Saturday, December 22, 2007

Just read that Tony Blair has converted to Catholicism. Presumably he has been a Church of England protestant till now. A year or so ago a mixed school was opened in Northern Ireland, the scene of killings for decades between catholics and protestants. A little girl was being interviewed on BBC and she was saying how excited she was to be learning about a different religion. We should be forgiven for not understanding how people who call themselves Christians can claim to be following different religions and justify killing in its name. After all there was only one Jesus who pardoned his enemies while on the cross. For that matter Jews, Christians and Muslims all claim to follow the same God while differing in the legitimacy of prophets who were human. They have been killing each other for millenia completely ignoring the commandment given directly by God ordering them not to kill. Scholars have spent lifetimes speculating on the whereabouts of the Arc of the Covenant and Indiana Jones went chasing all over the world looking for it but when it comes to its commands they are completely ignored. And they dare to call us Hindus names such as kafir, heathens or pagans. We have many Gods and Goddesses but we do not fight each other saying my God is bigger than yours. We do not go around claiming to be greater than others and killing to convert them to our faith. Yet stupid freeloading joournalists are always abusing Hindus while keeping totally silent on the butchery of others.

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