Why do some of our people hate Christianity?

Christian service is hated because it is a greater threat to the Hindu social order than the phony ones.Consider this scenario:

Kallu grazes his landlord's cattle. He is an illitrate, landless, poor, "untouchable" peasent who dresses in rags and goes barefoot. He gets a little cut on his dirty feet. which turns septic. He goes to the village doctor who sells him an ointment. The oitment is good, but ineffective without proper washing, badaging and shoes. kallu has little sense of hygene and the upper caste doctor isn't going to wash a Shudra's feet. The infection ulcerates and spreads. Kallu is not able to keep his job, his family is not able pay for his treatement, so he is thrown out on the streets of Kolkatta to beg and die. His family loves him, but is unable to cope with a white elephant whose "karma" is taking him to an early death. His caste may be sad for him, but the rest dont care.

A mother Teresa (or a Graham Staines) comes along and interrupts Kallu's "karmic suffering. The misionary is scandalized that a family and a culture can discard a human being with such indignity. She washes the "untouchable"s feet with her own hands. She not merely treat him but also appeal to generous Western donors to hel feed him.

The misisonary belives that she is simply obeying Jesus' command to love her neighbor as herself. she dies not have the faintest idea that in fact she is stirring up a revolution. She has thrown down a gauntlet at a three thousand year old worldview and religious system. kallu is shocked to discover that he is not an 'untouchable', that he is in fact precoius.

Why? The misionary says that she loves him because God does and because he commanded us to love our neighbor.

"How do you know God loves me?"

"I know because He sent his Son to take your sin upon himself. Jesus shed his blood as the sacrificial lamb of God to save you from eternal death in hell."

Kallu can not belive anyone loves him, let alone that someone would love him enough to die for him. But the missionary is irrfutable evidence that someone does love him and holds him precious. Kallu is attracted to the missioanry's belief system. His family is overjoyed by the new life that has been given to him freely. They want to convert to new faith; in fact, their whole caste has become interested in exploring a worlview that affirms their dignity.

The upper caste in their village are infuriated that their slaves want to escape their slavery. Weren't these folk born to serve us because of their bad "karma"? Do they now want to become our equals? Will these misionaries educate these sub-humans and make them officers- our doctors, inspecters and judges? Who will then graze our cattle? If upper caste landlords don't prevent Kallu's conversion, their economy, life-style and culture would indeed be ruined.

Options open to the upper castes?

a) To outdo the misionary's service.

b) To condemn her, and forcefully prevent her from serving the likes of Kallu.But if they can't get the govt. to throw the missionary out of the country then, they claim their only option is

c) to murder her.

The misisonaries try to show the love of God in practical ways to the needy and despised. The missionaries obey their Lord to love their neighbor, the image of God. And they want to make the society and our courrpted culture better but some don't like it for above mentioned reasons.

Should misionaries stop this work No not at all. Jesus loves us and commanded us to serve God and his people till the end of the age as He will be with us there.

So the work of God, transforming the lives, cultures and society and nations still continues...

The readers may join us in prayers for the Work.

(Major part of this article has been taken from "The Quest for Freedom and Dignity by Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi, It is published by Bibles for the World, CO, USA., Thanks Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi.)