionNewsBlog.com and Onward Christian soldiers - By Max Blumenthal - salon.com. Watch the movie - Indoctrination in Jesus Camp. Refer to Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power: US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush'sMiddle East policy - By George Monbiot Tuesday April 20, 2004 The Guardian. Refer to Planet Pentagon: Ownership of the earth, the seas and the skies - By Nick Turse - Le Monde Diplomatique and commondream.org.
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