What is frequently forgotten is that India is a Hindu nation. On my trips to India everyday people feel the same attacks on their values and beliefs that Christians complain about here in America.
There is complete freedom of Religion there, I have met Buddists, Muslims and Christians in my trips and never once had any of them seemed afraid. The problems arise when the guests in the country start attacking the traditions of that nation ( sound familiar huh ? ) There are several missionary groups who slander Hindu tradition and proclaim theirs is the only way.
So before you slam India think a bit about the “ guests “ here in America that put down our way of life and how we would respond if forced to do things the way they say is right.
Most missionaries are doing exceptional service to the poor and their contribution to education sector is lauded even by die hard Hindus.
But some of those evangelicals, who are being incited by well established American quacks, are pretty nasty. They do nothing but spread hate and all anyone who doesnt listen to them as “pagan”, “heathen”, etc. They dont even spare catholics.
Conversion through choice brings spiritual and mental happiness.. while conversion through fear/coercion brings forth ugliness and corrupts the actual message, however good it may be.
If American protestant majority really knew the kind of people these were, they would definitely understand why there is resentment against the evangelicals, which sometimes spills over to other communities among christians.
No, India is not a single nation of any kind, Hindu or otherwise. Most of its population is Hindu, but there are places that are lkinguistically, culturally, religiously completely different from Hindustan. What would be wrong with letting those minority nations decide whether they want to be free from India and have their own country? Isn't that the democratic way? Or does democracy only apply to the upper-caste Hindus?
B-O-L-O-G-N-A! There is little freedom of religion. Cases like the ones the Congressman cites are frequent, regular occurrences. I cited some earlier. Police broke up a Christian festival with gunfire in one incident. The govbernment allowed an assault on a Christian school and convent. The 1984 attack on the Golden Temple shows the state of religious freedom in India. So do the laws which effectively prohibit anyone from converting to any religion except Hinduism.
Why do you think that there is an organization called "Persecuted Church of India"?
Tell Graham Staines about the complete religious freedom in India.
Or tell it to Joseph Cooper.
Or let us know how the U.S. State Department’s report that the Indian government paid over 41,000 cash bounties to police officers for killing Sikhs reflects “complete religious freedom.”