Christian Missionaries in Nepal Earthquake

It seems whatever worst you think about Christian Missionaries, it would be true. Learning about a social media backlash against missionaries in Nepal, I just googled about it and found such reports (link below).

Missionaries are trying to raise funds abroad. Their report tells about destroyed Churches (though they don’t have such pictures to prove much of it); so as to generate sympathy in Christians in foreign nations in order to seek donations. In this report for example, they mention:

“Gospel for Asia (GFA) President says Jesus is mentioned as people begin asking questions about why they are helping. As Christians offer help and compassion it will open doors for the Gospel.”

“Between 30 and 40 of GFA’s missionaries serving in Uttar Pradesh are headed toward the quake-ravaged area to help.” 

“In the meantime, prayerfully consider donating generously to the work of GFA. Your support will help them provide much-needed physical aid and provide a platform to tell victims about Jesus, the only One who can give them eternal comfort.” 

https://www.mnnonline.org/news/nepal-death-toll-climbs-christians-reaching-out/

So as per them, Nepal’s tragedy is “a platform to tell victims about Jesus, the only One who can give them eternal comfort.”!!!
What more needs to be told about these soul-vultures – a term I heard for the first time; during this tragedy? Missionaries deserve it.

When they say 30 to 40 missionaries from UP are heading towards Nepal – obviously 40 is too small number to do much of physical help to victims; but 40 seems to be a good number to do much preaching and conversion job. May be 1 in every Muhallah per day.

Btw, earthquake tragedy in Nepal has an unexpected result: RSS has reinforced its image as a volunteer based social organization. And Christian Missionaries have established themselves as ugly soul-harvesters. Just visit these news items to realize yourself:

http://www.andhrawishesh.com/378-telugu-headlines-top-stories/49641-helping-hand-of-rss-versus-inhumane-business-of-soul-harvesters.html

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/rss-sends-its-man-to-supervise-rescue-ops/

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RSS-to-join-rescue-relief-operations-in-Nepal/articleshow/47062965.cms

We pray that people affected by earthquake in Nepal and India get peace and survivors bounce back with greater strength.

- Rahul

http://blogs.rediff.com/rahulwrites/2015/04/30/christian-missionaries-in-nepal-earthquake/

How Many Children Hindus Should Have?

Every now and then media catches some Hindu leader suggesting Hindus to have more kids so as not to get outnumbered by other religions and then hell breaks loose. (E.g. News1; News2) Getting carried away by the mainstream media (mainly TV news), people like us also criticize such persons on social media expressing disgust and the underlying basic principle is - "it is our personal choice to have as many kids as we want and any other person or organization does not have any right to suggest me or persuade me about it". Isn't it so?

First, if you follow news, such suggestions are made by leaders from all religions. A few days after last time media had made Sakshi Maharaj famous, Pope himself had made a very similar statement. But media does not criticize other religions for the same charge because Indian media's main audience are Hindus and Hindus would naturally find criticism of their own religion more "appealing" than of others - which helps channels’ TRP. If I write a facebook post criticizing Hindus, I will get 30 'likes' but if I write one criticizing other religions, I would perhaps get only 3 - because my friends are majorly Hindus. Secondly, data tells that Muslims population is indeed growing faster than Hindus' and hence if some Hindu leaders are educated enough to make sense out of the data and the trend analysis, we should not get angry with them for it.

Lastly, do we really get so upset with anyone suggesting us about how many kids to have? Are not our Govts doing the same for decades - by asking us to breed only "2"? Slogans like "Ham do hamare do" were thrust into our ears for years; and our own (tax-payers') money was spent to teach us the benefits of "small family" - If your father has 100 acres of land and you are 2 kids, you get 50 acres each; but if you are 10 kids, you get only 10 acres each - hence by appealing to our "greed", Govt was able to convince Hindus and other liberal religions to have small families. On the other hand, govt is officially busy increasing the population of minority religions like Parsis by officially using tax payers' money; and inflating the budget of so called "Minority Affair Ministries" while there have been no "Majority Affairs Ministry".

When govt said, "have 2 kids or less", we found it "fine"; but when a Hindu leader says, "have more than 2 kids", why do we find it revolting while logically both are suggesting us to have a "right number of kids" according to their own "perspectives"? If you think rationally and logically, both statements - "have 2 kids or less" and "have 4 kids" are of same "kind" and "characteristic"! But thanks to the media which cares only about TRP and has thrown its brain down the drain; our "perception" is molded so that we find Govt's slogan fine while religious leaders' statement as bad.

PS: Views expressed are personal.