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Seven sinners who inflicted harm on native Indian religion and culture

Mission Kaali

A text book claimed “The Advent of Europeans brought Light & Civilisation to India”. But is that really so?

TEACHER is a generic word we have imported from the British.

One will realize how rich Sanatan Dharma & its mother language Sanskrit is & why we have a rotten education system today. TheSanskrit words for “teacher” is based on their unique abilities & these are 6 phases or called it an evolution of a teacher:

  1. The teacher who gives you Information is called ADHYAPAK
  2. The one who imparts knowledge along with Information is called UPADHYAYA
  3. The one who Imparts skill is called ACHARYA
  4. The one who is able to give deep insight into a subject is called PANDIT
  5. The one who has a visionary view on a subject and teaches you to think in that manner is called DHRISHTA
  6. The one who is able to awaken the wisdom in you, leading you from darkness to light is called GURU

I don’t think there’s any other country in this planet which has brutally stabbed its own glorious past like we Indians have done. Even the Chinese didn’t destroy all of their culture during the Cultural Revolution like we have even after independence. Century after century, the Church (Church of England, Church of Scotland, the Catholic churches France and Portugal) have spent billions on India to extract even more billions from gullible donors.

But how?

On one hand, they showed the obscure practice Sati as India mass burning widows, they showed Indians as poor, they showed Indians push their daughters into prostitution, they showed Indians always suffering from diseases without cure, they showed Indians as illiterate and all sorts of poverty porn. And the ignorant Jesus followers out there in Europe, pumped money which subsequently ended up in church coffers.

In between, the church also promoted enmity between Indian kings leading to destruction of each other. In addition, they assisted Portuguese and British in plundering and looting Bharat.

In this article, I’m writing about seven missionaries who were accomplices of Church in their mission to destroy Bharat.

1. AMY CARMICHAEL

Decades before so called Mother Teresa played on poverty of Hindus to make billions, this Irish showed to the Western World that Hindus are Daughter Sellers and Make their living out of running Prostitution.

In 1894, Amy received an invitation from a friend to join the Church of England Zenana Mission in Bangalore and a year later in 1896, Amy went to go live in the Tirunelveli district with Reverend Thomas Walker and his wife who were CMS missionaries.

Amy learnt Tamil, started wearing sari and mixing with Hindu women, and slowly she spread the word among fellow missionaries about an “in” they could use to convert. I quote:

Deeply rooted in the religion was the practice of selling little girls and boys who were unwanted to ‘marry’ the Brahmin temple priests. Amy became increasingly aware of the fact that many Indian children were dedicated to the gods by their parents or guardians, became temple children, and lived in moral and spiritual danger

How she lured little girls to Christianity?

Amy realized that she must pretend to be an Indian and visit the temples herself. She would dye and stain her light skin brown with coffee or tea bags, and her brown eyes helped her fit right in as a Hindu. No one would guess that the dark-skinned woman wearing a light blue sari, which was associated with the lowest caste, the untouchables, was a missionary from Ireland. And what happened to the girls she supposedly rescued?

2. DONALD McGAVRAN

“God wants all people to believe on Jesus Christ, become members of his body, be filled with the Holy Spirit, and live in him. The Holy Spirit leads Christians everywhere in this direction. Anything less than this is not biblical.”

He is widely acclaimed as “the Father of the Church Growth movement,”

Donald A. McGavran was a third-generation Christian missionary in India.

McGavran published The Bridges of God in 1955. In this book he presented his insights on church growth in detail. He states the thesis of the book in following terms, “The era has come when Christian Missions should hold lightly all mission station work, which cannot be proved to nurture growing churches, and should support the Christward movements within Peoples as long as they continue to grow at the rate of 50 per cent per decade or more. This is to-day’s strategy.”

Against the Western model of individual (one by one) Christianization, McGavran speaks in favor of a people-(or ethnic group) based movement to Christianity. He argues, “It is of utmost importance that the Church should understand how peoples, and not merely individuals, become Christians.”

He preferred the People Movement as a better system of Christianization. He outlines, and I reproduce here, (with gratitude), the “Five Great Advantages”of people movements to Christ,

They have enormous possibilities of growth. People movements have both external and internal growing points. Externally they grow among their own people in different lands. Internally they grow among the unconverted within their fold. This growth continues until the disciplining of all people.

Having outlined the advantages of People Movement in Christian mission, McGavran also suggested “Seven Principles “ to use or operate the “People Movement Method” effectively. These principles are as follows,

Aiming for a constant Stream of new converts, McGavran suggests that missionaries should not spend all their time in teaching (making good Christians or perfecting) the converts. They should keep reaching out to new groups, which he termed “making Christians or discipling”.

3. HENRY GAIKWAD AKA PREM BHAI

He not only built hundreds of small churches but also converted lakhs of people.

Henry Gaikwad hailing from Pune, ventured into Arunachal Pradesh in 1981 as “Prem Bhai”. Since the ban on Christian missionaries was strictly enforced in the state at the time, he used to enter it under the guise of carpenter or butcher, and trekked the scattered mountainous villages baptising many along his path and played a pivotal role in Christianity spreading like wildfire in the state.

