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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9397)	11/6/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

'Missonary position,COOL;missionaries, NOT'-Varsha: The battle for the millennium You guys must think I'm pathetic; that Bhosle-Srinivasan cooing borders along, "The meek don't inherit the earth, they get sent to concentration camps"! Come on, missionary position, cool; missionaries, not! I realised my faux pas when Raj gloated, "V, you've shot yourself in the foot again. They think you're beating up on me." High Priestess of Vigilance: "Huh?" "That essay hasn't been published yet, dummy!" High Priestess of Decorum: "Shit, shit, SHIT." Yup, that happened to be a line from Raj's article on conversion activities -- which also includes his thoughts on Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. He'd sent me the piece a month ago and I assumed it had already been uploaded... So what do I rant on today, the Pope or the LOP? What with such an articulate Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, it's a crime to focus on religion. But I'm forced towards fundietva, thanks to Krishna Prasad's "brotherhoodlums," and my anonymous grace in Dilip D'Souza's column. The thrust of both essays is the same. D'Souza: "Can Hinduism, 850 million strong Hinduism, really be in danger from foolish booklets circulated to 15 million Baptists?" Krishna Prasad: "...if anybody has a better explanation why a party which claims the backing of 600 or 700 or 800 million Hindus feels a threat from a community which is less than a tenth of its size, I'd like to hear it." Interesting... Are the boys suggesting that because the Christian population is 18.8 million or 2.3% (Census of India, 1991), Hindus need not be wary of conversion drives...? Ok! Time to get those number-processing brain cells into top gear, all two of them! Ponder this: The population of Bombay, by the 1991 census, is 10 million. In March, the home ministry informed us that 351 murders took place in Bombay during 1998. Meaning, 0.00351% of Mumbaikars are murderers -- assuming that one person did not kill several, or, only Mumbaikars committed the crimes. 0.00351%... So, should we argue that a debate on policing is unrequired...? Do we advise Mumbaikars to sleep with their doors and windows open since the odds of their being murdered are slim?? Is it logical? It's easy to play with figures and make them talk for you. I don't need crap about what I should or shouldn't fear. The factor that alarms me is not the 2.3% Christians -- for the average citizen does not have proselytisation on his mind. It's the no-holds-barred campaign waged by foreign and Indian missionaries -- targeting the soft sections of Hindus. YES, Hindus. Not "animists." Look at these census figures over a span of 30 years -- the same that are used to tout the decrease in the Christian population: (Continued..) rediff.com