( dnaindia.com/analysis/column-respect-majority-sentiment-2073898)
e.g. #ClarencePais #ChristianMarriageIndia #SCOIHypocrisy http://www.goo.gl/wVSbB9 http://www.goo.gl/vy9lPp
The Hindu Nazis themselves, while pretending in court that the bans have nothing to do with religion, in public do admit the obvious fact: That it is mandated only and solely by dictates of the Hindu religion's idolatry of the cow!
Thus for example, we have R. Balashankar, apologist & member of the Sangh Parivar, as above.
Rajnath Singh of the Central Government publicly stated his opposition to the smuggling of cattle to Bangladesh not so much because it was illegal commerce, but on religious grounds!
financialexpress.com/article/miscellaneous/narendra- modis-govt-push-to-save-its-cows-starves-bangladesh-of-beef/93988/
Narendra Modi himself has waded into the debate justifying the bans although, as of now, it is at provincial level, not federal level: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-Narendra-Modi-promises-better-life- for-farmers/articleshow/46801178.cms
RB's argument are specious. Christians don't owe any "respect" for "majority sentiments" or for "Hindu sentiments" on cow-slaughter.
Eating beef is morally neutral in a universal context: Christianity doesn't enjoin consumption of beef as an obligation, nor does it enjoin a universal prohibition on consuming beef. Christians are free to consume beef under particular circumstances.
In South Asia, South-East Asia, and in contexts where pagans worship cows or hold them sacred, Christianity enjoins upon Christians an obligation to stand up against, to oppose, to reject and to fight against the suggestion that the cow is sacred or divine because it is evil, and because this false idea leads souls to certain eternal damnation.
It is not a sin to eat the cow, but it is certainly a sin to worship the cow.
Hinduism is an ideology that has elevated dumb beasts to godhood, and robbed humans of their humanity by labelling them subhuman, even of a status lower than beasts!
This is an evil that is never tolerable, never to be countenanced.
Christians had, under the pre-Constantinian Roman Emperors (and under Julian the Apostate), for example, undergone exactly the same challenge. Christians in South Asia cannot choose a different path, a different response if they are to remain Christian.
And why should anybody owe Hindus or the Hindu Majority "respect" for their sentiments on the idolatry of cows?
If we ought to, why not too for Sati, and for Untouchability, and for all the other evils of Hinduism that have been suppressed as shocking human conscience? Why not legalize Thugee, and human sacrifices, and the sexual immorality of Tantricism and of the Kanchalia ceremony, for instance?
Are we to have human sacrifices restored at the Kamakhya Temple in Assam? goo.gl/evj3is (news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1908706.stm)
There is no moral difference between compromising on eating beef and on compromising on Sati, Untouchability, Thugee, Tantricism, Kanchalia Dharma, and the like.
And so, no, it is purely nonsensical that Christians owe any kind of respect for idolatry and demonism. On the other hand, Christians have a strict obligation to bear witness to the Only True & Living God, the God of Israel, the Triune Yahweh-Elohim, incarnated as Jesus Christ, courageously bearing witness that the cow is NOT a 'god' but only a beast, and that the idolatry of the cow is a grievous sin that inevitably leads to eternal damnation, by couragesously eating beef, the flesh of the cow.
This is so even if the Government and the Judiciary tells us otherwise. "But Peter and John answering, said to them: If it be just in the sight of God, to hear you rather than God, judge ye." (Acts iv, 19) "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men" (Acts v, 29).
Error has no rights!
Lucio Mascarenhas
