“Catch them young”: Christian evangelists [Tamil Nadu, India]

[ Reported as seen]

In a viral video a 9 year old Hindu boy exposed the Christian evangelists for targeting young children in his village to visit the church and believe Jesus Christ.

He says that missionaries come to his house when his dad is not around and compel him to visit the church.

The boy says, “They say that I shouldn’t listen to my parents’ words and that I should follow Jesus’s words. They don’t come when my dad is home. They come when he isn’t around and compel us to go with them. When we refuse they put some kind of powder on us and take us to the church”.

The kids are asked their names and told that only Jesus is the true god and only he is important. They are fed biryani and some liquid mixed in a green bottle which gave him heartburn, the boy says. They make them sing Christian songs, tell the kids that only Jesus is the good god and that other gods are bad. The kids are told to pray only to Jesus.

When the person who is interviewing the boy asks which gods do you worship, he says “I worship Paruthi Amman, Sudalai Samy and Mayana Sami. The interviewer asks which God they (missionaries) ask you to pray to, pat comes the reply “Jesus”. Sudalai and Mayana Samy are variations of Shiva as the deity of the cremation ground. Many down the South of TamilNadu have these deities as their Kula Deva. The boy says that kids are given some drink in which they put some tablet-like thing claiming that it will boost their energy.

According to the boy, the efforts the Christian evangelists were not in vain, the boy’s younger sister his sister wanted to go to the church and threw tantrums when their dad forbade it. His younger cousin who is usually happy to attend Hindu functions, didn’t want to attend one such event and told her mom, “Neither you nor that function is more important for me than the church”.

The boy says more than 50 kids are taken to the church by the missionaries and brainwashed in this manner. The boy is from Melakaranthai, a village in Thoothukudi district. Being an arid region where neither agriculture nor industry is prosperous, the district has been facing the onslaught of missionaries for a longtime. It is no wonder that kids as small as 9 year olds are brainwashed into embracing Christianity as the evangelists have a policy of “catching them young”.

These conversion mafias target children from 4 to 14 years of age. t has been a time tested trick of the missionaries to evangelize kids first to bring in their families gradually through coercion, blackmail and turning them against each other.

It is far from consensual conversion, which the West boasts. Robbing someone of their culture and religion is equally criminal and shameful, but these Christian conversion mafias are trying every tactic to convert more and more people.