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confession by a christian, Esther Dhanraj

I was seeing some of her videos and reading her tweets.
I feel nothing she says has substance.
In fact she was even finding fault with Jesus in one tweet.

Its very common for anyone who is an ex christian or ex muslim or ex hindu to make videos of their former religion.

There are many such videos on you tube..even one Pakistani ex muslim joined ISCKON and makes videos against Islam.

When a person leaves his or her former religion....he or she does faces some guilt till they stabilize in their new religion.

So what does the Ego do to handle this?
It wont admit they are feeling guilty...so the Ego creates hatred for its former religion.

The intelligent person realizes that in this transition state the best thing to do is keep silent becos they would be causing damage to others by their views.

Esther is still in the transition stage..she might get some fans but its only sows seeds of intolerance.

One who leaves any religion should do so gracefully with sense and sensibility.

As for Esther she has faced 2 transitions..from Hinduism to Christianity and from Christianity to Hinduism again...will she go tru another transition to any other religion in the future?
 
I was seeing some of her videos and reading her tweets.
I feel nothing she says has substance.
In fact she was even finding fault with Jesus in one tweet.

Its very common for anyone who is an ex christian or ex muslim or ex hindu to make videos of their former religion.

There are many such videos on you tube..even one Pakistani ex muslim joined ISCKON and makes videos against Islam.

When a person leaves his or her former religion....he or she does faces some guilt till they stabilize in their new religion.

So what does the Ego do to handle this?
It wont admit they are feeling guilty...so the Ego creates hatred for its former religion.

The intelligent person realizes that in this transition state the best thing to do is keep silent becos they would be causing damage to others by their views.

Esther is still in the transition stage..she might get some fans but its only sows seeds of intolerance.

One who leaves any religion should do so gracefully with sense and sensibility.

As for Esther she has faced 2 transitions..from Hinduism to Christianity and from Christianity to Hinduism again...will she go tru another transition to any other religion in the future?
HI RENUKA, Esther Dhanraj has done the right thing in reverting to the path that God chose for her at birth.

One who leaves any religion should do so gracefully with sense and sensibility? Nothing ungraceful about what she has done and she is being very sensible in exposing CHURCHIANITY for what it to tp warn her Hindu brethren against committing the same blunder

In the Proverbs of King Solomon in the Old Testament it is stated:

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thy own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct ty paths. (3.5-6)

She left Hinduism, which God chose for her in His infinite wisdom, because she lost her "trust in the Lord" for sometime due to her ignorance and adopted Christianity by mistake. and having seen Christianity or rather CHURCHIANITY for what it is, has she not gained that lost trust and "acknowledged Him" in the process in reverting to Hinduism? In fact you should actually praise her for the very courageous step she has taken. According to you, her conversion to Christianity was right and her reverting to Hinduism was wrong and that she might commit the same error again. Going by your own logic then, her converting to Christianity was also a mistake. She definitely has done the right thing in reverting to her God-chosen path.

May be you are a born-again Christian yourself. If so, you too would do well to follow in her footstep.
 
HI RENUKA, Esther Dhanraj has done the right thing in reverting to the path that God chose for her at birth.

One who leaves any religion should do so gracefully with sense and sensibility? Nothing ungraceful about what she has done and she is being very sensible in exposing CHURCHIANITY for what it to tp warn her Hindu brethren against committing the same blunder

In the Proverbs of King Solomon in the Old Testament it is stated:

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thy own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct ty paths. (3.5-6)

She left Hinduism, which God chose for her in His infinite wisdom, because she lost her "trust in the Lord" for sometime due to her ignorance and adopted Christianity by mistake. and having seen Christianity or rather CHURCHIANITY for what it is, has she not gained that lost trust and "acknowledged Him" in the process in reverting to Hinduism? In fact you should actually praise her for the very courageous step she has taken. According to you, her conversion to Christianity was right and her reverting to Hinduism was wrong and that she might commit the same error again. Going by your own logic then, her converting to Christianity was also a mistake. She definitely has done the right thing in reverting to her God-chosen path.

May be you are a born-again Christian yourself. If so, you too would do well to follow in her footstep.
She didnt convert to Christianity because of ignorance.
She was just a kid when her parents converted to Christianity.
I guess you havent seen her videos where she said how confused she was when her parents converted cos she being a brahmin still had all Hindu mantras in her mind and she felt guilty and scared that the mantras were still in her mind.

