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Business of Conversion |
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| Behind Fundamentalism |
| “Fundamentalism seeks
to destroy competing beliefs. Fundamentalist
Christians believe that all other religions
of the world are attempts by Satan at deceiving
humanity. This belief is pervasive and resistant
to logic or reason; all attempts at reconciliation
have met with failure....Fundamentalism also
seeks to reproduce itself in others; and, in
so doing, it behaves like a virus. In the realm
of cytomolecular biology, a virus is a particle
designed to replicate itself at the expense
of a host cell. A virus introduces its DNA or
RNA into a target cell; this genetic instruction
set overrides the cell's inherant self-maintaining
DNA and causes the cell instead to create new
viruses. In the realm of human consciousness,
Fundamentalism in essence does the same thing.
A Fundamentalist Christian believes his or her
overriding purpose in life is to "save souls,"
and that all other goals in life are trivial
by comparison. That person is therefore motivated
to convince others to adopt the same belief,
complete with the self-replicating notion that
the belief must be passed on." >> |
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Unethical conversions
by Christians |
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It is sad that
Christians are unjustly accused of converting non-Christians to Christianity
unethically. Conversion to Christianity is not the work of man but
of God.
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Threat of religious strife
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I wonder how many realize
that there is a threat of religious strife as seen from the many recent
attacks on the Christian community in Sri Lanka.
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Religious conversions
and human rights |
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My attention has been drawn to the many
news items and readers' letters that have appeared in your newspaper
and in other periodicals on this subject. Perhaps, my thoughts will
shed some light on this important subject.
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Opposing unethical conversions
is not religious intolerance |
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What the colonialists did by branding the sword
and the use of brutal force then, their agents today are repeating with
the use of financial resources targeting poor Buddhists and Hindus. |
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Missionary activity contributes
to social tension |
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In the 1960s Mrs Bandaranayake asked the Irish Nursing Nuns to leave
the country. This was because, despite their selfless nursing, they
insisted on baptising dying patients irrespective of their religion. |
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Examining evangelist
churches in Sri Lanka |
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We would like to ask the Christian Council whether they are aware
of the number of churches and prayer centres (which with time will be
turned into full blown churches) established since, say 1985. |
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The motive of conversions |
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The main motive of conversions is to get cheap labour and a big army
for the Christian west. |
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Missionary activity and
religious harmony |
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I think it is wrong to go around trying to coerce people to believe
in any religion, and worse to exploit the poverty and helplessness of
people to gain them as converts. |
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A problem affecting all
religious communities |
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I am a Catholic and I absolutely deplore the evangelization tactics
used by some Christian groups in Sri Lanka. |
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Foreign missionaries
in Sri Lanka |
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While I do not agree with enacting legislation to prevent unethical
conversions, I do not believe that people have a right to come barging
into a country just so that they can fulfill their agenda of gaining
souls for their God. |
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In another's shoes |
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I wonder whether our Christian brothers and sisters would like it
if Buddhist or Hindu preachers enter an overwhelmingly Christian village
and start enticing the poor villagers to adopt either Buddhism or
Hinduism... |
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Programs must be put
in place to counter evangelism new |
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Will Sri Lanka ever be free from the clutches of Christian
proselytism? I doubt it. |
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