The root of racism is in Christian Theology. Black people according to them were beasts & hence deserved to made slave.
As per the Christian Identity theory, Adam and Eve were only the ancestors of white people.
hey say that before, Adam & Eve lived non-Caucasian races which are identified as "beasts of the field"(Genesis 1:25).
As precedent, the 'beasts'which wore sackcloth & cried unto God (Jonah 3:8) are identified as black races.
Now, interestingly to support this, Christians direct us to the Hebrew etymology of the word 'Adam' which is = 'be ruddy, red, to show blood'.
James Strong's Hebrew Dictionary talks about it.
They go on to conclude hence that only Caucasians or people with light white skin can blush or turn rosy in the face. Read more here web.archive.org/web/2011072311…
This is an interesting book which gives complete details about how Christian Theology Experts did connect the Africans as beasts. google.co.in/books/edition/…
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"The Arya Samaj was the first Hindu movement to take up a bold stand in this context. Maharshi Dayanand himself had showed up Muhammad for the sort of man he was."
in his book, "Freedom of expression: Secular theocracy versus liberal democracy."
SR Goel writes, "He (Dayanand) made a positive contribution when he pointed out that India had inherited a spirituality and a culture which were not only indigenous but also intrinsically superior to the imported creeds and cultures...
...He encouraged and enabled his people to reawaken to their own inner sources of strength, and hold their heads high in the face of foreign invaders. He was the first to use the terms Swadeshi and Swarajya.
There was a period, when every Hindu Organisations including Ramkrishna Mission, Hindu Mahasabha, Arya Samaj spoke of Shuddhi (re-converting to Hindu Fold) & wanted Hindus to give away shackles of caste for same.
Instead of blaming them as reformist & Christian stooges+
One need to understand Politics, situation of that period.
Why all were on same page?
Recently we came across a case where a BJP’s MLA’s mother converted to Christianity.+
A thing was observed that a child deemed to be Shudra by birth ran into the Mandir & heavy fine was imposed (₹25,000).
3)Post Crusades (after 7 centuries), Church brought logic in play & declared that metaphysical Mathematics began with Euclid, although they couldn't notice that it was actually dealing with empirical proofs.
4)It became an error for metaphysics of church
but went on being unnoticed till 19th century.
5) It was admitted that other empirical proofs (such as the proof of Proposition 4 or the side-angle-side theorem) are essential to the proof of the “Pythagorean” theorem in the Elements.
Reformation isn’t needed in process that has “evolution.”
Sanatana Dharma, is the address to Nature, which evolves everyday.
The more beings are born, more she evolves. Every extra breathing has a new carbon-footprint.
Reformation comes in play where things are actually “distorted.”
Our Shastras don’t have contradictions, but evidence of “evolution” which was always accepted by our Acharyas.
While Christians after reformation, got to be known as Protestant, our Shastras despite evolutions kept being accepted by Hindus. There contradictions didn’t being new sect each time.