Comments | reddyraja: evangelical drive against hindu american students.

reddyraja

evangelical drive against hindu american students.

May 20, 2006 10:38

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reformedvesper May 21 2006, 01:05:59 UTC

*pulls hair out*

mofo religion. why does everyone need to have a certain amount of people in their group to feel like their god is valid? ugh. so disgusted.

reddyraja May 27 2006, 19:19:31 UTC

the more people you have, the more you can sway moral discourse and just the general [i hate to use it] weltanschaung in your favor.

lipsewn May 21 2006, 05:38:32 UTC

i long for the day when christians understand, respect and possibily accept my faith. for now i am satisfied that they accept me as someone they could somehow possibly convert through calculated friendships of love.

reddyraja May 27 2006, 19:20:05 UTC

haha. are there a lot of evangelical christians in australia like in the US?

lotus_faerie May 21 2006, 05:58:28 UTC

I am happy being a Hindu, but you don't see me running around to convert others! Sigh.

reddyraja May 27 2006, 19:20:24 UTC

why don't you?

lotus_faerie May 27 2006, 22:38:45 UTC

Why don't I? Well, I don't keep the religion to myself, as you mentioned below, and I am certainly happy to teach people--as opposed to telling them they will suffer eternally if they do not see things from my point of view--so as to do away with ignorance. However, I don't think it's up to me to preach. If someone comes to me with questions or has a wrong idea, I will speak up, and sometimes I'll speak up just for the sake of speaking up, but I don't think it's my place to try to play shepherd.

recondite May 21 2006, 11:14:33 UTC

This makes me sick. I truly loathe evangelical Christians.

reddyraja May 27 2006, 19:21:09 UTC

yeah, they are lame, but at least they are better than tamil brahmins who keep the religion to themselves and don't share it with anyone :)

vinaceous May 22 2006, 02:37:17 UTC

I had a few friends in college who were in IVCF--and my best, closest friend was pretty active with them--but while these people were sane and cool and had a lovely sort-of jadedness to them, the majority of IVCF people were scary. Just SO fake friendly and SO cheesy and SO full of good cheer, but honestly they were repelled by those unlike them. Other than the people I mentioned above, I never saw the IV kids hang out with anyone who wasn't in IV or who had any sort of background that deviated from their own. And they really ostracized people that may have decided to leave the group, or join another Christian group at school (IVCF was seen as more of a preppy "White" group, and there were specialty Christian groups from Black students, Asian students, etc.) Just weird. I went to one of their "women's" nights, and the self-hate was off the charts. I had no idea how much it was a part of their religious culture. One girl has said that she felt so broken and horrible because she could never be as good as God, and I made the mistake of ( ... )

reddyraja May 27 2006, 19:22:29 UTC

yes, i love gheehappy. it's so cute. i want him to make a movie.

yeah the ivcf kids, or just evangelicals in general, have a sense of fake joy. i wonder if they sense it as well or if they are just that naive and earnest.