On Conversion

Converting a person to other faith by any means persuasion to coercion as you mentioned is not justifiable.The people who do this sort of converting does not respect anyother person's religious belief. I have heard that some churchs offer monetary funds for preachers who converts people from other faiths.

I think there is so much confusion in India about religious conversion because the way people talk about religion and conversion differ. People who come from Hindu tradition do not read up to understand others' point of view, and similar thing goes with people from other faith. Issue of religious conversion goes so much deeper than saying that religious authorities whip us competition for each other. Definition of religion has not been unanimous, however, religions like Islam or Judaism or Christianity claim to be a revelatory one. And therefore the desire of the adherents to let others also know of that God who has revealed himself is built into the system. However, I do not know any religion that allows use of force to convert others. I am a Christian, but to my knowledge even Islam does not sanction use of force to convert others. I think to stop all kinds of conversion is not really going to be good. For example, now you seem to be trying to convert others to your point of view or rather you may argue back with me to persuade that your points are correct. But isn't this a kind of conversion. Of course, it is. But is this a religious conversion? It depends on how one defines religion. For a Christian this will also amount to conversion because Christianity understands itself as a worldview... But I wonder how propagation of one's religion is different from converting others. Indian constitution allows propagation of one's religion. Don't you think that as long as there is propagation of religion there is bound to be conversion. I think so. The problem, I think, that should concern us is whether there is coercion at all.

Well there remains of course some ulterior motive and that is money and power. All religious heads control temples, or mosques or churches which are quite religious institutions. They receive donations from followers, money from charity, grant from government and some tax benefits and exemptions too. On top of that, these leaders enjoy tremendous following among the people and that’s a lot of power too. So they try to convert as many people as they can, to their fold.

Not every religion goes out and try to convert you. Ffew of them , who are trying - really believe than their religion offers more. My personal opinion, is that everyone is born under a certain religion, for a reason. If you're not happy, you can always convert to what you seem to be attracted to. But it has to be your choice, and not "made" to, by force or persuation.

If a responsible person changes his religion on his own it is somwhat ok.but recently i saw an example of how it can be misused.ex Deputy CM of Haryana a state in India,son of a powerful politician though disowned now,who was married earlier.married another lady.Since second marriage is not allowed in Hindu religion to which he belonged without getting divorced from his earlier wife,his second marriage would have been illegal.So cleverly he and his second wife changed their religion and became Muslims.As far as conversions by pesuading and coercing is concerned its going on rampantly in India.I was myself offered this around 12 years back,i was offered a girl and a good amount as they mistook me for someone needy.Luckily i was with my friends that time and they didnt realise that,we beat them like anything and handed them to police.But i feel sad when innocent tribals in various parts of our country in the name of social work by foreign funded NGO's and missionaries are being converted.Unless and until the government bans this conversion business,nothing can be done.But as long as our current Super Prime Minister is there this thing will flourish more and more.Its so unfortunate that few institutions who have raised their voices against such missionaries are branded as anti-nationals in our country.Still am happy that they have been doing some good work despite the government being against them.

human being is unique creation of nature. they are being parted in number of divisions by some humans to compete one division of people with others in an eye to master over nature. nature does not permit it but endures. if the human is the primary goal, no change of habits of practicing any religion is necessary.

Only people who don't respect other people's beleifs and feelings try to convert them to their religion.This in any case is not justifiable.