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Chapter NineVasco da Gama arrived at Calicut in 1498 with the help of an Arab pilot. He was a clever navigator and one of history’s most brutal men,[32] but he was not very bright when it came to religion. He thought Calicut was a Christian city and returned to Portugal with the impression that t...

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Pope denies St. Thomas evangelised South India – Ishwar SharanPosted on August 13, 2019 | Comments OffPope Benedict XVI’s statement on September 27, 2006 during a public audience, that the apostle St. Thomas only reached a...

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Chapter Twenty-four The myth of St. Thomas in Malabar and Mylapore, which we have reviewed in this essay, is an Indian Christian communal fable that was exposed decades ago by the "St. Thomas" Christian historians T.K. Joseph and Rev. Dr. G. Milne Rae – the latter a reader at Madras Christian College...

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Chapter TenThe Portuguese were familiar with the St. Thomas legend long before they arrived in India. They knew Marco Polo’s Il Milione, made popular in Europe in the fourteenth century, and the earlier sixth century Latin romances De Miraculis Thomae and Passio Thomae. The Passi...

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Chapter Twenty-three None of our brown sahibs and learned secular scribes are interested in this discourse. They are bored by it, or embarrassed, and if they have bothered to read it they will have decided that we are a rabid communalist who hates Christians. They have been fed on the milksops of a sen...

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How did followers of Jesus come to be called Christians?http://www.victorious.org/cbook/chur60-called-christiansApparently, Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria (now within the region of Antakya, Turkey), was the location where "Christian" was first associated with ear...

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Chapter ElevenThe Vatican officially stated in 1952 that the landing of St. Thomas at Cranganore in 52 CE was “unverified”.[38] Before this, in 1729, the Bishop of Mylapore had written to the Sacred Congregation of Rites and asked for verification as to “whether this place be the true sepulch...

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Chapter TwelveWhatever the scholars may say against the myth of St. Thomas in Malabar and Mylapore―and some of them are high-ranking ecclesiastics of faith and integrity―India’s political leaders, in keeping with their own tradition of ignorance and arrogance, have declared differ...

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3 – Mythical Thomas, devious Deivanayagam, and conniving Church – B.R. HaranPosted on May 15, 2010 by VOIThe Sri Lankan connectionLate last month, Deivanayagam proclaimed in an interview to Tamil biweekly Nakkeeran that he and his supporters would storm into the Kapaleeswarar Temple and c...

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Chapter TwoBardesanes, the traditional author of the Acts of Thomas, was born at Edessa in Syria (now Urfa in south-eastern Turkey) in 154 CE. His parents were wealthy Persian aristocrats and he was brought up with a prince, Bar-Manu, who later succeeded to the throne of the Abgars. He married and h...

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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 Bishop John Bale (1548)In the beginning of The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, Roman Catholic hagiographer Donald At****er writ...

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Indian historian makes a mockery of Indian history – Veda PrakashPosted on February 1, 2010 | 5 Comments“Dr. K. Sadasivan in the Journal of Indian History and Culture follows in Archbishop Arulappa’s footsteps with his unsubstantiated claim for a Christian Tirukkural and a St. Thomas in...

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IntroductionThe 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 the...

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Foreward- KOENRAAD ELSTA 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 wa...

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2 – Legend of a slain saint to stain Hinduism – Swami TapasyanandaSwami Tapasyananda, the author of this article, was an erudite Indian sannyasi scholar and vice-president of the Ramakrishna Order from 1985 to 1991. He wrote the article when he was president of the Ramakrishna Math in Mylapore, M...

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“When some celebrations were held in Kerala over two decades ago, Jawaharlal Nehru, our then prime minister, who attended the functions, asked the learned priests who had gathered: ‘Is it really true that St. Thomas came to India?’ Nobody answered him. They merely smiled. They were unable to answe...

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“The Christian Church of India, considered to be amongst the oldest in the world, is believed to have been founded by St. Thomas in 52 A.D. Arulappa held the view that St. Thomas, before his martyrdom on a hill near Madras, now called St. Thomas Mount, met Tiruvalluvar and influenced the bard to the ext...

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” … There were some broken pillar lengths, and bottom portion of Shiva lingam, and a round stone kept atop the bottom avudayar of Shiva lingam. In the few feet gap between the church’s backside and the chapel, there was a broken Tamil inscription on granite stone piece peculiar to Hindu temples.” – G...

