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13 August 2007, 10:15 AM
Evangelism & Conversion Methods
Missionaries employ various strategies to destroy other religions/cultures and convert people to their religion/denomination. The exact strategy deployed depends on the target population's situation. There are 7 categories of conversion methods: 1)Pre-evangelism 2)Personal Evangelism 3)Preaching Evangelism 4)Persuasion evangelism 5)Pastoral evangelism 6)Programmed evangelism 7)Prayer Evangelism. All the methods employed come under atleast one of these categories though many come under multiple categories. Here is the listing of the prominent methods employed.
• Alluring Children with 'Gifts', 'Toys' & Pizza
Toys with 'The Message' are given to children as gifts. A cube is very popular among teenagers. EvangeCube -- It's a cube the size of a softball made of eight interlocking blocks that flip and fold into the story of Jesus Christ on some sides and messages from Bible denouncing the native religion. This is very popular in Africa, Russia and Asia. In UK the school children are asked to stuff shoe boxes with a gift to be sent to some African nation. In US evangelicals clandestinely organise Pizza parties in schools.
• $1 + Pray Jesus = $10 (Gospel of Wealth)
Majority of the world is crazy for money & wealth. People are ready to go to any extent to acquire wealth. Church is very successful is exploiting this rage by telling people to donate (called invest) to God (i.e., their Church) and pray. Church claims that God answers their prayers by returning atleast 1000% of what people offer. When people don't get anything in return they are told that their prayers aren't sufficient or $10+prayer will atmost get him/her a bicycle not a Rolls-Royce. This is called the "Health and Wealth" gospel in the U.S.A. - you give the church 10 percent of your gross income, and God is obligated to miraculously provide for you. This idea is big in Mormon and Pentecostal circles, and it's making strong inroads among Baptists and "non-denominational" evangelicals. According to these preachers, if you aren't rich and healthy, it's because you lack faith. Uneducated, impoverished people are willing to try anything to get a good life.
• Business/Employment evangelism
Many Christian employers and employers use employment to lure and many times force a non-Christian into their sect of Christianity.
• Communication Manipulation
Communication is the key to evangelism. It is not what you say BUT 'HOW YOU SAY'.
Evangelists understand this concept better than anyone else. All the missionaries are trained in Marketing and Journalism. Marketing techniques are used to push their product (Jesus=Salvation; Other religions=Hell). Journalistic techniques are used to spin their stories, manage media and create stories about non-christian religions
[^Top]
• Controlling Influential Powers/Positions
Evangelicals do not operate as hit-and-run operatives. Their ultimate objective is to control everything in the world. Earlier Church used to control everything including food, dressing, thinking and even sexual positions (allowed only missionary position). Evangelicals in the present day are trying to bring back their 'good-olden-days'. To achieve this they need to hold all the powerful positions whether in Judiciary, Army, Politics or Media. Here is a collection of news articles related to this strategy
• Creating 'LEFT-BEHIND' fear
This strategy works wonders on psychologically weak people. Evangelical Christians believe that theirs is the only true religion. They usually ask the non-christians the question of 'What would be their fate in case Christianity is the true religion and native religion is false?'. Evangelicals then describe the fate of non-christians in terms of hell, lake of fire and blood-thirsty 'second coming of Jesus' etc and advise the natives to play safe. Many psychologically weak non-christians want to play safe and convert out of fear of being 'LEFT-BEHIND'
• Disaster Relief Exploitation
Missionaries view disasters as a GOD send opportunity. They utilize disasters in two ways
Disaster Relief: "This Tsunami(disaster) is one of the greatest opportunities God has given us" says K P Yohannan, President of Gospel for Asia. Many like him do not have objection to taking advantage of hurting and suffering people are going through. In the name of disaster relief the victim's basic needs such as food,clothing, housing, medical needs are provided with a condition that they convert to christianity.
Satan Propaganda: Missionaries claim that the disaster stuck their region or village because God is angry with them. GOD is angry because non-christians worship devil and are under Satanic influence. Most of the victims will be psychologically weak and under manipulatable conditions because they lost their family members , property and undergoing depression. According to Southern Baptist Convention's official guide on Evangelism: The motivation behind Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts can be summed up in one phrase:"A cup of cold water in Jesus' name."
