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1. LANGUAGE OF CHRISTIAN IMPERIALISM
It first came to this country in the company of Portuguese pirates in the opening years of the 16th century. Some of these pirates were dressed as priests and friars and introduced themselves as missionaries of Jesus Christ.
It first came to this country in the company of Portuguese pirates in the opening years of the 16th century. Some of these pirates were dressed as priests and friars and introduced themselves as missionaries of Jesus Christ.
2. It was this latter tribe which trumpeted that
1) The only True God had sent his Only-begotten Son, Jesus, to atone for the sins of all mankind by dying on the Cross in Jerusalem in 33 A.D.;
1) The only True God had sent his Only-begotten Son, Jesus, to atone for the sins of all mankind by dying on the Cross in Jerusalem in 33 A.D.;
3. 2) Human history before the Crucifixion of Jesus was an era of darkness and the light of divinity descended on earth exactly on that date;
4. 3) Mankind became divided into Christians and heathens after the advent of Jesus, and the Christians were under a divine obligation to wage a constant crusade against the Heathens;
5. 4) All Christians everywhere were united in the Catholic Church, the Body as well the Bride of Jesus and the holy Mother of Mankind, which recognised no national divisions or distinctions;
6. 5) The Only True God had mandated the entire earth including India to
the Catholic Church which had thus inherited an inalienable right to liberate India, as all other lands, from the horrors of Heathenism;
the Catholic Church which had thus inherited an inalienable right to liberate India, as all other lands, from the horrors of Heathenism;
7. 6) The victory of the Catholic Church over India as elsewhere, was
inevitable and Christian soldiers and missionaries should endeavour to
expedite that end;
inevitable and Christian soldiers and missionaries should endeavour to
expedite that end;
8. 7) The Only True God, in his infinite mercy, had forefeited the lives,
liberties, properties and honour of the Gentoo (Hindu) heathers and the
Catholic Church was authorised to demolish their temples,
liberties, properties and honour of the Gentoo (Hindu) heathers and the
Catholic Church was authorised to demolish their temples,
9. to smash their idols, to burn their scriptures, to persecute their priests, to close down their schools and seminaries, to prohibit their public
celebrations, to sequester their movable and immovable possessions, to
separate them from their children,
celebrations, to sequester their movable and immovable possessions, to
separate them from their children,
10. to convert their women into concubines for Christian soldiers and priests, to exile those sections of their population which proved recalcitrant, and to massacre those who offered armed resistance;
11. 8) The Gentoo heathens had lived for long in the sin and shame of polytheism and pantheism and their crimes deserved drastic punishment.
12. Perversion of India's Political Parlance, Page 26
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