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To: Al Hitan
Bitterness can be a powerful force in making a person say such a pitiful thing.

Awww that isn't nice

"Under the Orissa law and a similar law passed in Madhya Pradesh, missionaries are clearly under an obligation to inform the authorities of their conversion efforts. Incidentally, these laws were upheld by a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the Rev Stanilaus vs State of Madhya Pradesh (AIR 1977 SC 908). The law makes it mandatory for the concerned religious priest to give a 15-day notice for the "ceremony of conversion" and intimate the time and place along with the names and addresses of those intended to be converted. Far from Prying Eyes

Christian missionary efforts at conversion under the guise of social work do not take place in places, say, like the Brahmin-dominated ward of Mylapore in Chennai. They are conducted in poor, illiterate and innocent tribal areas and in remote jungles far from the prying eyes of authority. Now a reaction seems to have set in. Writing in The Statesman (March 12, 1999), Mr B P Saha made the point that "growing enlightenment has been provoking them (tribals) to dislike conversion and look askance at the foreign missionaries, the so-called benefactors".

Attempts at conversion should be considered a mortal assault on local cultures and should be totally banned. Conversions are forbidden by law in China. Here we take a lenient view of conversion and Christian bodies have been taking advantage of the Hindu sense of tolerance. According to Mr Jon Stock, New Delhi correspondent of the British paper The Daily Telegraph, "put simply, the Indian subcontinent has become the principal target for a wide range of western Christian missions which are determined to spread the gospel to India's 'unreached' people before the year 2000".
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1,379 posted on 09/05/2010 12:03:47 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
Awww that isn't nice

The truth isn't nice to some.

Besides, nothing in your post indicates that teaching about Christ results automatically in a death sentence in India.

1,384 posted on 09/05/2010 12:12:51 PM PDT by Al Hitan
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