• Education
Education is a major strategy proven to work wonders in many poor nations such as Africa, South America whereas it is a partial success in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Education evangelism comes in various shapes and sizes. Primary schools, Vocational training, Nurse training, Music lessons are prominent. In many regions such as Afghanistan and many Islamic countries, Education though didn't help much in direct evangelism but helped missionaries put their foot into unreached regions and establish contacts with people. School work is an excellent mask for evangelical activities.
[^Top]
• Guaranteed ticket to Heaven
Sick and old people and told that if they convert, they (their bodies) are guaranteed to go to heaven. Many Old and Sick people fall prey to this technique and ask they family members to bury them along with their favorite clothing & Jewellery. This technique is prevalent among Hindu converts and Hindus cremate the bodies.
• Jesus Wells
Jesus Wells is a new and very popular technique prevalent in the dry or poverty stricken parts of the world. In this technique a well is dug or a hand pump is installed often using Government funds. In most of these places people cannot afford to have their own wells dug and rely on community wells/hand pumps which are far off.Only Christians are allowed to draw water from these sources. A pastor monitors the usage of well throughout the day. Click here for photos of Jesus wells.
• Miracles & Miracle-boxes
"Come to church and get the miracle you need" is the slogan representing this traditional game. Presently the game of Miracles is very popular in third world countries and tribal regions. The primary condition for Vatican to anoint somebody a saint is 'Proof of Miracles'. In poor regions a missionary asks people to write their wishes like bicycle, casette player, bullock cart on a piece of paper and put in the wish-box. A week after the Church from West with slush funds fulfils 'those' miracles. Intelligensia, rational and educated in west are abandoning church partly due to such cheap games.
• Music training & Programmes
Give me the music of a nation, and I will change the mind of that nation. said Plato.
Almost everybody in the world appreciates some form of music. Evangelicals are very successful in 'Music Evangelism' wherein they lure population by offering free guitar lessons and training in western dance and music in return for conversion. High-school and college going youth are particularly vulnerable to this strategy.
• Public Relations(PR) Campaigns
If there is anybody in the world who mastered the art of Public Relations (PR), it is the Western Church. They remain unscathed irrespective of the magnitude of crimes and genocides they commit. Their public relations engine works throughout the day. Due to their PR campaigns many people develop a larger than life view of missionaries and fall prey to their nefarious activities.
[^Top]
• Terrorism & Militancy
North-East India is a living example of Church sponsored terrorism. Tribals who refused to convert to Christianity are massacred. Baptist Church of Nagaland is the command centre of terrorism in Nagalim i.e., "Nagaland for Christ"
• Abduction/Kidnap
Abduction was a very popular method employed on tribes. It was Primarily employed on native tribes of Canada, America and Australia. This strategy is still used but at a much smaller scale while ensuring secrecy
• Academic/History Rewriting
This strategy helps in generating a low opinion and delinking natives from their native religions, cultures and traditions. Fredrich Max Muller, Wendy Donniger, Paul Courtright, Jeffrey Kirpal etc are examples of these. Max Muller claimed that "he will write/translate Upanishads in such a way that no Hindu would ever respect them again". Jeffrey Kirpal established an incestuous relationship between Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Vivekananda whereas Paul Courtright calls Hindu Lord Ganesha a oral-sex obsessed character.
A normal Hindu won't call himself a 'proud Hindu' after reading this literature and often becomes an object of ridicule in his society. Though many of these Scholars don't call themselves active missionaries they successfully play part-1 of the missionary game i.e., delinking.
• Alcoholism
Missionaries brought alcohol and promoted alcoholism to many tribal communities (example Polynesia/Tahiti). The leaders habituated to alcohol did everything what missionaries said losing their entire communities to christianity.
[^Top]
• Brainwashing/Hypnosis
Conversion is a "nice" word for Brainwashing...and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming. He would tell those attending, "You're a sinner! You're destined for hell!"
• Charity, Bribing and Buying souls
Charity is the most popular technique employed currently. This provides a very secular cover and insulates from all forms of questioning. This is used primarily to place long-term missionaries. They take the form of language teachers, social workers, AIDS/HIV workers etc.
• Child Trafficking/Orphanages
Though there a very few genuine Christian charity orphanages majority of the orphanages springing up today are mainly centres of indoctrination. They believe in the 'Catch them young' principle. Many orphanages claim that they are building the future christian workers.
