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Christian Churches threaten Dalit rights – Leela TampiPosted on August 17, 2010 | 1 CommentCentral to the issue of protection of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe rights from false claimants such as the so-called dalit Christians and Scheduled Caste Christians is the obvious fact that the...

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St. Thomas and Anti-Brahminism – Koenraad ElstPosted on August 17, 2010 | Comments Off“Apart from anti-Judaism (anti-Semitism), the anti-Brahmin campaign started by the Christian missionaries is the biggest vilification campaign in wo...

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St. Thomas and Caste – Ishwar SharanPosted on August 17, 2010 | Comments Off“The exploitation of the Christian faithful by the Christian clergy has been going on from the very beginning. St. Paul returned the runaway slave Onesimus to his Christian owner...

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Author’s Note This book is a revised and updated version of the 1995 edition of The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple. It includes everything in the last edition plus a number of new and important references. Veda Prakash, who in 1989 brought us the original data he had collected over t...

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Part One Foreword A predictable component of platitudinous speeches by secularist politicians is that “Christianity was brought to India by the apostle Thomas in the first century AD, even before it was brought to Europe”. The intended thrust of this claim is that, unlike Hinduism which was impo...

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Introduction The legend of St. Thomas in India has its origin in the third century Gnostic religious text known as the Acts of Thomas. Judas Thomas called Didymus, identified in the Acts as the look-alike twin brother of Jesus, had travelled in Syria and Persia and had established a church in Fars. He...

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Chapter One “All ages can testifie enough howe profitable that fable of Christe hath ben to us and our companie.” – Pope Leo X to Cardinal Bembo in the Pageant of Popes by John Bale In the beginning of The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, Roman Catholic hagiographer Donald At****er writes, “Research int...

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Chapter Two Bardesanes, the traditional author of the Acts of Thomas, was born at Edessa in Syria (now Sanliurfa or Urfa in south-eastern Turkey) in 154 CE. He died there, after a short exile in Armenia, in 233 CE. His parents were wealthy Persian aristocrats and he was brought up with a prince, Bar-Ma...

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PART XX There are six tombs for St. Thomas in South India. Two are in San Thome Cathedral at Mylapore, a third on an island southwest of Cochin, a fourth in a Syrian church at Tiruvancode in Travancore, a fifth in a Shiva temple at Malayattur in Travancore, and a sixth at Kalayamuthur west of Madurai ne...

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PART XVIII There are four places in Madras and its environs, other than San Thome, that the Portuguese associated with St. Thomas. The first is a rocky hillock called Little Mount, four miles southwest of Mylapore, on the south bank of the Adyar River at Saidapet. Fr. Herman D'Souza, in In the Steps o...

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PART XIX Madras Musings is edited by the pseudo-historian and accomplished St. Thomas apologist S. Muthiah. He is – or was – a director at TT Maps and Publications Ltd., the TTK company that produces and sells the St. Thomas fable to unwitting tourists, and more recently has got associated with Chen...

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Chapter Twenty-one Where, then, is the tomb of St. Thomas if the two in Mylapore are Portuguese fakes? Where did he experience his passion and seal his mission with blood if not in India? We do not know the answer to this question, but there is a verse in an ancient St. Thomas hymn which says: Thou despise...

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Chapter Twenty-two Most ethnic and religious communities localise their myths of origin when they migrate to new lands and establish themselves there permanently. This is part of the psychological process of becoming a native. The tradition they bring from abroad is altered enough to identify i...

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PART XIII Sita Ram Goel, the only Indian historian in the last hundred years who had a clear understanding of Christian theory and practice, in Papacy: Its Doctrine and History, writes, “The manufacturers of this myth about St. Thomas may be asked a simple question: What difference does it make wh...

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PART XIV The conquering of India for Christ by the Popes and their Portuguese “secular arm” started in earnest with the arrival in India of Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500. His fleet, the first to reach Calicut after Vasco da Gama’s bloody landing, carried eight ordinary priests and eight Franciscan f...

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PART XVI The best evidence for a Shiva temple on the Mylapore beach is offered by the Tamil saints. Iyadigal Kadavarkon, the sixth century Shaivite prince of Kanchipuram, Jnanasambandar and Arunagirinathar, the sixth and fifteenth century Shaivite poets, consistently mention in their hymns t...

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PART XVII If St. Thomas was a carpenter slave, then Diogo Femandez is the gentleman architect who laid the foundation stone for his church on the Mylapore beach. He was Albuquerque's attendant at Goa and is described by N. Figuerdo, in St. Thomas the Apostle in Mylapore, as "a virtuous old man of good...

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PART XV If it took the French fifty years to destroy the Vedapuri Iswaran Temple at Pondicherry, it took the Portuguese as long or longer to bring down the Kapaleeswara Temple on the Mylapore beach and build their St. Thomas Church in its place. They, too, would succeed because the Hindus, who had res...

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Mythical Thomas, devious Deivanayagam, and conniving Church – B.R. Haran

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Pope denies St. Thomas evangelised South India – Ishwar SharanPope Benedict XVI’s statement on September 27, 2006 during a public audience, that the apostle St. Thomas only reached as far as North-West India — today’s Pakistan — was factually correct and reflected the statements of the Earl...

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MOVIE ON ST. THOMAS LAUNCHEDJul 07, 2008News http://www.kollywoodtoday.net/news/movie-on-st-thomas-launched/Full feature film on St. Thomas, an apostle of Jesus Christ was launched on Thursday at Santhome Church, where St Thomas’ grave is located by chief minister M Karunanidhi. Thi...

