The unnecessary Christian blurt

B D Narayankar

It was the unkindest cut of all, Archbishop Barnard Moras of Bangalore berating Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa in full public glare. It was a strange, uncivilised, unexpected and unwarranted behaviour on the part of the godman.

COMPARE HIS behaviour with that of the Hindu religious leaders, who did not misbehave with government authorities, in spite of any number of provocations in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Jammu and Kashmir. Hindus incurred huge losses and even had to flee. Why did Barnard Moras behave in such a manner? What was the necessity to burst out in front of TV cameras? Was it a political stunt? Probably he wanted to show the world that Christians were being attacked in BJP-ruled states. He hardly realised that the outburst against Christians resulted from provocation on the part of Evangelists, who distributed blasphemous literature, deriding Hindu gods.

Christians, instead of levelling charges against the BJP-ruled government, should be thankful to Yediyurappa for not allowing the law and order situation to go out of hand. Other than isolated incidents of localized vandalism in which both Christians and Hindus were involved, there was not a single instance of organised violence in Karnataka. The CM also showed enough courage to initiate an investigation into conversion activities perpetrated by evangelists, instead of succumbing to the tirades launched by evangelist-owned news channels.

Historically, Evangelical churches were branches of foreign governments that incited colonial wars against the Hindus for centuries. Virtually every major European country justified wars of colonial conquest as a prelude to loot and genocide in the name of Christianity as any moderately well-informed observer will acknowledge.

To make up for the ignominy that losing direct control over India in 1947 brought about, the Evangelists are doing everything on earth to regain control. In fact, they are running the Indian Union with the heinous support of human rights organisations and television channels, which are airheads. The Evangelists are on a mission to achieve India’s political transformation through conversions. Conversion is a means to blunt the possible revolt of Indians on matters such as Hinduism and Hindu culture.

The Evangelists are working towards creating a docile native constituency through conversions that will comply with the wishes of powerful Christian nations like America, UK and Rome, among others. There is nothing saintly about it; it simply is a demoniac pretext to subvert Hinduism and subjugate the Hindus. That some educated and well-connected Indians support their activities only means that traitors exist and should be treated as such.

India is known for its spiritualism and religiosity and the evangelists are aiming to sabotage this very fabric that has made this country unique; a country to look up to during a moral crisis. Unfortunately, the pseudo-secularist parties, instead of curbing these provocative activities, grab any chance coming their way to sympathize with the minorities for votes.

Look at the DMK and CPM, who never tire of castigating the BJP for not protecting the minorities although, comparatively speaking, instances of attacks on Christians and their churches are more in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. In fact, the BJP’s record in maintaining inter-religious harmony is much better than that of the other so-called pro-minority parties. Sensible sections of the minorities acknowledge this.

So, what is the way out to tackle religious subversions? Should India imitate Joseph Stalin’s ruthless, unforgiving campaign against the Nazi attempt to wipe out Russia and its Slavic people? Stalin executed dissenters and collaborators without pity and eventually crushed the Nazis in epic struggles in recorded history. This has to be debated.