Re: China's War Machine

From: Johnny Marcos (johnny5_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 15:37:25 GMT

"Rudolph" <Rudolph@northpole.net> wrote in
news:cc6fs8$rsa$1@admin-svc.micron.com:

>
> "Johnny Marcos" <johnny5@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns951AB54579FC3Johnny5yahoocom@65.32.1.6...
>> Now as a concerned american citizen not wanting lots of people to die
>> in this war - why is the world helping to finanace the growth of a
>> war machine so that all our children can die fighting each other?
>>
>> Why send capital investment to a socialist country that abuses human
>> rights? Is profit more important?
>>
>
>
> I agree.

Contact your mutual fund managers and explain this to them - tell them
you don't want your money going to fund a war machine in china - contact
your government representatives - tell them the same thing too - stop
buying anything made in china until they stop funding thier war machine.

 One thing to not however is that Christianity is growing by
> leaps and bounds in China and may overthrow the current political
> system within the next century which could change the course of events
> dramatically.

I don't go to church - but the people in the past that fought holy wars
fought them over religion - the crusaders were christian and that
doesn't mean a lot. I think it is important the people truly REPRESENT
and BELIEVE the tenets of christianity - love and peace - I think that
is lost on many christian populations. I am ALL IN FAVOR of the
christian population growing in that country if it is really making the
people believe and practice love and peace - which It might, but always
be mindful - just because the crusaders were christian does not mean
they really believed in love and peace. In India they still have a
caste system, and even within the christian church in india they
practice it. The leviathan can grow in a church just like it can grow
in a gubbment or anything else - I think even jesus warned of not
putting the church above the individual as so often happens when
leviathans grow.

Here read this:

http://hamsa.org/StThomas_Chapt_4.htm

The grievances of Scheduled Caste Christians remain to this day and
often surface in the national press-to the embarrassment of wealthy
bishops who have interests to protect other than those of their flock.
This happened in July and August of 1990 in the columns of the Indian
Express. On August 2nd a letter appeared by Raju Thomas of Madras. He
held M.A., B.Th., B.D. and M.Th. degrees, and wrote:

No self-respecting Scheduled Caste Christians will ask the Government to
include them in the Scheduled Caste list. Is it not shameful for the
Indian Church, even after centuries of Christian tradition, to say that
it has a vast majority of untouchable Christians?

I myself come from a state where Christianity reached in the first
century itself before it went to Europe, and that state, Kerala, the
highly literate state in India, has more than 35 lakh untouchable
Christians out of a total population of 51 lakh Christians. But these
majority Scheduled Caste Christians do not have any voice in the Church
administration and in the ecclesiastical structure.

The Christian population of India is just 3 per cent out of the 800
million total population of India, and 85 per cent of the Christians are
from the Scheduled Casts and Scheduled Tribes. The Scheduled Caste
Christians, instead of asking for reservation on par with the Hindu,
Sikh and Buddhist Scheduled Castes, should demand that the Indian Church
implement reservation first in their home itself. Charity should begin
at home!

The Indian Christian Church has the best educational, technical and
medical institutions in the country and it is unfortunate that the
presence of the untouchable Christians in these prestigious institutions
is worse than anywhere else. Why is the Indian Church blind to this
brutal injustice and discrimination committed to its own family members?

While the Indian Church enjoys the minority rights guaranteed in the
Constitution it violates the legitimate human rights of Dalit
Christians. Instead of begging the Government, the Church must render
justice to her own—least brothers and sisters—by sharing power and
wealth with Scheduled Caste Christians in proportion to their
population. 1 The Church must respond to the cries of the Dalit
Christians.

Once justice is established at home the Church can put pressure on the
Government of India to get the Constitution amended to help Scheduled
Caste Christians to get the constitutional rights enjoyed by their
Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist counterparts

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