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
There is both truth and error in your assertion. There is actually more aggressive Hindu proselytizing going on in many rural areas that rely on intimidation to 'call back' converted Christians to Hinduism than aggressive Christianity.
However you are correct that due to several incidents, the Indian government has cracked down hard on most all Christian missions to India. India IS a Hindu culture and country, period.
In the West, a church relies on church members for provisions for it's existence.
In India, church members rely on the church for their provision. Western churches in India sometimes last only as long as the sponsored church figures out that no provision will be forthcoming from an Indian congregation or Western resources to provide for the social Gospel become exhausted.
That said, private Hindu schools that tout a 'better education' do the same exact thing you assert Christian churches do. Bait and switch is an art form in India.
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.
Hindus do the same exact thing. I saw this with my own eyes. This technique is not germane to Christians in India.
Yet another method is printing pictures of Jesus kicking the heads of Hindu deities.
Never ever saw anything remotely like that when I was living there nor when I was there 3 weeks ago. Such is a sure-fire way to start a mob riot. I watched a mob of hundreds of Hindus materialize in mere minutes and go beserk over a man who took a chicken and killed it for a sacrifice to one of his gods. Anyone distributing offensive pictures like you describe would cause an instant riot much more severe I am certain.
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.
Happened to us and several other congregations I know. Sometimes Hindus often masquerade as Christians to get money using the internet and even Facebook. One has to be very wise and discerning, and often it requires an actual trip to verify that whom you are supporting are who they claim they are.
Indian society does not have the same morals or cultural restrictions on cheating that ours does. This is a difficult issue to teach Indian Christians there who live in a culture that requires one to cheat and step on others to get ahead.