Today India is faced with two major challenges.
(1) Religion - based terrorism. Not ideology - based terrorism we find in Naxals.
(2) Religious conversion of Hindus by Christians, Muslims and Buddhists as we keep reading in the newspapers periodically.

First one is a direct threat to national security and integrity.

The second one is a direct threat to Hinduism as a religion. If it is not stopped or restricted (exceptional cases of conversion must be accepted in good grace) there is a danger that India will probably be a majority – non - Hindu nation by the year 3000 making what Pope John Paul II said when he visited India on Nov. 8, 1999 during the Papal High Mass prophetic.

He said: "The first millennium saw the cross planted in the soil of Europe (which became true) and the second in America and Africa (which also became true). May the third Christian millennium witness a great harvest of faith on this vast and vital continent." The Indian or Asian continent. Who knows this may also come true. Amen.

It will be just like America which will probably be a majority non-white nation by the year 2042, according to TIME magazine.

In the ongoing debate, discussion and declaration of one upmanship among the major three religions of India, namely Hinduism, Islam and Christianity, with Buddhism also in the race, which one is best suited and superior to the other is a secret that is wrapped in mystery inside an enigma. To each his own is best suited and superior. However, this is till some smart evangelist says it is not so and makes a person change his religion. Let it not be so.

I have been reading a number of magazines and newspapers on the subject of terrorism as also religious conversion and their repercussions on our society. It all began first with Muslim terrorism and then conversion of Hindus by Christians, which invited violent retaliation from Hindu fundamentalist outfits, especially in Karnataka and Orissa.

Now the latest is the Hindu terrorism, which is traced to Sept. 29 blasts in Malegaon, Maharashtra and Madusa, Gujarat.

Be that as it may, it is time the priests and the fundamentalists belonging to different religions stopped forthwith criticising other religions and confined themselves to glorifying their own religion among their own people inside their places of worship and not in public places or individual houses belonging to other religious faiths. After all, just as in Hinduism, other religions too have a number of sects, sub - sects and, drawbacks. Therefore, let not the evangelists think members of sub - sects in Hinduism are not Hindus, so nothing wrong in converting them en masse.

According to one source, there are over 24,000 Christian sects and each one with its own agenda. And surprisingly, there is a virtual "war" going on between these different sects to establish their own superiority in the comity of sects in their own religion.

God save mankind from these evangelists and also from terrorism based on religion.

K.B.Ganapathy
Courtesy: Star of Mysore

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