Caste And Christianity

(A Post on the GoanCenter)

May 21, 2012

IT IS VERY UNFORTUNATE that a supposed Goan Christian has attacked an alleged opponent by using derogatory, casteist language.

Casteism is fundamentally and totally opposed to Christianity. Christianity is fundamentally and totally opposed to the caste system.

According to the Caste System, one gets one standing by one's status within the Caste System, and that status is decided by compliance with the rules of the "Prophet" Manu and his "laws."

Firstly, caste is determined by one's supposed descent from the body parts of a Hindu "god" Brahma. People who seek to be part of a caste necessarily seek to be part of Brahma.

Secondly, one needs to be a Hindu to belong in the caste, although most Jains and some Christian clans (in Kerala) have been "co-opted" into the Caste System to an extent in certain parts of India.

Thirdly, one's standing within the Caste System directly depends on one's immediate parentage in a long line of descent from "approved ancestry."

The Law of Manu is crystal clear that there are three and only three "born-again" (dvija) castes — Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and these are what are properly called "Arya jatis" and all others are outside.

A fourth caste is considered, the Shudra. Beyond the Shudra are the "Outsiders," or more properly the "Mlecchas" - the "Unclean," the "Uncivilized Barbarians."

All those who are born outside of the Indian subcontinent and of non-Dvija parentage, are Mleccha.

That includes Jesus Christ, a Palestinian Jew. According to the Law of Manu, Jesus Christ falls into the category of the dirtiest of all men, the Mlecchas.

To be a Dvija, however, one must not only be born of proper parentage, one must also be formally initiated into the ranks of Castes by proper Hindu "sacraments" — principally the Upanayana Samskara.

Without this essential "sacrament," no one is really a Hindu. For that reason, a child of Hindu parents who dies before the completion of this ceremony is buried and not burned.

Burning of the dead body is considered a great privilege and one denied to the non-Dvija. The non-Dvija is buried, not burned. The exception is the Sadhu, but that is another story altogether.

Only after the Upanayana Samskara is a Dvija allowed to wear the Janua, the "sacred thread."

Moreover, to be a Brahmin is to declare that the cow is 'god' and  a very great 'god' and that its arse is the gateway to heaven, protecting the 'pious' and leading them to eternal salvation, to Moksha, deliverance from the griefs and sorrows of this world. And how better to ensure this than to partake of the sacred cows' sacred shit (gobar) and sacred piss (gomutra) as the most sacred communion? And so, even if not physically, everyone who claims to belong to a Caste, accepts and metaphorically and at least spiritually, in intent and in his (or her inner mind) consents necessarily to partake of the sacred shit and the sacred piss of the sacred cow, a great 'god,' verily an incarnation of the 'mother goddess.'

Moreover, according to the Laws of Manu, even those who abandon the Hindu religion become unclean, become Mlecchas, more polluting and unclean than the Shudras even. Such as the converts to Christianity, to Buddhism, to Mahomettanism, etc.

However, according to Christianity, Jesus Christ is God become flesh, incarnate as a man, and, unlike Hinduism, God did not become incarnate several times, but only once and never again.

Jesus Christ is the highest man, one without an equal.

The goal of Christianity is to be assimilated, literally, physically and spiritually, to Jesus Christ, achieved thorough the Eucharistic sacrament.

On the contrary, Christianity is unequivocal that the Hindu "god" Brahma and every other Hindu "god" is actually only a demon, a devil, aping God.

For the Christian, "Unity" with Brahma is  absolutely forbidden, condemned as certain damnation.

Again, in Christianity, Jesus Christ upholds the dignity and standing of all mankind (and womankind) in the eyes of God, and affirms that every man (and woman) has a duty to love and do good to each and every man (and woman) regardless of any other factor.

Jesus Christ taught, the Commandments can be summed in the Two Great Summary Commandments: "You shall love the Lord your God will your whole heart, and with your whole soul and with your whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is very similar to it: You shall love your neighbor as you love yourself. On these two commandments depends the the whole Law and the Prophets" (Matt xxii, 37-40).

St. Paul the Apostle, speaking by the Authority and Inspiration of God, speaking the Word of God, three times denied the value of human distinctions:

"There is no distinction of the Jew and the Greek, for the same is Lord over all, rich unto all that call upon Him" (Rom. x, 12).