• Christian Ashrams & Sadhus
Hindus have high respect for Ashrams (Hermitage) and Sadhus (Swamis). Grasping the popularity Christians have started donning saffron robes and look-alike ashrams. Many Hindus get fooled by those outward appearances and become part of these ashrams. A good example is ShantiVanam Ashram run by swindler Fr. Bede Griffiths. The place looks and feels like a Hindu ashram. Fr. Bede Griffiths wears saffron robes, sports a vermillion mark and the entire place reverberates with meditation and chanting. Behold everything they utter is Jesus and Paul.
• Contextualization/Inculturation
Contextualization is the process of adoption the native culture, practices and beliefs to make the non-christians believe that they are not in a different world. It is an infiltration technique. Hindus have 'Mangal sutra', (a special type of chain) as part of the marriage ceremony. Not to be left behind, Christians now offer it's equivalent 'Yesu - Sutra' in the marriages. Every Hindu and Buddhist ritual have copycats now.
[^Top]
• Converting Influential people
This strategy involves converting influential people such as village headman, politicians, Cine/theater artists, sportsmen etc employing an appropriate conversion technique. These people act as brand managers of Christianity influecing their followers. Recent examples include politicians of TamilNadu, Andhra - India, various south Indian film actors and heads of many villages.
• Create "Artificial" Disasters
Disaster relief is a successful and prove technique for mass conversion. History tells us that even when no disaster existed missionaries were successful in creating artificial disasters so as to control the administration. A classic example is creation of "artificial famine" in India in 1918-1919. The slang "Holy Cow" originated during that period
• Create Guilt
This strategy revolves around the idea of blaming the native religion as the source of major problems. In 1975-1976 missionaries failed in all their strategic attempts to convert Panare Indians of the Colorado Valley. The missionaries re-edited the Bible saying "The Panare killed Jesus Christ because they were wicked....God will burn you all, burn all the animals, burn also the earth,the heavens, absolutely everything.He will burn also the Panare themselves.". Panare Indians fealt guilty of their ancestral crime and converted to Christianity to avoid 'Revenge of Jesus'. This is currently being used against Muslims. Muslims are told that Islam is the source of extremism in the world and Muslims should come out of Islam to be guilt-free.
• Deceptive Church Buildings
Churches which look like native religion structures. In Africa churches look like mosques with a crescent like cross and are aptly names Isa-mosque. In India and SriLanka 'Yesu Mandirs' (Jesus Temple) are quite common. They look and feel like Hindu temples. This falls under deception and contextualization main strategies. This strategy is working wonders in Africa and rural areas in mid-east countries.
[^Top]
• Denigration and Hate Spreading
According to Christianity every non-christian religion is a work of Satan and every non-christian worships Satan. These strategies are primarily used to motivate their fellow missionaries and to create ill-will among non-christians about their religion
• Divide & Conquer(convert)
This is one of the most popular deceitful techniques employed throughout the missionary history. Differences and enimity among individuals are created or exploited in pitting one group against another. This is very popular among tribals as it is very easy to generate enimity between two clans. The British and American missionaries successfully employed this technique in India by Horizontally and vertically dividing the Indian society into Aryans and Dravidians, Dalits & non-Dalits. The "Missionary Scholars" manufactured theories (without proof) supporting these divisions with the help of some sold-out Indians.
• Economic Success Deception
In many third world and poor countries, missionaries advertise that the West (America and Europe) are rich because of Christianity though the truth is contrary. Many gullible people equate economic prosperity to adoption of Christianity and convert. Mark Twain rightly said, " The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."
• Excessive children/Armies of God's soldiers
Many Christian families produce excessive number of children to be brought up in a different fundamentalist cult like mentality. These kids grown up in such restrictive and conditioned environment are expected to carry forward and impose the fundamentalist mentality they are brought up in. The pastor or father controls everything related to upbringing of the children such as even picking the nail color the kids can use.
• Exorcism
Catholic church promotes the notion that the negative tendencies in the world are due to Devils(imaginary creatures). How to get rid of Devils?. Catholic church practices an occult medieval practice called Exorcism. When a comman man is in trouble, the local church clandestinely brainwashes the gullible that Devils are source for all the ills and they have the solution called 'Exorcism' to get rid of Satan/Devils. The common man under distress easily falls into this trap.
