Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The Hindu Religion
After reading The Hindu View of Life by Radhakrishnan and learning how open the
Hindu religion was to different ideology, I began to think about other religions
that may be as open. Unfortunately, none came to mind. However, the book The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara
Kingsolver did. The Poisonwood Bible
is about a Baptist preacher named Nathan Price who brings his family to
Congo Africa so he can spread his religion to those who he believes has
none. However, he did not want to realize that the people of Congo had
their own spiritual beliefs. Nathan thought he was doing good and helping the
people of Congo but he was actually forcing his religion and beliefs on them. This
is very common with many religions. Their intent to teach may be good but their
intent to convert is not. This just goes to show how unique the Hindu religion
is.
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Most missionaries who come to the remote villages of Africa to spread the gospel find it difficult because, like you said, they try to impose forcefully their beliefs on them. They tell the natives of the land how bad their spiritual beliefs are forgetting that, those gods have been with them from ages. I think that pastors and preachers need to start going about it in the Hindu way. Accepting the gods of the natives and gradually point out, if any, what their God can do that their gods cant. This will make the word of their God spread faster.
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