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Bush sponsored Evangelisation of IndiaTHERE WERE NO CHRISTIANS FOR THE FIRST THREE HUNDRED YEARS.CHRISTIANITY AND JESUS CHRIST WERE THE CREATION OF THE ROMANEMPEROR CONSTANTINE IN AD 325. CHRISTIANITY IS A METHOD FOR ECONOMIC AGGRESSION OF OTHER NATIONS BY THE EUROPEANS.EDITOR 
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
V SUNDARAM
 
 IAS (retired)
http://www.newstodaynet.com/2007sud/feb07/200207.htmhttp://www.crusadewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=655&Itemid=57Recently one of my friends gave me a copy of Tehelka's February 7th, 2004 issue which carried acover story under the title 'George Bush has a big conversion agenda in India.' I am given tounderstand that on the same theme there was a smaller follow-up article in the February 14thissue of Tehelka. I would like to give the details and analyse the national implications of theinvestigative report developed by Tehelka's team of journalists, which any one can see particularly from the point of view of our national sovereignty, territorial integrity and nationalsecurity. As a known, saffronised, communal, obscurantist, illiterate, uncivilized, barbarous, half-savage Hindu, I am aware of the fact that my credentials can be questioned even to look at areport of this kind. In order to match the official, if not the intellectual, stature of President Bush,I would like to quote the words of another fellow American of equal official stature calledThomas Jefferson (1743-1826), one of the great founders of the American State.Thomas Jefferson in a brilliant letter to his nephew Peter Carr in 1787 declared with conviction:'Religion. Your reason is now mature enough to examine this subject. ... You will read the NewTestament. It is the history of a personage called Jesus. Keep in your eye the following twoopposite pretensions: 1, of those who say he was begotten by God, born of a virgin, suspendedand reversed the Laws of Nature at will, and ascended bodily into Heaven; and 2, of those whosay he was a man of illegitimate birth, of a benevolent heart, enthusiastic mind, who set outwithout pretensions to divinity, ended in believing them, and was punished capitally for sedition, by being gibbeted, according to Roman Law. ... I repeat you must lay aside all prejudice on bothsides and neither believe nor reject anything, because any other persons or descriptions of  persons, have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by Heaven,and you are answerable, not for the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision. I forgot toobserve, when speaking of the New Testament, that you should read all the histories of Christincluding those which a Council of Ecclesiastics have decided for us, to be pseudo-evangelists.... because, those pseudo-evangelists pretended to inspiration, as much as the others, you are to judge their pretensions by your own reason, and not by the reason of those pseudo-ecclesiastics.'One of the early and most important major policy decisions which President Bush took on 29January, 2001, was in regard to a 'Faith Based' social service initiative that included a new White
 
House office to promote government aid to churches and Christian faith-based organisations.This had the immediate effect of throwing the massive weight of the federal government behindreligious groups and religious conversions. The Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiativeswas set up in the White House in the first week of February 2002 and a man called Jim Toweywas appointed as Director. The most interesting and important point to be noted in this context isthat Jim Towey was the legal counsel to Mother Teresa in the late 1980s. Thus he was fullyqualified in every sense of the term to play the role of an aggressive evangelist. What is mostdisturbing to note is that though Bush's initiative as a 11th century Crusader to fund 'salvationand religious conversion' has been stalled in the Congress over constitutional and civil rightsconcerns, yet he has pushed for its implementation through his own executive orders.Consequently, new waves of aggressive evangelism have been emanating and issuing out fromAmerica. According to V K Sashikumar, this White House-sponsored movement for theevangelisation of India is well funded, superbly networked and backed by the highest of the landin America. This is being fully supported informally by the Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting and Hindu-hating UPA government in New Delhi under the stranglehold of a de factoPrime Minister, tracing her spiritual and cultural roots to Italy in general and to Vatican in particular.I am quoting verbatim from the Tehelka Website on their correct assessment of the seriousimplications of the Bush-sponsored Massive Evangelization of India (MEOI): 'Religiousexpansionism has not witnessed this scale, scope, and State resources in a long time. Detailedinvestigations by Tehelka reveal that American evangelical agencies have established in India anenormous, well-coordinated and strategised religious conversion plan. The operation waslaunched in the early 1990s but really came into its own after George W Bush Jr, an avowed born-again Christian, became President of the United States in 2001. Since then, aggressiveevangelists have found pro-active support from the new administration in their efforts to convertsome sections of Indian society to Christianity. At the heart of this complex and sophisticatedoperation is a simple strategy - Convert locals and then give them the know-how and money to plant their own churches and multiply.'When Bush and Blair invaded Iraq in 2003 to remove the 'carefully planted weapons of massdestruction' in that small country, I wrote in these columns that it is a savage act of Anglo-American Imperialism. Bush has been behaving like the Nazi Dictator and Tyrant Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) ever since he took over as President in 2000. His attitude towards the non-Christianmasses of India, particularly the Hindus in majority, is no different from his attitude towards theMuslims in Iraq. Seeing this Nazi-type attitude in Bush, I am only reminded of another character in American history called Anthony Comstock (1844-1915). Who is Anthony Comstock? In 1873Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated tosupervising the morality of the public. Later that year, Comstock successfully influenced theUnited States Congress to pass the Comstock Law, which made illegal the delivery or transportation of both 'obscene, lewd, or lascivious' material as well as any methods of, or information pertaining to, birth control. George Bernard Shaw coined the term comstockery,meaning 'censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality,' after Comstock alerted the New York police to the content of Shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession. Bernard Shaw, by nomeans a saffronised, communal, superstitious and obscurantist half-savage Hindu, remarked that'Comstockery is the world's standing joke at the expense of the United States. Europe likes tohear of such things. It confirms the deep-seated conviction of the Old World that America is a
 