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Tamil scholars condemn Christian author for misrepresenting Tiruvalluvar as St. Thomas’s disciple – R.S. Narayanaswami“Dr. R. Nagaswami, eminent archaeologist, who had done some excavations at Santhome Church along with a Jesuit, quoted profusely from the writings of Jesuits and explode...

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Alas and alack, Robert Beckford is no Dan Brown! – Ishwar SharanPosted on April 14, 2010 | Comments OffDr. Beckford’s ancestors where slaves brought from Ghana to Jamaica by European Christian traders who had a well developed...

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ContentsCopyrightDedicationAuthor’s NotePart OneQuotationsForeword – Koenraad ElstIntroduction – Ishwar SharanThe Myth Of Saint Thomas And The Mylapore Shiva Temple – Ishwar SharanPart TwoArchbishop Arulappa’s History Project Goes Terribly Wrong – K.P. SunilArchbishop Arulappa’s Do...

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Chapter ThreeThis is the essential Acts of Thomas, with the opening and closing parts quoted at length for reference. Fr. A. Mathias Mundadan, Professor of Church History and Theology at the Dharmaram Pontifical Institute, Bangalore, in History of Christianity in India, says, “The descripti...

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Chapter Four“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George OrwellBishop Neill is being charitable to Bishop Medleycott when he calls his India and the Apostle Thomas an imaginative romance built on slender foundations. Henry Love, in Vestiges of...

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Chapter FiveThe first Christians to emigrate to India came in 345 CE. They landed at Cranganore in Malabar, then the ancient port of Muziris on the mouth of the Periyar River where it joined the Arabian Sea. They were four hundred refugees from Babylon and Nineveh, belonging to seven tribes and seven...

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Chapter SixThomas of Cana, or Knai Thoma as he is known to Syrian Christians, the Canaanite merchant from Jerusalem who had led the fourth century migration of Syrian Christians to Malabar, was probably a Manichee Christian. This may be inferred from the name of the Christian quarter that he built,...

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Chapter Seven“It is in this province, which is styled the Greater India, at the gulf between Ceylon and the mainland, that the body of Messer St. Thomas lies, at a certain town having no great population.” – Marco Polo in Il Milione (ca. 14th century)Marco Polo, the famous Venetian traveller, is said...

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Chapter EightBishop Giovanni dei Marignolli, a Franciscan friar from Florence, visited Mylapore in 1349 on his return journey to Italy from China. His notes are full of St. Thomas exotica. He had baptized some Syrian Christians and lower caste Hindus the year before, in Quilon, and built a Roman Ca...

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	PART XX (Preview) PART XX There are six tombs for St. Thomas in South India. Two are in San Thome Cathedral at Mylapore, a third on an island southwest of Cochin, a fourth in a Syrian church at Tiruvancode in Travancore, a fifth in a Shiva temple at Malayattur in Travancore, and a sixth at Kalayamuthur west of Madurai ne...	Admin	2	2970	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	PART XVIII (Preview) PART XVIII There are four places in Madras and its environs, other than San Thome, that the Portuguese associated with St. Thomas. The first is a rocky hillock called Little Mount, four miles southwest of Mylapore, on the south bank of the Adyar River at Saidapet. Fr. Herman D'Souza, in In the Steps o...	Admin	1	2980	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
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	Contents (Preview) ContentsCopyrightDedicationAuthor’s NotePart OneQuotationsForeword – Koenraad ElstIntroduction – Ishwar SharanThe Myth Of Saint Thomas And The Mylapore Shiva Temple – Ishwar SharanPart TwoArchbishop Arulappa’s History Project Goes Terribly Wrong – K.P. SunilArchbishop Arulappa’s Do...	Admin	1	3013	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	03 Acts of Thomas and church apologists (Preview) Chapter ThreeThis is the essential Acts of Thomas, with the opening and closing parts quoted at length for reference. Fr. A. Mathias Mundadan, Professor of Church History and Theology at the Dharmaram Pontifical Institute, Bangalore, in History of Christianity in India, says, “The descripti...	Admin	3	3003	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	04. Western Institutions help spread St.Thomas Myth (Preview) Chapter Four“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George OrwellBishop Neill is being charitable to Bishop Medleycott when he calls his India and the Apostle Thomas an imaginative romance built on slender foundations. Henry Love, in Vestiges of...	Admin	3	2866	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	05 Early Christians in India (Preview) Chapter FiveThe first Christians to emigrate to India came in 345 CE. They landed at Cranganore in Malabar, then the ancient port of Muziris on the mouth of the Periyar River where it joined the Arabian Sea. They were four hundred refugees from Babylon and Nineveh, belonging to seven tribes and seven...	Admin	1	2671	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	06 Thomas of Cana & Nestorians (Preview) Chapter SixThomas of Cana, or Knai Thoma as he is known to Syrian Christians, the Canaanite merchant from Jerusalem who had led the fourth century migration of Syrian Christians to Malabar, was probably a Manichee Christian. This may be inferred from the name of the Christian quarter that he built,...	Admin	2	2431	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	07 Marcopolo tales (Preview) Chapter Seven“It is in this province, which is styled the Greater India, at the gulf between Ceylon and the mainland, that the body of Messer St. Thomas lies, at a certain town having no great population.” – Marco Polo in Il Milione (ca. 14th century)Marco Polo, the famous Venetian traveller, is said...	Admin	1	2506	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	08 14th century (Preview) Chapter EightBishop Giovanni dei Marignolli, a Franciscan friar from Florence, visited Mylapore in 1349 on his return journey to Italy from China. His notes are full of St. Thomas exotica. He had baptized some Syrian Christians and lower caste Hindus the year before, in Quilon, and built a Roman Ca...	Admin	1	2340	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
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