Posted on 02/12/2009 1:36:28 PM PST by Indian_Fighter_Kite
Come on, ye of little faith.....
Where do you think the Nigerians got those ideas?
Actually Indian Catholics and traditional Protestants and other affiliates are good people, on the whole... better than the average Indian, on many counts, for that matter.
It’s the new-age fraudsters, Pentecostal-types and Doomsday Evangelists who are really wreaking havoc.
“I have traveled to India and even lived for extended periods there. I wouldn’t trust Indian Christians.”
Fine don’t trust me .
But I Swear to have spoken to a catholic Bishop who was brutally thrashed by a mob 7 years ago ! I mean he was in the hospital when we sopke to him !
Are you Catholic ?
“Actually Indian Catholics and traditional Protestants and other affiliates are good people, on the whole... better than the average Indian, on many counts, for that matter.
It’s the new-age fraudsters, Pentecostal-types and Doomsday Evangelists who are really wreaking havoc.”
MyTwoCopperCoins - this post deserves to be repeated you got it 100% right !
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LOL. Yeah, it was a bit of a rhetorical question. I saw a documentary on cable a few months ago about Russian thugs terrorizing the countryside. The thug leader's hero was Stalin, and he even had a photo of Stalin on his apartment wall. The documentary called this guy "right wing."
I almost wrote the cable station a letter about it. I wish I had.
I know, because the average “Hindu” extremist, who would know as much Hindu scripture as a block of stone, can’t differenciate between the doomsdayers and the traditionals.
No way ! There was a certain Samajwadi Party catering specificly to Bussiness Interests a few decades ago .
Now Business Houses Prefer to work with the congress Party rather than non - congress ones .
“The Congress Party consists of the successors of their first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who was a close friend of Stalin and implemented the Soviet model of economy as envisioned by Lenin in India.”
More like they were trying Gandhi's Philosophy . BTW I dislike Nehru he was a communist atheist .
Many ? I think 90 % of the Indians think Westerners are wealthy and they can squeeze money out of them . I am among the 10 % who do not .
I am so sorry that you had a terrible experience in India.
Though such incidences are common . I hope you and the members of your church have learned a lesson . Please make sure you NEVER donate to India again as I can guarantee you the aid will either never reach its destination or will be some scam . We never donated anything to such causes . Anyway - which state in India did you donate money to ?
Yeah Sorry ! It's 4:30 a.m. in Mumbai City . I have not slept a wink so I am not even sure what I am saying .
Nehru was a socialist . Gandhi's views were also socialist - the only thing is he(Gandhi) did not favor the kind of socialism that was practiced in the U.S.S.R. He found it violent .Anyway if I remember correctly Gandhi's philosophy was that of egalitarianism .
“Nehru has written quite a bit about Gandhi's economic ideas in his autobiography and attacks Gandhi for favoring capitalism over socialism and seeing socialism as violent.”
Gandhi in his own words - (I am not ashamed to own that many capitalists are friendly towards me and do not fear me. They know that I desire to end capitalism, almost, if not quite, as much as the most advanced Socialist or even Communist. But our methods differ, our languages differ. - Gandhi)
. So Gandhi wanted people to become socialist voluntarily . Gandhi - Nehru - were both leftists. Yawn ! there is no *real* ideological difference in political parties in India . I think I will stay home again this April election .
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