Dedications

Just wondering how does demolishing a mosque and building a temple because a temple stood prior in that spot, please any God? At the same time all religions preach of one God! So what would have been there prior to the temple? How far are we going to dig seeking God? Religion which is supposed to unite humanity is dividing humanity and many a times to bloody levels of killings. Killing those refusing conversion or obstructing to their building a place of worship for God. Paradoxical God who we want to believe created the Universe and the world and even us, does he need us to build a place of worship for himself or herself? 

Besides the Moghuls were the colonist who brought their corrupted version of Christianity into India, when India had Christianity centuries before the white jokers invaded India and brought in a white version of Christ which is widely worshipped. To the extent one of the main clergy spear heading Inquisition in India during the Portuguese, was Francis Xavier. A man who was responsible for brutal murder of thousands of the local Hindu community and forceful conversion. Shocking and even shameless is the Catholic Church is even canonising him as a Saint. To the extent the Catholics are actually worshipping or praying to saint that was responsible for killing their own race? The Inquisition killings by the colonists even included killing or conversions of early Christian community in India. A religion that claims God sent his only son Jesus Christ to save the world. Was killing in the name of Jesus Christ also a way to save the world? With the amount of Church scandals, financial and land frauds, Bishops fathering kids, children sodomised, sexual crimes, it looks like the next line of saints would all be from India, as Church makes saints out of criminals, sodomisers, rapists, fraudsters. 

The latest by the Catholic Church is canonising of Hindu man named Neelakandan Pillai who lived in the 18th century and had converted to Christianity, declaring him a Saint. How many Catholic Indian saints are celebrated in any part of the Western World? How many Churches are there in the World or in India named after any Indian Saint? How many Indian Christians even know the number or names of Indian Saints? White colonization and Inquisition has white washed Christianity in India so bad, that to seek God of Christianity in India, we have to take instruction from a white man in Rome. Why this sudden surge of sainthood in India after 3 centuries? New novelty style of evangelising? Even the various names that the Catholic Church has for Mother Mary and huge festivities around those various names, which is good. Question is how many Western Churches celebrate Our Lady of Velankanni, like the recent feast of Our Lady of Fatima? When will the Church in India have the courage to establish its own identity? On the contrary in the recent synod happening in Bombay Catholic clergy is trying to abolish traditional East Indian culture like Agera, Intrus which is a part of religious culture of the East Indians, who also happen to be the original inhabitants of Bombay. Nigeria was one of the first countries to tell the Vatican not to interfere in the cultural aspect of religious rituals. When will India have the courage to tell the Vatican to stay off? Lack of assimilation and blending into Indian culture is a shame on the Catholic Church of India. 

When will humanity stop seeking, searching and digging for God in structures and places? When will we stop seeing God in religions or fooled to see God in another religion and start seeing God in every human being? India is the country that even has it greeting which says Namastey. Meaning I bow to the divine in you. How did we end trying to the seeing the divine in religious structures or demolishing other religious structure to seek our version of God. 

India is now simmering with tension on the issue of loudspeakers on Mosques. When Saudi Arabia the seat of Islam is having them banned or audio levels regualarised. Countering it is Hindu outfits blaring their religious hymns outside Mosques. What are we doing? Proving God is deaf? 

As in our search and seeking for God we are actually driving Him away in His pursuit of seeking us; with all the din and sin

# posted by Sunny Fernandes @ 4:40 AM