Faking Christian missionaries are targeting every component of Hindu Culture and Life.
Christian missionaries target every single component of Hindu society
B R HARANBR HARAN | HJS | Chennai | 25 January 2015:: Religious
conversion has been a subject of dispute for ages and the Church has
been well-known for conversion activities to spread Christianity
throughout the world in its pursuit of souls for harvesting. It mostly
follows the strategies of allurement and pressure to convert the people
following other religions.
However, the most potent weapon in its armoury has been inculturation.
The Church uses the process of inculturation with an aim to adopt the
well-established Hindu cultural practices to confuse, corrupt and change
the minds of the gullible masses.
Scheming Sadhus- Shastris- Maamis and Iyers
The Church, which focused on harvesting Scheduled Castes and Most
Backward Classes in the beginning, has also started concentrating on the
upper echelons of the Hindu society. The days of boasting that “All are
equal in the eyes of God” are over. Now they target each and every
caste and convert them. The employees in media houses, workers in cinema
and small-screen industries, and Hindus working in Christian
institutions have become vulnerable to conversion attempts. Of late,
special attention is being shown to the Brahmin community. ‘Sadhu
Chellappaa’ is a notorious figure attired in saffron, started a dubious
outfit called ‘Christian Brahmin Seva Samiti’.
His modus
operandi is distortion of Hindu scriptures to advance Christianity. He
says he became a Christian as per the Order of Jesus and travelled
throughout the state converting thousands of Hindus to Christianity. He
became a full time evangelist in 1974 and founded the Agni Ministries.
Since 1982, he has been running a Tamil monthly magazine, “Agni,” for
Tamil people worldwide.
Sadhu Chellappa’s ‘Agni Ministries’
(AM) are governed by “Evangelical Action Team of India” (EATI), founded
by him in 1980 in Coimbatore. EATI concentrates on conversion activities
in the guise of services in Education and Health. The main objective of
EATI and AM is to Plant Churches and Harvest Souls, for which purpose
they recruit Pastors and Evangelists and conduct training courses for
them.
Sadhu Chellappaa audaciously claims, “Diwali, the
festival of lights, is a Christian Festival; Animal Sacrifice is a
Christian culture adopted by Hindus and Gayatri Mantra actually
glorifies Jesus. The Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred writings had
anticipated the coming of Christ to take away the sins of man. They call
Him Purusha Prajapati the creator God who would come as a man to offer
himself as a sacrifice. Jesus Christ came to fulfill the Vedic quest of
the Indian people, because the Vedas are incomplete without Him, just
as the Old Testament was fulfilled at the coming of the Messiah”.
He uses the services of another convert Vedanayagam, who brazenly calls
himself ‘Pujya Sri Bhagavathar Vedanayagam Sastrigal’. Both of them
organize evangelical sessions in the guise of “Kathaakaalakshebam” and
hoodwink gullible Hindus. They focus on poor and lower middle class
Brahmins, who are ignorant and have poor knowledge of their religious
scriptures. Most have personal and financial problems, which make them
vulnerable to the Chellappaas and Vedanayagams. (1)
Now we have
a new breed of evangelists, who also have special expertise in
inculturation techniques. Suseela Ragunathan is a Brahmin convert and
she is an office-bearer in Christian Brahmin Seva Samithi. She
identifies herself as ‘Suseela Maami Ragunathan’ and conducts
evangelical congregations. Another evangelist by name Mani claims to
have suffered a lot as a Brahmin Priest and had a turning point in life
after converting to Christianity. He is a full time evangelist now
identifying himself as Brother Mani Iyer.
Christianising Hindu Festivals
Isavasya Upanishad
Evangelical Misinterpretations.
Christianising native festivals of non-Christian nations is a part of
inculturation, which is the time tested modus operandi of the Church to
increase their harvest of souls. The Roman Catholic Church has been
focusing on Pongal for quite some time. The reason may be attributed to
the fact that the festival falls in January within days immediately
after Christmas and New Year celebrations. The Church effectively uses
its control over Dravidian Parties to Christianise Hindu traditions.
In the seventies, the Karunanidhi government fixed Thiruvalluvar’s
birthday on the second day of Tamil Month ‘Thai’(16 January). Later in
2007, the Karunanidhi government changed the Tamil New Year from the
month of Chithirai to Thai through an ordinance. (2) /(2)/ (2)
Diwali, the festival of lights, is a Christian Festival; Animal
Sacrifice is a Christian culture adopted by Hindus and Gayatri Mantra
actually glorifies Jesus. The Vedas, the ancient Indian sacred writings
had anticipated the coming of Christ to take away the sins of man. They
call Him Purusha Prajapati the creator God who would come as a man to
offer himself as a sacrifice. Jesus Christ came to fulfill the Vedic
quest of the Indian people, because the Vedas are incomplete without
Him, just as the Old Testament was fulfilled at the coming of the
Messiah”.
diwali-of-rama-and-krishna
Christian Diwali.
On the same year at the same time, the DMK government inaugurated a
government sponsored festival by name“Sangamam” conceived by a Christian
NGO by name Tamil Maiyam founded by Father Jagath Gasper Raj
andKarunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi. This festival would start with
Christmas and end with Pongal. The government roped in all the folk arts
and folk music into the Sangamam festival notwithstanding the inclusion
of Classical Music and Dance.
A new concept called “Samathuva
Pongal” (Egalitarian Pongal) was introduced in which, Pongal was
celebrated within the Church premises, wherein people from all religions
were made to participate. Though a few Muslims participated in such
festivities, they never yielded to the idea of making Pongal inside the
Mosques. Even the Christian clergy allowed the celebration only within
their premises and not inside the Church. (3)/(3)
The recent
addition to the Pongal festivities was the fable of ‘Martyr Devasahayam
Pillai’ attempting to place his death anniversary alongside Pongal . As
B.R.Gauthaman, Director of Vedic Science Research Center observes, “Many
Christian festivals have been so “created” in line with the festivals
of the local people. In the process, the reasons behind these festivals
and the cultural identities in the minds of the locals have all but been
annihilated, for which history bears testimony. By keeping the date of
the death of Devasahayam Pillai conveniently open, it is amply clear
that the ‘Devasahaayam Pillai Festival’ too has been craftily created by
the Church to destroy the ancient tradition of celebrating Pongal. (4)
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Christian Pongal .
Backed by the Church and funded by foreign sources, many Christian
Organisations make well-planned short-duration documentaries after
distorting Hindu scriptures to suit their convenience. For example,
“Ashathoma Sath Kamaya” is a movie uploaded on YouTube in ten parts. It
is produced by “Prarthanalaya Church.” Though this movie was initially
rejected by the Censor Board, the said Church distributed it far and
wide illegally as adocumentary. Kamal Hasan’s elder brother Charu Hasan
who allegedly converted to Christianity, plays the lead role in the
movie.
This clearly shows their agenda of using the Hindu
festival only to convert gullible people. Many Christian organizations
like‘Jesus Redeems Production’ produced documentaries on “Christian
Pongal” with traditional Hindu dance forms and distributed them, apart
from releasing them on YouTube. (5)
Other Points: The Bible with an Indian Touch.
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