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Is not Archbishop Chinnappa obliged to accept the Pope’s stand on St. Thomas in India? – V. Sundaram“Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.” – Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) A rupees 50 crore plus mega production in silver screen on St. Thomas,...

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The Deccan Chronicle Deceits – Ishwar Sharan“Journalists have a vested interest in ignorance.” – George Bernard ShawFor the note on the early Christian FISH SYMBOL and their later use of the CROSS as an identifying mark, scroll to the bottom of this page.The Deccan Chronicle is South India’s la...

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S. Muthiah: Chennai’s own holocaust denier – Ishwar SharanThis article is a rejoinder to S. Muthiah’s column of 7th January 2004 called “The Mount of Thomas” in The Hindu, Chennai.All eminent historians writing on colonial India describe the devastation of Mylapore and its environs by the Po...

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Did a Hindu king kill St. Thomas? – Ishwar SharanHindus will never hear from Christian leaders a sincere confession of wrong doing. What Hindus will hear and see are more spurious histories of St. Thomas and charges of “deicide” by motivated faith writers like Ponnu Elizabeth Mathew and unscrupu...

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1 – In memory of a slain saint – C.A. SimonPosted on August 4, 2010 | Comments OffThe article which follows, published in the Indian Express, Madras,on 30 December 1989, and the refusal of the editor to publish our reply, was the reason we began our rese...

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	Pope denies St. Thomas evangelised South India – Ishwar Sharan (Preview) Pope denies St. Thomas evangelised South India – Ishwar SharanPosted on August 13, 2019 \| Comments Offon 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 a...	Admin	4	969	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	I - Chapter Twenty-four (Preview) Chapter Twenty-four The myth of St. Thomas in Malabar and Mylapore, which we have reviewed in this essay, is an Indian Christian communal fable that was exposed decades ago by the "St. Thomas" Christian historians T.K. Joseph and Rev. Dr. G. Milne Rae – the latter a reader at Madras Christian College...	Admin	1	708	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	10. Portuguese develop St.Thomas tales (Preview) Chapter TenThe Portuguese were familiar with the St. Thomas legend long before they arrived in India. They knew Marco Polo’s Il Milione, made popular in Europe in the fourteenth century, and the earlier sixth century Latin romances De Miraculis Thomae and Passio Thomae. The Passi...	Admin	1	894	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	I - Chapter Twenty-three (Preview) Chapter Twenty-three None of our brown sahibs and learned secular scribes are interested in this discourse. They are bored by it, or embarrassed, and if they have bothered to read it they will have decided that we are a rabid communalist who hates Christians. They have been fed on the milksops of a sen...	Admin	2	750	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	How did followers of Jesus come to be called Christians? (Preview) How did followers of Jesus come to be called Christians?http://www.victorious.org/cbook/chur60-called-christiansApparently, Antioch, the capital of the Roman province of Syria (now within the region of Antakya, Turkey), was the location where "Christian" was first associated with ear...	Admin	1	691	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	11. Vatican say Thomas visit not substantiated (Preview) Chapter ElevenThe Vatican officially stated in 1952 that the landing of St. Thomas at Cranganore in 52 CE was “unverified”.[38] Before this, in 1729, the Bishop of Mylapore had written to the Sacred Congregation of Rites and asked for verification as to “whether this place be the true sepulch...	Admin	1	812	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
	12. Leaders spread Thomas Legends (Preview) Chapter TwelveWhatever the scholars may say against the myth of St. Thomas in Malabar and Mylapore―and some of them are high-ranking ecclesiastics of faith and integrity―India’s political leaders, in keeping with their own tradition of ignorance and arrogance, have declared differ...	Admin	2	896	Aug 18, 2019 by Admin
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	02 Acts of Thomas (Preview) Chapter TwoBardesanes, the traditional author of the Acts of Thomas, was born at Edessa in Syria (now Urfa in south-eastern Turkey) in 154 CE. His parents were wealthy Persian aristocrats and he was brought up with a prince, Bar-Manu, who later succeeded to the throne of the Abgars. He married and h...	Admin	5	854	Aug 15, 2019 by Admin
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	2 – Legend of a slain saint to stain Hinduism – Swami Tapasyananda (Preview) 2 – Legend of a slain saint to stain Hinduism – Swami TapasyanandaSwami Tapasyananda, the author of this article, was an erudite Indian sannyasi scholar and vice-president of the Ramakrishna Order from 1985 to 1991. He wrote the article when he was president of the Ramakrishna Math in Mylapore, M...	Admin	9	2265	Aug 10, 2019 by Admin
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