As reported by LifeSiteNews, the first in-depth assessment of religions across India has found that very few self-identifying “Christians” actually practice the faith: more than half still believe in karma — a majority doesn’t believe in miracles — and only a few object to marriages with non-Christians:
Despite some troubling findings, the survey found what might be called fertile ground for Christianity. More than 75% of Christians consider faith important, claimed to know a great deal about faith, and pray daily. Moreover, 9 in 10 Christians are immensely proud to be Christian, as well as to be Indian, according to the survey.
The study, the largest Pew research study ever undertaken outside the U.S., was “based on nearly 30,000 face-to-face interviews of adults conducted in 17 languages and 29 states and union territories between late 2019 and early 2020”. The survey found that among adults claiming to be Christian in India:
68% of Christian respondents believe in “only one God”.
32% say they believe in the purifying power of the Ganges river.
54% of Christians believe in karma.
29% in reincarnation.
1 in 5 Christians confirm praying in or performing rituals in Hindu temples.
5% believe in polytheism.
42% believe in fate.
48% of Christians say that many religions can be true.
51% do not believe in Last Judgement.
Nonetheless, more than 3 out of 4 Christians affirm their faith to be very essential in their life, they emphasize that they know a great deal about the faith and its practices, and they pray daily.
Bishop Mar Thomas Elavanal, Chairman of the Syro-Malabar Synodal Commission for Liturgy told LifeSite that the survey “was an eye-opener.” He pointed to the contradiction of not believing “in the One God [or] Last Judgement and believing in karma and [yet] claiming to know a great deal of their faith.” Elavanal, who is Bishop of the Eparchy of Kalyan in the Indian state of Maharashtra, concedes that many Christians are influenced by other religious beliefs and are “not convinced about the uniqueness of Christ.”
Fr. Dr. Jacob Koippally, Vice-President of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences – Indian Session, told LifeSite that, with the plurality of religions in India, faith in the uniqueness of Christ must be stressed to Christian children in India.
Despite Christian teaching against marrying outside the faith (2 Corinthians 6:14), the study found that only a third of adult Indian Christians found it especially important to dissuade Christians from marrying non-Christians. In contrast, two-thirds of Hindus and more than 4 out of 5 Muslims strongly support stopping their members from marrying outside their religions. Bishop Elavanal told LifeSite he was shocked that “for 63% of Christians, faith is not an important factor in choosing a partner in marriage.” He added, “They are more concerned about education and economic status” and fail to understand that two persons are joined by God. Jesus says, “So they are no longer two, but one flesh.” (Matt. 19:6). Elavanal said, “They are to be, one in body, mind and spirit. They must become one spiritually – sharing the same faith.”
Other key findings regarding Christians in the survey include the following:
78% of Christians proclaim absolute certainty in their belief in God.
For 1 of 5 adult Christians, baptism is not especially important.
24% believe in “only one God with many manifestations.”
32% do not believe in “angels or benevolent spirits”.
59% do not believe in “demons or evil spirits”.
52% do not believe in miracles.Archbishop Felix Anthony Machado, Bishop of Vasai, member of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue and general secretary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of India – speaking to Christianity Today admits, “When I, as a religious leader, talk to my own Catholic Christians, I find how little they know of the richness of their faith.” Fr. Koippally, told LifeSite “we have failed to teach our children to love the Church.” They are, he says “in the church” rather than “being the Church.”
The reality is that Christian missionaries have been attempting to convert Indians for the last 500 years — and have utterly failed — India is not a “fertile” ground for anything but paganism and superstition.
There’s a good reason that Paul did not write an epistle to the Bhārata — or any non-Adamic peoples for that matter.
In fact, Indian gurus have been far more successful in finding adherents in the West than Christian missionaries have been in India — barely more than 1% of India is “Christian.”
While women in white Christian nations have been afforded a revered and protected social status, India is ranked highest in the world in violence toward women — and gang rape in India is literally a national pastime.
Yet “liberated” western women often prefer gurus from this country where cannibalism is still practiced — these navel-gazing yoga contortionists are considered far more spiritually “advanced” than “intolerant” and “stiff” Christians.
In fact, one Indian guru named Amma — who is literally a multimillionaire — claims to have “hugged” 38 million of her followers in the West.
As for India, it is the land of a 100 million gods — including grossly deformed animals — and it’s hard for yet another god in the pantheon to compete for the attention of Indians — and Jesus is no exception, apparently.
But Indians are also incredibly “racist” — their racial caste system is brutal — a remnant from their history when India was ruled by Adamic Aryans who violated their own religious laws and interbred with the black natives — and created the multi-tiered hierarchy with the whitest, cafe-au-lait Indians at the top — the so-called “brahmin class.”
Jews, of course, would have us believe that Indians — unlike white people — are descendants of the “lost tribes of Israel” — however, once the Aryans of India mixed with the natives, the bastard children were forever cut off from Israel — by law.
