When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.” — Oscar Wilde
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world." — Voltaire
"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned: yet we have not advanced one inch towards humanity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support error and roguery all over the earth." — Thomas Jefferson

Many Indians think the term Hindu is a foreign word because it was used by the Persians to identify the people who lived east of the River Sindhu. This is not entirely correct, and the term as a religious and cultural indicator should not be discarded by self-styled Sanatana Dharma purists.
The designator Hindu is a distortion of the river's Sanskrit name Sindhu (called Hindus in Old Persian, from which Indus is derived). In many vernaculars sa is replaced with ha, and Sindhu becomes Hindu. This does not make Hindu a foreign word. The Agama Shastra has reference to Hindu desha demarking the territory of Bharat from Himachala to the Indusarovara (Indian Ocean).
The ancient Greeks referred to "the people of the Indus" as Indoi. The 3rd century bce Greek ethnographer Megasthenes called the land east of the Indus Indica and wrote a fabulous collection of lies about his visit there called Indica.
During Roman times India or Indica became a synonym for Asia and all lands east of the Roman Empire's borders up to China. This use of the term is reflected in modern geographical names like Indo-china and Indo-nesia.
How do you know? - Socrates
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. - Seneca
The world has produced three great impostors: Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. - Emperor Frederick II of Sicily
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal justice if it is to ask for universal assent. - M.K. Gandhi
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: "I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool."
For more definitions go to The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Pierce.
An economics teacher at a local school made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that Gillard-Brown socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The teacher then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on the Gillard-Brown plan".
All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A -- substituting grades for rupees.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the third test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, all failed and the teacher told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, and gives to those who do nothing, no-one will try or want to succeed.
It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there is a test coming up »»» the next election.
These are possibly the five best sentences you'll ever read and all are applicable to this experiment:
1. You can not legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Paradise is only at a place where no Mullah lives, // Where no uproar or clamor from a Mullah is heard, // May the world rid itself of the terror of a Mullah. // May none pay heed to his fatwa. // In a city where a Mullah dwells, // No wise man is ever found. - By Prince Dara Shukoh who was murdered by his brother Aurangzeb for translating the Upanishads into Persian
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some body should take up this issue of syriyan chiristians via DNA tests to confirm whether they are from syria or from the low caste as claimed by samuel matteer.
Stealing Hindu children by Christians and christian NGOs and Christian adoption agencies are going on , on a massive scale in India. There is a custom among the Syrian Christians of Kerala for adoption of a son-in-law. The so called Syrian Christians are not from Syria but are low caste Hindu Pulaya converts in Keral, but they created fake history of immigration and conversion stories from the upper caste. Read the book of a British prist M L Mateer who lived decades in Kerala. The book ‘Native life of Travancore’ by Rev. Samuel Mateer F L S Rev. Samuel Mateer F L S published the book in 1883 in London called Native Life in Travancore ISBN: 8120605144 / ISBN-13: 9788120605145 shows that the Kerala Syrian christians are christian converts of the untouchable Hindu Paraya community of Kerala. He found that none of the converts known as Kerala Syrian christians have no idea of Jesus Christ or cross. Where there are no sons, the husband of the youngest daughter is taken in adoption under Syrian Christians of Kerala custom. Mostly they adopt from poor Hindu family in earlier days and bring them up as Christians. Kerala Christians went to TN and made fake Thomas story and fake Syrian Christian story so that they will be called Syrian Christians instead of Paraya Christians. Christians destroyed the original Kapaleeswara temple in Chennai and constructed the Santome church over it. Velar Kanniamman temple has become the fake Velankanni church of the Keral chrisitans. Mostly kids just born are stolen by organised groupts in India and these children are bought and given away to foreigners by the christian adoption agencies of India. Often senior christian policemen are part of this racket in India and even in the rank of IG was seen in Hyderabad are a member of this gang. These groups are paid by the christian missionary organisations in the west and they are making their best effort to dilute the adoption rules in India so that Hindu children can be exported to the west to be brought up as sex slaves, organ trade and also to bring them up as Christians. On 3-5-2005, Chennai police arrested five people for kidnapping and selling about 350 children to an adoption agency in Chennai. There was an adoption scandal in AP in 1999. Women agents who act as Christian social workers, buy Lambada girls, for Rs 2000 and sell them to adoption agencies for Rs 20000. One Christian Sanjeeva Rao and his orphanage, ASD and another Christian Peter Subbaiah, who ran the Good Samaritan Evangelical and Social Welfare Association, were involved in this child trafficking to West. The Lambada were a traditionally nomadic people,in AP, now settled in various places are poor labourers. Lambada believe the third, sixth, and ninth child was, if a girl, is inauspicious and sell their kids. Kids are very fair making them more attractive to foreign parents. These christian orphanages sell the kids to foreigners for Rs one to two lakhs in intercountry adoption racket. Another AP Christian adoption agency called Action for Social Development used to sent kids illegally to USA., bit.ly/pJEF01, bit.ly/dy88Ou, bit.ly/buUX4h, bit.ly/eSoJT6, bit.ly/gg5ZcT, bit.ly/gBBlg0, scr.bi/nQZjzL, scr.bi/b26ikK, bit.ly/rcu9KL, bit.ly/osiD5y,
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Namaste,
I am a volunteer of Forum for Hindu Awakening, a nonprofit, tax exempt, budding Hindu organization in USA (www.HinduAwakening.org). I am writing to invite you and your members to upcoming California Hinduism Summit.
The Hinduism Summit aims to unite everyone interested in Hinduism, to preserve it in the face of denigration and misconceptions about Hinduism today. This Summit follows the success of recent similar events held by FHA in US states of Virginia, New Jersey, twice in Chicago and in UK and Australia.
The free event will be held by the Forum for Hindu Awakening (FHA) on Shravan Krushna Chaturthi, 5112 (28 August 2010) at the Sunnyvale Hindu Temple, California,USA with support from noteworthy Hindu and spiritual organizations. It will also be webcasted live from FHA for attendance and participation from anywhere in the world.
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We are writing to invite you and your members to the Summit. We kindly request you to feature this event and/or publish the news in your website or blog.
Looking forward to your affirmative reply,
Sincerely,
Christie Leung
Forum for Hindu Awakening
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Padre Michael Dresbach is a Catholic missionary priest in Panama.
With reference to the St. Thomas in India fable, he writes:
“As far as the Acts of Thomas is concerned, I don’t think any of it is true; it’s a third-century romance novel, so it doesn’t present any theological problems for me. It’s not a theological document anymore than the Harry Potter series is a theological treatise.
“I don’t give a good ding-dang what Pope Benedict thinks about anything!”