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Catholic priest beaten up by Hindu nationalist mob in India and then charged with starting riot [rt.com]

FrayedBear 9 Nov 22
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nothing wrong with religious believers of all ilk making each others' life hell. keep it coming ?

It's when they pick on AG's and Aths you get your panties in a knot?

@FrayedBear, "panties in a knot"? i'm not into kinky, mate.

@walklightly Lol. Perhaps you should try it.

@FrayedBear, you first!

@walklightly how do you know that I'm not talking from experience?

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I've checked out another few reports about this and it not the first, apparently the Christian minority in India have been reaping the rewards of preaching Hell fire and damnation to a largely Hindu country for the past two decades.
I'm all for anyone wanting to be a martyr a fittingly pointless death to a pointless life, but as it turns out in this case, the Father was holding a loud meeting in his own home, not in a church, was causing a disturbance and was confronted by neighbours wanting him and his congregation to shut the fuck up.
He was so badly beaten that... he was not hurt, but he did have a bruised arm, was arrested by the police who came to arrest HIM for causing a public disturbance, was NOT taken to hospital because there was nothing wrong with him and was released the next morning.

However the old RC has tried to play this up as him being ruthlessly attacked, beaten within an inch of his life and then arrested for being beaten up.

When will the Catholics realise if you tell people continually they are savages, and are going to burn in Hell forever, with their own children, for being the wrong religion it is going to piss people off?
SO is singing your head off about your god in a residential area in the middle of the night.

Christians have been in India since at least the 6th Century. Kerala has a long history of religious coexistence.

@ailurophile Coexistance aka symbiotic parasitism?

@FrayedBear love it

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Sorry, but this sounds like laughing at Jewish people getting beaten up by the Hitler Youth because you're an athiest. There's been Catholics in India for hundreds of years, but now India's version of Trump is whipping up nationalism for political gain. And this is the result.

The Saffron Brigade has its origins in the early 1950s, as I remember. I think they really started to get up a head of steam in the 1980s with the demolition of the Babri Mosque.

It seems that in one part of the world they know how to deal with them:

[agnostic.com]

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I was preparing to visit India 12 years ago and was picking up malaria pills. The pharmacist asked where I was going. She said 'I have a brother there as a missionary, but will keep my mouth shut on how I feel about that.'
I don't care what others believe (or don't), but if a people have been managing just fine for more than 12,000 years, don't try to cram your candles and robes down their throat.

Well said

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