Hindus forcing conversion? That’s a new one on me. I thought Hindus considered Jesus as just another god and to each their own, so to speak.
I have worked with Hindus over the years and never once had a conflict with any one of them because I proclaimed myself a Christian.
Strange ... what am I missing?
There are thugs who hide behind religion to partake in their thuggery in every religion. My problem with Islam is that their 'holy' book tells them to commit this murder and mayhem (if they cannot force a conversion). I don't believe the Hindu's 'writings' (whatever they are) do the same.
So I take this as free-lance thuggery - not having anything to do with Hinduism, but with Christ haters.
Are you sure that you worked with Hindus and not Buddhists?
Big difference.
I assure you that the article is valid in its observations.
I have been going to India as a Lutheran pastor for over forty years and lived there for seven of those years. In the villages there are persecutions that go on. In present day Odisha State (formerly Orissa) there was a horrible persecution some years back with the murder of even pastors and the forceful conversions. Now the people of that area have peace and some who were threatened and converted have returned to the Christian churches. The RSS and other Hindu radical groups are involved in this. Investigate what they say about Hindutva, India for the Hindus. There is no question that politics and nationalism also interplay with persecution of Christians.
It is true that Hinduism has been an amorphous thing absorbing down through the centuries the village gods. But India is a large and populous country with many things going on at the same time.