The document discusses the myth of St. Thomas coming to India in 52 AD and various issues related to the spread and establishment of Christianity in India. Some key points made in the document include: 1) There is no credible historical evidence that St. Thomas ever visited India, and the Acts of Thomas that the story is based on is a fictional work without any authority. 2) Christian missionaries invented and embellished the St. Thomas story to give Syrian immigrants Indian ancestry and promote their missionary activities. 3) Christian missionaries and colonial powers frequently destroyed Hindu temples and built churches on top of temple sites. Many sacred Christian sites in India were established by destroying Hindu/Buddhist religious sites.

1. Presentation based on a book by
Ishawar Sharan

2. Thomas Paine
“The Bible, it has been often
said that anything may be
proved from Bible, but before
anything can be admitted as
proved by the Bible, the Bible
itself must be proved to be true,
for if the Bible be not true, or
the truth of it doubtful, it
ceases to have authority, and
cannot be admitted as proof of
anything.”

7. The Myth
 According to Christian leaders in India, the apostle of
Jesus St. Thomas came to India in 52 A.D.
 He founded many Syrian churches in India.
 He was killed by “fanatical Brahmins” in 72 A.D.
 The myth of St. Thomas is a prototype of today's
popular Jesus-in-India story.

8. Dr. J.N. Farquhar

10.  The first St. Thomas story was invented to give Syrian
immigrants Indian ancestry and the patronage of a
local martyr saint.
 It was resurrected and embellished in the 16th century
by Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries.
 There is nothing factual, nor secular, about the claim
that Thomas ever came to India.

11.  From the beginning of the Christian era to the Arab
invasions of the 7th century, Judas Thomas was &
remained the central object of worship at Edessa in
Syria.
 He had lived and taught in the city and if he did not
die there, his body was returned soon afterwards from
Persia.

14.  Christian community in India was founded by a
merchant Thomas Cananeus or Thomas of Cana in 345
A.D.
 He led 400 refugees who fled persecution in Persia &
were given asylum by the Hindu authorities.
 So Thomas of Cana came to be identified with St.
Thomas within a few generations of his death in
Malabar.

16. Lack of Evidence
 There is no literary account on alleged arrival of St.
Thomas in India.
 Some Christian historians had denied credibility to the
Acts of Thomas, an apocryphal work, on which the
whole story is based
 Those who had accepted the 4th century Catholic
tradition about the travels of St. Thomas, had pointed
out the utter lack of evidence that he ever went beyond
Ethiopia or Arabia Felix.

18. Uncertainty of the name “India”
 When Columbus had landed in America, which he
thought was East Asia, he labeled the indigenous
people “Indians”, meaning “Asians”.
 Afghanistan is one area that was Iranian-speaking and
predominantly Mazdean [Zoroastrian] but often
considered part of “India”.
 So, Afghanistan may well be the “Western India” where
Pope Benedict placed St.Thomas in his controversial
speech in September 2006, to the dismay of the South
Indian bishops.

19. Misinterpretation of Mazdai’s land
as Mylapore.
 The town of King Mazdai or Misdaeus described in the
Acts of Thomas is referred as Mylapore.
 Acts of Thomas describes Mazdai’s land as “a desert
country”.
 But Mylapore has never been “a desert country”. It has
always been known as a Hindu pilgrimage town and
busy port, with jasmine gardens, jungles, peacocks and
lush coconut groves.

24. The Acts of Thomas is purely
fictional work without any
historical authority.
It was written specially to promote
doctrine that a Christian must be
chaste even within the relationship
of marriage.

25.  If it is true that the apostle Thomas came to
India, then the following information furnished by the
Acts of Thomas is also true:
1. Thomas was an antisocial character;
2. Jesus was a slave trader;
3. Thomas was Jesus’s twin brother, implying that the
four canonical Gospels are unreliable sources which
have concealed a crucial fact, viz. that Jesus and
Thomas were God’s Twin-born Sons. In other
words, accepting the Thomas legend as history is
equivalent to exploding the doctrinal foundation of
Christianity.

27. Arrival of first Jesuit missionary
Francis Xavier, in 1542, turned
Christianity in India into a violent
and destructive political force that
continues to operate in the country
till today.

29. C.A. Simon, article “In the memory of slain saint”, Indian
Express 1989

30. C. A. Simon’s assertion is pure
invention.

31.  St. Thomas was executed for the crimes against society.
These crimes included
 Subversion of family life,
 Enslavement of free-born women in the name of Jesus.
 Untouchabiltiy is still rampant among “St. Thomas”
Christians today.

32. Caste System-strength of Hindu Society
 The missionaries were unhappy with the institution of
caste not because of its intrinsic inequality.
 The problem missionaries had with caste was that it
offered a lot of communal togetherness, social
security and a certain pride in one’s caste identity.
 This caste cohesion is an important reason why
Hinduism could survive where the cultures of West
Asia disappeared under the onslaught of Islam.

33. Church converted Hindus
from schedule cast and tribes
because ,according to church
cast system was not allowing
to improve their conditions.

