Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Religious Conversion: Shame to Human Society

The religious minorities in the world always struggle to maintain their original status gracefully. Especial targets of conversion games are the kids of immigrants, who are pushed so far that they start hating everything belong to their alternative identities, uncommon to their peers- different names, dresses, spices, foods and name of Gods. I am writing this to reflect my opinion on a murder case- a second generation Indian girl Ria Ramkisson, who is neo-converted to Christianity killed her son to abide her church minister. Another confusing and converted man who really irritates every Indian is Bobby Jindal. He does not believe in global warming but believes in Adam and Eve story (If god created especially Bobby's ancestors, why can't he create global warming to teach Bobby some lessons).

Churches' bipolarity can be seen in Western culture where 40% kids are born to unwed and teenage mothers. These people depict India as the place of child marriages, Sati and casteism. I can't understand how kids in schools of western world having sex are different than child marriages in Indian subcontinent. Sati has been abolished in India many years ago, but still used to describe the trait of Hindus. But have these churches ever tried to understand the psychology behind it. Widows of warriors and elites were being raped and kept as slaves by the Middle Eastern primitive creatures who still see women as sex machine. Was not sleeping with the killers of your husband worse than death? Probably not in the western world. And situation was drastically improved in British rule itself, since they were more color conscious than exploiting a woman. After the death of her husband,Rani Lakshmi Bai, fought with East India Company for Jhansi and she and her adopted son were killed by the brutal British army. Casteism - Still after 200 years of freedom in US, a black president is continuously under the threat of white supermacy groups. How much suppressed Hispanic and African American groups in US are, can be only seen once you are here. They are very good in hiding the poors in shelters, bought using whole world's money. And I am still waiting for a non-white Pope and queen of UK to say a really equal world. How is the Western or Middle Eastern king and queen system different from what Brahmins were teaching - the class pass through birth? reality is by pushing young kids to the places for what they are not meant for make them dual for rest of their lives. Proving himself or herself a Brahmin without heart into the studies or strict daily routine, is also a punishment, as being Shudra.

I oppose all of the social evils - but don't call them as Hindus traits, they are the dark side of human nature- full of greed and lust. It appears even most of Hindus do not know what Hinduism stands for and not able to teach their kids about the true 'Sanatna Dharma'. Also, first generation of immigrants suffer tough economic conditions and are not able to spend enough time with their kids. Unlike Muslim, Hindus are more open and let their kids mingle with others and learn new culture, but the situation should not be exploited by churches. If we includes Veda, Gita, Ramayana, Upnishads; we can also include Bible and Kuran? We can and that is the most unique features of Hindu religion. Instead of fighting like dogs (as is the case with Shias and Sunis) or making dozens of churches (Mormons, Protestants, Catholics, Evangelic and so on) on the same road, we put all the idols under same roof and let the people meet and greet under same roof. Learn to appreciate, only then you can recognize how unique and great you are. But obviously, the recognition of truth is not so obvious.

1 comment:

Musings of a small town woman said...

I whole heatedly agree with you. The educated class is the main culprit. We teach our children respect for other religion and be open minded in their thoughts, but we do not teach them to be respectful of our culture and heritage or feel proud of it.