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A new propaganda movie about the missionary Graham Staines, who was killed in 1999, is about to be released. It is timed to release close to the elections and many Hindus would be asked to explain.
Here is how I would respond.
1. Victims of Christianity run into millions. In the last few decades alone, Christian nations have attacked and exterminated millions of Afghans, Iraqis, Vietnamese, and Libyans. In all those wars, the Christian base cheered and supported their warmongering governments. No movie has been made on the plight of those millions of victims. Christians as a body haven’t cared about the suffering of their victims. Don’t expect me to weep for the death of a lone white missionary.
2. In India’s NE, the entire Reang Hindu minority community has been brutalized and ethnically cleansed by the majority Christian community. Many of their women have been raped and their children have died pathetic deaths. After decades of persecution, they were finally repatriated by the BJP government. Neither the Christian West nor any Christian body has even shed a tear for the millions of Reang Hindu victims of Christian aggression. Don’t expect me to weep for the death of a lone white missionary.
3. Christianity is a memetic virus. It spreads hatred and destroys native civilizations. The West exports Christianity under the guise of religious freedom. What about the freedom of India’s tribes to sustain and practice their religions? Why should anyone condone the exploitation of their poverty or vulnerability by foreign-funded Christian missionaries? Why should they be intimidated or persuaded to give up their age-old religious traditions and convert to Christianity to receive some medicines?
4. The Christian West looted India’s wealth. As the economist Utsa Patnaik has decisively shown, Britain alone looted $ 45 trillion from India thereby plunging the richest nation on earth before the Europeans arrived into abject poverty by the time she won her independence in 1947. The colonial predators had looted our lands and wealth and bestowed it upon Christian churches. We needn’t tolerate the fake Christian propaganda of charity. You have stolen trillions from us and reinvest a fraction of it to harvest souls. Do you expect me to be grateful for that? Don’t expect me to weep for the death of a lone white missionary who came to harvest souls. Instead, repent for the colonial loot by serving India and Hindus without effecting a single conversion. It is a long overdue obligation on your part.
5. I do not know who really killed Staines and his children. The timing is suspicious. India had successfully carried out Pokran II in 1998 much to the chagrin of the Christian West. The West retaliated with a massive embargo. There was a lot of resentment that the Hindutva government had proudly tested the nukes. In just a few months, Staines was killed. The attention and narrative shifted to him to portray Hindus and India in negative light. Was it a foreign hit job? Quite possible given that the CIA had earlier executed Homi Bhabha and probably Vikram Sarabhai too. In a remote-controlled operation, it had earlier falsely implicated the rocket scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was threatening the NATO dominance of the commercial rocket launch market and cryogenic technology. Dara Singh always denied that he killed Staines.
6. Staines was a religious fanatic who had irresponsibly taken his sons with him on soul-harvest expeditions instead of educating them back home. Even if the deaths of Staines and his sons was the result of a tribal backlash, Staines is the one who is primarily culpable. We all sympathize with the Sentinelese who killed an invasive missionary. Apply the same yardstick to the tribal people of India assuming they killed Staines. Jesus called the tribal people of Orissa dogs and swine. It is perverse to try to convert them to Christianity.
In short, I would rather weep for the millions of victims of Christian aggression. I will not bow down to the racist demand that I should weep for a white missionary’s death as if his life were more precious than the millions of lives of those who died because of Christian aggression.
Finally, I demand to know the answer. Jesus promises that believers could perform miracles by invoking his name and nothing would harm them. All it takes, according to Jesus, is belief the size of a mustard seed. Why didn’t Staines invoke the name of Jesus and save himself and his sons? Is it because he didn’t even possess belief the size of a mustard seed? Or, is the fundamental promise of Christianity false? Or did he not love his sons enough to save them by invoking the name of Jesus?
Sounds harsh? Well, that is what charlatan Christian missionaries tell the defenseless poor of India. They promise them that by invoking the name of Jesus they could cure their children’s cancer. I am perfectly justified in demanding why one of your own ilk didn’t apply this medicine to himself and his family when it was utmost necessary.
Summary: I will not give a damn to Staines until Christians express remorse for the millions of victims of Christian aggression.
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