She reverted to Hinduism as an adult.
Frankly speaking that is her choice what she does about her Dharma but its always better to just revert without bad mouthing any religion.

Just type on you tube about Ex Hindus or Ex Muslims leaving their religion and they go ballistics on their former religion.
Honestly what good does it do?

Also to bring to your kind attention, no where in my post did I say her conversion to Christianity was right and her reverting to Hinduism is wrong.

No idea what gave you that impression or may be you might need to re read my post.

I guess may be you are not a Hindu?
Cos usually a Hindu doesnt accuse anyone of being a born again Christian sans evidence ..that amounts to Himsa( Violence).
May be you could consider reverting to Hinduism to experience Ahimsa.
 
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Why should we bash any religion?
I agree forced conversion should be punished.
I have the freedom to choose my faith and that should be accorded to all.
Conversion is never needed.
No one is barred from practicing Hinduism. Only now Hindu Temples are banning people of other religions.
Even that is wrong. A non-Hindu who wants to visit and temple should be allowed. Here in my town (in the USA), we conduct a Temple tour for school students and answer all their questions. Our temple is open to all.

Rajiv Malhotra is selling his show to his audience that is pure commercialism. If he thought selling an interview of conversion to ISIS will bring him more fame and money, I am sure he will not hesitate to do so.
 
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Why should we bash any religion?
I agree forced conversion should be punished.
I have the freedom to choose my faith and that should be accorded to all.
Conversion is never needed.
No one is barred from practicing Hinduism. Only now Hindu Temples are banning people of other religions.
Even that is wrong. A non-Hindu who wants to visit and temple should be allowed. Here in my town (in the USA), we conduct a Temple tour for school students and answer all their questions. Our temple is open to all.

Rajiv Malhotra is selling his show to his audience that is pure commercialism. If he thought selling an interview of conversion to ISIS will bring him more fame and money, I am sure he will not hesitate to do so.
Exactly! His channels and host of " warriors" have become like a Zakir Naik channel where its all about potraying other religions negatively.

Instead of all this propaganda they can at least focus on Hindu teachings since some of his " intellectual kshatriyas" are actually well qualified in the field of Hinduism and one is very well versed in Vedas too.

But one thing I noted in some of these channels , they all the blame the current state of affairs on the invadors.

Though I agree invadors plundered India and affected it badly but why harp non stop on the past and not also make changes in mindset.

Not 100% of everything is the fault of invador, some are also fault in the society too..if we keep blaming others non stop how on earth would one introspect?

Japan was reduced to nothing once upon a time..total destruction.
Surely they remember Hiroshima Nagasaki incident but they rebuilt themselves..mindset changed too and they are one of the most advanced and disciplined nation in the world and very Zen in ethics.

I saw one Video from a different channel( not Rajiv Malhotra), where they were praising open defecation cos its enviromental friendly and blamed British for introducing toilets and made a manual scavenging caste!

But they forget that Mohenjadaro and Harappa had a flushing toilet system.

Some of this videos are really weird.
 
She didnt convert to Christianity because of ignorance.
She was just a kid when her parents converted to Christianity.
I guess you havent seen her videos where she said how confused she was when her parents converted cos she being a brahmin still had all Hindu mantras in her mind and she felt guilty and scared that the mantras were still in her mind.

She reverted to Hinduism as an adult.
Frankly speaking that is her choice what she does about her Dharma but its always better to just revert without bad mouthing any religion.

Just type on you tube about Ex Hindus or Ex Muslims leaving their religion and they go ballistics on their former religion.
Honestly what good does it do?

Also to bring to your kind attention, no where in my post did I say her conversion to Christianity was right and her reverting to Hinduism is wrong.

No idea what gave you that impression or may be you might need to re read my post.

I guess may be you are not a Hindu?
Cos usually a Hindu doesnt accuse anyone of being a born again Christian sans evidence ..that amounts to Himsa( Violence).
May be you could consider reverting to Hinduism to experience Ahimsa.
Renuka, thank you for your thoughts. Assuming you are a Hindu, you do your religion proud! I am a Christian of Indian origin. I have no problems with Esther leaving Christianity - God bless her, that is everyone's right. I don't even have a problem with her airing her grievances. However, the fair thing to do is to have a Christian representative in these forums to provide their side of the story for each of her arguments. I can see so many points Esther is making that I can provide an answer for. And there have been Christians invited to her channel, but always (at least the videos that I have seen) Christians who have a grudge against their own faith.

