Why a Hindu accepts Christ

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Why a Hindu accepts Christ and rejects Churchianity

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Swami Vivekananda as also the Hindu society in general hold Jesus

Christ in high esteem. While a Hindu accepts Christ, he rejects

Churchianity which has not done justice to the divine greatness of Jesus

Christ. The universal personality of Christ has been cribbed, cabined

and confined within the narrow walls of a rigorously dogmatic and

strictly regimented body of the Church.

 

Great Christian scholars have confessed that the history of the Church

is largely a negation and distortion of Christ's teachings.

 

The Indian Christians have the foggiest notion of the history of their

religion, its origins, its expansion, its institutions, its destruction of other

cultures, the challenge it received from leading Western intellectuals, its

clash with science, and finally its spectacular retreat in the West.

 

Today an Indian student of Christianity finds it difficult to get the truth:

 

Did the Christianity come to India in the first century A.D. through St.

Thomas, one of the twelve direct disciples of Jesus Christ?

Was St. Thomas martyred in Chennai?

Is Christianity is a religion of love and compassion?

What is the true history of Christianity all over the world, including India?

Have not the missionaries indulged in cruelty and violence for spreading

their religion?

Can they deny or disprove the Goan inquisition which is well-

documented?

Can they deny the destruction of Hindu temples which has also been

recorded?

Has not Francis Xavier who was declared a saint, a history of the most

cruel sort of violence used for spreading Christianity in the coastal areas

of India?

The book (Volume I) to be released in Chennai (On 29 October 2006) by

Vivekananda Kendra is an updated and comprehensive volume on

Christianity. It seeks to clear the misunderstanding created by

missionary writers and Christian propagandists about the origin of

Christianity in India and also about the methods Christian missionaries

have used to propagate their religion in this country.

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Expressions of Christianity,

with a focus on India

 

The new book from Vivekananda Kendra titled Expressions of

Christianity, with a focus on India is the first of two compilations on

Christianity, meant not only for the specialist intellectual but also for the

ordinary man who is interested in knowing about Christianity which is

increasingly confronting him in his everyday life. The contributors of the

articles are selected on the basis of their deep insight into or authentic

study of the concerned aspects as a result of their encounter with

Christianity in actual practice.

 

One reason for bringing out this volume is that a lot of misunderstanding

has been created by missionary writers and Christian propagandists

about the origin of Christianity in India and also about the methods

Christian missionaries have used to propagate their religion in this

country. One example may be cited here. It is widely propagated

through writings, which claim to be authentic, that Christians came to

India in the first century A.D. through St. Thomas, one of the twelve

direct disciples of Jesus Christ. Even authentic historic documents

which at one time widely disputed this claim are not currently in vogue.

Textbooks also have been so fabricated that the myth is treated as real

history. Further, another myth of St. Thomas having been murdered by

the Brahmins of Tamilnadu and the origin of St. Thome church on the

St. Thomas mount in Chennai where his martyrdom is supposed have

taken place is propagated in such a scale and planned and persistent

manner that a large number of people blindly believe it.

 

Another claim that is paraded is that Christianity is a religion of love and

compassion and that their main channel of activity is service of the poor

and the deprived. But the true history of Christianity all over the world,

including India, shows, beyond a shadow of doubt, that missionaries

have indulged in cruelty and violence for spreading their religion. The

Goan inquisition is well documented and no one can deny or disprove it.

 

The destruction of temples has also been recorded. Francis Xavier who

was declared a saint has a history of the most cruel sort of violence

used for spreading Christianity in the coastal areas of India.

 

The Kendra felt it necessary to bring out such updated and

comprehensive volumes on Christianity since so-called objective

historians have been hesitant to come out openly and call a spade a

spade. The total outcome of all these is that an Indian student of

Christianity finds it difficult to get the truth.

 

Whatever has been stated above by way of explanation for selecting the

subject of Christianity in India for the two compilations should be taken

in the proper perspective. It is not at all meant to condemn or even

belittle the greatness and glory of Jesus Christ whom Swami

Vivekananda as also the Hindu society in general hold in a very high

esteem.

 

Unfortunately, the Church did not do justice to his divine greatness. The

universal personality of Christ was cribbed, cabined and confined within

the narrow walls of a rigorously dogmatic and strictly regimented body

of the Church. Even great Christian scholars have confessed that the

history of the Church is largely a negation and distortion of Christ's

teachings. That is why Swami Abhedananda, a prominent co-disciple of

Swami Vivekananda delivered a lecture in America on "Why a Hindu

accepts Christ and rejects Churchianity".

 

As the title suggests, we have looked at the practical, outer

expressions of Christianity rather than its theological foundations. Indian

Christians themselves have the foggiest notion of the history of their

religion, its origins, its expansion, its institutions, its destruction of other

cultures, the challenge it received from leading Western intellectuals, its

clash with science, and finally its spectacular retreat in the West.

 

Release of "Vivekananda Kendra Patrika"

 

 

PUBLIC PROGRAMME

On 29 October 2006, Chennai

 

4.45-4.50 --Prayer

 

 

4.50-5.00 --Vande Mataram

 

 

5.00-5.05 --Welcome address and Introduction

 

 

5.05-5.25 --"Changing Face of Indian Demography": Shri M.D.Srinivasji

 

 

5.30-6.15 --"Threats to National Security": Shri Ajit Dovalji

 

 

6.20-6.45 --"We and the Public space": Shri S. Gurumurthyji

 

 

6.45-7.10 --"My encounters with Christians": Shri Michel Daninoji

 

 

7.15-7.30 --Introduction of the book by members of the editorial team,

Sri Aravindanji and Sri Pramod Kumarji

 

 

7.30-8.00 --Book Release by Revered Swami Mitranandaji and address

on

"Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah"

 

 

8.05-8.30 --Organised Response: Maananeeya Shri P. Parameswaranji

 

 

8.30-8.35 --Vote of Thanks

 

 

8.35 --Shantipath

 

 

Venue: --R. K. Swamy Auditorium, Sir Sivaswamy Kalalaya Senior

Secondary

School, 5 Sundareswara Swamy St., Mylapore (Opp. Lane to Bharatiya

Vidya Bhavan)

 

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Monday, October 23, 2006 6:46 AM

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Somehow the Talmud decrees that Jesus is right now in hell, being boiled in feces, because he opposed the rabbis. Any suggestions?