11/6/2022 0 Comments Tamil christian song situation![]() The sharing of the Good News is inherent to the Christian faith. This period of religious freedom also saw the entry of Christianity with St. Then Buddhist missionaries from Emperor Asoka’s time came to us and we had the high period of Buddhism and Jainism, the time of the Epics – Silappadikaram and Manimekalai – with vegetarianism, animal hospitals and rest houses and tree-planting. In ancient times we Tamils worshipped rivers, trees and mountains, besides blood and war drums. Historically we Tamils have always done that. Religion should really make us better people and where our religion fails to do that there is a good reason to jettison our religious attachment. It is good to look at the religious history of the Tamils first. Sachithananthan assumes yes to all three of the above, whereas I hold the right answer to all three is no. Is religious conversion wrong? Are all religions the same? Is there a religion for the Tamils? To go to a government that does these things is for Sachithananthan to empower forced conversions to Buddhism. There are reports from border areas where old government buildings like a hospital have become Buddhist temples. Many Hindu temples are being taken over as Buddhist temples as at Chemmalai. Rajkumar the Secretary of the “Association of those Disappeared in the Tamil Motherland” has just announced that many of the disappeared persons from the LTTE and other Tamil organizations are now converted to be Sinhalese and Buddhists. They reflected the “Masala Vadai, Appita Eppa” (We do not want Masala Vadai) ethos of the Bandaranaike era.īased on these complaints, Vidura Wickremanayake, the current State Minister of National Heritage, and Rural Arts has initiated action. ![]() Lakmal Harischandra has detailed some of Siva Senai’s activities. They vandalized South Indian restaurants asking them not to serve the large number of Tamil migrant workers there, and pressured employers to hire Marathis. In Bombay, Shiv Sena cadres became involved in various attacks against South Indian workers. Shiv Sena founder Uddhav Thakeray has insulted South Indians for our dress (Uthao Lungi, Bajao Pungi – i.e., “Remove those who wear the sarong, and celebrate the event”). To be sure, Sachithananthan is the leader of Sri Lanka’s Siva Senai that plastered Jaffna with posters in 2018 asking us to vote for candidates who will support the Saivite religion and the Tamil Language. ![]()
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