I saw a few of Esther's videos and then stopped. I don't feel angry, just hurt, because most of what she says, is not the way a genuine Christian perceives their faith. As I was telling a Hindu friend about this general sentiment of hostility that pervades social media: "And all this channel (Intelligent Kshatriya) accomplishes is getting an audience who have a complaint against Christianity, and they are further fed incorrect information. What does that accomplish - a vicious cycle of ignorance and hate, or not? It does not add anything to the credit of the Sanatana Dharma, whose cause the channel is trying to espouse"
 
Renuka, thank you for your thoughts. Assuming you are a Hindu, you do your religion proud! I am a Christian of Indian origin. I have no problems with Esther leaving Christianity - God bless her, that is everyone's right. I don't even have a problem with her airing her grievances. However, the fair thing to do is to have a Christian representative in these forums to provide their side of the story for each of her arguments. I can see so many points Esther is making that I can provide an answer for. And there have been Christians invited to her channel, but always (at least the videos that I have seen) Christians who have a grudge against their own faith.

I saw a few of Esther's videos and then stopped. I don't feel angry, just hurt, because most of what she says, is not the way a genuine Christian perceives their faith. As I was telling a Hindu friend about this general sentiment of hostility that pervades social media: "And all this channel (Intelligent Kshatriya) accomplishes is getting an audience who have a complaint against Christianity, and they are further fed incorrect information. What does that accomplish - a vicious cycle of ignorance and hate, or not? It does not add anything to the credit of the Sanatana Dharma, whose cause the channel is trying to espouse"
Thank you. God bless you. Yes, I am a Hindu by birth.

I have stopped watching most channels on you tube which portray any religion in negative light.Life is too short to fill my mind with negativity and chaos.

I do agree that Esther Dhanaraj portrays Christianity and even Jesus negatively.
Most channels on you tube are just into getting LIKES and followers by string up the hornet's nest and creating hatred.

That's not the way of any religion.
Also at the same time forced conversion and brainwashing is also wrong but if someone accepts Christianity out of their own free will then its their personal choice.

After all many Whites do give up Christianity and join ISCKON and do well as Hindus.
It's just that each human has their own calling.
Some find peace in Hinduism and some others find it in Abrahamic faiths.

Intellectual Kshatriya channel is a channel where their panel of members are well qualified intellectuals from the university degree point of view but true divine wisdom isn't found by intellectualization.

True wisdom only comes when we surrender to God and any pre-existing acquired knowledge would open itself up to us in dimensions we never found in text books.

It's only through God where we humans have an awakening and divine knowledge flows through our mind in the expression of love.


Call God any name you want, be is Krishna, Shiva, Vishnu,Jesus,Allah..He responds to a sincere surrender.
 
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Thank you. God bless you. Yes, I am a Hindu by birth.

I have stopped watching most channels on you tube which portray any religion in negative light.Life is too short to fill my mind with negativity and chaos.

I do agree that Esther Dhanaraj portrays Christianity and even Jesus negatively.
Most channels on you tube are just into getting LIKES and followers by string up the hornet's nest and creating hatred.

That's not the way of any religion.
Also at the same time forced conversion and brainwashing is also wrong but if someone accepts Christianity out of their own free will then its their personal choice.

After all many Whites do give up Christianity and join ISCKON and do well as Hindus.
It's just that each human has their own calling.
Some find peace in Hinduism and some others find it in Abrahamic faiths.

Intellectual Kshatriya channel is a channel where their panel of members are well qualified intellectuals from the university degree point of view but true divine wisdom isn't found by intellectualization.

True wisdom only comes when we surrender to God and any pre-existing acquired knowledge would open itself up to us in dimensions we never found in text books.

It's only through God where we humans have an awakening and divine knowledge flows through our mind in the expression of love.


Call God any name you want, be is Krishna, Shiva, Vishnu,Jesus,Allah..He responds to a sincere surrender.
 