34. Christian missionaries preach that the
best hope to get rid of the caste system
is to accept Jesus.
And now the same missionaries are
asking for appellation that claim
Scheduled class status for Harijan
Christian”, “Dalit Christian”, “
Scheduled caste Christians”.

35. Through the missionary
propaganda, we see caste as an
exclusion-from, but in the first
place it is a belonging-to.

36. Today a number of lower caste
converts to Christianity is
myriad and they are no more
accepted by their upper class
brethrens.

37. Pope Gregory XV
(1621-1623)
There is a
sanction of the
church in the
form of bull
issued by Pope
Gregory XV
authorizing
caste divisions
within Catholic
life.

39. Professor Arnold Toynbee, A Study of History.

41. Destruction of Vedapuri Iswaran Temple
A.R.Pillai records(17 mar 1746) “...on Wednesday night at
11,two unknown persons entered Iswaran temple carrying in
a vessel of liquid filth, which they poured on the heads of the
Gods...”
Iswaran temple was the principal place of worship for Hindus
of Pondicherry. The Jesuit missionaries built a church of St.
Paul adjacent to it and got an order from the King of France
that the Iswaran temple should be destroyed.
Even after it was the main place of worship for Hindus. There
were so many controversies regarding the temple but it was
destroyed cruelly.

42. Abomination done in temple
A.R.Pillai records
“… then Father Coeurdoux of Karkil came with a great
hammer, kicked the lingam, broke it with hammer...”
“...then Varlam also kicked the great lingam 9 or 10
times with his sandals in the presence of Madame
Dupleix & priest, & spat on it, out of gladness,...”

44. Kapaleeswara Temple
Kapaleeswara
Temple at
Mylapore,
Madras, was
situated not in
its present site,
but at the site
of the present
San Thome
Church.

45. San Thome Church
It was demolished
by the Portuguese
vandals and their
missionaries of that
period, who erected
San Thome church
on the site where
the Hindu temple
originally stood.

46. “Mylapore fell into the hands of the
Portuguese in 1556, when the temple suffered
demolition. The present temple was rebuilt
around three hundred years ago. There are
some fragmentary inscriptions from the old
temple still found in the St. Thomas
Cathedral.”
N. Murugesa Mudaliar, Arulmigu Kapaleeswara Temple Mylapore,

47. San Thome Church
San Thome Church &
Bishop’s House have
been renovated and
rebuilt many timed
over in the last 150
years.

48. Ruins of Hindu Temples
The renovation
was an effort made
by Church
authorities to hide
the evidence of
destroyed
Hindu, Jain &
Buddhist religious
buildings that
once occupied this
sacred stretch of
Mylapore seafront.

49. Mylapore

50.  The temple was there up to the 16th century. Then
Christian demolished it completely.
 Hindus built the present temple out of whatever they
could salvage from the ruins of the old temple.

52. The British were less
destructive than the Portuguese
and the French, but they did
not hesitate to attack temples
that were in the way of
construction works.

53. Fort St. George
In Madras British
obliterated a small
Hindu Shrine that
once stood inside
Fort St. George.
It now contains St.
Mary’s church, the
first Protestant
church built east
of Suez.

54. Victoria Terminus
Victoria Terminus
in Bombay is built
on the original site
of the city’s
famous Mumbai
Devi Temple.

55. Christians must acknowledge
the historical fact that, from
Bethlehem to Madras, most of
their sacred sites are booty
won in campaigns of fraud and
destruction

56. Pope Leo X

58. What difference does it make
weather Christianity came to
India in the first or the fourth
century?
The motives were as follow:

59. If it can be
established that
Christianity is as
ancient as
Hinduism no one
can nail it down
as an imported
creed brought in
from Western
imperialism.

60. Church needed a
spectacular martyr
of its own. The
church has to use
its own resources
and churn out
something.
St. Thomas, about
whom nobody
knows anything,
offers a ready-
made martyr

61. Church said that St.
Thomas was killed
by Brahmins. Now it
can be shown
Brahmins have
always been vicious
brood, so much so
that they would not
stop from murdering
a holy man who was
only telling God’s
own truth to a
tormented people.

62. The Catholics in
India need no more
feel uncomfortable
when faced with
historical evidence
about their Church’s
close cooperation
with Portuguese
pirates, in
committing
abominable crimes
against the Indian
People. They say that
church was here long
before the
Portuguese arrived.

63. According to
Christians
missionaries, India
might have been
Hindu homeland.
But since St. Thomas
stepped on her
soil, it has become
Christian land.

65. Indian
Constitution
 Article 25:“Every Indian has a freedom of propagation of
religion. But forcible conversion is an offence.”
 Article 25 of the constitution has given us the freedom of
free profession and propagation of religion.
 Freedom of propagation does not mean conversion but
Christian missionaries have taken disadvantage of this
freedom.
 Missionaries are funded by organizations in abroad for this
illegal activity.

