Achievements of Christianity Bharatbhai R Pandya part 1.
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1. Jesus Christ gave rights to all irrespective of caste, color and country.
In Europe Christianity disturbed class relations, upturned societies as a result complete transformation took place.----- Christianity meant change . Peoploe who were fed up with centuries old conventions, prejudices, inequalities found new heaven in Christianity. At the same time Christianity does not believe in bringing about change through violent means as the Muslims did . It gave emphasis to change of heart and not change of dress and outward show of human beings.
2. Christianity gave rights to spiritual equality . What is meant by spiritual equality ? It means that the access to God is open to all without any hindrance of caste, cclass or gender. Hinduism monopolized spiritual equality among three castes only. How to widen this right ? By spreading education . If common people are educated then they can read the books of the religion, the Bible. Bible became harbinger of Civil Wars which produced new social equations as in America. They priests and administrators put Bible in the hands of all people . In Africa, the settlers went there with Bible, English language and concept of God who was very considerate, sympathetic and pitiful, of forgiving nature .People came to know of new God who was very accessible and they built Churches in villages and Cities and invited even those who had not embraced Christianity , to come and worship the God. . Similar thing happened in Islam. Before starting the Namaz , the bangi mounts on the minaret and shouts to his full voice, and gives invitation to the listeners saying that, " Oh believers in all mighty God, come here,come here, we all pray the all mighty God together " This is called Azan. (b) In India Hinduism acted in a narrow manner, it closed the doors of education on 85 % of people, who were called Shudras and limited the access to God only to the three Varnas 1. Brahmins 2. Vaisyas and 3. Kshatriyas. Woeshipping God awas strictly forbidden and in Ramayan Hindu God Ram is said to have killed one Shambuk who worshipped him ! This is not only shocking but shameful.
3. The Christianity delivered human rights to the people whom they dominated at their door steps, while Hinduism took a very narrow and inhuman approach to this aspect and denied human rights to 85 % of people as if they were aliens and conquered subjects.So national Integrity was tyhe first casualty and it became easy for the Islamist aggressors and the European powers to find a foot hold on Indian soil, expand their influence from commerce to politics and then onward to subjugating the entire sub-continent. The prevailing caste System made their task easier as there was not left any sense of human dignity and self respect among most of the people because every layer of Caste System except the Brahmins , was graning under the domination one or more castes over them. The Kshatriyas were dominated by the Brahmins, the Vaishyas were dominated by both the Kshatriyas as well the Brahmins. Then the Shudras were dominated by the Vaishyas, the Kshatriyas and the Brahmins . No where in the world there was such a system where the layers of people were both the dominated as well as the suppressed.
4. Even Gods were discriminatory in their attitude toward the suppressed. The Gods never favored the suppressed , this ran in total contrast to the Christianity and Islam. Christianity treated all the people as equal and human, even Islam also behaved that way , and treated all the people as humans and worthy of human rights. ( Contd )
