This has degenerated into a hindu vs christian debate and the poverty in India is attributed to hinduism while prosperity in US is attributed to christianity.
However...christianity does not only prosper in USA. Christianity also prospers in Africa and the Latin America , arguably worse off than India and without much of a future . Countries like Rwanda ,Ghana,Cameroon, Ivory Coast , Angola - are all majority christian and very passionate about their belief in Jesus Christ. Fat lot of good it seems to have done for them.
Atleast India has a future. Its economy has grown rapidly over the last 10-15 years , poverty decreased drastically , new industries have come up , millions of jobs created...
Atleast India shows potential. Ask yourself. There are lot of complains about information technology related jobs being lost to India. When did you last hear of a job being lost to Africa ? Or Latin America ?
So as a hindu , I am not convinced about the rewards of accepting the dude Jesus as my saviour or whatever.You know - I dont wanna end up like those Africans. That would be a real set back for me after all the progress I have made , to be honest.....
the hindus are the most prosperous group in the US. the jews and the japanese are probably second and third. let people what they want and feel happy in their trailer homes.
>> However...christianity does not only prosper in USA. Christianity also prospers in Africa and the Latin America , arguably worse off than India and without much of a future . Countries like Rwanda ,Ghana,Cameroon, Ivory Coast , Angola - are all majority christian and very passionate about their belief in Jesus Christ. Fat lot of good it seems to have done for them. <<
First off, calling Marxist and terrorist run nations "Christian" is ridiculous. Secondly, the reason that so many people in these lands are Christian is precisely because Africa does get so much attention by Christian communities, who seem to be the only ones in America who care about Africa. Also, the reason these countries remain so poor and desperate is usually because of depraved communist domination from outside sources. Lastly, many of these countries have truly primitive animist beliefs, unlike India, where although primitive religions exist, Hindu is dominant and has been able to respond to and explain the world around them. The animist in Africa are quickly disappearing because their beliefs fail to explain the world around them, so the people label themselves Christians, not because they've ever converted, but because it seems like the religion that seems to make sense of the world. (They probably simply don't come in much contact with Hindu, although I know in Southeastern Africa, they do.) As such, these people are not truly converts, and have not abandonned their superstitions and pagan world outlook. (I use pagan here to refer to "uncivilized" religion, and not merely to non-Abrahamic religion.)
Lastly, I think India does have a lot of benefits other smaller nations in Africa and Latin America have not had: a lack of communism as a major, national political force (acknowledging the strength of communist parties in certain Indian strengths) -- again, in large part, probably due to a modernizable, incumbent religion that has adopted to modernity; leaders, like Gandhi, who successfully achieved independence without stirring knee-jerk hatred of all things Western/European/American (again significantly to the credit of Hinduism); the lucky break that the culture they did manage not to isolate themselves became dominant in computers, education, and world politics (I speak of the Anglosphere, not specifically the US); contiguous borders that reflect a large, powerful culture; and simply the size of the land, reasonableness of borders, and relative unity of the people that make chaos unlikely to happen.