"There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you be Christ's, then you are Abraham's children, heirs according to the Promise (to Abraham)" (Gal. iii, 28-29).

"There is neither Gentile nor Jews, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian or Scythian, slave nor free. But Christ is all, and in all. Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, to Him holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, goodness, humility, modesty, patience; bearing with one another, and forgiving of one another, if any have a complaint against another, even as the Lord has forgiven you, so do you also. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection" (Col. iii, 11-14). 

Indeed, Jesus Christ, giving the example of the Samaritan who was in appearances a heretic and one outside the Community of Believers, yet who loved his fellow-man better than believing Jews, sternly warns all souls: "Whatsoever you do onto the least of My brethren you do unto Me" and promises to accordingly judge all souls.

«And when the Son of man shall come in His majesty, and all the angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the seat of His majesty. And all nations shall be gathered together before Him, and He shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats: And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on His left. Then shall the King say to them that shall be on His right hand: "Come, you blessed of My Father, possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in: naked, and you covered me: sick, and you visited me: I was in prison, and you came to me." Then shall the just answer Him, saying: "Lord, when did we see You hungry, and fed You; thirsty, and gave You drink? And when did we see You a stranger, and took You in? or naked, and covered You? Or when did we see You sick or in prison, and came to You?" And the King answering, shall say to them: "Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these, the least of My brethren, you did it to Me."

«Then He shall say to them also that shall be on His left hand: "Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you gave Me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave Me not to drink. I was a stranger, and you took Me not in: naked, and you covered Me not: sick and in prison, and you did not visit Me." Then they also shall answer Him, saying: "Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You?" Then He shall answer them, saying: "Amen I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of the least of these, neither did you do it to Me."

«And these shall go into everlasting punishment: but the just, into life everlasting» (Matt. xxv, 31-46)

Thus speaks God. And yet, how do men speak?

There are Goans, even in my family, who boast or who boasted (God rest their souls) of their being "Brahmin" Christians. And as I rebuked them and rebuke them, so do I rebuke any who claims to belong to a Caste: There is and can be no such thing as a Brahmin Christian, for being a Brahmin and a Christian are fundamentally and absolutely incompatible mutually. From the viewpoint of the Brahmin, the Christian is the most filthy, the most unclean, the most polluting of creatures, fouler even than the Shudra. To be a Brahmin, one must want to be a part of Brahma. For the Christian, to be a Brahmin is to be a pagan, which is a very evil thing. For the Christian, to be a Brahmin is to be a part of Satan, for Brahma is Satan. And when one is being baptized, one promises to "give up Satan and all his pomps." How can one be both Christian and Satanic? How can one both give up  and also cling to Satan and all his pomps? For above all, to be Brahmin is to revel in all the pomps of Satan. But to be a Christian is to repudiate with the utmost hatred and violence all the works and pomps of Satan, and what among the works and pomps of Satan ranks higher than being a Brahmin?

And as I continue to rebuke those of my relatives who revel in being "Brahmin" Christians: "There is no sin in eating the cow, but assuredly there is sin in worshipping the cow as if it were 'god' and to worship its arse as the portal to heaven!"

The man who revels in belong to a "Caste" is a man who declares plain and simply that he belongs to Satan and glories above all in his works and in his pomps, that he hates with the greatest hatred and violence Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God.... 

This is a man who dares and with contempt challenges God to damn him to hell with the goats at the Great Judgment.

Every soul makes its own decision: Heaven or hell. The wise, lovers of God and of all humanity, choose God; prattling, self-conceited, hypocritical fools, puffed up with their own vanity and cunningness, choose Satan, their father in the same, and their master and tormentor in eternity.

All men sin. "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." Christianity consists in recognizing when one has erred and correcting it, casting away the follies of Satan and returning to God, who is always ready to forgive and to restore a soul to His love. Let this be an admonishment and a call to he who glories in Satan's folly and an opportunity to put it away just as publicly as he committed the crime that he may not damn himself to the eternal companionship of Satan!

Let not him suffer under the curse of God described in Isaias vi, 8-10: "And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for Us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me. And He said: Go, and you shall say to this people: Hearing, hear, and do not understand: and see the vision, and know it not. Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them."

But let him hear, and see and understand and be converted, that He may heal him.

Lúcío Joaõ Mascarenhas