Thank you Renuka, I think we are on the same page on a lot of things. I totally agree with you - forced conversions in any form, by coercion, inducement, emotional strongarm tactics or brainwashing are wrong. But is a lot of that happening? I don't think so, but if it is, I again say it is wrong. Also, there is a complaint that European colonization in India is supported by Christians. No, I think it was morally wrong, because whatever good they may have done, you can't just take over a country, like what is happening in Ukraine. While I am here, I would like to clarify two other common complaints against Christians.
1) Christians are always trying to evangelize. I would like to explain why, through an example. If I am a true friend of yours, and if I have found something precious (so precious that I can't just keep it to myself) , wouldn't I share it with you. Otherwise, am I a true friend? Same way, if you have something in your religion that is precious, wouldn't you share it? I hope that makes sense.
2) The second is that Christians believe that the God they worship is the only true God. I agree that sounds intellectually arrogant. But the Bible says ' I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other gods before me' and again Christ says 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me'. That is why Christians make the assertion of one true God. That said, God is a God of infinite justice and mercy. I can't think that all the non-Christians who are leading a good life according to their conscience are doomed. Absolutely not. That is what the Catholic Church also says. See https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist...ts/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html.
In summary, I want to reiterate, I don't come to you from a position of superiority or of strength. All have fallen short. I am not okay, you are not okay, but that is okay, because God is good. I needed to say what I said, because that is our belief. If I have offended you, my apologies.

Also, I want to thank the Tamil Brahmin forum for allowing me to join it. That is gracious of your group. I did not mean to intrude. I will try and de-register, because members may rightly feel uncomfortable, When I searched for Esther, I found your forum and when I replied, I was prompted to register, so that's why I am in. God bless you all and keep up the good work, because I found many of the members making points that are truthful and without malice.
 
In summary, I want to reiterate, I don't come to you from a position of superiority or of strength. All have fallen short. I am not okay, you are not okay, but that is okay, because God is good. I needed to say what I said, because that is our belief. If I have offended you, my apologies.

Also, I want to thank the Tamil Brahmin forum for allowing me to join it. That is gracious of your group. I did not mean to intrude. I will try and de-register, because members may rightly feel uncomfortable, When I searched for Esther, I found your forum and when I replied, I was prompted to register, so that's why I am in. God bless you all and keep up the good work, because I found many of the members making points that are truthful and without malice.
There is no need to de-register, please stay. The site welcomes everyone. No need to offend any religion.
 
Thank you Renuka, I think we are on the same page on a lot of things. I totally agree with you - forced conversions in any form, by coercion, inducement, emotional strongarm tactics or brainwashing are wrong. But is a lot of that happening? I don't think so, but if it is, I again say it is wrong. Also, there is a complaint that European colonization in India is supported by Christians. No, I think it was morally wrong, because whatever good they may have done, you can't just take over a country, like what is happening in Ukraine. While I am here, I would like to clarify two other common complaints against Christians.
1) Christians are always trying to evangelize. I would like to explain why, through an example. If I am a true friend of yours, and if I have found something precious (so precious that I can't just keep it to myself) , wouldn't I share it with you. Otherwise, am I a true friend? Same way, if you have something in your religion that is precious, wouldn't you share it? I hope that makes sense.
2) The second is that Christians believe that the God they worship is the only true God. I agree that sounds intellectually arrogant. But the Bible says ' I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other gods before me' and again Christ says 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me'. That is why Christians make the assertion of one true God. That said, God is a God of infinite justice and mercy. I can't think that all the non-Christians who are leading a good life according to their conscience are doomed. Absolutely not. That is what the Catholic Church also says. See https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist...ts/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html.
In summary, I want to reiterate, I don't come to you from a position of superiority or of strength. All have fallen short. I am not okay, you are not okay, but that is okay, because God is good. I needed to say what I said, because that is our belief. If I have offended you, my apologies.

Also, I want to thank the Tamil Brahmin forum for allowing me to join it. That is gracious of your group. I did not mean to intrude. I will try and de-register, because members may rightly feel uncomfortable, When I searched for Esther, I found your forum and when I replied, I was prompted to register, so that's why I am in. God bless you all and keep up the good work, because I found many of the members making points that are truthful and without malice.
Dear Anon,
Personally my christian friends never tried to preach to me Christianity.
Those who are Christians by birth are usually well established in their religion and do not impose it on others.

But newly converted Christians try hard to influence others ..mostly because its a new thing for them and a little euphoria is there..just like Whites who follow ISCKON have a tendency to try to preach to non Hindus too..again its because of being new in the religion.
After a while they will stabilize.

