Missionaries buying conversions

@Indojo (242)
United States
December 22, 2008 10:19am CST
I saw a video on youtube about missionaries in India buying converts. Villagers claim that they are given money to become christian, and that they are promised new houses and things like that. But, then, after they convert, and get the original payment, the missionaries stop giving them anything. Has anyone heard of anything like this?
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@onlydia (2808)
• United States
23 Dec 08
No I have not that sounds just awful. You can't buy faith don't they know that? But then if they go for it look out. As we all know and have been taught. You don't get anything for nothing it will cost you somewhere somehow. That is to bad. You hve a great day and a wonderful Holiday. Your friend onlydia
• India
24 Dec 08
I have heard of many things like that specially spread by the some fundamentalist Hindus, but I have never encountered any. Can you give me the link of that youtube? The story may be true, but it can be untrue also. Since such lies have been spread widely I find it difficult to trust such propanda unless I see the video myself. I am also wonderstruck by the apathy of many Indians about the way poor people are being left to fend for themselves when the rich men get richer, oftentimes at the expense of the poor. And when the missionaries came to do something for these people, the rich just accuse the missionaries of inducement and coercion etc. What is 'inducement' can be debated, but coercion is, I guess, never there cos there is no FIR being reported anywhere in India. So I would say forceful conversion is the agenda of the rich. Why this agenda? I think what Pavan K. Varma argued in his book is true... that if the poor convert to Christianity then the upper caste would not have anyone to work for them; and the socio-economic system is subverted. I think that is the reason why this whole forced conversion lie is spread all over. The rich are scared of losing their position... that's the way I see it.