• Exploiting the Prisoners
Prisoners are usually at the mercy of jail officials. Evangelicals usually take up employment in prisons or befriend prison officials.
[^Top]
• Fake Medical Conditions
Fake medicines: This technique is very popular in rural India. In mission hospitals a non-christian patient is given a white tablet (not a medicine) and asked to pray his Hindu God. After 1 day when the patient sees no reprieve to his medical condition the patient is given a real medicine and asked to pray Jesus. Hindu tradition respects any religion or any Godly person. The healing by medicine is claimed for his prayer to Jesus.
Fake situations: This is a popular technique in Indian villages. This is a true story which happened in 2003 in W Godavari Dist, Andhra Pradesh, . A woman in labour was brought into a mission hospital. The doctor (a Westerner) found that the lady is going to deliver in 10 minutes. The doctor and the staff immediately made a big scene saying that the mother and baby are in danger and the family was asked to pray. The family started praying to their family deity Lord Venkateswara. In 2 minutes the doctor started yelling that their prayers are useless and asked the family to join him in praying Jesus and take a vow that if the mother delivers safely the entire family would convert. As expected the mother delivered the baby after 8 minutes. He immediately put a chain (with cross) on the just born baby and the entire family converted to keep their (deceived) promise.
• Fear of "End of World" (Acocalypse)
Missionaries brainwash and instill a fear that 'end-of-the-world' is coming. Missionaries 'guarantee' heaven (as if they own that dreamland) to converts and those who don't convert are cast in the 'Lake of Fire'. Guillible,illiterate and weak fall prey to that concept and convert. Earthquakes and recently Indian Ocean Tsunami were all marketed by missionaries as a'divine wrath and warning from GOD' for not converting
• Fear of death or Slavery
This was a prominent technique employed on North and South American natives.
An enterprising European official sailed to the Central American mainland in 1514 in search of Gold and to convert natives. They adopted a very simple approach.
They traveled by night, stopping at midnight outside a chosen village. Before they entered, they declared loudly: "Princes and Indians, there is one God, one pope, and one king of Castile, who is lord of this country. Come at once and render him obedience, or we will make war on you, kill you, and put you into slavery."
Missionaries employ various strategies to destroy other religions/cultures and convert people to their religion/denomination. The exact strategy deployed depends on the target population's situation. There are 7 categories of conversion methods: 1)Pre-evangelism 2)Personal Evangelism 3)Preaching Evangelism 4)Persuasion evangelism 5)Pastoral evangelism 6)Programmed evangelism 7)Prayer Evangelism. All the methods employed come under atleast one of these categories though many come under multiple categories. Here is the listing of the prominent methods employed.
• Alluring Children with 'Gifts', 'Toys' & Pizza
Toys with 'The Message' are given to children as gifts. A cube is very popular among teenagers. EvangeCube -- It's a cube the size of a softball made of eight interlocking blocks that flip and fold into the story of Jesus Christ on some sides and messages from Bible denouncing the native religion. This is very popular in Africa, Russia and Asia. In UK the school children are asked to stuff shoe boxes with a gift to be sent to some African nation. In US evangelicals clandestinely organise Pizza parties in schools.
• $1 + Pray Jesus = $10 (Gospel of Wealth)
Majority of the world is crazy for money & wealth. People are ready to go to any extent to acquire wealth. Church is very successful is exploiting this rage by telling people to donate (called invest) to God (i.e., their Church) and pray. Church claims that God answers their prayers by returning atleast 1000% of what people offer. When people don't get anything in return they are told that their prayers aren't sufficient or $10+prayer will atmost get him/her a bicycle not a Rolls-Royce. This is called the "Health and Wealth" gospel in the U.S.A. - you give the church 10 percent of your gross income, and God is obligated to miraculously provide for you. This idea is big in Mormon and Pentecostal circles, and it's making strong inroads among Baptists and "non-denominational" evangelicals. According to these preachers, if you aren't rich and healthy, it's because you lack faith. Uneducated, impoverished people are willing to try anything to get a good life.
• Business/Employment evangelism
Many Christian employers and employers use employment to lure and many times force a non-Christian into their sect of Christianity.
• Communication Manipulation
Communication is the key to evangelism. It is not what you say BUT 'HOW YOU SAY'.
