LANKAN BUDDHISTS TAKE ON CHRISTIAN CHURCH
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By Sandhya Jain
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Little lion-hearted Lanka leads by example once again. It was the
first nation in the post-Second World War era to elect a woman prime
minister; then it became the first nation to spurn ineffective
external intermediaries in a fratricidal war and launch a concerted
armed effort to end violent secessionism once and for all.
Now, the island's Buddhist religious leadership has risen to redeem
the Indic tradition by repudiating inter-faith dialogue and demanding
national legislation against conversions. India would do well to take
a leaf out of Colombo's book, given the mischief Christian colonial
powers are wreaking in our neighbourhood: Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and of course, Iraq.
Shri Lanka's Joint Committee of Buddhist Organizations (JCBO) wants
reintroduction of the stalled Bill on Prohibition of Forcible
Conversion of Religion (L.D.O./INC/7/2004). This is being criticised
by Christian bodies, and 24 mainline Christian leaders, including 18
Catholic Bishops and retired Bishops, the Anglican Bishop of Colombo,
Baptist Sangamaya, Presbyterian Church and Salvation Army have
appealed to parliamentarians against it.
They contend that the proposed Bill will undermine the democratic
right of religious freedom to choose a religion according to one's
conscience; prevent Christians and adherents of all religions to
stand with the affected and serve one another for fear of legal
consequences in spite of their innocence; and provoke more inter-
religious suspicion, tension and conflict than resolve them. They
claim that all religions in Shri Lanka have originated outside the
island, and that over the centuries, the Christian Church and
Christians have become an intrinsic part of the social fabric.
This mischievous re-packing of the colonial Aryan-Dravidian divide
insinuates Hinduism and Buddhism as imports from India (with
�Dravidian' Tamils as Hindus); it was stoutly rebuffed by Gamini
Perera and Chitra Wijesekera, co-conveners of the JCBO.
They countered that the Christian Church emanated from a colonial
background of repression and could not equate itself with Buddhism,
which has molded the life, culture and traditions of the country for
over 2550 years. The JCBO said the barbaric manner in which different
brands of Christianity spread is well documented. Despite this,
tolerant Buddhist rulers and people permitted other believers to
merge with the national social fabric and even protected the Catholic
community when hunted by Dutch Protestants, offering even temple
premises for religious activities; similar asylum was given to
Muslims attacked by the British. All religions could enjoy all
privileges only because of the magnanimity of the Buddhists.
Addressing Christian leaders directly, the JCBO said some of their
major activities were directed at expanding Christianity through
questionable means. Their commendable humanitarian services stand
marred by subtle, long-term strategies to attract persons of other
religions to their faith. Christians have established good
educational infrastructure and turned this to undue advantage by
alluring non-Christian parents to accept immoral conditions for the
admission of their wards to Christian schools, even though many
schools receive sizeable public funds. In India too, Christian NGOs
corner governmental aid in the name of their developmental expertise;
and the possible misuse of these funds has never been probed.
Gamini Perera and Chitra Wijesekera charge that the Church never
denounced or took action against Catholic Bishops with LTTE links. In
fact, the activities of some senior Christian clergy aimed at
breaking up the nation, and even today, some Christian leaders'
statements are unduly biased in favour of the LTTE.
The JCBO openly charged the Churches of synchronizing their myriad
activities to achieve the objective of Christianizing the Buddhist
world. The late Pope John Paul II said when he visited India: "the
task ahead of the Church is the evangelizing of Asia during this
millennium." Way back in 1940, Rt. Rev. Lakdasa De Mel, on elevation
as Assistant Bishop of the Anglican Church, had asserted: "The task
of the Church in Ceylon will not be finished till the remaining
ninety percent of the population, who are not Christian, are
converted."
The Buddhist leaders rejected Christian concerns about the anti-
conversion bill, pointing out that original Bill had been placed
before the island's Supreme Court and after two full days of
comprehensive arguments by both sides, the Court determined that its
main contents were acceptable, barring a few amendments necessary to
qualify it to be passed by ordinary majority in Parliament; these
have been attended to since. The Bill has no provisions to prevent
acting according to one's conscience or make one who does so an
offender.
But, and here lies the rub, it designates as offenders those who
convert or attempt to convert by force, allurement or fraud, or aid
and abet such conversions. The Buddhist clergy forcefully asserts
that it does not accept "Shri Lankan society as presently constituted
as a pluralistic society, but this notwithstanding, the Bill in no
way undermines or tampers with the right to one's conscience." There
are, it points out, special protections to ensure frivolous actions
are not brought before a Court. Clearly, six decades of dominant
western political rhetoric is meeting its Waterloo in Colombo!
Batting valiantly for the Buddhist-Hindu ethos, the JCBO alleges that
inter-religious tension is rising because of the activities of
evangelical churches, better known as fundamentalist Christian
groups. This was admitted by Bishop Malcolm Ranjith, Secretary
General of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, in a letter to the
Ministry of Cultural and Religious Affairs in May 2000.