Well, as a Hindu by birth, my tendency is to view religion as a very personal issue.
So its just not in me to want to share my personal beliefs with even another Hindu.
I guess most Hindus are religious introverts as the Hindu mindset is more of a personal Moksha based one.

Coming to what Jesus said is certainly true in the context of the Bible.
Jesus said no one reaches the Father except through Him.
In that context Jesus is a Guru where a Guru leads one from darkness to light, from untruth to truth hence Jesus said " I am the way, the truth and the life"

But mostly some think that Jesus meant " My way or the highway" and thats where all the problem started.

Jesus was preaching to a group of people hence He established a Guru- Shishya relationship and a shishya has to completely surrender to the Guru and will reach God through the Guru.

Its so clear Jesus was being a true Guru to lead others.

In the Quran you would find verses which say that God guides who He wills and many a times the prophet( pbuh) is reminded that his work is only to transmit the message but it is God who guides whom He wills.


In each era a messenger or prophet or avatar has a specific mission to accomplish and mode of application might differ...hence even in the Abrahamic faiths the role of the messengers differed.

Anyway, nice talking to you.
Stay on in Forum and share your knowledge and also everyone here can share their knowledge with you.

Regards
 
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Why religions do not advise the followers to respect other religions?​

Religions were made for the betterment of the human race. It is expected that there should be ample advice to respect people, even all the people of all other religions.
BUT
The reverse is seen. Followers of one segment of religion even hate the followers of the other sections of the same religion!
It is practically very rare to see respect among the followers of one religion for other religions.

Then what is the use of religions in society if they only divide people?

 
There’s a strange resemblance between religious conversion stories and weight-loss ads: both rely on astutely edited “before” and “after” images.

To sell slimming products, the camera first shows a man facing forward, flaunting his flabby gut and lumpy love handles. In the “after” shots, the camera is angled to the side, highlighting a newly narrowed midriff.

The goal of the illusion isn’t to just make the man look better, of course; it’s to make viewers believe that a product has the miraculous power to turn blubber into brawn.

As anyone who has spent time in a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, sangha, AA meeting or prison knows, a similar effect can arise in religious conversion stories. The “before” pictures, in particular, tend to darken. The snares of sin sharpen, the descent into depravity deepens.

Often enough, eye-roll-worthy embellishments are accepted, even expected. What’s a little stretch when you’re winning souls for Christ or escaping bad karma? But sometimes converts’ zeal can get the better of them.

These days politics and religion are playing a big role, religious vote banks are a fate changer for many. When a Hindu gets converted to Christianity or Islam there is huge outrage and accusation but when a Muslim gets converted to Hinduism for whatever reason, they become stalwarts. You will see them in every news space. Panelists in prime-time debates, to add more to it, their sins are forgiven and they become political tools too.

We all have the right to choose our religion, we all are born not knowing anything about any God or any Religion. They don’t have any beliefs or any meaningful thoughts for that matter. As we grow up, we become religious by following the family we were born in, language to learn, what nationality to have, where to live, and with whom to live for the rest of our life. For the first few years or so of our lives, we have zero authority over that decision. Well, most of us love where we belong and many don’t find solace and they change their beliefs once they grow up to make that decision.

Nevertheless, people can decide to remain religious or to shun religion later on but if you can’t be loyal to one belief, how can you remain loyal to the one you adopted is a big question. In the recent past many Muslim men got converted to Hinduism for their own reasons, one common factor was that they all were abusing their earlier beliefs they lived for ages. India has a history of Muslims getting converted to Hinduism but none of them slammed Islamic practices or randomly abused the Prophet. They just moved dignifiedly.

 
There’s a strange resemblance between religious conversion stories and weight-loss ads: both rely on astutely edited “before” and “after” images.

To sell slimming products, the camera first shows a man facing forward, flaunting his flabby gut and lumpy love handles. In the “after” shots, the camera is angled to the side, highlighting a newly narrowed midriff.

The goal of the illusion isn’t to just make the man look better, of course; it’s to make viewers believe that a product has the miraculous power to turn blubber into brawn.

As anyone who has spent time in a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, sangha, AA meeting or prison knows, a similar effect can arise in religious conversion stories. The “before” pictures, in particular, tend to darken. The snares of sin sharpen, the descent into depravity deepens.

