Religious Fanaticism 
 The Ongoing Crusades

This is a slur on the name of international harmony. Indeed, it has truly been said that more wars are fought in the name of religion than for any cause - and THESE are the people who cause those wars. Militant by its very nature, the demonic cult of fanatic Christianity will not rest until each and every single person alive on the face of the Earth has been successfully brainwashed by their "missionaries" - a noble "mission" indeed!!

Not for these people is the principle of the truth and validity of each and every religion. To their twisted minds, Jesus Christ is the one and only way. All others, regardless of their lifestyle - even the purest of the pure - are doomed forever to burn in the fires of hell. The only way to escape eternal punishment according to these people is to shun the culture, heritage, tradition and religion that has been an integral part of your own ancestry and national spirit for untold millenia.

Diversity is the essential ingredient of a vibrant and healthy society. Evolution itself is entirely dependant upon the inherent diversity of expression present in each and every part of nature. But of course, it was people like these who have resisted every single major scientific breakthrough in history ever since the inception of Christianity. Darwin himself faced tremendous criticism of his works, as did Newton, Gallileo, Copernicus...the list is endless. And now, these enemies of humanity seek to abolish once and for all the very possibility of any kind of diversity existing, setting up a theocratic dictatorship throughout the world.

Far worse than Hitler, and much more dangerous in their potential destructive capability, these people would seek to destroy any last vestige of any culture other than that which they themselves practise. The richness of the human mind, the colourful variety brought about by the interaction of myriad different cultures and subcultures in a harmonious co-existence, this is not for them.

Those who have dedicated their lives to the moulding of others, or, in default of this, to the ridding the planet of those "evil spawn of the devil" who refuse to convert to their own ideals, cannot ever see the victory of tolerance, understanding and sense.

Such fundamentalism must be exposed for what it really is - not any kind of God-given holy task, not "bringing God's light to those who wander lost in the darkness of ignorance", but plain and simple hate-driven refusal to accept that any other way may be just as good as their own. It is only once the world wakes up to the truth of religious militancy as blatantly practised by these scourges on the name of humanity that there can be any kind of concerted eeffort to remove such wanton destructiveness from the world.

In the name of tolerance, the Hindus of India allow these vile insects to remain in their communities and expand, infecting, one by one, each member of the community they take up residence in. No longer can Hindus afford to do this. If the Hindu does not stand up for his own beliefs, noone else will. Already, we are seeing a state where, in Tripura, Christian converts are able to prevent the indigenous Hindu community from practising their own religion!!

As the old saying goes, "They came for the Jews, I said nothing; they came for the blacks, still I said nothing; they came for the Asians, I said nothing even then; then they came for me, and there was noone left to say anything." Though the activities of these militants are directed towards India, their effects will be on the entire world, including those Christians who do not subscribe to such fundamentalist ideology. Before it is too late, the international community at large MUST act to stop this vile, insidious disease of religious fundamentalism. More than anything else, the greatest threat to the modern-day world is religious fanaticism - whether that be Islamic, Christian, Vaishnava or anything else.

I therefore make an open appeal to all those who believe in the FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT to lead one's life according to one's own wishes and beliefs to step forward and openly condemn the acts of these religious zealots. I plead with all those who profess to be defenders of freedom, democracy, secularism and truth to come forward and act now to stop these heinous acts before it is too late.

Below is a mail I recently received from a friend who attended a lecture given by one of these religious fanatics. For further demonstration of the wanton destruction of age-old cultural traditions and religious faiths being carried out by these "saviours of Man", please take a look at some exemplary Christian websites here.

I am sending this mail to all those people taht i think would care about it. If you don't care about a group of missionaries trying to convert anyone anything in sight then stop reading now

Many of you know me well and know that i am quite strong in my faith, so i am more likely to get upset than the average person

I went to a talk today by ( as advertised - a christian from a hindu background ) He was talking about why he became a christian and why christianity is the only way!

He had a very extremist attitude and even said that he fears for his parents, as they are still hindu so will not reach the kingdom of heaven ie will go to hell.

his talk was interesting to say the least. he started off by talking about Ghandiji saying how he was a man who researched a lot of religeons.

He also talked about how the world is leading to Globalisation but ( surprising to me anyway ) dismissed it as impractical and said that religeons were the main cause for war - but then proceeded to be as intolerent a person from ANY faith that i have ever come across. He acknowledged that religeon was the cause for trouble but his solution was not that all the religeons become more tolerent but more so that we all embrace Jesus Christ as our Saviour

i can go on about what he said and would be happy to do so if anyone would like me to then please reply asking me to. i will just summarise though

he dismissed ghandiji as arrogant as ghandiji was a scholar of religeons and took what he saw to be good from all of them saying that he was arrogant as he saw himself as god

He said that we as men are sinners and bad people and we cannot ( as is the hindu belief ) rise up above this mortality but all we can do is "thank" jesusji for dying for our sins

We cannot go up to god like status but god must come down and pick us up

About all paths leading to the same goal he at first said that there are easy and difficult ways to get up a mountain why take the hard way of hinduism where there are millions of reincarnations before you can get anywhere when you can take the straight path of christianty which will lead you to judgement after only one!!! So Jesusji has cleared a path for us which is the easy path. he then went on to say that we cannot climb this mountain at all - basically us we are MERE humans and that we are essentially bad people so god has to come down and pick us up

Again i am drifting i apologise this talk just really upset me

My basic point is that we ( whatever faith we are from ) need to be aware that there are talks like this going on.His critiscims werent restricted to hinduism he tried Islam aswell... personally my belief is that we should try to attend as many of these lunchtime talks as we can in as large groups as we can and try to help defend our dharma

If you are completely uninterested by this then i am sorry for sending you this mail those of you taht are please get in touch or try to go to as many of the talks as you can

i have no problem with them preaching about the beauty of Christ but when they make up false" facts" about other religeons i believe it is teh responsibilty of anyone who has faith in that belief to stand up for the rights of their belief

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