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Re: Christian Invasion
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Christian Invasion
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From: griffin@gate.net (The Answer is to Question)
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Date: 13 Feb 1995 02:07:01 GMT
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Distribution: world
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From news@gate.net Sun Feb 12 20: 56:39 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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References: <3h97el$2rc@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
TomH7493 (tomh7493@aol.com) wrote:
: Just as no one could have converted me from Christianity to Hinduism if it
: had not been right for me, Christian Missionaries cannot convert anyone
: else unless the one being converted is in need of it.
This first part i disagree with. Con artists exist in religion just like
they do in business. I'm not saying that all Christians (or even the
majority) are con artists, but it does happen.
: Why do they have to try and convert in the first place?? They have been
: told so many times that they have the only true path that they HAVE to
: help other find it also. Professional Christions have an enormous EGO.
supported by biblical scriptures, no less.
: In Christianity, there is an old joke about one sect, the Baptists, and
: their EGO. In heaven, a newcomer was being shown around. He was told
: "over here in this garden, we have the Catholic, over there, by that lake
: is the Methodists, and so on. When they came to a high stone wall, with
: no windows or doors, completely bare and ugly, the newcomer asked loudly,
: "Who on Earth lives in this lonely, cold place?" His guide said "Quiet,
: they are the Baptists and they think that they are the only ones here!!"
Thank you very much for the joke. :) i loved it. :)
: The same goes for the entire population of Religous Professionals.
agreed
: Just look at some of the attacks that take place even within this
: newsgroup.
again, agreed.
: DON'T fear the Christians. At different times people must change from the
: path they were raised in and in other times they will change again. If I
: had been isolated from other religous ways, I would never have found my
: path.
I understand what you're saying and makes a lot of sense. I fully support
free speech and that must go for Christian evangelists as well, no matter
how much i disagree with their ideologies. I *do* see a very real danger
in some religious groups which are commonly called "cults," however, as
these groups use unethical means of gaining and keeping members and they
have done a lot of psychological (and in some cases, physical) damage.
Some (but by no means all) "cults" are Bible-based and/or Christian.
The most ethical method of combatting cults seems to be education.