Often enough, eye-roll-worthy embellishments are accepted, even expected. What’s a little stretch when you’re winning souls for Christ or escaping bad karma? But sometimes converts’ zeal can get the better of them.

These days politics and religion are playing a big role, religious vote banks are a fate changer for many. When a Hindu gets converted to Christianity or Islam there is huge outrage and accusation but when a Muslim gets converted to Hinduism for whatever reason, they become stalwarts. You will see them in every news space. Panelists in prime-time debates, to add more to it, their sins are forgiven and they become political tools too.

We all have the right to choose our religion, we all are born not knowing anything about any God or any Religion. They don’t have any beliefs or any meaningful thoughts for that matter. As we grow up, we become religious by following the family we were born in, language to learn, what nationality to have, where to live, and with whom to live for the rest of our life. For the first few years or so of our lives, we have zero authority over that decision. Well, most of us love where we belong and many don’t find solace and they change their beliefs once they grow up to make that decision.

Nevertheless, people can decide to remain religious or to shun religion later on but if you can’t be loyal to one belief, how can you remain loyal to the one you adopted is a big question. In the recent past many Muslim men got converted to Hinduism for their own reasons, one common factor was that they all were abusing their earlier beliefs they lived for ages. India has a history of Muslims getting converted to Hinduism but none of them slammed Islamic practices or randomly abused the Prophet. They just moved dignifiedly.

Excerpt from the same article:

"But these days most of the Hindus who are pro-saffron parties are dishonest. They will defend the conversion saying Hinduism is a tolerant religion and Muslims who have converted to Hinduism have understood its significance and relevance. But when the vice versa happens, that is. Hindus who convert to Islam or Christianity are forcefully converted and rice-bag converts. This suits their propaganda well and helps in the mass mobilisation against Muslims and Christians."

One more cut and paste article providing one sided view against people supporting pro-hindu parties. Isn't there a rule that politics should be discussed only in political forums. Why are you brining politics here? Why is this so-called golden member allowed to repeatedly flouts these rules? Stop using this forum to promote subtle criticism of saffron parties and promote your favored anti-hindu political parties steeped in corruption. The saffron parties are thousand times better than your corrupt parties who will sell this country. Stop using this forum to promote such parties.
 
Excerpt from the same article:

"But these days most of the Hindus who are pro-saffron parties are dishonest. They will defend the conversion saying Hinduism is a tolerant religion and Muslims who have converted to Hinduism have understood its significance and relevance. But when the vice versa happens, that is. Hindus who convert to Islam or Christianity are forcefully converted and rice-bag converts. This suits their propaganda well and helps in the mass mobilisation against Muslims and Christians."

One more cut and paste article providing one sided view against people supporting pro-hindu parties. Isn't there a rule that politics should be discussed only in political forums. Why are you brining politics here? Why is this so-called golden member allowed to repeatedly flouts these rules? Stop using this forum to promote subtle criticism of saffron parties and promote your favored anti-hindu political parties steeped in corruption. The saffron parties are thousand times better than your corrupt parties who will sell this country. Stop using this forum to promote such parties.
Please stop talking to the individual members in the forum. You have something to say to them say it in a PM. That is the basic etiquette of a public forum.

I can agree with a part of an article and post it, it does not mean that I support the entire article. Stop personal attack, you do not know me and I do not know you.
If you disagree with my position, please post counterpoints. If you have a complaint about the tone report it to the administrator. Please have some decency and decorum.


You are a forum destroyer because of your rant's posts had to be closed. You are single-handedly destroying the free flow of information.
 
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Please stop talking to the individual members in the forum. You have something to say to them say it in a PM. That is the basic etiquette of a public forum.

I can agree with a part of an article and post it, it does not mean that I support the entire article. Stop personal attack, you do not know me and I do not know you.
If you disagree with my position, please post counterpoints. If you have a complaint about the tone report it to the administrator. Please have some decency and decorum.


You are a forum destroyer because of your rant's posts had to be closed. You are single-handedly destroying the free flow of information.
This person should be the last one to talk about decency and decorum. He browbeats everyone who has a different view and then has the gall to talk about decency..haha.. Didn't he just make a newcomer runaway because he asked about a brahmin locality in a brahmin forum?! Oh what a crime that was?!

So why didn't he follow his own advice and talk to the admin? Why did he rant here? The forum got destroyed when it got reduced to a stream of cut-copy-paste articles with zero original contribution. We all know who is responsible for that!!
 
