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<< Charity workers, foreign aid workers, missionaries [Most of whom dedicate their lives to saving us heathens] ....... are not so innocent themselves are they? >>

Come on GK, you can do better than that. [And I shall most certainly continue to pray that you and your countrymen are all saved]

But meanwhile, one alleged pommy pervert and you're projectile vomiting your pent up bile and bigotry all over FReeRepublic.com?

You demean yourself and I, for one, expect better of you.

And at least in Britain if this joker is not guilty of anything a Hell-fires-bound froth-and-foam-flecked vegan heathen mob will not burn him and his children to death in their car or with a thousand others on a train -- or in their beds.

Look to the log in your own eye, my Brother, before taking the speck from any other's.

Blessings -- Brian

"And I shall most certainly continue to pray that you and your countrymen are all saved"

And I pray (to my God) that "I be saved from those who wish to save me from whatever is it they want to save me."

"But meanwhile, one alleged pommy pervert and you're projectile vomiting your pent up bile and bigotry all over FReeRepublic.com?"

This is not one incident in India as we speak of but several such "alleged" "foreign aid worker" and "missionary" doing their mischief. As for my "bile and bigotry" I thought at least on FR I would be free to speak my mind (at least when it has to do with my country).

My disapproval is not about Christians or Christianity (and I will tell you that I am from a convent school "St. Anthony School VB" in Pune) but these foreign organisation who masquerade as "missionaries" or some suspicious foreign "charity organisation" should not be taken on face value as we had our experiences in several parts of India with these "organisations". My concern is genuinely for my country not any particular religion.

And even you have to admit that the "foreign missionaries" are not as innocent as they claim. For one reason news like these (as reports of child molestation by foreign missionaries or otherwise) are not so uncommon.

A lot of them even indulge in separatist activities in sensitive parts of India. They influence the voting patterns and propagate secession from Indian nation state.

The "foreign missionaries" (evangelists) refuse to recognise local Christians who are called"the lesser eastern Churches" (Christianity had come to India far earlier then it did in Europe) and needless to say have been regularly running into trouble with local tribals, Hindus, Buddhists and people of other religions.

Might I add that religious freedom is for an individual to practice his/her faith and not for "foreign" organisation and "aid workers" religious or otherwise to run amuck (taking unfair advantage of the freedom given to them) and to run thing the way they deem fit even it that means picking fights with local tribals, Hindus, Buddhists and people of other religions or even local churches. My contention here is that such activities should be put under check.

"And at least in Britain if this joker is not guilty of anything a Hell-fires-bound froth-and-foam-flecked vegan heathen mob will not burn him and his children to death in their car or with a thousand others on a train -- or in their beds."

Suffice to say this joker will be roaming free on the streets of (not-so-great)Britain contemplating about his next chances of coital bliss in some other "third world" land where he can enter as a "charity aid worker"?

....While your kind of bigots will "froth-and-foam" about India not allowing enough freedom for perverts like these to to sow their seeds in India.....and nor will you let up on any opportunity to malign all of Hinduism (and India) for the actions of a handful of lunatics who burned people-children inside a car.

Brian I have seen plenty of cases were missionaries/evangelists coerce the people to convert.

Typical tactics are go to a really poor place and build a school for poor people. Offer their children free education, 6 months later you call the parents and tell them if they dont convert their child will be expelled from school.

Second, constantly abuse local customs and religion, I have personally seen some missionaries take a picture of a hindu god and garland it with shoes (which is very insulting) or pictures of Jesus kicking a hindu god. Ofcourse if there is violence then there is hue and cry. Imagine if I a Hindu went to one of the deep christain areas in the South and did that.

Ofcourse I dont paint all missionaries with the same brush, some are much better than the others but a lot of missionaries groups esepcially the evangelist are notorious for these kinds of tactics of conversion.