Christian fundamentalists boldly oppose Buddhist monks defending the
freedom of religion of Buddhists targetted for unethical conversions;
monks are often subjected to threats and violence. In North Lanka,
where Christian Churches have long had a privileged presence, an
alarmingly large number of helpless Hindus have been pushed to change
their faith. In India, Hindu monks defending the underprivileged
against forced conversions are shot to death (Shanti Kali ji,
Agartala; Swami Laxmanananda, Kandhamal) or hacked to pieces (Swami
Ramcharan Das, Puri).
The Buddhist clergy maintain that 80 percent Lankans are legitimately
aggrieved at the absence of a law against unethical conversions.
Rejecting the Christian plea for an Inter Religious Council to
discuss conversions because the goal of the Church to evangelize the
entire region is unchanged, it urged Parliament to debate the Bill
and take it to its logical conclusion. India needs a dose of such
clear thinking and bold affirmation in defence of its civilisational
ethos.
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Great. If Lanka can come up with anti-Conversion law, why India
should lag. In fact, my state Orissa already has a law -- The Orissa
Freedom Of Religion Act, 1967 -- thats supposed to check fradulent
conversions. As part of the coalition regime between 2000-2009 with
BJD, the BJP never pressed for its strict enforcement pandering to
pro-missionary propensities of Mr Naveen Patnaik. No wonder, the BJP
is virtually reduced to a political non-entity in Orissa with a score
of six seats of 147 and Zero of 21 Lok Sabha seats. But still I
think, India should emulate the Lanka law & ban conversion in any
form. The vatican angle look pretty scary.
Kuna Mohanty
09 Jun 2009
http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=624
Kick RSS ass
http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2009/4/42404_space.html
Mudali
> Buddhism is waging a War against Hinduism in Sri Lankahttp://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2009/4/42404_space.html
hahaha
Buddhist leaders brought HINDUISM to Sri Lankan schools and not the
Christian monkeys. Vishnu and other HINDU deities are always venerated
by Buddhists in their VIHRAS or in Buddhist Temples.
LTTE is backed by Catholic Church and other Christian White Criminals
like Norway and Britain.
So, dont cry baby!
Kick RSS ass
You are a thotti cooli in Sri Lanka and ran to GOA then ran to Canada.
People like you lick the ass of Criminals in Vadodara. Now your kriminal
Karunanithi and Magga Modi cry to save the LTTE which is your DIVINE
SOLDIERS OF SPACE TURTLE! You cried about a lot against Christians.
Your RSS CRIMINAL POPE MODI is happy to call the SRI LANKAN TERRORISTS
as DIVINE SOLDIERS OF SPACE TURTLE! You are a real RSS educated shit and
bark for nothing.
You are thotti cooli came to GOA in search of money and ganja. Now you
are in a corner of Canada and barking against USA. Dont think so
foolish! I never be a supporter of Kriminal Karunanithi or DMK but you
are an asshole and support the killers in Vadodara and Nagapura. Further
you are trained to lie.
You are only a thotti coolie from CHOOTHUKUDY! You are a product of
Muslim Brothel! Why cannot you ask your MODI to dispense JUSTICE in
Jaffna? How can CHRISTIANS will be happy? Then you will be chased out
from Canada for farting too much and posting too much lies!- Don't fart,
you RSS ass!
hahahahahahaha
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We had just been to the Kandy Kathirgamar temple. We had expected to see
a stately statue of Karthikeya. We saw a calendar style reproduction.
Yes. You don't get to see the actual deity. We asked the priest why the
idol was hidden. He told us that that was tradition and shuffled off. My
sister and I looked at each other, baffled. We had travelled all this
way to be here to worship where my grandfather once had. Then I noticed
a board placed strategically next to the poster that said
"This Hindu deity is the servant of the Buddha."
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1260160
--
THE NAZI-STYLE HATE-MINORITIES MESSAGE OF THE `RSS BIBLE'
"The foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture
and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu
religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of the
Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must loose their
separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the
country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing,
deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment -- not
even citizen's rights. There is, at least, should be, no other course
for them to adopt. We are an old nation; let us deal, as old nations
ought to and do deal, with the foreign races, who have chosen to live
in our country".
-- Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar's, We or Our Nationhood Defined
uNmaiviLambi
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Lankan Buddhists take on Church
India and other Hindu, Buddhist countries must introduce a law to
prevent fraudulent conversions to CI cults. This is law in some states
in India
Congrats to Sri Lanka
ranjit_...@yahoo.com
> On Jun 8, 11:39 pm, use...@mantra.com and/orwww.mantra.com/jai(Dr.Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> > Lankan Buddhists take on Church
>
> India and other Hindu, Buddhist countries must introduce a law to
> prevent fraudulent conversions to CI cults. This is law in some states
> in India
Those laws would prevent fraudulent conversions to Hinduism too since
they don't specify that they apply only to some cults.
> Congrats to Sri Lanka
Mudali
Catholic Parawa fisherman!
Why did you go to Kataragama? You are a Catholic Monkey and cry the
same as usual!
Did you go to Selva Sannithy in Jaffna idiot?
Both temples follow the same tradition! You monkey knows nothing about
Jaffna or Hinduism!
Now your DIVINE SOLDIERS OF CHRIST, the CATHOLIC LTTE criminals were
killed. Tell your Criminal Nazi POPE, the poop, to screw boys! Why
cannot you send your son to get a fuck from the nasty POPE?