I don't think that's quite true. I think the Christians in India feel very discriminated against.
From our time in Jersey, I have known many India Indians. They are good people and they make for excellent neighbors (if you don't mind the smell of curry, a popular Indian spice). Many of the Hindus would put up Christmas trees.
I don't really know anything about Hinduism, but if it is a monotheistic religion, I believe then that their god takes many, perhaps all, forms - men, women, snakes, cows, and even a part of the male anatomy (Shiva is his name, I believe). There is also a Zeuslike figure whose name escapes me, maybe Vishnu. We've not stayed in touch with any of our New Jersey neigbors, so I can't check any of this out with any actual Indians.
I believe that Our Lady of Fatima could lead these Hindus to Our Lord, but what happened there truly seems an abomination.
Correct statement on both accounts.
I'm not a "miracles" type of guy, I'm really not. The thing about Fatima is that even if you're a scientist, apostate or believer of false gods it truly has the power to convert. It happened recently, in front of thousands of people and has there are no credible detractors. It truly was a miracle in every sense of the word.
A proper way to handle other (false) religions would be to have a process in place to get them there to attend a mass or maybe educate them as to what happened.
Putting their holy men up preaching err shows an unbridled contempt for our triune God. By giving believers of false idolatry any notion that what they're doing is correct we're not loving them, we're hating them in the worst possible way.
If you believe this, you are part of the problem--you are swallowing the Novus Ordo talking points, hook line and sinker.
The Christians in India are being Hinduized. They are having hindu type cerimonies in Catholic Churches in India. They are starting to loose their Catholic faith.
I am sure they are discriminated against and persecuted. Many however are becoming Hinduized in order to fit in.
Catholics Consider Including Sanskrit in Prayers... Nietzche said, what does not kill us makes us ... level of understanding his criticisms of Ratzinger are based ... a socio-poltical agenda, why is Teilhard de Chardin ... (This stuff on Nietzche and Teilhard was on the site.)
http://www.hindu-religion.net/showflat/cat/sanskrit/30823/2/collapsed/5/o/2
Enculturation” which is a euphemism for sycratism destroyes religious tradition when it is placed into the liturgy. We see this problem happening in India with the hinduization of the Catholic Church under the diretion of Archbishop Lourdusamy of Bangalore (later made Cardinal by John Paul II). The subversion of the Catholic faith in India is explained in Victor Kulanday’s The Paganization of the Church in India in which he warns if “the craze to pagnize isn’t given up the 21st Century will only see a hybrid form form of Christianity..perishing.” You can barely tell the diffence in some Novus Ordo parishes in that country and Hindu temples. Cornelia R. Ferreira an Indian born author residing in Canada explained this situation in “Mother Teresa ‘Beatified’ with Idolatrous Rites”. She explains that by 1969 the Catholic Bishops Conference (an organ of collegiality) in the name of enculturation incorporated twelve Hindu gestures and rituals into the Sacrifice of the Mass thus Hinduizing it. Ferreira points out the revelutionaries cleverly called “this panthiestic hodge-podge” “adapting the Indian peoples way of expressing reverence”, then she explains how Archbishop Piero Marini the Pope’s Master of Ceremonies employed during this Beatification Mass for Mother Teresa a triple arati ritual by young ladies (Marini) or seven nuns (The Tribune).
Next she describes the elaborate Hindu ritual of waving a tray of flowers, with a light in the middle, incense and the ringing of bells, accompanied by a Hindu Tamil hymn and rythmic dancing. John Cotter the son of a Brittish father and an Indian mother (his mother was Hindu) wrote “Syncretism : Imminent and Deadly Threat to Our Roman Catholic Faith” and A Study in Syncretism which is a good expose on how devastating this revolutionary movement has been we see the following on pgs 4-5.
“ In an introduction to the book The World’s Great Religions , the late Paul HUTCHINSON a distinguished Methodist minister who for many years was editor of the Christian Century magazine, said:
‘With increasing frequency comes a proposal that man-. kind’s future spiritual welfare would be insured if the major religions would recognize their essential unity of purpose and drop their differences to merge in a synthesis of the beliefs on which they can agree. Arnold Toynbee is perhaps the most influential Westerner who hopes for some such “syncretism.” “The four higher religions now alive,” he writes, “are four variations on a single theme. If all the four components of this heavenly music of the spheres could be audible on Earth simultaneously, and ~with equal clarity, to one pair of human ears, the happy hearer would find himself listening not to a discord, but to a harmony.
14."Mother Theresa ‘Beatified’ with Idolatrous Rites" by Cornelia R. Ferreira in Catholic Family News, January 2004 p.13.
13 Ibid. p. 14-15.