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Missionary activity and religious harmony


Personally I do not understand why some Christians believe that their religion is superior to those of others and try to convert followers of other religions to the Christian faith. I was born a Hindu and consider all religions to be equal leading to the same goal. I think it is wrong to go around trying to coerce people to believe in any religion, and worse to exploit the poverty and helplessness of people to gain them as converts.

It is sad to see Christian fundamentalism coming to Sri Lanka. None of us in this island needs to be "saved" because we all have beautiful religions that are spiritual and serve our needs. These new Christian groups are not doing Sri Lanka any favours by ruining the religious harmony of the country.

If a religion has to resort to providing material inducements in order to gain converts, then what does that say about the spiritual power of that religion?

Renuka Mahendran
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