An Indian member of NIFCON (the Network for Inter Faith Concerns for the Anglican Communion) reflects: The Tele-evangelists create fear among non-Christians to convert them to Christianity i.e. with threats such as you will not go to heaven if you do not follow Christ. There are four or five such cable channels in India running 24 hours a day- seeking to present many kinds of extremist material as the Christian message. The work of the mainline churches in India is undermined by television evangelists who regularly attack other religions and display converts from Hinduism as a kind of trophy.
It is a big theological challenge how to be Christians without such theological claims. When one of the churches was attacked during the worship services, some of the attackers specifically told the priest not to preach Christ as the only way; he should preach about other ways too. It is clear that underlying many of these criticisms of Christians is the desire to unite Hindus emotionally and turn their anger into votes.
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