Posted on 07/05/2007 9:11:11 AM PDT by B4Ranch
VRINDAVAN, India (CNN) -- Ostracized by society, India's widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They are found on side streets, hunched over with walking canes, their heads shaved and their pain etched by hundreds of deep wrinkles in their faces.
Hindu widows are shunned from society when their husbands die, not for religious reasons, but because of tradition -- and because they're seen as a financial drain on their families.
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How could a son say this???????
“My son tells me: ‘You have grown old. Now who is going to feed you? Go away,’ “ she says, her eyes filling with tears. “What do I do? My pain had no limit.”
Stories like this are one reason why Hindu nationalists are so deathly afraid of Christianity.
It’s amazing to consider this with regard to how, say, the Japanese regard their elderly/ancestors. The mind boggles.
Remember, every culture is equal. {{CAAAAACK}}
These people think a cow is sacred because it could be a relative, but they shun their own mother because their father has died. Sick indeed..
And we all know that babies/children are no financial drain.
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(My kids wouldn’t even tell their father to do this...although, he—essentially—told them to GO POUND SAND when they needed him.)
It is by ignoring the realities of these cultural conflicts that the well-meaning left embraces their romantic notions of multi-culturalism.
They don’t like cold-water-in-the-face-mornings so they pull the covers up over their heads and go back to sleep.
Its hard to believe this reflects all levels of society in India.
This must be restricted to lower level “castes”.
Yet the constant drivel about social equivalency spoted by liberals - many of them women - appears on the surfcae of it - to be invalid.
Anyone born in a Western Country should thank God they were so.
Is this really any better than when Hindu women were forced to burn alive on their husbands’ funeral pyres in the past?
Right - especially since there are specific mentions in the Bible that we should all help widows and orphans.
Diversity is our strength, donca know.
But not wanting to allow too much credit to CNN, I'd like to mention that this matter received an entire chapter in the terrific book, Age of Kali by William Dalrymple, which is about ten years old.
I could not recommend this book too highly.
CNN has it on their website, so they do deserve a pat on the back in this instance, IMO.
An excellent opportunity for Christian missionaries to spread the word, share God’s love, and impact lives.
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” — James 1:27
Life without Jesus.
..in fact, it’s defined as “true religion” to help widows and orphans in their distress (end of James, ch.1, I think).
>Anyone born in a Western Country should thank God they were so.<
Yes, and not Allah or any other god.
In some parts of Asia (including India and China) daughters are seen as a burden and are very often treated cruelly.In fact,in India,doctors with ultrasound machines can be found on just about every street corner and in every village offering to tell a pregnant woman the gender of her child and to abort that child if it's a girl.
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