Man with a Unique Name

By Nilavon

A story of a simple man, no fame, not rich, yet humble.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Nov 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781984508409

Book preview

1

What is in a name?

What is in a name? We have read so many memoirs of lot of rich and famous people, but not of an ordinary man. This is that ordinary man. I have no fame to claim, nor any wealth to boast. I have no talents to claim victories . I haven’t done any extraordinary things in my life. I haven’t lead any war and claimed victory. I haven’t had an opportunity to invent anything to claim fame on that front. I haven’t had the opportunity to even lead a local council. I am an ordinary person lived his life enjoyably. Did every sin a human can do in a life time for enjoyment? Smoking, alcohol, gambling, adultery, hard work, lying to your spouse, stay away from family for years, running away from responsibilities and many more.

But, I have never denied my God and My Lord Jesus Christ. I never hated another human being. I always believed that human beings are the pinnacle of creation, and made in the likeness and image of God. I never cheated another human being except my wife. Because of my lifestyle mainly smoking. I had the opportunity to cut the body in to two pieces surgically and stitched back up. Yet I am in reasonably good shape and vigour for a Seventy year old by the grace of my God. I have three daughters and seven grand kids. Anyway you are getting an opportunity to read the memoir of such a very ordinary person.

I always wondered what is in a name. Why the name is so important? How the world would have been without names but numbers say for example? What things a name contains? When I was young I asked these questions to my Malayalam (my Mother tongue) teacher. Teacher’s name is Sasidharan. He then defined it in front of the whole class. Name is generally a definition of a person, a thing, a being, a place, an event or phenomenon. As a fifth standard student I never understood it fully then.

Later in life I had the opportunity to sell Encyclopedia Britannica in Melbourne. Just out of shear curiosity the first word I looked up was ‘name’. The word ‘nama’ originally derived from Sanskrit to German and then to English as name. As a matter of fact it is called ‘namam’ in my mother tongue Malayalam. However it confirmed my Malayalam teacher’s definition. That is name is a definition of a person, a thing, a being, a place, an event or phenomenon.

In this instance it becomes apparent that a name contains everything about a person, thing, being, place event or phenomenon. If that is the case I wanted to find out the meaning of my name. We shall come to that later in the book. For the time being I would love you to call me Brewnoj This name is a combination of my first and the second names. This entire reflection is based on the fact that I do have a unique name without sharing with anyone of that generation in the whole world. You may wonder what I am talking about. Let me put it in perspective. I was born in 1951. One generation is counted as 30 years more or less. So between 1951 and 1981 no one in the world had my first and second name combinations in my gender exactly. Not in my state, not in my country, not in my continent or around the world. Nobody in the world have my three name combination first name, fathers name and surname, even today.

The significance of any name becomes apparent when you travel. The passport must contain the exact name of the person as in your ticket, visa and other travel documents. It has to bear exactly the same spelling and the rest. When you go to search for a place even on the web you need exact spelling. When you write exams you have to have exact names of person, thing, being, place, an event or phenomena. Otherwise your score could be affected. When a doctor or any other medical professional administering any treatment they make sure twice that the name is exact. When we demand a birth certificate from the hospital for your new born child you need to provide a name and exact spelling. So the name is vital for every person for his/her survival. The truth is there is nothing exists without a name.

So every transaction needs to have an exact name and its spelling. What happens when a name is not exact or misspelled? Let me tell you more than 50% of the wrong judgement in the world by court of law happens due to wrong names or misspellings. The only exception to this rule we find is in the names of places. There are few places in the world that carries original names as far as human knowledge goes. Whoever occupies the land will have their name depict on it. So it is almost an impossibility to keep original names of places around the world. Even climatic changes can affect the places as it could be covered or uncovered by ocean winds or snow. Apart from these exceptions person, thing, being, places, events or phenomenon will have names. It is vital and significant for survival or even meager existence.

The point is not just my name is unique but also the village I was born. When you have such unique start in life then you have something big in store for you. And it is true you will realise it at the end of this book. So you may be thinking what is the big deal about the village he was born? The village where I was born called Anjengo. That village changed the history of modern India. This is the village where the first ever European ship has reached on an Indian shore.

