| How I Became A Hindu - My Discovery Of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
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he will be friendly in this capacity, but his purpose has an obvious
ulterior motive. He is not coming here because he wants to make a
pilgrimage to honor the great yogis and swamis of India or to visit
her great temples and tirthas.
Today the Catholic Church is losing power in the West. Most Catholics are only nominal in their beliefs. For example, most American Catholics practice birth control that the church does not approve of and don't attend church on a regular basis. The church can still get a fair amount of money from rich Western economies but is clearly an institution in decline. Without replenishing its population base it is facing a severe crisis. India offers perhaps the best possibility for doing this with a large population with a history of religious devotion and monastic activity that could readily become priests and nuns. 2. Why do you believe it is important for him to apologise to the Hindus for the forced conversions in India? The bloody history of the Church in America, Africa and Asia is an open book and well known. The Native Americans where I live in the United States still tell stories about how the feet of their people were cut off for refusing to walk to church or their tongues cut off for refusing to recite prayers. The church has claimed that its intolerance is a thing of the past. That the church was prominent in Nazi Germany and the Fascist Italy, and never really opposed Hitler or Mussolini, should not be forgotten.
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