Christian Missionaries Target Youth

[dehodars]

Foolish naive youth in western countries are targeted by Christian missionaries who have only one mission in mind - how to strip the person naked. 400,000 Sikhs living in the UK are mainly of Punjabi descent. The Christian infidelity begins with the words that Jesus died for our sins and the earth is ours. Western values conflict with eastern values and indeed the east is giving up to these ghosts. Knowing little to nothing about shame, being decent, noble they will mislead in all ways. Their media is disgusting and India is following this trend. Sikh children go to the Gurdwara from early age but the real war starts at school or at college, where they are greater in numbers. Verily, the Christian Catholic schools in Punjab state have bullied and harassed Sikh girls and boys.

They use words such as satsang, prabhu/ parmeshur and Jesus is Satguru to the person. Harsimran kaur was approached by a Bible basher who handed out a leaflet in Gurmukhi script. The leaflet says the light is christ and he is Raam, Allah, Waheguru in a body. Harsimran kaur found this message very similar to Sikhism and missed the whole point. She converted to Christianity.

[chhokaranwala]

In Punjab they are working in full force

Indeed even in the holy city of Amritsar you will see people looking like Sikhs (full beard/turban etc) wearing a cross or upon questioning identifying themselves as Christians

The problem is even worse in the Jalandhar Doab area where is is fast snowballing into a potential major crisis for the Sikh panth in the future

Instead of wasting time on pointless arguements and debates the Sikh leadership should be working to inculcate values and morality amongst the population

[rajkhalsa9]

Evangelists in the Punjab.

Holding fierce pride in their identity, Sikhs have for decades been seen as “off-limits” by the missionary machine but not anymore. In a alarming trend, evangelism has begun to tread on the Sikh faith as well.

Every aspect of Punjabi society is being overwhelmed with this new wave of assertive Christianity. Besides nationwide programs in Hindi, Punjabi television channels have been deluged by Christian programs even though the Christian population of Punjab is less than 1%. Taking aim at Sikh youth, animated films and children’s books on Christianity are freely distributed by missionaries.

Because of the strong adherence to tradition by Sikhs, missionaries have attempted to repackage Christianity. Jesus is called “Satguru”, church is referred to as “Satsang” and choir singing is called “Kirtan”. Choir boys in Punjabi churches wear turbans to attempt to minimize the variation between Sikhism and Christianity. However, despite these attempts to disguise Christianity as a version of Sikhism, missionaries still cannot hide their intent: to destroy the Sikh faith.

While there have been some cases of genuine conversions, economically disadvantaged and illiterate Sikhs often complain that missionaries are using extortive practices such as bribing them with material possessions to change their religion. A young boy whose friends had converted to Christianity explained, "When I asked the boys as to why they have converted to Christianity, they said they had been given cash and free education. In our village alone, 5 to 6 people have converted and, of course, their generations to come would also be Christians."

Gurbachan Singh Bachan, former Secretary of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee and a proud Sikh, says "People who are converting from Hinduism and Sikhism to Christianity are those who have lost understanding of their own religion… Khalsa [sikh] institutions and the Government need to educate the people about the values of a religion, and tell them that all religions are equal and no religion teaches us to fight with each other."

Such provocative evangelism in Punjab does not always go unnoticed by the local community. The Open Door Church run by Pastor Harbhajan Singh, a landlord who converted to Christianity from Sikhism, has aggressively converted over 2,800 members of the Khojewala village community. In February of 2004, Singh made derogatory remarks against several Sikh gurus including Guru Granth Sahib. This led to several protests by Sikh youths in front Singh’s church in the. The conflict was ultimately resolved by police intervention and an unconditional apology by Harbhajan Singh. Meanwhile, Christian media painted this incident as an example of “Christian persecution.”

A recent study showed that at least 800,000 are converted to Christianity every year throughout India. In the coming years, this number can significantly increase with attacks on the Sikh faith.

Below is a translation of a book published, by the missionary organization, Operation Mobilization (disguised as a Hindu group with the acronym OM). The passages below are a story of a man who is portrayed as a hero for rejecting his Sikh faith, cutting his hair and ultimately converting to Christianity.

Chapter 3: Having long hair on head was the most important sign out of five signs for Sikhs in Punjab. He knotted his hair in a bun on his head. He was nothing without steel bangle, half pant, comb, and a small sword that provided his identity. His holy book ‘Granth’ had an instruction for him to never cut his hair, and like a devoted Sikh he never cut his hair. Though, his beautiful beard was very uncomfortable in summer and dusty environment. Without being cut, his long hair on head dignified him. A Sikh who had cut his hair was then not called a Sikh. He was boycotted from his religion, society, and family.

Whatever Sundar did was seen as resistance of shock by his father, Sher Singh, and after that Sundar had seen such anger from him that he had never seen before. His father became very angry and kick him out of the house without hesitation, saying that he was now not a member of this family. He brought bad name to the family. He was removed from his Caste; he had no right to live in the courtyard of the Singh family. He had to go out immediately.

Page 30: Sadhu Sundar Singh: …….ended that made his relative clearly angrier. The pressure coming from various sources undoubtedly could not mislead the internal determination of this 15 years old boy. But they could be sufficient to make the boy quite.

