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To: Gengis Khan; B Knotts
The only arguement made by your side is: "I want to full right to enter your home (even if it maybe against your wishes) also have the right to denigrate and demonise your religion and culture as a form satanic ritual of "Pagans" and I want to have full right to covert you (through whatever means possible) ............. while I will allow no such nonsense on my turf.........because Vatican is a small .....blah blah...."

Nope -- the Catholic Church does not do that -- we don't believe that your gods are true (and you are free to believe that of ours) and we wish to tell you about ours. You have the right to not listen, to ignore, to tell us to go away. Does the Pope say that Hare Krishna's should be kicked out? No. That's silly -- they don't FORCE people to join them. The Church does not force anyone to join them -- give me one example in INDEPENDENT INDIA where the Church has used force to convert. Give me proof for any case where the Church has paid people to convert -- and no, charity is different from bribing..

don't spout rot about the Church asking for I want to have full right to covert you (through whatever means possible) -- the Church wants the right for people to CHOOSE their own religion -- and this is what is allowed in the West, in most of India, but not in SAudia Arabia or Pakistan or Egypt.

As for the term pagan -- look it up in the dictionary -- it means a non-Christian in the narrowest sense. And yes, Hinduism is not christian, hence followers are pagan -- it's not really a perjorative term, just a descriptive one. As I pointed out earlier, the term Hindu is from the Persian term for those who lived int he Indian sub-continent, so saying that all Indians are Hindus int he broadest sense is correct. Don't go nuts.
88 posted on 05/21/2006 8:49:37 AM PDT by Cronos (Remember 9/11. Restore Hagia Sophia! Sola Scriptura leads to solo scriptura.)
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To: Cronos

"Church does not force anyone to join them -- give me one example in INDEPENDENT INDIA where the Church has used force to convert. Give me proof for any case where the Church has paid people to convert -- and no, charity is different from bribing.."

Check post #87.
And that is just one example, there are thousands of such example that go unreported.


92 posted on 05/21/2006 9:00:19 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
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