Do missionaries take advantage of the poor in India?
I am an educated Hindu (an electrical engineer). Not the Hindu projected by the Western press as a fanatic. Like millions of my countrymen who are educated and are Hindus, I share an anti-pathy towards the missionaries. I have studied in Christian schools (the Seventh Day Adventist schools as well as schools run by the Jesuits). I admire their teaching skills and I also admire them because they never tried to convert the children. They also never mentioned anything much about their religion. But this does not decrease my hatred against the missionaries trying to take advantage of the poor by offering them a few kilos of rice and some money in return for their souls. I notice that your views expounded in your website smack of western arrogance. You feel that the president and his meddling government should interfere in the internal affairs of other free nations and allow people like you to propagate your religion. Besides this, Christians like you suffer from what I term as a “persecuti