Re: Bigotism is bigotism: it must not be tolerated!

["Raju Agarwal" <krantikari@hotmail.com>]

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According to this definition, most of the Christian missionaries that are
working in Indian to convert tribals and dalits to Christianity, would be
classified as "bigots".


>From: "Mr. Henry Thiagaraj" <hremi@vsnl.com>
>Reply-To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>To: debate@indiapolicy.org
>Subject: Bigotism is bigotism: it must not be tolerated!
>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:09:06 -0800 (PST)
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>  A friend, a Professor of Computer science & Mathematics, Satinath
>Choudhry in
>the US wrote to me, which I am sharing with all of you:
>Well, bigotry must be challenged, no matter what quarter it arises from.
>And
>it needs to be challenged openly and forcefully because if unchallenged, it
>can infect other people.
>That brings us to the question of what is bigotry?
>According to Webster dictionary, "bigoted" is: one obstinately or
>intolerantly
>devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion; One so obstinately
>attached to a creed, opinion or practice as to be illiberal or intolerant.
>The
>Thesaurus on computer gave a couple of
>more words equivalent to bigoted: narrow-minded, prejudiced.
>One could say that you just being an evangelist. You are evangelizing for
>Buddhism. There are others who evangelize for Christianity. The difference
>is
>that the Christian evangelists organize their own meetings, camps,
>gatherings,
>whatever. They do not ask people of other faiths to invite Christian
>priests
>to all their meetings, camps or other gatherings. There is a difference
>between being evangelical and being a bigot. Sure, there are bigoted
>evangelists. But one does not have to be.
>everybody who believes in any religion, stays in it thinking that his or
>her
>religion is better than others. Belief in one's own religion to that extent
>is
>understandable. But when one thinks that all of the other religions are
>inferior to the one he or she believes in, and that people belonging to
>other
>religion must convert one that he or she believes in -
>that is where one crosses the line of demarcation of "bigotism".
>
>letter ends ----------------------H. Thiagaraj
>
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