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To: ratan lal who wrote (8958)	10/26/1999 11:09:00 AM
From: Nandu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Ratan, I don't know how long your "long time back" is. I too went to Catholic school, some 15-20 years back. There was a chapel attached to the school were masses were conducted and there was half an hour a week dedicated to "catechism", which I gather is religious instruction for Catholics. Only those students who were Catholics were ever asked to attend either of these and the rest of us were happy to leave school half an hour early once a week. But that is neither here nor there. If any Catholic school does employ the kind of tactics that you described, then they should be sued and forced to desist. My personal experience is otherwise. My general objection to the VHP campaign is that regardless of what they say up front, when you probe a little deeper you see that they are opposed to conversions of any kind, and not just those done forcibly. Implicit in Dalmia's statement that everybody should be "free to practice the religion of one's birth" is that one shouldn't be free to change one's religion after birth. That is not an acceptable stand. Btw, I hope you see the similarity between your refusal to do the cross and the objection by Muslims to singing Vande Mataram, or Saraswati Vandanam.

To: ratan lal who wrote (8958)	10/26/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Ratan: That is very unusual. I have gone to Hindu ,Orthodox, and Catholic schools and colleges, nobody tried to convert us to their religion and we had Hindus,Muslims,Christians,Anglo Indians along with 'dalits' etc among the students in all these schools.There were no religious functions that we had to partake other than the holidays of various religious groups,all the functions were of secular nature. The principals of these schools/colleges were all of that particular religion but teachers and professors were from various religions even though they had more of these positions filled by their own. I don't know about how it is in northern parts but in Kerala the Hindus,the Orthodox Church,the Catholics, and the Muslims don't go around trying to convert people, it is mostly the 'holly rollers' (you know the guys who claim to speak in 'tounges' and 'heal' people) who tries that, you know the Pentecostal and similar types and they are sort of frowned upon by the rest (majority) of the society.Man I am glad there aren't too many of these types in our parts,these guys get lot of money from the U.S and Europe to do this sort of thing.