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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teescha" data-source="post: 4444" data-attributes="member: 297">Sorry. this is the best I can do......“The Da Vinci Code”-Christian Sentiments & Anti-Buddhist Mafia----By The Centre for Buddhist Action----The film “ The Da Vinci Code”, which unwinds the mysteries within the Catholic Church has become very controversial among the Christian world. The film was banned in Sri Lanka by The president due to the high protests made by the Bishops in Sri LankaTo any person / group following a particular religious faith with the ferver of the Christians, the book and film “Da Vinci Code” will undoubtedly be insulting or hurtful as it hits out at everything holy to the Christians as well as Catholics the world over.  During the past 30 years Christian Churches who originate from USA, UK, South Korea, Australia, Europe have entered this country in the guise of economic & social development aid workers , entered villages 100% Buddhist and in the most arrogant & obnoxious manner hurt the sentiments of innocent villagers by insulting The Buddha, Buddhists and The Maha Sangha. The Tsunami of 26th December 2004 was another opportunity for them to enter our country. Their urge to conduct unethical conversions have manifested in many ways.Buddhists have till now, and will always respect the religious beliefs of all religions and have never tried to impose Buddhism on followers of other religions or ever attempted to buy them over. Any non-Buddhists who have embraced Buddhism are those who have read the Dhamma, understood and have found true inner peace through Buddhism.It is truly sad that Christian groups involved in unethical conversions inside the boundaries of Sri Lanka do not understand what “mutual respect “ means? The Anti-Buddhist Mafia has been active in this country ever since the entry of the Portuguese in 1505. From then until 1948 when we gained independence from the British for 440 years Buddhists in this country suffered every possible manner of discrimination- and we tolerated it. With all the forcible conversions & atrocities done by the Portuguese, The Dutch and The British through 440 years, they were only able to get 7.5% of our population converted to Christianity.Money and material benefits are thrown while conducting the following activities to win converts:1. To get unsuspecting school children to smash Buddha statues; to gather people to their “Community Centres” and give Muscat and Necto to Buddhists who have been brought to be converted, and say that it is the flesh & blood of The Buddha that they are eating and drinking;2. To teach pre-school children not to worship their parents, teachers or temple monks because one must kneel down only before God ( this is being taught to Buddhist children);3. To tell children that Prince Sidhartha (who later became The Buddha), was a bad father because he left his day old child & wife and left the house;4. Buddhists offer flowers to The Buddha and contemplate on the impermanence of life. Children are taught not to pluck flowers from the trees because the birds and bees will have no food!5. To convince Buddhists in villages not to patronize the village temple and offer arms to Buddhist Monks because the Monks do not “ give goodies to the villagers” ( a person becomes a Monk after renouncing lay life-his role is to help villagers understand The Buddha Dhamma and shorten their Samsara);6. To get paid workers to buy liquor from nearby bars and take it into village temples for villagers to see in order to get the villagers to abandon patronizing temples due to disgust because they see liquor being taken inside the temple;7. To pay ordinary young men to wear the saffron robe and misbehave in society, to be seen reading obscene literature in public, to be seen purchasing meat & fish from the market-----all this is done to get Buddhists to feel revulsion towards Monks;8. To send paid young couples to visit village temples in the night in the pretext they are traveling afar and need a place to rest in the night. Village temples do not have accommodation except in the Dhammasala. Within minutes of gaining permission to stay overnight in the temple, the young man leaves the temple on the pretext of purchasing something from the nearby temple & the girl rings the temple bell to inform villagers that the Monk molested or tried to molest her! Many are the instances when good and pious Monks have abandoned the temples because they cannot face the villagers after such shameful accusations;9. To offer to send Monks abroad for employment or studies /& confer academic degrees. By doing this they encourage Monks to abandon the temples which are isolated in rural villages;10. To organize paid workers to attack their own community / prayer centers and blame Buddhists in the village for such attacks. Immediately, the news is sent to overseas Christian organizations that extremist Buddhists have attacked their churches;11. To get Christian parliamentarians to obstruct and block all legislature that will protect the Sinhala Buddhist cause ;12. To pay young men to visit temples and destroy them, in the guise of searching for archeological treasures. Most often The Buddha Statue is destroyed in the most inhumane manner;13. To use Christian parliamentarians to put forward suggestions to acquire temple properties for social development work; to work through their contacts within the government and tax temple properties;14. To get Christian parliamentarians to befriend and become active in activities of famous temples & get themselves elected to the Dayake Sabhas. This will enable them to control positive agendas of temples towards their village;15. To conspire to defame active Buddhist Monks and lay personalities16. To use The Buddha images for commercial purposes by printing them on candles, biscuits given to pre-school children to eat, bed linen, swim suits, hotel décor & also name liquor bars “Buddha Bar” (one of the 5 precepts is “refrain from consuming alchohol);</blockquote>

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