Dr. Jai Maharaj
2014-11-04 22:46:42 UTC
My Turn
Open Letter to Pat Robertson
By Sita Ram Goel
Hinduism Today Magazine
hinduismtoday.com
September 1995
Some of my friends in the USA - the country of Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain,
and a land par excellence of liberal humanism - have
drawn my attention to your recent fulminations against
Hinduism, Hindus, and India.
My first reaction was sheer amusement at this latest
spectacle of patent Christian tantrums. I am quite
familiar with what Christian theologians, missionaries
and windbags have been saying about our religion, our
people, and our country since the days of St. Hippolytus
(230 ce), more particularly since 1542 ce when that
Patron Saint of Pirates, Francis Xavier, reached our
shores. Thousands of shelves in hundreds of Christian
seminaries in India and abroad are laden with the
pornography which soldiers of the Only Savior have
produced down the centuries.
I also know that you have to make a living for yourself,
and collect money for maintaining the giant missionary
apparatus in this country as well as for keeping within
your fold the rice Christians you have managed to collect
during the past four hundred years. I can see that the
only way you can do it is by selling to your gullible
people the Big Lie that we Hindus are an accursed rabble
hungering for Jesus Christ. You are neither the first nor
likely to be the last in this cynical enterprise. I have
witnessed how Mother Teresa has flourished and become a
world figure by plying the same trade with a straight
face.
On second thought, however, I have decided to pen the
lines that follow. Firstly, I plead that we are living in
an age when sinners are coming forward to apologize to
the sinned against. I cannot believe that you are unaware
of how the Germans have apologized to the Jews and the
Japanese to the Koreans. And I think it is high time for
Christians to apologize to the Hindus. The crimes which
Christian missionaries have committed in this country
since the days of Francis Xavier have been documented by
Christian scholars themselves.
Secondly, I wish to point out that you have got your
priorities wrong. Instead of trying to save the Hindus,
you should try to save whatever has survived of the totem
by which you swear. I have airmailed to you a copy of
Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggressionin which I have
compiled the conclusions of Christological research in
the modern West. It is too late in the day for you to
exercise yourself about Hinduism and the Hindus. It may
be more profitable for you to address your own dwindling
flock in what was once known as Christendom.
Thirdly, I would like to draw your attention to the fact
that we Hindus are an ancient people and have survived
many storms including those mounted by Islam and its
elder brother - Christianity. We were here long before
your Jehovah and Jesus.
Hinduism is a spiritual culture which is intrinsic to the
human species, and has never been in need of big
battalions, or big money, or big media in order to back
it up. Hinduism knows how to find its way to humans
hearts, no matter how desperate the efforts of contrived
creeds to shut them tight against all higher aspirations.
Hinduism is Sanatana Dharma,the Perennial Wisdom and
Virtue. It is no use spitting at the Sun.
- Sita Ram Goel, of Delhi, is a well-known renaissance
writer on Hindu subjects. He is associated with the Voice
of India - a publishing house which guides understanding
through enlightening tracts, books and articles.
http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?com_mode=flat&com_order=1&itemid=3540
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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Open Letter to Pat Robertson
By Sita Ram Goel
Hinduism Today Magazine
hinduismtoday.com
September 1995
Some of my friends in the USA - the country of Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain,
and a land par excellence of liberal humanism - have
drawn my attention to your recent fulminations against
Hinduism, Hindus, and India.
My first reaction was sheer amusement at this latest
spectacle of patent Christian tantrums. I am quite
familiar with what Christian theologians, missionaries
and windbags have been saying about our religion, our
people, and our country since the days of St. Hippolytus
(230 ce), more particularly since 1542 ce when that
Patron Saint of Pirates, Francis Xavier, reached our
shores. Thousands of shelves in hundreds of Christian
seminaries in India and abroad are laden with the
pornography which soldiers of the Only Savior have
produced down the centuries.
I also know that you have to make a living for yourself,
and collect money for maintaining the giant missionary
apparatus in this country as well as for keeping within
your fold the rice Christians you have managed to collect
during the past four hundred years. I can see that the
only way you can do it is by selling to your gullible
people the Big Lie that we Hindus are an accursed rabble
hungering for Jesus Christ. You are neither the first nor
likely to be the last in this cynical enterprise. I have
witnessed how Mother Teresa has flourished and become a
world figure by plying the same trade with a straight
face.
On second thought, however, I have decided to pen the
lines that follow. Firstly, I plead that we are living in
an age when sinners are coming forward to apologize to
the sinned against. I cannot believe that you are unaware
of how the Germans have apologized to the Jews and the
Japanese to the Koreans. And I think it is high time for
Christians to apologize to the Hindus. The crimes which
Christian missionaries have committed in this country
since the days of Francis Xavier have been documented by
Christian scholars themselves.
Secondly, I wish to point out that you have got your
priorities wrong. Instead of trying to save the Hindus,
you should try to save whatever has survived of the totem
by which you swear. I have airmailed to you a copy of
Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggressionin which I have
compiled the conclusions of Christological research in
the modern West. It is too late in the day for you to
exercise yourself about Hinduism and the Hindus. It may
be more profitable for you to address your own dwindling
flock in what was once known as Christendom.
Thirdly, I would like to draw your attention to the fact
that we Hindus are an ancient people and have survived
many storms including those mounted by Islam and its
elder brother - Christianity. We were here long before
your Jehovah and Jesus.
Hinduism is a spiritual culture which is intrinsic to the
human species, and has never been in need of big
battalions, or big money, or big media in order to back
it up. Hinduism knows how to find its way to humans
hearts, no matter how desperate the efforts of contrived
creeds to shut them tight against all higher aspirations.
Hinduism is Sanatana Dharma,the Perennial Wisdom and
Virtue. It is no use spitting at the Sun.
- Sita Ram Goel, of Delhi, is a well-known renaissance
writer on Hindu subjects. He is associated with the Voice
of India - a publishing house which guides understanding
through enlightening tracts, books and articles.
http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?com_mode=flat&com_order=1&itemid=3540
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
o o o
o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used
for the educational purposes of research and open
discussion. The contents of this post may not have been
authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion
of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright
law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views
expressed by others are not necessarily those of the
poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted
material the use of which may or may not have been
specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This
material is being made available in efforts to advance
the understanding of environmental, political, human
rights, economic, democratic, scientific, social, and
cultural, etc., issues. It is believed that this
constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the
material on this site is distributed without profit to
those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research, comment,
discussion and educational purposes by subscribing to
USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more
information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article
for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you
must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Since newsgroup posts are being removed by forgery by one
or more net terrorists, this post may be reposted several
times.