From my Diary - Conversions

September 16, 2008 I strongly condemn the attack on Churches and merciless Killing of our own brothers and sisters, first in Orissa and now in Karnataka. I feel wisdom should dawn and prevail on people involved in such acts.It is really very sad to see the violence route adopted by the Bajarang Dal and similar Hindu groups on the issue of conversions. I am not a Gandhian too, to say that if some one slaps on one cheek, you should offer the other. Certainly Gone are those days. We are living in most competitive age today. But to take law and order in hands is also not an approach I would like to support, no matter how aggrieved I am, on a certain issue. I feel the poor get affiliated to christianity because their basic needs of food and shelter and education are easily met by the promoters of chritianism. They are funded well by their brothers from abroad. Their missionaries, operating in India, are well supported by their counter parts abroad. So it is really the Money Power which bears fruits in spreading their religion by conversion. Then why can not Hindu sects achieve this ? Yes, it will take them also few decades, if they start today. They should approach and convince the rich Indians ( staying here or elsewhere ) and get the money power to save the conversions. I do not think any one wants to change religion for heck of it. If some one's basic needs are fulfilled and still he or she wants to change his region out of his faith in that particular religion, then be it so. I do not subscribe to making a hue and cry on such willing conversions, like Casius Clay ( Mohd Ali ) did. I pray to the gods to give wisdom to the extremists of the Bajrang Dal or all such groups, and request them to adopt a more peaceful way of stopping conversions. No one can give a license to freely kill ones' own brothers and sisters. After all they are all Indians, by all means.