[QUOTE=kareng;50505]Billy, I don’t claim to know a lot about India…I find it really hard to believe that Christians have held people up at gunpoint to convert them and the only way I will believe that is for you to produce some evidence…it just doesn’t sit right in my head, not these days…so please supply some evidence.
And don’t be rude about my parents…my mother married a Sikh and spent many years in India and had great respect for India… My father loved his country and his family spent a great deal of time in arms against the British and suffered losses accordingly and yes his family wanted the Punjab given back to the Sikhs. He was a Parmar (paramaras) of the Agni Kund, Rajputs…so don’t go criticizing my family when you know nothing about them. He was an unusual, committed, driven person for his countrymen despite being in exile. When he died he was given the biggest foreign funeral ever seen in London… the Sikhs marched his body, in full Sikh style on a platform through a major part of London…so don’t knock him Billy. He was a brilliant ambassador and diplomat and exuded spiritual energy which people gravitated towards.
He did much for race relations in the 60’s in Britain where racism was on the rise at that time, and, he kept his turban on unlike many others who found it hard to avoid racism by wearing it. He also changed the laws in Britain allowing Sikhs to wear their Turban when riding a motorbike and had a positive influence in many other matters…so behave Billy!
I’m glad corruption is slowly being dealt with in India…this was my fathers main complaint…corruption…[/QUOTE]
I was in India while that happened and it was a one-hour sort of report, something that would be very difficult to dig up almost a decade+ later. But I assure you it did happen. It caused quiet the stir back then, even if it lasted for a day or so. Missionary activity to all sorts of degrees happens in India, even to the point where my father, who goes to India several times throughout the year for 2 week business trips, makes frustrated comments on it.
Of course you find it hard to believe. You are raised a Christian and think all Christians are goody-goodies who benevolently help the poor in India. Please don’t make me laugh. If you don’t want me to make ignorant comments about your father (he seemed to have been a great man by the way, bless him), then don’t make equally ignorant comments about India especially when you admitted “I don’t claim to know a lot about India” and that you have never visited India.