Evangelists understand this concept better than anyone else. All the missionaries are trained in Marketing and Journalism. Marketing techniques are used to push their product (Jesus=Salvation; Other religions=Hell). Journalistic techniques are used to spin their stories, manage media and create stories about non-christian religions
[^Top]
• Controlling Influential Powers/Positions
Evangelicals do not operate as hit-and-run operatives. Their ultimate objective is to control everything in the world. Earlier Church used to control everything including food, dressing, thinking and even sexual positions (allowed only missionary position). Evangelicals in the present day are trying to bring back their 'good-olden-days'. To achieve this they need to hold all the powerful positions whether in Judiciary, Army, Politics or Media. Here is a collection of news articles related to this strategy
• Creating 'LEFT-BEHIND' fear
This strategy works wonders on psychologically weak people. Evangelical Christians believe that theirs is the only true religion. They usually ask the non-christians the question of 'What would be their fate in case Christianity is the true religion and native religion is false?'. Evangelicals then describe the fate of non-christians in terms of hell, lake of fire and blood-thirsty 'second coming of Jesus' etc and advise the natives to play safe. Many psychologically weak non-christians want to play safe and convert out of fear of being 'LEFT-BEHIND'
• Disaster Relief Exploitation
Missionaries view disasters as a GOD send opportunity. They utilize disasters in two ways
Disaster Relief: "This Tsunami(disaster) is one of the greatest opportunities God has given us" says K P Yohannan, President of Gospel for Asia. Many like him do not have objection to taking advantage of hurting and suffering people are going through. In the name of disaster relief the victim's basic needs such as food,clothing, housing, medical needs are provided with a condition that they convert to christianity.
Satan Propaganda: Missionaries claim that the disaster stuck their region or village because God is angry with them. GOD is angry because non-christians worship devil and are under Satanic influence. Most of the victims will be psychologically weak and under manipulatable conditions because they lost their family members , property and undergoing depression. According to Southern Baptist Convention's official guide on Evangelism: The motivation behind Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts can be summed up in one phrase:"A cup of cold water in Jesus' name."
• Education
Education is a major strategy proven to work wonders in many poor nations such as Africa, South America whereas it is a partial success in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Education evangelism comes in various shapes and sizes. Primary schools, Vocational training, Nurse training, Music lessons are prominent. In many regions such as Afghanistan and many Islamic countries, Education though didn't help much in direct evangelism but helped missionaries put their foot into unreached regions and establish contacts with people. School work is an excellent mask for evangelical activities.
[^Top]
• Guaranteed ticket to Heaven
Sick and old people and told that if they convert, they (their bodies) are guaranteed to go to heaven. Many Old and Sick people fall prey to this technique and ask they family members to bury them along with their favorite clothing & Jewellery. This technique is prevalent among Hindu converts and Hindus cremate the bodies.
• Jesus Wells
Jesus Wells is a new and very popular technique prevalent in the dry or poverty stricken parts of the world. In this technique a well is dug or a hand pump is installed often using Government funds. In most of these places people cannot afford to have their own wells dug and rely on community wells/hand pumps which are far off.Only Christians are allowed to draw water from these sources. A pastor monitors the usage of well throughout the day. Click here for photos of Jesus wells.
• Miracles & Miracle-boxes
"Come to church and get the miracle you need" is the slogan representing this traditional game. Presently the game of Miracles is very popular in third world countries and tribal regions. The primary condition for Vatican to anoint somebody a saint is 'Proof of Miracles'. In poor regions a missionary asks people to write their wishes like bicycle, casette player, bullock cart on a piece of paper and put in the wish-box. A week after the Church from West with slush funds fulfils 'those' miracles. Intelligensia, rational and educated in west are abandoning church partly due to such cheap games.
• Music training & Programmes
Give me the music of a nation, and I will change the mind of that nation. said Plato.
Almost everybody in the world appreciates some form of music. Evangelicals are very successful in 'Music Evangelism' wherein they lure population by offering free guitar lessons and training in western dance and music in return for conversion. High-school and college going youth are particularly vulnerable to this strategy.
• Public Relations(PR) Campaigns
If there is anybody in the world who mastered the art of Public Relations (PR), it is the Western Church. They remain unscathed irrespective of the magnitude of crimes and genocides they commit. Their public relations engine works throughout the day. Due to their PR campaigns many people develop a larger than life view of missionaries and fall prey to their nefarious activities.
