| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| HINDUISM UNDER SIEGE AND RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE | |
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them to say that other religions are as good as their own for
humanity and see them avoid answering the question. Such religious
harmony conferences are largely fronts to allow the old missionary
activity to go on unchallenged. Another
not entirely new method is to mask missionary efforts with
humanitarian help, for missionary groups to start schools, hospitals
and orphanages as if they were just social workers trying to help
everyone.
Sometimes undeveloped countries welcome this help because of their financial needs. Some religious groups would like us to believe that their old aggressive missionary activity has been replaced by social service which is not aiming at conversion but simply helping the downtrodden. Why then should such service activity go under a religious banner at all or offer conversion along with it? Clearly as long as the religious banner is there, along with the history of conversion activities, one cannot claim a purely social motive. Let these groups give up all conversion efforts and all religious garb in their actions. Clearly again they will not do that. They are still primarily seeking converts, though the methodology may not be as overt as it once was. Another new argument is that since Western countries now allow Eastern religious groups to operate within them, that Asian countries should not be intolerant of Western religious missionary activity within them. Of course the different magnitude of these two situations is ignored. |
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