This person should be the last one to talk about decency and decorum. He browbeats everyone who has a different view and then has the gall to talk about decency..haha.. Didn't he just make a newcomer runaway because he asked about a brahmin locality in a brahmin forum?! Oh what a crime that was?!

So why didn't he follow his own advice and talk to the admin? Why did he rant here? The forum got destroyed when it got reduced to a stream of cut-copy-paste articles with zero original contribution. We all know who is responsible for that!!
Well said.
 
This person should be the last one to talk about decency and decorum. He browbeats everyone who has a different view and then has the gall to talk about decency..haha.. Didn't he just make a newcomer runaway because he asked about a brahmin locality in a brahmin forum?! Oh what a crime that was?!

So why didn't he follow his own advice and talk to the admin? Why did he rant here? The forum got destroyed when it got reduced to a stream of cut-copy-paste articles with zero original contribution. We all know who is responsible for that!!
well said...i agreed to...
 
She didnt convert to Christianity because of ignorance.
She was just a kid when her parents converted to Christianity.
I guess you havent seen her videos where she said how confused she was when her parents converted cos she being a brahmin still had all Hindu mantras in her mind and she felt guilty and scared that the mantras were still in her mind.

She reverted to Hinduism as an adult.
Frankly speaking that is her choice what she does about her Dharma but its always better to just revert without bad mouthing any religion.

Just type on you tube about Ex Hindus or Ex Muslims leaving their religion and they go ballistics on their former religion.
Honestly what good does it do?

Also to bring to your kind attention, no where in my post did I say her conversion to Christianity was right and her reverting to Hinduism is wrong.

No idea what gave you that impression or may be you might need to re read my post.

I guess may be you are not a Hindu?
Cos usually a Hindu doesnt accuse anyone of being a born again Christian sans evidence ..that amounts to Himsa( Violence).
May be you could consider reverting to Hinduism to experience Ahimsa.
There’s a strange resemblance between religious conversion stories and weight-loss ads: both rely on astutely edited “before” and “after” images.

To sell slimming products, the camera first shows a man facing forward, flaunting his flabby gut and lumpy love handles. In the “after” shots, the camera is angled to the side, highlighting a newly narrowed midriff.

The goal of the illusion isn’t to just make the man look better, of course; it’s to make viewers believe that a product has the miraculous power to turn blubber into brawn.

As anyone who has spent time in a church, synagogue, mosque, temple, sangha, AA meeting or prison knows, a similar effect can arise in religious conversion stories. The “before” pictures, in particular, tend to darken. The snares of sin sharpen, the descent into depravity deepens.

Often enough, eye-roll-worthy embellishments are accepted, even expected. What’s a little stretch when you’re winning souls for Christ or escaping bad karma? But sometimes converts’ zeal can get the better of them.

These days politics and religion are playing a big role, religious vote banks are a fate changer for many. When a Hindu gets converted to Christianity or Islam there is huge outrage and accusation but when a Muslim gets converted to Hinduism for whatever reason, they become stalwarts. You will see them in every news space. Panelists in prime-time debates, to add more to it, their sins are forgiven and they become political tools too.

We all have the right to choose our religion, we all are born not knowing anything about any God or any Religion. They don’t have any beliefs or any meaningful thoughts for that matter. As we grow up, we become religious by following the family we were born in, language to learn, what nationality to have, where to live, and with whom to live for the rest of our life. For the first few years or so of our lives, we have zero authority over that decision. Well, most of us love where we belong and many don’t find solace and they change their beliefs once they grow up to make that decision.

Nevertheless, people can decide to remain religious or to shun religion later on but if you can’t be loyal to one belief, how can you remain loyal to the one you adopted is a big question. In the recent past many Muslim men got converted to Hinduism for their own reasons, one common factor was that they all were abusing their earlier beliefs they lived for ages. India has a history of Muslims getting converted to Hinduism but none of them slammed Islamic practices or randomly abused the Prophet. They just moved dignifiedly.

Excellent analogy given ! Religion IS personal; and there is nobody more vocal than a convert proclaiming their faith ; again, the Sanatana Dharma has no such thing as " conversion "! - all paths lead to the Ultimate, and each one is free to choose their own : Atheist, Christian, Muslim, Saiva, Vaishnava, Sikh or Buddhist, the list is endless !
 

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