> Conversion to Christianity has not redeemed 19 million Dalit Christians >(which means oppressed and downtrodden) from social injustice. The Church >in India is primarily a Dalit Church, because 70% of India's 25 million >Christians are Dalits. If Christianity believes in equality of all men, >why then did the Church allow the converted Dalits to hang on to their >Hindu baggage? It is small wonder that the Dalit Christians have been >clamouring for job reservation as a backward class.
*** Maybe so. But is that why conversion is banned--because a dalit would always remain Dalit and could not be redeemed even by conversion? *** I am not a spokesman for the Christian church, but somehow I get the feeling that the church cannot or does not MAKE ( read force) anyone to do anything. Could that be a reason why old societal habits are hard to eradicate, as in casteism? *** And why should the Christian Dalits be left out of the special protections given to the Hindu Dalits? As a punishment for conversion? Would it be conceivable that the lot of converted Dalits is still controlled by the actions of their tormentors, the upper-caste Hindu majority? Or does that disappear with the PROHIBITED and thus ILLEGAL conversion, and therefore they ought not to seek such protection any more? Pretty pitiable arguments-these, if you asked me. At 10:36 PM -0400 9/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 9/9/03 2:30:59 PM Central Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > ><<vast numbers of Indians, although > labeled Hindus, have for centuries been mistreated, marginalized > and oppressed by traditional Hindu society. > > They still do. > > And these are the people, mostly, who get converted. >> > > Conversion to Christianity has not redeemed 19 million Dalit Christians >(which means oppressed and downtrodden) from social injustice. The Church >in India is primarily a Dalit Church, because 70% of India's 25 million >Christians are Dalits. If Christianity believes in equality of all men, >why then did the Church allow the converted Dalits to hang on to their >Hindu baggage? It is small wonder that the Dalit Christians have been >clamouring for job reservation as a backward class. > > KJD. > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Assam mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pikespeak.uccs.edu/mailman/listinfo/assam
