Since Independence Christian-run schools have been ‘praised’ for providing a very high standard of education( Mental Slavery) in India. This is important in a country that lacks a coherent welfare net and where illiteracy remains a massive hurdle to development and social mobility. Hence the voluntary sector takes up the slack and provides much-needed community [...]
December 29, 2013
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In western developed countries the very idea of Christianity standing up for secularism would be laughed off as part of some stand-up comedy act. But in India this is in fact the macabre reality. Here the Church claims to be standing up for secular ideas against the threat of Hinduism. This should really come as [...]
June 7, 2013
Ranbir Singh
Analysis/Insights
I was raised as a Roman Catholic in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, which was for centuries a Catholic frontline region against Protestant Holland and Masonic-secularist France, and a top-ranking provider of missionaries. One of my uncles is a missionary in Brazil, another was a parish priest in Antwerp until his death. We were [...]
June 4, 2013
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights
How to deal with clever Christian missionaries During the ongoing commemoration in 2007 of the abolition of the slave trade in the British empire (1807) was used by Christian missionary circles as an occasion for Hindu-bashing through the theme of caste oppression as a still-existing form of slavery. Hindu polemicists typically react by highlighting the [...]
May 10, 2013
Dr Koenraad Elst
Analysis/Insights
Michael Lawson Christian fundamentalist secretly recorded in 2010 by HHR on a sting operation to expose Lawson’s anti-Hindu propaganda. He Often travels to India to make anti-Hindu films which are shown to politicians and others in the West. [...]