About India’s “anti-conversion” laws:
Jesus Christ commanded Christians, as the fundamental practice of faith in Him, to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, befriend strangers, clothe the naked, care for the sick, & visit those in prison.
Jesus Christ commanded Christians, as the fundamental practice of faith in Him, to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, befriend strangers, clothe the naked, care for the sick, & visit those in prison.
His final command before ascending to Heaven was to go throughout the whole earth to teach people about this message of loving Him by loving one another. He said that people would know that we follow Him because of this display of love.
This is the foundational teaching of the Christian Church. When #RSS-#BJP sponsored legislation bans conversion based off “inducement” or “allurement,” it essentially criminalizes the practice of the Christian Faith.
Conversion to Christianity is inexplicably linked to attraction. The attraction that people have to seeing followers of Christ loving and giving in His name & in obedience to His commands about how we are supposed to treat our fellow humans.
Seeing this display of love, many recognize in it that such acts could only be inspired by the Divine, since, after all, we humans are fundamentally selfish and not naturally inclined to go out of our way to love (in action, not feeling) other people.
These “anti-conversion” laws are, thus, designed to criminalize Christianity. They want to ban Christians from practicing the love of Christ, and they want to ban non-Christians from being so moved by seeing the love of Christ in practice that they choose to convert.
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