1.Presentation based on a book byIshawar Sharan

2. Thomas Paine The Bible, it has been oftensaid that anything may beproved from Bible, but beforeanything can be admitted asproved by the Bible, the Bibleitself must be proved to be true,for if the Bible be not true, orthe truth of it doubtful, itceases to have authority, andcannot be admitted as proof ofanything. 3. The Myth According to Christian leaders in India, the apostle of Jesus St. Thomas came to India in 52 A.D. He founded many Syrian churches in India. He was killed by fanatical Brahmins in 72 A.D. The myth of St. Thomas is a prototype of todays popular Jesus-in-India story. 4. Dr. J.N. Farquhar 5. The first St. Thomas story was invented to give Syrian immigrants Indian ancestry and the patronage of a local martyr saint. It was resurrected and embellished in the 16th century by Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries. There is nothing factual, nor secular, about the claim that Thomas ever came to India. 6. From the beginning of the Christian era to the Arab invasions of the 7th century, Judas Thomas was & remained the central object of worship at Edessa in Syria. He had lived and taught in the city and if he did not die there, his body was returned soon afterwards from Persia. 7. Christian community in India was founded by a merchant Thomas Cananeus or Thomas of Cana in 345 A.D. He led 400 refugees who fled persecution in Persia & were given asylum by the Hindu authorities. So Thomas of Cana came to be identified with St. Thomas within a few generations of his death in Malabar. 8. Lack of Evidence There is no literary account on alleged arrival of St.Thomas in India. Some Christian historians had denied credibility to theActs of Thomas, an apocryphal work, on which thewhole story is based Those who had accepted the 4th century Catholictradition about the travels of St. Thomas, had pointedout the utter lack of evidence that he ever went beyondEthiopia or Arabia Felix. 9. Uncertainty of the name India When Columbus had landed in America, which hethought was East Asia, he labeled the indigenouspeople Indians, meaning Asians. Afghanistan is one area that was Iranian-speaking andpredominantly Mazdean [Zoroastrian] but oftenconsidered part of India. So, Afghanistan may well be the Western India wherePope Benedict placed St.Thomas in his controversialspeech in September 2006, to the dismay of the SouthIndian bishops. 10. Misinterpretation of Mazdais landas Mylapore. The town of King Mazdai or Misdaeus described in the Acts of Thomas is referred as Mylapore. Acts of Thomas describes Mazdais land as a desert country. But Mylapore has never been a desert country. It has always been known as a Hindu pilgrimage town and busy port, with jasmine gardens, jungles, peacocks and lush coconut groves. 11. The Acts of Thomas is purelyfictional work without anyhistorical authority.It was written specially to promotedoctrine that a Christian must bechaste even within the relationshipof marriage. 12. If it is true that the apostle Thomas came toIndia, then the following information furnished by theActs of Thomas is also true:1. Thomas was an antisocial character;2. Jesus was a slave trader;3. Thomas was Jesuss twin brother, implying that the four canonical Gospels are unreliable sources which have concealed a crucial fact, viz. that Jesus and Thomas were Gods Twin-born Sons. In other words, accepting the Thomas legend as history is equivalent to exploding the doctrinal foundation of Christianity. 13. Arrival of first Jesuit missionaryFrancis Xavier, in 1542, turnedChristianity in India into a violentand destructive political force thatcontinues to operate in the countrytill today. 14. C.A. Simon, article In the memory of slain saint, IndianExpress 1989 15. C. A. Simons assertion is pureinvention. 16. St. Thomas was executed for the crimes against society. These crimes included Subversion of family life, Enslavement of free-born women in the name of Jesus. Untouchabiltiy is still rampant among St. ThomasChristians today. 17. Caste System-strength of Hindu Society The missionaries were unhappy with the institution ofcaste not because of its intrinsic inequality. The problem missionaries had with caste was that itoffered a lot of communal togetherness, socialsecurity and a certain pride in ones caste identity. This caste cohesion is an important reason whyHinduism could survive where the cultures of WestAsia disappeared under the onslaught of Islam. 18. Church converted Hindusfrom schedule cast and tribesbecause ,according to churchcast system was not allowingto improve their conditions. 19. Christian missionaries preach that thebest hope to get rid of the caste systemis to accept Jesus.And now the same missionaries areasking for appellation that claimScheduled class status for HarijanChristian, Dalit Christian, Scheduled caste Christians. 20. Through the missionarypropaganda, we see caste as anexclusion-from, but in the firstplace it is a belonging-to. 21. Today a number of lower casteconverts to Christianity ismyriad and they are no moreaccepted by their upper classbrethrens. 