| My name is: | Lisa |
| I am from: | SC |
| Homepage: | http://www.india-religion.net | | Time visited: | Friday August 17, 2012 12:08:19 AM | | My message: | What a nice website! Thank you for sharing this good information. I would like to encourage Dalit Christians by saying that you are right--the discrimination you face outside the church walls should not continue to be a burden within the church itself. For this caste discrimination to carry on in blatant contradiction of the teachings of Jesus Christ indicates either the faith has yet to be comprehended by those claiming it...or that their claim to be a Christian is largely imaginary.
In Him the distinctions between Jew and Gentile, slave and free man, male and female, disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28) One could just as easily say: “In Him the distinctions between Brahmin and Dalit disappear; you are all one in Christ Jesus.” It's true discrimination happens everywhere, but that doesn't make it right, and the level at which many Dalit Christians experience it is troubling. Jesus reached out and touched the the untouchables of His time and invited t... |
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