66.  Missionaries are taking full advantage of the articles of
the constitution.
 It empowers them to establish educational institutes
and go ahead with their religious fairy tales and
communal viruses to the great detriment of the most
vital interests of the Indian nation as a whole.

67. Very soon after independence the
Congress Government enacted the
Land Reforms Act which was so
crafted that it effectively denude
the Temples- but not the churches
and mosques- of what little bits of
land that still remained with them.

68.  Every government in Kerala had been ruthlessly
sabotaging and destroying temples for last 2 centuries.
 These government have also deliberately and eagerly
functioned as the transshipment point for the
transferring of Hindu wealth to Non-Hindus.
 Where the Hindus are concerned, for Kerala
government it is loot, loot, loot and where the
churches and mosques are concerned, it is
give, give, give.

69.  Repeated requests for a few acres of forest land for
provision of some basic amenities for the millions of
pilgrims converging on the forest temple at Sabarimala
Sri Sasta Temple have been flatly turned down on the
ground that forest land cannot be alienated without
the permission of the Centre.
 At the same time 10 hectares of forest land were
granted in a jiffy to build a church close to the
Sabarimala Temple

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72. Churches in Kerala are the biggest
landowner after the state.
The churches own countless
plantations which have been
carefully left outside the preview of
the Land Reforms Act.

75. The Church in Palayan is a
magnificent edifice on a vast tract
of priceless land;
The mosque too is an imposing new
building on a spacious grounds.
But the temple is just a dilapidated
hutment standing on just four cents
of land.

79. Robert De Nobili
Robert De Nobili
believed in fraud
rather than force.
He dressed as a
Brahmin, and
taught the
“Yesurveda”, a fifth
Veda which had
been lost in India

80. This history of iconoclasm is not an accident: it is the
logical outcome of Christianity theology, is not an
accident: it is the logical outcome of Christian
theology.

81. Christianity practice Cannibalism
Jesus had said that the
pieces of bread he
was distributing were
his body and the
wine with which he
was filling his disciple’
cups was his blood.
Can a civilized man
speak like this?
No one except an
uncouth savage
would command his
disciples to eat his
flesh and drink his
blood. Last Supper

82. Virgin Birth of Jesus is fake
 Jesus was neither the son of a virgin mother nor the
Only Begotten Son of God.
 Jesus’s perception of himself as the Messiah & the Son
of God was a psychopathological condition, supported
by Hallucinations (especially the voice he heard during
his baptism, the visions of the devil during his fast, the
vision of Elijah & Moses on Mt. Tabor)
 The psychopathological condition partly caused by his
most ordinary but traumatic shame of having been
conceived out of wedlock.

86. Christian Doctrine
 Platonic notion of an immortal soul, which is part
of Church doctrine, makes the central Christian
message of the “resurrection of the body”
superfluous.
 Christianity’s emphasis on the individual's dependence
on Scriptural or Church authority has suffocated many
people in their Spiritual development.
 It directly caused the persecution and killing of
numerous freethinkers.

87. Platonism was
considered
authoritative in the
Middle Ages, and
many Platonic
notions are now
permanent elements
of
Catholic/Protestant
Christianity.
Platonism influenced Christianity first through
Clement of Alexandria(left) and Origen(right).

88. Jesus
 Jesus was not God’s Only Begotten Son, nor he was the
Savior of mankind from its Original Sin.
 Historically. He was just one of the numerous antisocial
preachers going around in troubled Palestine in the
period of Roman rule.
 Whatever the worth of the values which Christians
claim as theirs, nothing can be gained by making
people believe in a falsehood like the faith in Jesus
Christ.

89. Unhappy man Jesus
Jesus was a
unhappy man. We
can feel compassion
for this thoroughly
unhappy man with
his miserably
unsuccessful
life, but we should
not compensate
him for his failure
by elevating him to
a super-human
status.

90. Beware of False Prophet
Jesus predicted
that the End was
near (definitely a
failed
prophecy, unless
we redefine
“near”), and he had
a rather high
opinion of himself
and of his role in
the impeding
catastrophe.

92.  Churchmen have the impression that the Pagan
alternative, though softer & weaker than Islam in a
confrontational sense, ultimately has a stronger appeal
to the educated western mind.
 They calculate that the better-educated mankind of
the next century will typically go the way of today’s
European intellectuals, rather than the way of today’s
Black Muslims or Christian Dalits.

94.  Islam’s money & muscle power may look impressive,
certainly capable of doing some real damage to
targeted countries & societies.
 But Islam has no chance of becoming the religion of
science-based, space-conquering world society.
 That is way the Churches are investing huge resources
in the battle for Asia’s mind, where they face their
most formidable enemy.

95. That is why they are so active in
India: not only India’s atmosphere
of Islamic countries, or even of
non-Islamic countries where
proselytization is prohibited; but
they also know & fear the intrinsic
superiority of the Indian religion.

96. The Santhome Church which
Christian claim commemorates
St. Thomas’s martyrdom at the
hand of “Hindu fanaticism”, is in
fact a monument of Hindu
martyrdom at the hands of
Christian fanaticism.