RE: What has Christianity truly contributed to humanity
July 29, 2023 at 8:04 am
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Yup, unfortunately there is. Such men are sinners and will be judged by God as the sinners they were. So was that Terrorist Thug "General" Dyer and those he killed in the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre, because he refused to acknowledge Indians have the same inalienable human rights as the Britishers do, in our own Country at that.
Now, one of the good things earlier British Christian Missionaries - unlike Thugs like Dyer - did, and in this they were following Jesus Christ and practicing Universal Love, was the Abolition of Sati and Education against this misguided practice, which ultimately benefited Indian Women. William Carey and William Wilberforce were examples of those who did this and who put pressure on the East India Company to do it.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)
Quote:"The massacre caused a re-evaluation by the British Army of its military role against civilians to "minimal force whenever possible", although later British actions during the Mau Mau rebellion in the Kenya Colony have led historian Huw Bennett to comment that the new policy could sometimes be put aside.[9] The army was retrained and developed less violent tactics for crowd control.[10] The level of casual brutality, and lack of any accountability, stunned the entire nation,[11] resulting in a wrenching loss of faith of the general Indian public in the intentions of the United Kingdom.[12] The attack was condemned by the Secretary of State for War, Winston Churchill, as "unutterably monstrous", and in the UK House of Commons debate on 8 July 1920 Members of Parliament voted 247 to 37 against Dyer. The ineffective inquiry, together with the initial accolades for Dyer, fuelled great widespread anger against the British among the Indian populace, leading to the non-cooperation movement of 1920–22.[13] Some historians consider the episode a decisive step towards the end of British rule in India.[14][15] ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
Rabindranath Tagore received the news of the massacre by 22 May 1919. He tried to arrange a protest meeting in Calcutta and finally decided to renounce his British knighthood as "a symbolic act of protest".[68] In the repudiation letter, dated 31 May 1919 and addressed to the Viceroy of India, Lord Chelmsford, he wrote "I ... wish to stand, shorn, of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings."[69]"
Now, one of the good things earlier British Christian Missionaries - unlike Thugs like Dyer - did, and in this they were following Jesus Christ and practicing Universal Love, was the Abolition of Sati and Education against this misguided practice, which ultimately benefited Indian Women. William Carey and William Wilberforce were examples of those who did this and who put pressure on the East India Company to do it.
Quote:"The first official British response to sati was in 1680 when the Agent of Madras Streynsham Master intervened and prohibited the burning of a Hindu widow [102][103] in Madras Presidency. Attempts to limit or ban the practice had been made by individual British officers, but without the backing of the East India Company. This is because it followed a policy of non-interference in Hindu religious affairs and there was no legislation or ban against Sati.[104] The first formal British ban was imposed in 1798, in the city of Calcutta only. The practice continued in surrounding regions. In the beginning of the 19th century, the evangelical church in Britain, and its members in India, started campaigns against sati. This activism came about during a period when British missionaries in India began focusing on promoting and establishing Christian educational systems as a distinctive contribution of theirs to the missionary enterprise as a whole.[105] Leaders of these campaigns included William Carey and William Wilberforce. These movements put pressure on the company to ban the act. William Carey, and the other missionaries at Serampore conducted in 1803–04 a census on cases of sati for a region within a 30-mile radius of Calcutta, finding more than 300 such cases there.[91] The missionaries also approached Hindu theologians, who opined that the practice was encouraged, rather than enjoined by the Hindu scriptures.[106][107]"
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)