[^Top]
• Terrorism & Militancy
North-East India is a living example of Church sponsored terrorism. Tribals who refused to convert to Christianity are massacred. Baptist Church of Nagaland is the command centre of terrorism in Nagalim i.e., "Nagaland for Christ"
• Abduction/Kidnap
Abduction was a very popular method employed on tribes. It was Primarily employed on native tribes of Canada, America and Australia. This strategy is still used but at a much smaller scale while ensuring secrecy
• Academic/History Rewriting
This strategy helps in generating a low opinion and delinking natives from their native religions, cultures and traditions. Fredrich Max Muller, Wendy Donniger, Paul Courtright, Jeffrey Kirpal etc are examples of these. Max Muller claimed that "he will write/translate Upanishads in such a way that no Hindu would ever respect them again". Jeffrey Kirpal established an incestuous relationship between Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Vivekananda whereas Paul Courtright calls Hindu Lord Ganesha a oral-sex obsessed character.
A normal Hindu won't call himself a 'proud Hindu' after reading this literature and often becomes an object of ridicule in his society. Though many of these Scholars don't call themselves active missionaries they successfully play part-1 of the missionary game i.e., delinking.
• Alcoholism
Missionaries brought alcohol and promoted alcoholism to many tribal communities (example Polynesia/Tahiti). The leaders habituated to alcohol did everything what missionaries said losing their entire communities to christianity.
[^Top]
• Brainwashing/Hypnosis
Conversion is a "nice" word for Brainwashing...and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the "sinners" attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming. He would tell those attending, "You're a sinner! You're destined for hell!"
• Charity, Bribing and Buying souls
Charity is the most popular technique employed currently. This provides a very secular cover and insulates from all forms of questioning. This is used primarily to place long-term missionaries. They take the form of language teachers, social workers, AIDS/HIV workers etc.
• Child Trafficking/Orphanages
Though there a very few genuine Christian charity orphanages majority of the orphanages springing up today are mainly centres of indoctrination. They believe in the 'Catch them young' principle. Many orphanages claim that they are building the future christian workers.
• Christian Ashrams & Sadhus
Hindus have high respect for Ashrams (Hermitage) and Sadhus (Swamis). Grasping the popularity Christians have started donning saffron robes and look-alike ashrams. Many Hindus get fooled by those outward appearances and become part of these ashrams. A good example is ShantiVanam Ashram run by swindler Fr. Bede Griffiths. The place looks and feels like a Hindu ashram. Fr. Bede Griffiths wears saffron robes, sports a vermillion mark and the entire place reverberates with meditation and chanting. Behold everything they utter is Jesus and Paul.
• Contextualization/Inculturation
Contextualization is the process of adoption the native culture, practices and beliefs to make the non-christians believe that they are not in a different world. It is an infiltration technique. Hindus have 'Mangal sutra', (a special type of chain) as part of the marriage ceremony. Not to be left behind, Christians now offer it's equivalent 'Yesu - Sutra' in the marriages. Every Hindu and Buddhist ritual have copycats now.
[^Top]
• Converting Influential people
This strategy involves converting influential people such as village headman, politicians, Cine/theater artists, sportsmen etc employing an appropriate conversion technique. These people act as brand managers of Christianity influecing their followers. Recent examples include politicians of TamilNadu, Andhra - India, various south Indian film actors and heads of many villages.
• Create "Artificial" Disasters
Disaster relief is a successful and prove technique for mass conversion. History tells us that even when no disaster existed missionaries were successful in creating artificial disasters so as to control the administration. A classic example is creation of "artificial famine" in India in 1918-1919. The slang "Holy Cow" originated during that period
• Create Guilt
This strategy revolves around the idea of blaming the native religion as the source of major problems. In 1975-1976 missionaries failed in all their strategic attempts to convert Panare Indians of the Colorado Valley. The missionaries re-edited the Bible saying "The Panare killed Jesus Christ because they were wicked....God will burn you all, burn all the animals, burn also the earth,the heavens, absolutely everything.He will burn also the Panare themselves.". Panare Indians fealt guilty of their ancestral crime and converted to Christianity to avoid 'Revenge of Jesus'. This is currently being used against Muslims. Muslims are told that Islam is the source of extremism in the world and Muslims should come out of Islam to be guilt-free.
