[Brian Allen]

<< Religious freedom? Good idea!

Hey (Holy Father) ...... how about a Hindu temple in Vatican huh? >>

OK.

Immediately after you get one up in Islamabad, another in Mecca and one in Amritsar, on the site of the Golden Temple.

What are you all so darned afraid of, huh?

[ketelone]

?? Theres no need for a Hindu temple on the site of the golden temple... Hindus are permitted to worship there anyway.... as Hindus. As far as I know, theres nothing to stop christians or anyone else for entering either.

Of course its a silly idea to build a temple in the Vatican city.

However, the church does send out a message of intolerance, and proselytisation much in the same manner that the mosque does.

Nevertheless. Ideas of justice, democracy, and equality have allowed church and state to be seperated in many chrisitan nations. Thus, temples, synagogues, and whatnot are built in these countries.

In islamic nations, such ideas have not yet taken root.

[Gengis Khan]

"Immediately after you get one up in Islamabad, another in Mecca and one in Amritsar, on the site of the Golden Temple.

What are you all so darned afraid of, huh?"

I dont remember Muslim Imams from Pakistan or Saudi Arabia complaining about the lack of religious freedom in India or demanding the legal right to convert Hindus.

As for the Golden Temple.......its already a Temple where Hindus pray anyway.

So how soon can we see a Temple in Vatican?

[MimirsWell]

I think someone needs to explain the anti-conversion bill first. The bill does not forbid people changing their religion. What it does do is to ensure that people's conditions are not exploited by zealous missionaries who try to force/coax/alure poor people to convert to other religions by offering money, threatening force or making false promises. Its sad but true that a lot of Christian missionary work takes place on these grounds. A lot of people convert to christianity not knowing anything about the tenets of the faith. In effect, it actually serves christianity to have this law.

[Cronos]

on the site of the Golden Temple.

Exactly -- the Vatican is smaller than the size of the great Hindu temple complexes like in Southern India. NO other religious monument shoudl be built INSIDE those complexes (though they can be build outside the complex in the city). Similarly, no temple should be built inside the Vatican but Hindus are free to do so in the larger city of Rome.