4. HENRY HERAS

Reverend Henry Heras, was one of the earliest foreigner to get Indian citizenship and is considered as “Father of Christian Indian Art”. In trying to give a clean chit to Church, Heras defended the church’s brutality over Goan Hindus, saying “Individual cases of violent compulsion might, be discovered which were due to the misguided enthusiasm of individual priests or administrators”.

In his book “The Conversion Policies of the Jesuits In India” Reverend Heras wrote:

The Portuguese Government, which supported the Jesuits, was no doubt a frankly proselytizing authority. It undertook the demolition of temples and idols ; it punished severely any disturbances directed against Christianity ; and it debarred Hindoos from a number of special exemptions and privileges allowed to Christian converts. To this extent its efforts were forcible, and they were rigorously executed.

The aforementioned paragraph was written by Heras to supposedly debunk what Sir Burton wrote in “Goa and the Blue Mountains”, which got published in 1851:

The Hindoos very rarely become Christians now that fire and steel, the dungeon and the rack, the rice-pot and the rupee are not allowed to play the persuasive part in the good work formerly assigned to them.

For Heras, punishing Hindus, destroying mandirs and murthis, and treating Hindus as second-class citizens were not offences which needed introspection.

5. JAMES MILL

James Mill was from Scotland, was ordained as a minister by the church of Scotland.

By 1802, unable to find a parish and disillusioned with a religious career, he “emigrated” to England. There he quickly obtained a position as editor and writer, married, and began to raise a family. To secure his position and to defend the reason behind British intervention in Indian affairs, he began to write “The History of British India”, in 1806, and when he finally finished it in 1918, he had secured the post of an examiner at the imperial East India Company, rising to the top in a few years.

Let us start with some interesting and also equally shocking points..

  1. In the preface. He boldly admits that, Mill neither visited India nor does he knows its languages, and he boldly claims, “A duly qualified man can obtain more knowledge of India in one year in his closet in England than he could obtain during the course of the longest life, by the use of his eyes and ears in India”.
  2. Mill never visited India, he relied solely on documentary material and archival records in compiling his work.
  3. He was the first writer to divide Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British.
  4. The work itself, and the author’s official connection with India for the last seventeen years of his life, effected a complete change in the whole system of governance in the country.
  5. The 1st edition of this book happened in 1817 and it saw successive publication till 1997. For 180 years the lies was spread uninterrupted.

Mill defended the brutality of the East India Company with these words.

After all, as he said, “even the utmost abuse of European power is better, we are persuaded, than the most temperate exercise of Oriental despotism […] The wider the circumference of British dominion, the more extensive the reign of peace”.

6. MOTHER TERESA-

They made Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu a “saint” and gave her a name “Mother” Teresa. For decades, we believed this false narrative. In fact, all white robed individuals were considered as messengers of god.

In reality, she was a publicity-hungry, anti-abortion lobbyist, who deliberately portrayed an unpleasant image of ‘Calcutta’ for her own advantage.

In 2017, investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, in a book titled Original Sin, published accounting documents from the controversial Vatican Bank – officially known as the Institute for the Works of Religion – which revealed that the funds which were held in Mother Teresa’s name on behalf of her charity had made her the Bank’s biggest client, and they amounted to billions.

Teresa lied by exaggerating the figures of persons she was feeding daily in her acceptance speech while receiving the Nobel Prize in 1979. The ambulances donated by a Calcutta businessman were in fact used by her nuns as taxis to ferry them around in Calcutta. Her nuns refused to pick up dying persons within even 200 meters of the compassion house, but Teresa continued to tell her Western audiences that her mission routinely picked up abandoned babies and the dying and dead bodies from Calcutta’s pavements.

7. BISHOP VEDAKAM SAMUEL AZHARIAH

M K Gandhi, the Peace Loving Gandhi himself was so petrified that he called him post-colonial India’s ENEMY NUMBER – ONE. In his lifetime he had converted nearly 5 lakh Hindus in 40 years. Samuel Azhariah was born at Tootukudi district for a Converted Hindu, his father was a Church Priest Thomas Vedakam who had got converted while studying at Church School. At Madras Christian College Samuel failed in getting degree, joined the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).

Please read where all he traveled in such a short span of time. At the age of 19, he started rice bag offerings, By 1895, he led YMCA spiritual meetings and in 1902 Azariah traveled to Jaffna in Sri Lanka to evangelize among the Tamils. Later his church sent him to Warangal.

Samuel was growing within the church & his ambition was maximum conversion, for this he established the Indian Mission Society at Tirunelveli, and gave an approval for a proposal, That Fellow Tamil Christians Could Evangelize Among Their Brethren. This is the reason why Gandhi was terrified

Azhariah traveled throughout Asia and met many important Christian leaders, his interests returned increasingly back toward India and the need for Indian Christians to convert fellow Indians, individuals as well as groups. Samuel “helped to lead the Anglican church into its first union with non-episcopal churches since the Reformation”.

His primary concern, however, was always with his local community, so that he “brilliantly adapted Christianity to the local culture — providing a classic model for the Third World of how to mix Christian essentials with the particularities of indigenous culture”.

(This article was originally published in Mission Kaali and has been republished here with permission)

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