But as far as Sundar was concerned, it had opposite effect. As he studied the work of good news and Christian converts, and read about that extraordinary messiah whom he had seen from his own eyes. How he endured pain with insult and how his pupils were really happy to be found qualified to bear insult for the sake of his name. Then, a desire also arose in Sundar to endure pain for messiah. One day, by a program that would separate him, he would not only show that he has attained youth but also fulfill the primary requirement of being Sikh. He could not participate in this program and he did not want to. He did not want to do this to deny his Caste or Clan. He wanted to deny Sikh religion. Even after his infatuation was broken when he was studying at a school in Ludhiana, he faced threatening calls, anger, and bad behaviour from his father and elders of the family. He knew that no one could erase the memory of that living God. It was that messiah that vouched for his sincerity and he also needed to do that. To make it clear to his family and to make them understand, he left Sikh religion for good; and that he has seen Jesus Christ and was determined to follow him.

Article from AggressiveChristianity.

Christians interrupt Sikh Funeral in the US, seek converts

Posted March 4, 2004

San Jose, Feb. 29, 2004

The American GI Forum Hall was packed with hundreds of mourners as members of the huge Sikh community of the Bay Area gathered for the funeral service of Hari Singh and Satnam Singh, two of the three people, who were killed by a gunman in a high-profile attack the previous Sunday. Speaker after speaker came up to address the grieved for their lost loved ones and prayed for their families.

However, members of Indian Christians United (ICU) took this advantage of the Sikh community in mourning as an opportunity to convert them. Brother Younis Masih and two other Punjabi converts walked on top the stage and announced they would be playing a gospel song. Younis then walked to his harmonium, one sat down with a tabla, and the third held a Bible.

In the following minutes, the Christian converts inappropriately began singing to Christian songs, preaching the virtues of Christianity over Sikhism and read two passages from the Bible. Younis spoke in fluent Punjabi in an attempt to convert as many Sikhs as possible.

[Harjeet.Singh]

I get jehova's witnesses people coming to my house(live in the UK). They always give me reading material, with stuff from the bible. They gave my mum a hindi version of the bible, it is so funny. Me and my mum just pretend to be nice with them, but really we can't wait till they leave the house! They use to come every week, now they come monthly, its funny, because sometimes we don't open the door, and just let them stand there thinking nobody is in. I think they try to get vunerable people, but now they have seen we're not vunerable, since i told them i follow Sikhi more now, and how i don't cut hair and stuff. Now they are like "woah" and they backed off a little bit. Actually it's been nearly 2 months since they were last here, im not sure if they are even going to come again.

It's funny when they are here though, they always make reference to the bible. Sometimes i wanted to burst out laughing in front of them. I can see why some people fall for them though, they do offer hope and say nice things about God. And not all the stuff in the bible is crap, the bible has some good things in it too. But its not perfect, unlike our Guru ji.

[HSD*^]

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[guptveer1469]

I get jehova's witnesses people coming to my house(live in the UK). They always give me reading material, with stuff from the bible. They gave my mum a hindi version of the bible, it is so funny. Me and my mum just pretend to be nice with them, but really we can't wait till they leave the house! They use to come every week, now they come monthly, its funny, because sometimes we don't open the door, and just let them stand there thinking nobody is in. I think they try to get vunerable people, but now they have seen we're not vunerable, since i told them i follow Sikhi more now, and how i don't cut hair and stuff. Now they are like "woah" and they backed off a little bit. Actually it's been nearly 2 months since they were last here, im not sure if they are even going to come again.

It's funny when they are here though, they always make reference to the bible. Sometimes i wanted to burst out laughing in front of them. I can see why some people fall for them though, they do offer hope and say nice things about God. And not all the stuff in the bible is crap, the bible has some good things in it too. But its not perfect, unlike our Guru ji.

EXACTLY THE SAME HERE BRO... Lollll... They give those Hindi and Punjabi versions of Watchtower or something, and also in Dutch for me.

Only thing is that I'm in Belgium. 2 old Jehova's witnesses come monthly and irritate me to death. Sometimes I just want to chase them out of house, but my dad forbids me. They really think I'm interested..

Bhul Chuk Maaf,

WJKK WJKF

[HSD*^]

another point is this: if you keep the j.witness occupied for some time, you're also saving some poor guy from their hate and trickery. grin and bare it brothers, offer them another cup of tea.

and why can i see an advert for free bibles at the bottom of this page?

[rajkhalsa9]

we need to drill some sense in that self styled Akali Simranjeet Mann ..he is their protector in Pujnab..i do something simple...request them to leave ...if they do their hallelujah mumbo jumbo...then i resort to violent ways

[Harjeet.Singh]

another point is this: if you keep the j.witness occupied for some time, you're also saving some poor guy from their hate and trickery. grin and bare it brothers, offer them another cup of tea.

Yeah, we do this, you should always treat people like guests, even people from different religions, but its really funny though. Some of them are indian too, so i think they were once too a different religion but then they got converted to Christianity too. Now they are trying to do the same to us. It is so blatant. They do it all indirectly, but you can tell that basicially they are just trying to convert you without actually saying "you will convert now" But really that is what they mean.

The funniest thing i heard them say was, "God's name is Jehovah" :lol: Well durr :doh: you are the Jehovah's witness.

[sahib_bindra]

no need to think to much..the thing is that christanity is hassle free religion...u can drink ..smoke...do whatever u like..i dont even consider it as a religion...so people who convert to christanity are basically becoming atheist ..