IMITATION IS THE BEST KIND OF FLATTERY
By S.P. Attri (USA)

1. Plainly ignoring the appeals of the Hindu Leaders to halt conversions, Pope John Paul II, speaking to several religious leaders in New Delhi on Sunday (7 Nov 99), told them flat out that converting to another religion is a matter of human right and must be recognized as a human right. Though the Pope stressed dialogue between the world's religions, he kept coming back to his trump card, expressed in his own words as:

"No state, no group has the right to control, either directly or indirectly a person's religious convictions."

While talking to his own Catholic Church officials, the Pope admonished them that Evangelisation/Converting has to be a priority for the Catholic Church in the Third Christian Millenium. This admonition, distinct and explicit as it is, makes Pope's purpose and expectations superlatively transparent and intelligible.

2. I had a feeling the Pope would utter some rouse like that. I also had a vague sensation that he might offer a hedged apology of some sort, for Christian atrocities in Goa but it is manifest now that he made up his mind not to tender that, most likely in deference to the wishes of the hard-headed and hard-driving managers of his Catholic Church who prevailed upon the Pope to skip his fancy footwork that would have been needed, to properly offer his hedged non-sense.

Regarding his pronouncement that "No state, no group has the right to control, either directly or indirectly a person's religious convictions": Here the Pope is perched on a very weak limb because his professed assertion, does not equal out with the record of his Catholic Church, of either past or present. Because he is mouthing this proclamation openly, freely, and unashamedly, it seems he is quite comfortable concealing the atrocious recordand the uncivilized coercive exploits of his church, has no guilt feelings about it, and he does not feel like " A Cat That Has Eaten A Canary."

3. Since the Pope has decided to be difficult and does not feel the least bit of misgiving or remorse about Christianity's campaign of brutality and barbarism in India, it is plain the Pope has decided to trash Hindus and Hinduism. Consequently, there is absolutely no point for us Hindu to waste our time and energy in proffering appeals to the Pope and to others of his ilk, to inspire them to a higher morality. Instead what we need to do is to really come to grips with the reality of the problem.

Rather than feeling sorry for ourselves and fearing the Christian and Islamic Hell that awaits us Hindus, what we need to do is to untie our hands and takeour passion for Hinduism Defense to the outermost limits of our capabilityand outdo and defeat our barbaric adversaries. Our Hindu problem is intrinsically a problem of our Hindu Passivity and Defensiveness. It isessentially a Problem Of The Mind, nothing more, nothing less, and we can discard our Self-Created Shackles of the mind, any time we are convinced that it is the right thing to do. However, even though the Discarding of our Self-Created Shackles, is our biggest problem, it is not an easy or uncomplicated problem. Our lousy and wretched habits, acquired through a prolonged slavery of 1400 years, has caused passivity and defensiveness to come to be an integral part of our mental make-up, these scandalous and shameful shackles are tie-ing us Hindus up.

4. It is a well-known and notorious fact of reality that 99% of all Christian/Islamic conversions are fraudulent, these are the same conversions that the Pope classifies "as a human right." Since human rights are available to all humans, Hindus have just as much access to conversions, along with all the adjuncts of means and ends, tentacles and tails of the conversion process, as any body else. Therefore, we Hindus can take the Pope at his word and pursue with FULL EFFORTS all conversion methods that Moslems and Christians employ as normal and practical procedures. What is sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose. We do not need to feel guilty or roughed up in pursuing these conversion procedures, regardless of whether they are honest or fraudulent, whether they are in the book or are not in the book... There is absolutely no need for us Hindus to feel like "A Kickaburra That Has Swallowed A Kangroo."

To put it simply, we need to overcome our mental reluctances and step up our Shuddhi Program into High Gear, to make both Islam and Christianity" Get The Hell Out Of India." An extensive program of Shuddhi, using ALL methods that work, is a potent means to achieve that goal. Moslems and Christians really cannot mutter any gripe or any sentimental non-sense about our Shuddhi program. After all we are only imitating them and imitation is the best kind of flattery. Moslems/Christians should, therefore, feel complimented. To speed up the process and drive home the point, if they drop one bomb on us, we should drop five bombs on them. This kind of honest and authentic Imitation is the best kind of flattery and Moslems and Christians cannot really develop any stomachache as a reaction to such an honest expression of flattery.

5. To effectively and efficiently deal with the problem that we Hindus are facing from Islam and Christianity, we need to understand the source of this problem. Why are Pope and other Exclusivist Ideologies saying and doing proselytism with such clamor and commotion? What is the alchemy behind the Islamic and Christian pursuit of proselytism with such relentless resolution? Is there any moral justification for their attitude and actions and for their crimes against fellow human beings in the name of their God?