But Indians revere White people — and next to Jews they are masters at imitating our habits and speech — in fact, one Indian professor at an American college believes that Indians should be considered “honorary white people.”
This all goes to show that Indians cannot be white people for the same reason they cannot be real Christians — the real ekklesia — they lack the Adamic spirit that is a prerequisite to apprehending the Logos of Jesus Christ.
Thai Russian Orthodox convert still participate in Buddhist rituals, e.g., go to temples, worship the Buddha, and putting food into Buddhist Monks bowls as they beg for food every morning…
In Asia as a whole, Christ Jesus is 1 of many deities…because they figure “all roads lead to the same destination”… Priest have never taught them that “Our God is a jealous God”… and “Christ and Christ alone”…
I speak with credibility and certainty. I am an American living in Thailand, and a Russian Orthodox
Just a few months ago I archived a Barna survey on American Christians – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2021/04/stunning-number-of-americans-dont-hold.html?m=0 – much closer to home than India.
This comes as no surprise to me really. I’m almost surrounded by indians where I live. They talk about karma and their gods and get around with dots on their foreds and beads and nighties and warpaint. They are a strange bunch, and in the main, stingy, dodgy, unintelligible in speech, bargain hunting, sexual deviants. They always want to be your friend… as long as it’s on their terms and they get something out of it. They pay no real heed to road rules either. And they’ve brought their religious nonsense with them! Sikhs vs hindus vs moslems. The beaches near me are awash with little brown pots and flowers that they float out on the tide for some religious reason. Hundreds of broken terracotta pots litter the seashore now. The local council has told them not too, but they do it anyway. They throw cocoanuts in to the sea too. But the worst is the shrines everywhere with coins, and the discarded clothing in the water, which makes it look like someone has drowned. They just biff it all in to the sea for some type of god worship.
The pacific islanders, chinese, koreans, arabs, blacks, maoris, indians etc, all just introduce their own spiritual codswallop on top of Christianity like it needs improvement or something. If you try to build on Jesus, you just squash Him!
One way! Jesus!
This is what happens when you start of by saying “we are not Israelites and have adopted this book & belief as gentiles, just like you can.” That means there is no arbiter of interpretation, all peoples who call themselves “Christian” are equally valid, and equally as free to act as they see fit and interpret as they see fit. There is also a precedent already set for incorporating pagan beliefs into Christianity.
Not that most Europeans generally have had any coherent, concrete worldview when it comes to what Christ’s teachings really were, and in reality the “Great Commission” can only be accomplished if the people trying to accomplish it, actually know the undeniable truth, in totality, of what the messiah taught. Then again, if we were still stuck with nothing but Catholic Priests or the Vatican as arbiters, we would be even worse off than this chaos of disparate ideas, because they just use the writings as a way to reinforce their theocratic power.
Nowadays, with the Neo-Pagans & Thelema-style Satanists constantly pushing the idea that Christianity was fabricated as a psychological/ cultural weapon, by Jews, it divides the dissidents against Jewish power into groups that can never properly unite (for fear of betrayal).
Just as the same groups were doing in Germany during WW2. Frankly, Odinists seem far more concerned with Christians than they are with Jews, it seems like their hatred of Jews stems from their hatred of Christians, rather than the other way around. They are hippies first and foremost, and then secondarily, have adopted patriarchal views & race-realism. There are plenty of Neo-Pagans who do not adopt such views, and they would say Fascist Odinists are materialistic & full of fears.
I would be more open to their ideas on Christianity, if they did not lie about the nature of such things like Kabbalah & Freemasonry, or German NSDAP. The Freemasons are given the freedom to come to a range of conclusions in response to the “Gnosis” that they receive in exchange for their investment in the cult/ lodges. But the higher ranking lodges are Luciferian, and people like Albert Pike were openly Luciferian. They subscribe to an eclectic pagan worldview and “Lucifer” is not the “Demiurge” or “Saturn”/ “Baal.” In Luciferian understanding, all mundane Abrahamic religions are from the “Demiurge,” with Islam being the most recent & explicit iteration. Allah is not really any different from the Gnostic concept of the Demiurge, except Muslims openly worship such a figure rather than see that figure as an antagonist.
And if the German NSDAP were secret Neo-Pagans, that means their entire lives and everything they said they were fighting for, was a huge deception. It means they held similar views of Christianity that modern Neo-Pagans openly espouse, they likely used the German populace as canon fodder, fighting European Christians against other European Christians. And why would German Neo-pagans even care about Bolsheviks killing Russian & Ukrainian Christians?
That kind of cunning and deceptiveness is the complete opposite of the honour that Neo-pagan Odinists pretend to uphold as the highest principle, supposedly inherent to Germanic tribes. They are a never-ending contradiction that can only see faults in others, but refuse to develop a sense of self-awareness.