An unfortunate matter is the common inability of Hindus to distinguish among Christian sects. I was at a prayer rally on the mall where one Christian leader with many mission groups in India was praising God about a prominent Hindu temple being destroyed by a national disaster. This sort of attitude breeds hatred against Christians.
The BJP claims to support equality for the dalits; if so, this is good, because another one of the major sources of anti-Christian hatred against Catholics is the false allegation that Christians provide charity on the condition of conversion. This is based on hatred of charity towards the dalits.
Empty campaign rhetoric and the low castes know this.
Modi and his party are RADICAL HINDUs. They want to "return India to pure Hindusim" and rid India of "foreign religions".
India runs and operates on the Hindu Caste system. Dalits are untouchable and outside the main castes - and they are already mistreated, and that mistreatment never subsided since Ghandi - even though some low castes have been given 'seats' in Parliament.
My comment from another thread:
Hindus welcomed or at least tolerated Christians in India for almost 2000 years. Then when the Portugeuse came to Goa in IIRC the 1500 or 1600’s, they committed many atrocities to the Hindu population - torture and the like. Still, there was little to no anti-Christian acts against Christians in India other than whatever reactions to the Portuguese violence.
More recently there has been very aggressive proselytizing by Christians using coercian and trickery. Things like opening schools in poor villages, letting kids come free for a year or two, and then telling the families with children attending that they have to convert to Christianity or their children can’t come, or it will now cost a lot of money unless they convert. Another method is to distribute food to poor people for a while, and then tell them if they want more food distribution, they have to convert.
Yet another method is printing pictures of Jesus kicking the heads of Hindu deities.
I remember on FR a member here went to India to visit a Christian mission he had been donating money to, and they had sent photos of their church that was burned down supposedly by Hindus. When he arrived in India he found there was no burned church and no real mission. It was a scam.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3157192/posts?page=63#63
horrible. What was that guy thinking?