The simple answer is Moslems and Christians are doing this proselytism because both these two gangs believe that that is what their God wants them to do. They have been force-fed this message zillion times by their clergy and they have come to believe that God has chosen them to do the proselytism work in the service of their God. This belief is TOTAL and they go into it with their eyes closed, they want to be Doers, Not Thinkers. The Brain-Washing that they have received is Total and they firmly believe that they are doing God's Work and that they are going to Heaven as a reward for their services to their God. This kind of Total Belief is absolutely essential in order to produce barbaric crusades of proselytism that they have been engaging in for centuries, they are not about to give up this proselytism pursuit just because some unhappy Hindus don't like it, because some other Kafirs/Heathens cannot relish their conversion success. They are not going to abandon their proselytism and cut themselves off from the capture of burgeoning numbers of new converts from amongst the Kafirs/Heathens. The dislike and displeasure of some unhappy Hindus and other Kafirs/Heathens like them is not enough of a motivation for them to abandon their mission which is believed by them as a divinely-ordained mission.

6. Is there any semblance of truth, logic, or reasonableness to this sturdy and stupid belief of Islam and Christianity? None whatsoever, in fact this belief is so ludicrous and so preposterous that it defies any description. No God of any type has chosen them to do this Dirty Proselytism Work for his (God's) cause. All their beliefs along that line of thinking, are totally FAKE, FRAUD, AND PHONY and we can justifiably express our anger at the imbecility and barbarism of this shameful and shocking belief. But to express anger at this silly and stupid belief is to miss the point entirely because the important point is not whether this belief is true or untrue; the important point is that this is The Belief that Moslems and Christians carry in their head and there are millions of simple Moslems and Christains out there who clasp this belief and are ready to grab, with heightened emotions, any other belief that is even remotely similar to this. A well-known axiom says that it is not the truth that counts in the world, it is what the people believe to be the truth and that is what matters in the world. The proselytism drive of Islam and Christianity is powered by the power of this strong belief, inspite of its being Fake, Fraud, And Phony, the inference of Fakeness and Fraud is of no consequence, and there is no way at all to talk the Moslems and the Christians out of this TOTALLY FALSE BELIEF. Those Hindus who are advocating practical proposals of diplomacy and peaceful dialogue with the Fanatical Moslems and Christians, such Hindus are totally asleep and are unwittingly playing into the hands of Islam and Christianity, they are consigning Hinduism to the Dog-House. They need to wake up and understand the reality of life as it exists in the world.

7. In dealing with the problem from Christianity and Islam, we are facing the fortifications of belief, albeit False Belief. We Hindus have to understand the reality of this belief. The truth of this belief is as factual as the reality of Santa Claus. Christians believe in Santa Claus not because he exists but because they have been repeatedly told from childhood that there is a Santa Claus out there. Christians have bought and swallowed this myth of medieval ages but it is a powerful myth and is very effective in propagating Christian Agenda. Because of Total Belief in these myths, Christians/Moslems are willing to put in their maximum efforts into their proselytism pursuit, it does not matter to them whether they live or die, because they are going to Heaven as a reward for their services to their God. Essentially, they are bounty-hunters (Heaven-Hunters) and because of this incentive, they are relentless pursuers for converts. This approach has remained unchanged for two thousand years and has become an industry, the Proselytism Industry. They have become Professional Convert-Takers, they have nothing but contempt for the non-Moslems and non-Christians, whom they treat as fugitives from their God and as followers of Devil, who need to be straightened out.

8. The Moslem/Christian Missionaries are the delivery boys of Islam/Christianity, their job is to deliver non-Moslem/non-Christian souls to their respective God. This delivery increases the Bean Count of the Feather Merchants of Islam/Christianity and makes the tin-pot managers of Islamic/Christian Missions very happy and tickled, radiant and ready for more catch (Convert-Catch). You can imagine the stress that these tin-pot managers must feel if they run out of this catch. They want to feel like the King Of The Neighborhood, they have carved out quite a status for themselves, they could not possibly live or adjust without this perch on their pious proselytism pedestal.

9. Our Shuddhi Program, at this time is dreadful, the scanty support of Hindu Society to Shuddhi is less than Marginal. We Hindus really have not gotten into Shuddhi as yet. If we are going to handle the problem and Hell of Islam and Christianity, then we are going to have to make up our mind about it, and use a new breed of tools to demolish both Islam and Christianity.

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