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Thakur Sing Bhi was killed April 3 in Gatiya Dev village by his own brother, a father who believed Christianity was "black magic" and responsible for his teenage daughter's death, Indian Christians and relatives said.
Bhil, also known locally as Thakur Baba, apparently died of an arrow shot to the chest. The killing did not came as a surprise, villagers told media. The Christian leader, who is in his 50s, had faced opposition from relatives after converting to Christianity.
Relatives said his brother, identified as a middle-aged man. was especially angry about the conversion. He allegedly entered the house in a drunken rage at noon and shot an arrow into this chest from close range. Police have reportedly detained the man.
"YOUNGER BROTHER"
"My husband's younger brother, had a 17-year-old daughter who died about three months ago because of ill health, and he blamed us for he thought that the conversion of my husband and his praying were responsible for his daughter’s death," Bhil’s wife Inda Pasaha Bhil said earlier in comments published by Christian news agency Compass Direct News, which investigates reported cases of Christian persecution.
"He somehow misunderstood our belief and prayers to be black magic of some kind, and since he was always opposed to our embrace of Christianity, it further infuriated him." The case has underscored growing tensions in rural areas of India, where Christians, including many converts from Hinduism, are reportedly facing growing opposition. India is a mainly Hindu nation and militants reject the spread of Christianity in the country.
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| Ravindranath |
Sunday, 04 May 2008 (13:58) |
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| A small correction to the last paragraph :-).
India is minly a Hindu nation and militants in the guise of christians missionaries and evangelicals are destroying the national fabric. |
| Ravindranath |
Sunday, 04 May 2008 (13:59) |
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| Christianity is a like a poisonous virus. We need to apply lot of protection and filters to arrest the spread of this disease. |
| Sarabjit |
Sunday, 04 May 2008 (14:01) |
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| In Europe several witch hunt practices existed, where the fanatic christians used to burn people alive because of witchcraft. |
| Yashwanth |
Sunday, 04 May 2008 (14:28) |
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| Did you know the fact that many more pagans were killed by Christians, and thousands of pagan temples were destroyed throughout Europe? The great Greek (Neo Platonic) Academy in Alexandria was destroyed and its scholars like Hypatia killed by Cyril – ‘Saint Cyril’. The number of Native Americans killed or forcibly converted by Catholics was also in the many millions, and yet the Catholics emphasize a few priests martyred by Native Americans as being the real victims. Such and more are stories of ‘Christian Oppression’. |
| Suresh kumar yadav |
Sunday, 04 May 2008 (14:30) |
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| Hinduism is a religion of openness. We appreciate all gods and deities. We have never said that we are the ‘only way’ like many of the Semitic faiths. We have no problems acknowledging greatness of Allah, Jehovah or Jesus. We have done that many a times. Didn’t we? But Christian missionaries have, instead, used it as a pretext to promote Christian superiority, not to reciprocate with honoring Hinduism and its sages and yogis. They say Christ must be great because Hindus honor him. They don’t honor Hindu teachers in return. The hypocrisy of the whole thing is easy to see. It shows the condescending attitude towards Hindus, thinking that they can bully them or appeal to their tolerance by a feigned persecution. It wholly proves that Christians Missionaries are still promoting a medieval religion that will not honor other religions and is still seeking world domination by any means fair or foul. If we count the victims of Christian aggression on one side and the Christian themselves who have been victimized we will find that the victims of Christianity are overwhelming in the majority. While some Christians have apologized to African and Native American groups for such missionary misdeeds, the Hindus have so far not received any such apology, though they have suffered from the same methods. The reason is that the missionaries have not yet triumphed in India. The apology, like crocodile tears, comes only after the victim is dead. |
| Naresh Jain |
Sunday, 04 May 2008 (14:32) |
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| Writes David Frawley ‘As a former Catholic I know in what little esteem the Church holds Hinduism and Buddhism with all their great sages and yogis. Christianity, like Islam, sees tolerance not as a virtue to be emulated but as a weakness to be exploited. Were Christians really to honor Hinduism as a valid religion all Hindu-Christian hostility could easily come to an end. As long as Christians hold that their alone is the True Faith and are working to convert the members of other religion in one way or another, they should not be surprised if members of other religions do not welcome their presence.’ In his book ‘The Missionary Ploy.’ |
| sarita |
Sunday, 04 May 2008 (14:33) |
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| It is only a matter of time before Missionary Christianity is seen for what is imperialism in the name of God and Christ, the proverbial wolf in the sheep’s clothing. It is a political, worldly movement with little spirituality in it. Unfortunately such Christians confuse the real Divine work, which is improving us through introspection, with the institutional work of imposing a single belief upon all humanity. This political view of religion has no place in global age of consciousness that is dawning in enlightened minds all over the world today. The quicker it comes to an end, the better it will be for all of humanity. |
| Sarabjit |
Sunday, 04 May 2008 (14:36) |
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| Christianity has helped to create a society in which people are alienated not only from each other but also from the divine. |
| robert barrett |
Monday, 05 May 2008 (03:56) |
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| I would love to see the look on all of faces of those who reject Jesus Christ and will see Jesus sitting on the right side of God when they die. Then when it is too late they will see that satan had blinded them to believe in man made (even by their own hands) idols. That day will come as sure as we breath. |
| Ravindranath |
Monday, 05 May 2008 (05:12) |
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| Robert barrett,
Our philosophy permits fools to dream as they like. No barriers. It does not crucify wild dreamers. Please go and dream as wild as you can :-). It shows how you this is burning.
similarly there are people who would love to see the faces of your tribes, who reject true dharma and will see Yama dharmaraja himself with Chitragupta opening up the records of sins of these people when they die. Then when it is too late tey will see that a foolish ideology has lead them in a wrong direction and blinded them to indulge in destructive activities such as abusing other's faiths, destroying their articles of worship. These fools surely do not realize that GOD can be perceived in any object, provided there is devotion.
That day Yama (the god of justice) will condemn these bigots to hell.
Arise and awake from your foolish slumber. |
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