| Indic Challenged on Critique of Church |
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 | I like your views, but don't accept your critque of the Church. We are peaceful, doing our good works and sharing our good news.Why would you accuse us of politics, black money and secession? | |
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| Joseph, aculturation is cultural-theft. Conversion is religious violence. The street-power we witnessed in Sterlite/Kudankulam was anything but peaceful. Your activists desecrate our temples. You accost us in our homes, roads, offices, temples and tell us we are hell-bound for being Hindus. You derive power from the policies of Dravidian parties and Congress. You sit on enormously valuable real-estate all over India and have shady deals. | |
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| One Man's Theology is Another Man's Destruction... |
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| By secularizing dance, music, art, architecture, we are expanding the Indic ideal inclusively to Christianity - that is not cultural-theft. We are merely following our faith by bearing witness. Our education and healthcare reaches millions. | |
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| Historical crimes by the British and missionaries have put us in a situation where our schools and hospitals were destroyed and Catholics made to lead in hospitals and schools. Your "good works" comes at an unacceptable price for the Indic civilization. Your brethren who believe in "salvation by grace" leave us equally attacked. A Hindu child is attacked for wearing bindi/vibuthi/prayer-beads/Ayyapa-clothes/flowers. All Hindu expression is mocked and punished. | |
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| Can the Divide Be Bridged? |
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| Taking over our festivals like Pongal and Onam, copying temple architecture for your churches, using our divine music for your songs, using our divine dance, yoga and art forms for your expression isn't inclusiveness. It is cultural theft to usurp Hindu artifacts and use them for Christian expression. Our civilization evolved these over thousands of years ago to holistically express Brahman. You have removed our sacred out and perverted our holistic inclusive message to one of a jealous exclusive god. | |
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| Why don't I ask our pastor to talk to you? I am sure he has the answers. | |
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