| How I Became A Hindu - My Discovery Of Vedic Dharma |
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| Books By David Frawley |
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point is that if you don't apologize how can other groups believe
that you have really given up the attitudes that caused such
behavior? Such conversion efforts are hurtful to the communities
they target, even if no overt violence is involved. The church has
harmed many Hindu families and communities and is still willing to
do so, by turning people against their native beliefs and customs.
Christians have made some apologies to the Native Americans and the black Africans for their oppression of them. Why don't Hindus count in this? Aren't they also human beings? 3. There have been many deeds in history and at present that have gone by without apologies and accountability. Is it worthwhile to resurrect such issues in the present context? What purpose does this serve? The problem is that the same attitudes and behavior that resulted in such violence in the past still go on today. The official policy of the Catholic Church today is still that Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and other Indian religions are not valid or true. This promotes division, misunderstanding and can still lead to violence. Today we have given up the doctrine of racial superiority that the White Europeans used to justify their colonial rule. But the attitude of religious superiority - that only Christianity is true and the other religions are false - still goes on. Such religious exclusivism like racism is backward and prejudicial.
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