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Touching the Untouchable: India Targets Christian Converts [Breakpoint]
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| May 3, 2004
| Chuck Colson
Posted on 05/03/2004 3:54:55 AM PDT by Paul_B
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What an outrage this is against human rights, and against our brothers. Is there anything we can do about this?
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posted on
05/03/2004 3:54:55 AM PDT
by
Paul_B
To: Paul_B
"Touching the Untouchable"That's what got Michael Jackson in trouble.
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posted on
05/03/2004 4:10:51 AM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Paul_B
I thought racism and religious intolerance was a white, Christian and capitalist phenomena. Seriously though, it should be noted that the Christian Indians I am familiar with here in the states became Christians for the reasons stated above and then left. Can you blame them? The Japanese also have a group of second class citizens..those who work in the leather tanning trade..I remember seeing that on a television expose several years ago. Nice to know treating fellow countrymen like crap is a worldwide tradition and not likmited to just the racist, bigoted American warmongers!
To: Paul_B
You can pray for the conversions to continue at an increasing rate. Jesus told his followers that they would be persecuted in his name.
To: billorites
LOL....you're bad!!!!
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posted on
05/03/2004 4:24:39 AM PDT
by
Arpege92
(America and Israel are two countries that were founded on the rejection of Europe. -Dr. M. Azaryahu)
To: Paul_B
Our church is adopting one small Indian village at a time. We regularly send Medial Mission Teams, which are warmly received by the India Bible League, which enables our members to preach to the villagers.
After our people set up medical missions, orphanages, schools, "Lite houses", village wells, the villagers want more of what we have. Despite "non-conversions" laws, the villagers welcome us with open arms. They simply refuse to "tell on us." One local government official even told his people to come to the "Lite houses", not only for the services, but also for the spiritual teaching.
At one of these schools, the Brahman class was stunned to learn the schools refused to separate the children according to caste. Today, the Brahman and untouchable children wear identical uniforms and mix freely. The Brahman parents agreed because it's the best school around, and they're welcome despite their religion.
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posted on
05/03/2004 4:37:22 AM PDT
by
keats5
To: keats5
Unfortunately, the services that you describe are what the BFP radicals are targeting with this "allurement" law.
I think you can expect BJP attacks on Christian missions in general in the near future.
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posted on
05/03/2004 4:45:40 AM PDT
by
jimtorr
To: 17th Miss Regt
I'm aware that each one of us can pray for the spread of the Kingdom. I was asking if there were any avenues by which we could materially improve the situation. We're also supposed to show concern for our brothers' material well-being.
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posted on
05/03/2004 4:57:38 AM PDT
by
Paul_B
To: keats5
Keats, that's an excellent work. One gets the sense of how subversive, and thus dangerous, that is in such a coercive culture. Prayers for safety and success for all concerned.
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posted on
05/03/2004 4:59:29 AM PDT
by
Paul_B
To: stanley windrush
I can't blame anyone for leaving such a culture, but not all can. I must admit that as I read this I wondered how many were joining the Faith for the material bennies, but the article went on to show that convertees often undergo extra hardship for their conversion. So some things get better but others get worse. All in all, the most important thing is that the Gospel is moving forward.
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posted on
05/03/2004 5:03:40 AM PDT
by
Paul_B
To: All
"untouchables" flock to Christ. Conversion, however, [it] doesn't mean an end to discrimination, since their Hindu neighbors still view them as "untouchables," and because they become Christians, they forfeit Indian government programs put into place to benefit them. The good news! It won't affect our cheap labor. In fact, with all them folks being sent to prison under the new law it might make labor even cheaper! "Free" traders win again! Uhmm (drool) cheap labor.
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posted on
05/03/2004 5:25:18 AM PDT
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(Benedict Arnold was a hero for both sides in the same war, too!)
To: Paul_B
This is a great organization:
Gospels for Asia (GFA) - www.gfa.org
They have done more to spread the word of Christ in Asia (especially India) than anyone I know. The true stories are truly inspirational and will humble you on what many have sacfriced to save others.
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posted on
05/03/2004 5:44:32 AM PDT
by
2banana
(They want to die for Islam and we want to kill them)
To: Paul_B
One thing this article doesn't explore is the Hindu belief in reincarnation. Hindu's are among the very lowest charitable givers. Their attitude is that if you have a child born with a facial deformity, too bad, they deserve it. The continual process of life in misery then death and then possibly life again in misery offers nothing. Christianity promises an end in heaven where all are equal in the sight of God.
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posted on
05/03/2004 5:48:06 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Paul_B
Is there anything we can do about this? We are doing something. We are giving them IT jobs. The Mexicans already have all the waste disposal jobs.
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posted on
05/03/2004 5:52:31 AM PDT
by
Alouette
(Float like a butterfly, sting like a B-52)
To: stanley windrush
Technically, Indians are of the "Caucasian" race. Those with lighter skin are descendants of Bactrian Greeks. Another term for caste is "varna", color.
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posted on
05/03/2004 5:55:20 AM PDT
by
olde north church
(islam is to peace as abortion is to child-rearing)
To: Paul_B
You would think we could --- we're outsourcing our best job to India --- we could certainly apply some pressure on them that way --- but our corporations would probably instead look to the untouchables as a source of very cheap labor instead and want them kept that way.
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posted on
05/03/2004 5:59:06 AM PDT
by
FITZ
To: Alouette
LOL!
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posted on
05/03/2004 6:02:35 AM PDT
by
FITZ
To: olde north church
"Technically, Indians are of the "Caucasian" race. Those with lighter skin are descendants of Bactrian Greeks."
I thought that the darker skinned Indians were descendents of the Draviadian people like the modern Sri Lanakans. The lighter skinned higher castes are descedent from the Indo-Iranian Sanskrit invaders who took over India millenia ago.
Also, there was a western Islamic element under the Moguls much later. MOdern India is pretty much a hodge-podge of ethnic groups intermixed with the lower castes generally darker than the upper ones.
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posted on
05/03/2004 6:20:41 AM PDT
by
ZULU
To: Paul_B
The Hindus think they can stop the spread of the Church Of Jesus Christ by passing a law. They'll find that trhey are woefully mistaken.
To: Paul_B
BTTT
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posted on
05/03/2004 6:25:55 AM PDT
by
Gritty
("The enemy of the Middle East is not the West so much as modernism itself" -Victor Davis Hanson)
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