22. Pope Gregory XV(1621-1623) There is a sanction of the church in the form of bull issued by Pope Gregory XV authorizing caste divisions within Catholic life. 23. Professor Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History. 24. Destruction of Vedapuri Iswaran TempleA.R.Pillai records(17 mar 1746) ...on Wednesday night at11,two unknown persons entered Iswaran temple carrying ina vessel of liquid filth, which they poured on the heads of theGods...Iswaran temple was the principal place of worship for Hindusof Pondicherry. The Jesuit missionaries built a church of St.Paul adjacent to it and got an order from the King of Francethat the Iswaran temple should be destroyed.Even after it was the main place of worship for Hindus. Therewere so many controversies regarding the temple but it wasdestroyed cruelly. 25. Abomination done in templeA.R.Pillai records then Father Coeurdoux of Karkil came with a greathammer, kicked the lingam, broke it with hammer......then Varlam also kicked the great lingam 9 or 10times with his sandals in the presence of MadameDupleix & priest, & spat on it, out of gladness,... 26. Kapaleeswara TempleKapaleeswaraTemple atMylapore,Madras, wassituated not inits present site,but at the siteof the presentSan ThomeChurch. 27. San Thome ChurchIt was demolishedby the Portuguesevandals and theirmissionaries of thatperiod, who erectedSan Thome churchon the site wherethe Hindu templeoriginally stood. 28. Mylapore fell into the hands of the Portuguese in 1556, when the temple suffered demolition. The present temple was rebuilt around three hundred years ago. There are some fragmentary inscriptions from the old temple still found in the St. Thomas Cathedral.N. Murugesa Mudaliar, Arulmigu Kapaleeswara Temple Mylapore, 29. San Thome ChurchSan Thome Church &Bishops House havebeen renovated andrebuilt many timedover in the last 150years. 30. Ruins of Hindu TemplesThe renovationwas an effort madeby Churchauthorities to hidethe evidence ofdestroyedHindu, Jain &Buddhist religiousbuildings thatonce occupied thissacred stretch ofMylapore seafront. 31. Mylapore 32. The temple was there up to the 16th century. Then Christian demolished it completely. Hindus built the present temple out of whatever they could salvage from the ruins of the old temple. 33. The British were lessdestructive than the Portugueseand the French, but they didnot hesitate to attack templesthat were in the way ofconstruction works. 34. Fort St. GeorgeIn Madras Britishobliterated a smallHindu Shrine thatonce stood insideFort St. George.It now contains St.Marys church, thefirst Protestantchurch built eastof Suez. 35. Victoria TerminusVictoria Terminusin Bombay is builton the original siteof the citysfamous MumbaiDevi Temple. 36. Christians must acknowledgethe historical fact that, fromBethlehem to Madras, most oftheir sacred sites are bootywon in campaigns of fraud anddestruction 37. Pope Leo X 38. What difference does it makeweather Christianity came toIndia in the first or the fourthcentury?The motives were as follow: 39. If it can beestablished thatChristianity is asancient asHinduism no onecan nail it downas an importedcreed brought infrom Westernimperialism. 40. Church needed aspectacular martyrof its own. Thechurch has to useits own resourcesand churn outsomething.St. Thomas, aboutwhom nobodyknows anything,offers a ready-made martyr 41. Church said that St.Thomas was killedby Brahmins. Now itcan be shownBrahmins havealways been viciousbrood, so much sothat they would notstop from murderinga holy man who wasonly telling Godsown truth to atormented people. 42. The Catholics inIndia need no morefeel uncomfortablewhen faced withhistorical evidenceabout their Churchsclose cooperationwith Portuguesepirates, incommittingabominable crimesagainst the IndianPeople. They say thatchurch was here longbefore thePortuguese arrived. 43. According toChristiansmissionaries, Indiamight have beenHindu homeland.But since St. Thomasstepped on hersoil, it has becomeChristian land. 44. IndianConstitution Article 25:Every Indian has a freedom of propagation ofreligion. But forcible conversion is an offence. Article 25 of the constitution has given us the freedom offree profession and propagation of religion. Freedom of propagation does not mean conversion butChristian missionaries have taken disadvantage of thisfreedom. Missionaries are funded by organizations in abroad for thisillegal activity. 45. Missionaries are taking full advantage of the articles ofthe constitution. It empowers them to establish educational institutesand go ahead with their religious fairy tales andcommunal viruses to the great detriment of the mostvital interests of the Indian nation as a whole. 