 provincial place, a second-rate country-town civilization after all.'President Bush has become the Anthony Comstock of today through his programme of MassiveEvangelization of India (MEOI).In this context, I would like to imagine that I am playing the role of another great Americancalled D M Bennett (1818-1882), who was a courageous and controversial historical figure. FewAmericans were as courageous - and suffered more - in their search for truth in the cause of 'FreeSpeech, Free Press, Mails free from espionage and Comstockism.' He was revered and hailed asthe 'American Voltaire,' while his Christian adversaries of today's Bush variety called him the'Devil's Own Advocate.' Inspired by the life and example of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Bennettfounded the Truth Seeker in 1873, devoted to science, morals, and free thought. Bennett promoted birth control, supported women's rights, and opposed dogmatic religion. In less than adecade, he became the country's leading publisher of liberal literature. Mark Twain, ClarenceDarrow, and Robert G Ingersoll - 'the Great Agnostic' ? were only a few of the illustriousfreethinkers who subscribed to the Truth Seeker. Bennett took great pride in debunking the Bibleand exposing hypocritical clergymen. He was the first editor in America to routinely report themisdeeds of Ministers, compiling a list of crimes by clergymen that he published as 'Sinful Saintsand Sensual Shepherds.' A prolific and provocative writer, Bennett was vilified by religionists for denouncing Christianity, which he called 'the greatest sham in the world.'Bennett's publications were censored, prohibited at newsstands, and denied access to the US maillong before the expression 'banned in Boston' was heard. At the same time Bennett began publishing the Truth Seeker against all odds. Free speech came under attack by AnthonyComstock, the US Post Office's 'special agent' and America's self-appointed arbiter of morals.Comstock was the chief vice-hunter of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, anorganisation founded by wealthy and powerful purity crusaders including soap tycoon SamuelColgate. Comstock arrested Bennett for publishing his incendiary 'An Open Letter to JesusChrist' and entrapped the elderly editor for mailing a free-love pamphlet. Bennett was prosecuted, subjected to a widely publicised trial, and finally imprisoned in the Albany (NewYork) Penitentiary. Like Emile Zola in France later in the 19th century, Bennett wrote: 'Thecharge is ostensibly 'obscenity.' But the real offence is that I presume to my utter sentiments andopinions in opposition to the views entertained by the Christian Church.These great traditions of Comstock are not only being maintained but enriched by President Bush using the transientauthority of his fleeting office in the White House, not in the United States, but in several other  parts of the world like Iraq and India. President Bush's programme of Massive Evangelisation of India (MEOI) reads very much like an Agatha Christy crime story! No responsible journalist committed to the sacred cause of stating the truth, the whole truth andnothing but the truth, can overlook the fact that when President Bush was moving into the OvalOffice in Washington in January 2001, a worldwide Conversion Movement, comprehensivelyfunded and promoted by American evangelical groups, was already at its height in India. Thismovement, which originally began as 'AD2000 & Beyond' and later divided and transformeditself into Joshua Project I and Joshua Project II, was designed to be a sledgehammer, a breathtaking, decade-long steamroller of a campaign that would set the stage for a systematic,sophisticated and self-sustaining 'harvest' of the 'unreached infidel people groups' in India in the21st century. The grandiloquent dreams of these aggressive evangelists are like those of Adolf Hitler when he first attacked Poland on 1 September, 1939 through his Blitzkrieg Operation.
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