Article 25(1) of the Constitution of India reads, “Subject to the public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of this Part, all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practice and propagate religion.” However, to help clarify this, the Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that “propagate” cannot be interpreted as right to convert. The fact that it made such interpretation is because the Petitioner believed that conversion had constitutional sanction because of use of the word “propagate.” Thus, because of the Supreme Court’s ruling, previously overt programs of conversion have become clandestine. But because of a lack of clear laws to prevent forcible conversions and the denigration of Hinduism, other religions have been freely if not openly engaged in belittling the Vedic tradition in any way they want.
 
For many years the Christians have been presenting all kinds of distortions about the Vedic culture in a deliberate attempt to dissuade people from being Hindus and to try to persuade people to become Christians. This has gone on in many parts of India . It is one thing to preach on the basis of the Bible’s purity or the teachings of Jesus, but it is quite another to deliberately distribute literature that specifically demeans and warps the true meaning of the Vedic culture, and, thus, provokes the anger of the Hindus or local people. Some of this literature that is passed out by Christians and the missionaries says such things like how certain divinities were prostitutes, or defames the character of Krishna and Rama, or says that other divinities were but victims of lust, or promotes falsehoods about Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, the details of which I will not repeat here.
 
These accusations in the Christian literature really show their ignorance and how much they lack in true understanding of the Vedic divinities and the traditions. But they continued to say that the Hindus were worshiping false gods, and that they should be delivered from such a dark path. However, I say that if you really want to question the characteristics of a god, look at the one in the Old Testament of the Bible. The attacks, atrocities, killing of people, sending horrendous diseases, etc., that are attributed to and admitted by that God can surely be called into question for anyone who really studies the Bible. He was always getting mad at His own people, calling them sinners, blasphemers, etc., and He is supposed to be a merciful God, a God of love?
 
In other Christian literature, things that are stated include that new Christians should destroy the places of worship of the tribal people.
 
The real point is that if the Christians were so loving and merciful, meaning no harm to anyone, why would they want or arrange for the murder of an old Hindu priest who had worked to uphold the rights of the tribals and villagers who did not convert to Christianity?  The ultimate point is that whether Christianity means to be or not, it is showing itself as a hostile ideology, using spurious and fanatic literature suggesting that human beings are flawed and can only be redeemed by converting to a particular faith.
 
Sanatana-dharma advocates the freedom of the individual to discover the spirituality that is best for each person as he or she sees fit=2 0 through the natural process of inquiry and experience, not through a forced conversion. But isn’t the desire to destroy Dharma itself adharmic, or hostile to Dharmic spirituality? Dharma is light, and adharma is darkness. Dharma is freedom, adharma is forced aggression, and the loss of freedom and the limitation of choice. Thus, the Vedic tradition offers all kinds of choices, but does not approve of aggressive force to make people comply with only one way of spirituality. Therefore, as long as Dharma exists, adharma or darkness cannot prevail forever. Thus, it is our duty to defend Dharma for the benefit of everyone. This is why for aggressive Christianity and fanatical Islam to continue, they must annihilate the freedom of Dharma found in Hinduism, which means Hinduism must end for them to more freely expand.
 
In this way, this freedom of self-inquiry seems to make the mere presence of the Vedic path and its followers a danger to all non-Hindus, especially Christians and Muslims. Why? Why is it that they seemed to have declared war on Hindus?
 
Furthermore, this would indicate that conversion in India would be the creation of a native constituency that will be subjected to the dictates of either Rome or the West if they become Christians, or the Nation of Islam if they become Muslims. And we have already seen many politicians of India who advocate either the conversion or the destruction of Hindus and their temples and monuments. We can also observe that these diabolical actions are meant to weaken the Hindu determination to maintain and protect their culture, while allowing a freer hand to those engaged in harvesting the souls of India and creating jihadi camps on Indian soil that would be useful for any eventual attack by Pakistan on India . This also means that those Indians who support this are but traitors to Hinduism and the motherland of India .
 
If India is going to make sure that such a scenario is preventable, their must be proper leadership for the future of their civilization, and the need for a pro-active spirit among the masses. Otherwise, we have but a continuation of the assau lt on India and attempts at tyranny that have happened in the past by invading forces. All such attempts must be crushed if we are going to maintain a positive future for India , and our freedom of religion and preservation of our Dharmic culture. We should not allow for the same mistakes of long-ago to happen again.