46. Very soon after independence theCongress Government enacted theLand Reforms Act which was socrafted that it effectively denudethe Temples- but not the churchesand mosques- of what little bits ofland that still remained with them. 47. Every government in Kerala had been ruthlessly sabotaging and destroying temples for last 2 centuries. These government have also deliberately and eagerly functioned as the transshipment point for the transferring of Hindu wealth to Non-Hindus. Where the Hindus are concerned, for Kerala government it is loot, loot, loot and where the churches and mosques are concerned, it is give, give, give. 48. Repeated requests for a few acres of forest land forprovision of some basic amenities for the millions ofpilgrims converging on the forest temple at SabarimalaSri Sasta Temple have been flatly turned down on theground that forest land cannot be alienated withoutthe permission of the Centre. At the same time 10 hectares of forest land weregranted in a jiffy to build a church close to theSabarimala Temple 49. http://images.google.co.in/imgres?imgurl=http://lh4.ggpht.com/_TUD_eb2u_Z0/Rl3BfdN5vwI/AAAAAAAAA7E/1mgnMCTk4do/DSC05027.JPG&imgrefurl=http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/lfaFk_gK0gym6xUlcAlTqA&h=1200&w=1600&sz=18&hl=en&start=18&sig2=w2IBFkO1Rf0offX1MKayxw&um=1&usg=__srsQuydrh85iSF_c4FHaa-w2yrs=&tbnid=nwmRIXESUqEsiM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&ei=JyP6SOHIH5nAMZDI0Sw&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSabarimala%2BTemple%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26channel%3Ds%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN 50. Churches in Kerala are the biggestlandowner after the state.The churches own countlessplantations which have beencarefully left outside the preview ofthe Land Reforms Act. 51. The Church in Palayan is amagnificent edifice on a vast tractof priceless land;The mosque too is an imposing newbuilding on a spacious grounds.But the temple is just a dilapidatedhutment standing on just four centsof land. 52. Robert De NobiliRobert De Nobilibelieved in fraudrather than force.He dressed as aBrahmin, andtaught theYesurveda, a fifthVeda which hadbeen lost in India 53. This history of iconoclasm is not an accident: it is thelogical outcome of Christianity theology, is not anaccident: it is the logical outcome of Christiantheology. 54. Christianity practice CannibalismJesus had said that thepieces of bread hewas distributing werehis body and thewine with which hewas filling his disciplecups was his blood.Can a civilized manspeak like this?No one except anuncouth savagewould command hisdisciples to eat hisflesh and drink hisblood.Last Supper 55. Virgin Birth of Jesus is fake Jesus was neither the son of a virgin mother nor the Only Begotten Son of God. Jesuss perception of himself as the Messiah & the Son of God was a psychopathological condition, supported by Hallucinations (especially the voice he heard during his baptism, the visions of the devil during his fast, the vision of Elijah & Moses on Mt. Tabor) The psychopathological condition partly caused by his most ordinary but traumatic shame of having been conceived out of wedlock. 56. Christian Doctrine Platonic notion of an immortal soul, which is partof Church doctrine, makes the central Christianmessage of the resurrection of the bodysuperfluous. Christianitys emphasis on the individuals dependenceon Scriptural or Church authority has suffocated manypeople in their Spiritual development. It directly caused the persecution and killing ofnumerous freethinkers. 57. Platonism wasconsideredauthoritative in theMiddle Ages, andmany Platonicnotions are nowpermanent elementsofCatholic/ProtestantChristianity.Platonism influenced Christianity first throughClement of Alexandria(left) and Origen(right). 58. Jesus Jesus was not Gods Only Begotten Son, nor he was the Savior of mankind from its Original Sin. Historically. He was just one of the numerous antisocial preachers going around in troubled Palestine in the period of Roman rule. Whatever the worth of the values which Christians claim as theirs, nothing can be gained by making people believe in a falsehood like the faith in Jesus Christ. 59. Unhappy man JesusJesus was aunhappy man. Wecan feel compassionfor this thoroughlyunhappy man withhis miserablyunsuccessfullife, but we shouldnot compensatehim for his failureby elevating him toa super-humanstatus. 60. Beware of False ProphetJesus predictedthat the End wasnear (definitely afailedprophecy, unlesswe redefinenear), and he hada rather highopinion of himselfand of his role inthe impedingcatastrophe. 61. Churchmen have the impression that the Pagan alternative, though softer & weaker than Islam in a confrontational sense, ultimately has a stronger appeal to the educated western mind. They calculate that the better-educated mankind of the next century will typically go the way of todays European intellectuals, rather than the way of todays Black Muslims or Christian Dalits. 62. Islams money & muscle power may look impressive, certainly capable of doing some real damage to targeted countries & societies. But Islam has no chance of becoming the religion of science-based, space-conquering world society. That is way the Churches are investing huge resources in the battle for Asias mind, where they face their most formidable enemy. 63. That is why they are so active inIndia: not only Indias atmosphereof Islamic countries, or even ofnon-Islamic countries whereproselytization is prohibited; butthey also know & fear the intrinsicsuperiority of the Indian religion. 64. The Santhome Church whichChristian claim commemoratesSt. Thomass martyrdom at thehand of Hindu fanaticism, is infact a monument of Hindumartyrdom at the hands ofChristian fanaticism.