Don't confuse "right wing" with "good".
MODI the Hindu Supremacist wins the election.
Gandhi's Congress party out.
If you live in India, best to be a Hindu from now on.
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because Jesus was a big government socialist...
The lesson to be learned from this is that after many decades of milktoast policy and oligarchy there will be a massive swing of the pendulum...
Because so many Christians are murdered by Hindus when Hinduism teaches them to murder Christians.
Same propaganda when an authentic Christian wins an election.
Modi is pro-business, anti gay normalization and favors a muscular stand against Pakistani terrorism and incursion into India.
The official platform of BJP is it wants an alliance with the USA.
Congress wants Switzerland’s foreign policy in Asia. Officially neutral when Commies and Muslims are on the march.
I will bet the Christian minority has little to fear from the government. Radical Islam, on the other hand, will begin squealing at the top of their lungs about how they are being discriminated against. Really, what else is new.
Sorry, if I had you on the other ping list also -- lost it.
That is EXACTLY what the congregations and brethren I serve have told me. They have asked for urgent prayers for safety as mob violence against Christians may get a green light from Modi's government itself.
One of Modi's officials stated on Television while I was there last month - that anyone who is not Hindu "should get out of India now, go to Pakistan or somewhere else". There is real fear spreading among Christians in India about what may get much worse, for Christians are already considered untouchable, Dalit and Adhi Andrha and have suffered institutionalized persecution for decades.
Now they fear it will get worse.
Wow! Someone posted a comment here recently that said that Modi’s win is good for the US....
So the Vatican would prefer Moslems, then.
India has a 2000 year history of being tolerant of Christians.
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sorry, steve, but I can tell you for a fact that for Christians in India this will be a tense time but definitely not a “best to be a hindu from now”