Thread by @HindooHistory

Los Angeles Herald, 1907

"HINDOO REPLIES TO HIS CRITICS"

"RESENTS BEING SPOKEN OF ADVERSELY"

"Entitles his Sermon 'Kid Preachers' And Says His Opponent Belongs in Some Such Category"

#HindooHistory #BabaBharati

"Baba Bharati discoursed last night on the modern preachers of Christianity, some of whom he called 'kid preachers of Christ,' which formed the title of his talk, with special references to the attacks made on him last Sunday by a minister"

"He said in part: 'Poor Christianity, the great religion of the greater Nazarene, has suffered horribly through the centuries at the hands of unchristian, fanatical preachers, while its most sacred emblem, the cross, has been bathed in the blood of myriads of human beings..."

"who were slaughtered in its name by ecclesiastical, royal and mercenary hellhounds of war. The history of the Christian church is aflame with the firebrand and the stake, is alive with the shrieks and groans of its victims."

"It teems with the agonized ravings and protests that rose to the heart of him who came and walked and died for the glory of a world's awakening"

"'Not that these egotists and fanatics of the Christian church are not to be found nowadays in Christendom. They exist in almost all the churches now as ever,and would any day scourge this beautiful earth with the same reign of terror if they were supported by any royal or state"

"Lacking this help owing to the illuminated conscience of western humanity the demon in most of them has been commercialized through the spirit of the age; so, instead of craving for blood as of old, they now crave for money, material goods, and professional notoriety"

"Preaching, in most cases has been reduced to commercial calling-- in many cases to mere trade, like grocery or shoemaking"

"'But for the honorable exceptions of many naturally God-loving ministers and priests who are keeping the fire of faith alive in God-hungry Christians the soul unfolding religion of the divine Nazarene would have gone down with the land into the seas"

"But their genuinely spirit ministrations are greatly hampered and counteracted by the vagaries of the many machine-made products of theological seminaries. These latter in most cases are almost entirely bereft of the spirit of godliness"

"However much they may exalt Christ in hackneyed words and phrases their faith in the Savior is in essence a patronising opinion at best."

"They declare Jesus as the only son of God only to feed their egotism. It means that if he were not believed to be the only son of God they would not appoint him as their savior, nor would they have preached his saviorship to the world"

"Their attitude towards oriental religions is one of supreme contempt. To them they are pagan religions, and as such could contain nothing worthy of their attention or examination. These may be called 'kid preachers of Christ.'"

"Only last Sunday I was called by one of these 'kid' preachers-- and a 'fresh' and 'saucy' kid at that-- 'an audacious pagan.' and 'this fellow,' and an 'ass.' Think of it! A Christian pastor, speaking from his holy place in the pulpit.."

"His attempts,and the attempts of all churches put together, to repress the Hindoo preachers will prove the most futile, as coming developments will show.The advent of these Hindoo preachers in America is a God-ordained dispensation in the march of the world's spiritual events"

"Only half a dozen Hindoo preachers have as yet come, and already created the greatest consternation in the missionary and ministerial camps. As to whether Krishna is lord of love or lord of lust he will himself show the world."

"That lion of love, that Lord of all the universes is as yet only gently growling, gently protesting against the unnatural behavior of some conceit-blinded ministers of his beloved Son. A moment more and he will rise and roar in all the majesty of his almightiness"

"And the foxes, jackals, mice and cats who are daily misrepresenting the message of the white god of love, he that was born in Bethlehem, will clear out of the churches and scamper into their holes"

#BabaBharati features prominently during this period of #HindooHistory, including in Daggett’s “Heathen Invasion”

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