• Deceptive Church Buildings
Churches which look like native religion structures. In Africa churches look like mosques with a crescent like cross and are aptly names Isa-mosque. In India and SriLanka 'Yesu Mandirs' (Jesus Temple) are quite common. They look and feel like Hindu temples. This falls under deception and contextualization main strategies. This strategy is working wonders in Africa and rural areas in mid-east countries.
[^Top]
• Denigration and Hate Spreading
According to Christianity every non-christian religion is a work of Satan and every non-christian worships Satan. These strategies are primarily used to motivate their fellow missionaries and to create ill-will among non-christians about their religion
• Divide & Conquer(convert)
This is one of the most popular deceitful techniques employed throughout the missionary history. Differences and enimity among individuals are created or exploited in pitting one group against another. This is very popular among tribals as it is very easy to generate enimity between two clans. The British and American missionaries successfully employed this technique in India by Horizontally and vertically dividing the Indian society into Aryans and Dravidians, Dalits & non-Dalits. The "Missionary Scholars" manufactured theories (without proof) supporting these divisions with the help of some sold-out Indians.
• Economic Success Deception
In many third world and poor countries, missionaries advertise that the West (America and Europe) are rich because of Christianity though the truth is contrary. Many gullible people equate economic prosperity to adoption of Christianity and convert. Mark Twain rightly said, " The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive...but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born."
• Excessive children/Armies of God's soldiers
Many Christian families produce excessive number of children to be brought up in a different fundamentalist cult like mentality. These kids grown up in such restrictive and conditioned environment are expected to carry forward and impose the fundamentalist mentality they are brought up in. The pastor or father controls everything related to upbringing of the children such as even picking the nail color the kids can use.
• Exorcism
Catholic church promotes the notion that the negative tendencies in the world are due to Devils(imaginary creatures). How to get rid of Devils?. Catholic church practices an occult medieval practice called Exorcism. When a comman man is in trouble, the local church clandestinely brainwashes the gullible that Devils are source for all the ills and they have the solution called 'Exorcism' to get rid of Satan/Devils. The common man under distress easily falls into this trap.
• Exploiting the Prisoners
Prisoners are usually at the mercy of jail officials. Evangelicals usually take up employment in prisons or befriend prison officials.
[^Top]
• Fake Medical Conditions
Fake medicines: This technique is very popular in rural India. In mission hospitals a non-christian patient is given a white tablet (not a medicine) and asked to pray his Hindu God. After 1 day when the patient sees no reprieve to his medical condition the patient is given a real medicine and asked to pray Jesus. Hindu tradition respects any religion or any Godly person. The healing by medicine is claimed for his prayer to Jesus.
Fake situations: This is a popular technique in Indian villages. This is a true story which happened in 2003 in W Godavari Dist, Andhra Pradesh, . A woman in labour was brought into a mission hospital. The doctor (a Westerner) found that the lady is going to deliver in 10 minutes. The doctor and the staff immediately made a big scene saying that the mother and baby are in danger and the family was asked to pray. The family started praying to their family deity Lord Venkateswara. In 2 minutes the doctor started yelling that their prayers are useless and asked the family to join him in praying Jesus and take a vow that if the mother delivers safely the entire family would convert. As expected the mother delivered the baby after 8 minutes. He immediately put a chain (with cross) on the just born baby and the entire family converted to keep their (deceived) promise.
• Fear of "End of World" (Acocalypse)
Missionaries brainwash and instill a fear that 'end-of-the-world' is coming. Missionaries 'guarantee' heaven (as if they own that dreamland) to converts and those who don't convert are cast in the 'Lake of Fire'. Guillible,illiterate and weak fall prey to that concept and convert. Earthquakes and recently Indian Ocean Tsunami were all marketed by missionaries as a'divine wrath and warning from GOD' for not converting
• Fear of death or Slavery
This was a prominent technique employed on North and South American natives.
An enterprising European official sailed to the Central American mainland in 1514 in search of Gold and to convert natives. They adopted a very simple approach.
They traveled by night, stopping at midnight outside a chosen village. Before they entered, they declared loudly: "Princes and Indians, there is one God, one pope, and one king of Castile, who is lord of this country. Come at once and render him obedience, or we will make war on you, kill you, and put you into slavery."