RELIGIONS, SECTS, DENOMINATIONS, SPLINTER GROUPS that come later are INTOLERANT OF THEIR ROOTS.
Why is this so? Is it because, those who come later think, they are smarter than their previous generations.??? There were corruption scandals in Catholic Churches!! Is Protestantism free of all the diseases afflicting Catholicism.?What explains the more than 1500 plus (Googling gives the figures as 33,000+) denominations , after Protestantism.? Problem with the intellect ? Here is a classic example from Missionary Literature, and the intolerance of PROTESTANTS towards CATHOLICS in Kerala soil. A Keralite should also bear in mind that such animosities BETWEEN THE NUMEROUS CASTES never existed in Kerala, during the same period. Such stories remain to be invented.
Why is this so? Is it because, those who come later think, they are smarter than their previous generations.??? There were corruption scandals in Catholic Churches!! Is Protestantism free of all the diseases afflicting Catholicism.?What explains the more than 1500 plus (Googling gives the figures as 33,000+) denominations , after Protestantism.? Problem with the intellect ? Here is a classic example from Missionary Literature, and the intolerance of PROTESTANTS towards CATHOLICS in Kerala soil. A Keralite should also bear in mind that such animosities BETWEEN THE NUMEROUS CASTES never existed in Kerala, during the same period. Such stories remain to be invented.
Quote : "“The question has been asked – Why do the disturbances which
have arisen in connection with the spread of Protestant Christianity in
Travancore not occur between Roman Catholics and heathens ? The reply
seems to us obvious. There is, in the first place, less difference
between Romanists and Hindus than between Protestants and Hindus. The
Romanists are by no means so well instructed, either in scriptural or
secular knowledge, as our people are. The native Romanists are admitted
much more readily to baptism and communion with the church than are
those who apply to us. In common with Hindus they practise
image-worship, processions, and pompous ceremonies. They observe caste
to some extent, and have often separate chapels for worshippers of
different castes. Hence they do not excite the jealousy of other castes
by rising in the scale of enlightenment and civilization, but have
remained for nearly three hundred years stationary in these respects,
while our converts have mostly escaped from the power of hard masters,
and have in fifty or sixty years risen amazingly in character and
position. Nor is there anything like the active converting agency at
work amongst Roman Catholics that is carried on in our mission. Very few
are added to their numbers from heathenism, which therefore has not
much cause to fear them on this ground. The Romish congregations, too,
are chiefly situated in the maritime districts, where they have existed
for so long a time that they are looked on as a familiar and
established class, and as an integral portion of the population.” Pages
275-6, Chapter XX,Establishment and Early History of the London Mission
in Travancore., From the book “The Land of Charity” by Rev. Samuel
Mateer of London Missionary Society. (First Pub.1870)
