i. But if christian missionaries go in remote areas and work for upliftment of tribals, this becomes a conspiracy.
ii. Why can not their own religious organization go to them and work for them?
iii. They should deny these missionaries of any opportunity by serving the tribals themselves.
iv. And dont tell me hindu organizations dont have money. You should know how much money is offered at Tirupati, Shirdi, Vaishnodevi and various sects of hindus. Recently a temple in Kerala was found to be having a treasure of more than 20 billion USD.
v. Baba Ramdev has enough money to buy an island in UK or someone donated it to him.
vi. So money is not a problem. If they were really concerned about the poverty and literacy of tribals, they will go and use that money on them.
vii. But what we hear is that Bihar CM Jitanlal Manjhi goes to a temple to donate some money and later the whole temple is purified by cleaning with ganga jal because he belongs to a dalit community.
For your convenience I have numbered your statements and being neutral to you will consider your opinions borne out of ignorance rather than deliberate mischeif. I will nuke them one by one.
i. 'Upliftment of tribals' - Evangelicals or Missionaries are called so because they have a mission. And the mission is not to build hospitals or schools unconditionally for betterment of the people. The tribals 20 years back were starving Hindus and now they are starving Christians. That's all the difference there is. The places are open, go and see for yourself, or check the development reports for the districts....there is no
improvement in HDI AT ALL. But that is expected, Christianity is not necessary so superior to a Dharmic faith that all socio economic factors will also improve right away. If things were so simple...
ii., iii. They do. But then Times of India comes.
Besides, Swamis in India have a history of being killed in the most brutal fashion...especially when they are
working in this particular field. From Swami Shraddhanand to Swami Lakshamanananda in 2008 (
Murder of Swami Lakshmanananda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the followers religions of tolerance have had a track record of eliminating those who try the same thing from their side. I understand, scoring goals in an empty field is easier, perhaps thats where these Swamis came and spoilt the fun. So they try and are imprisoned on fake charges(then released as no chargesheet could be produced), harassed, killed etc etc. That leaves only the hardest of Hindu groups any freedom of action. Yes - the Bajrang Dal.
iv. Vaishnodevi, Tirupati money goes to the Government. The temples were nationalised in the 1950s. You would not know. No other religious place was. Vive la secularism. Shirdi is run as a private trust and the money it gets is used to run schools and several ashrams, converting people just to increase numbers have never been a priority. Indic faiths have not yet come to that level of perversion where proving a God false is of vital importance. Unfortunately it might go there, can;t predict the future. The Padmanaswamy temple in Kerala has crores worth of money - but the money was claimed as National property(as per law). But the Temple trust went to court and overturned the verdict on this case. Hence they have the Gold but they also can't touch a penny of it. Per law.
v. Ramdev was donated an island by an amalgamation of Business personalities. Folks in the corporate world hoard black money, even those who are foreigners. Buying an island and donating it to any trust does not make Ramdev guilty. It makes them guilty, not Ramdev. It's like I steal the Koh i Noor and gift it to you and the police take you to jail. Besides, even thinking that Ramdev will be out asking for money to 'convert people' is sickening. Like I said before, we have not reached the finesse of the Joshua Project, or the Tableeghi Jamaat.... yet.
vi. Money is a problem. In spite of that, money is spent - in fact huge amounts of it. Go to Ramkrishna Mission ashrams that dot the landscape. Then there is Bharat Sevasram Sangha. Also there's RSS etc. There is a reason why the animist, Hindu/pagan/whatever native culture is present there to this day. Even Nehru passed a law against conversions by Missionaries in 1956 - for changing the demography of tribals.
vii. Jitanlal Majhi ...well what to say... At least you say that you 'hear'. That is true. The Bihar Govt ordered a probe and as expected, nothing came out it.
This is the last resort - to divide Hindus on caste lines and attack them. But sorry, we have elected an able person who happen to belong to (what you might call) a low caste. So, yeah times have changed.Hindus have moved ahead, or at least trying to.