The standby ship that came with Vasco-Da-Gama, on his voyage to India got out of the fleet in the storm; as the fleet entered Arabian Sea. They end up at the shores of Anjengo three days earlier than Vasco Da Gama reached Calicut. When the Portuguese reached India, Christian missionaries came with them. These missionaries converted most of the villagers in Anjengo and neighbouring suburbs to Christianity from their religion. For the fishermen this Christianity was a message of salvation from the ever suppressing Chathur-Varnam. That was the existing social order of Hinduism then and now. It is the four-caste system of social order according to the quality and deed of human. For the fisherman and other low caste people at the time; a religion without discrimination was the long awaited salvation.

On top of this, Christianity teaches that human that’s you and me are created in his own image and likeness that is of God. Jesus Christ has given them the ability to be the children of God by believing in him. That enables you and me to be the legal heir of God’s inheritance. What a compliment a human can get! What a beautiful concept!

Now I am still thinking about the name. Do we need a name? Why the name is important? Do we need a name at all? Does the name makes any difference to our existence? I think it does as long as we live in this world. I can’t say anything about after death requirements of a name! Now let us look at who and what have names. Everything we know and identifiable whether it is a verb, noun, or anything else has got a name. That name basically defines and identifies the nature of things, act, person, place and phenomenon. Do we know anything without a name? Yes, only phenomenon that we know doesn’t have a proper name is the Judaeo-Christian God. He calls himself I am who I am or Yahweh. We shall come to this point later. Now let me get on with my own life. I have not only a unique name but also I was born in a unique village. Now let us go to that village.

46834.png

2

A place called Anjengo

As we are discussing about names of places the first name that came to my mind is ‘Anjengo’. This is the village where I was born on Sunday 13 May 1951. This particular village is not just any ordinary village in India. This village played the most significant part in the making of modern India. This village is that changed the destiny of old Hindustan or the ancient ‘Indus ‘in to the modern India. It would be an injustice if I did not tell the story of this village. Simply because of the fact that history has forgotten the story, but it was live in the folklores of the village. Unfortunately the folklore also died. Now no one knew the story except few people like me or some people of my age or older.

This village was where the first ever European flagged ship reached on Indian soil. This happened on 13 May 1498 five days prior to Vasco-Da-Gama’s landing at Capocate –a port near Calicut. This is an untold story of Indian history. How do I know? I know it from the folklores of villagers in Anjengo. The story was told in a very poetic manner that goes as follows. It may not sound very poetic in my translation.

The rays of the moon were reflecting Silver coins all over the Arabian Sea.

The soft waves caressing tenderly; Ohoo.. hey.. hey .. ohoo

The white sand beaches With its creamy white lather.

The village woke up to see A large vessel with large sails. Ohoo.. hey.. hey ..

Stuck on the sand not afar from the shore

Moopen (the village chief) were informed of the event. Ohoo.. hey.. hey ..

He reached the vessel with honey and Goat milk.

Fed the Parankies(Malayalam word for Portuguese) that drifted ashore. Ohoo.. hey.. hey .. ohoo

The languages were unknown but the meeting was cordial.

Took the chieftain from the vessel in Moopens Boat. Ohoo.. hey.. hey .. ohoo

To the shore and then To Queen of Attingal in his bullock cart.

Queen of Attingal gave the Moopanaar very many presents.

Ohoo.. hey.. hey .. ohoo

Moopanaar left the Parankies chieftain for three days in Attingal.

Moopanaar went back to fetch him after three days. Ohoo.. hey.. hey .. ohoo

Took them back to the largest vessel They have ever seen

The ship sailed off the shore of Anjengo Ohoo.. hey.. hey .. ohoo

(velli panama thilangu thedi intha chandiran arby kkadalin thirayin mele

kadalalai molla thaloduthamma entrum kadalalai molla thaloduthamma

ohoho… ohoho ..hey hey hey hey.. ohoho..ohoho..oho ho ho…

vellai pathakkum pathayale theruthe vellai kadalora mannaiyadi

brammanda payulla thoniye parthuthan kiramum ezhunthathe athikalyil

ohoho… ohoho ..hey hey hey hey.. ohoho..ohoho..oho ho ho…

karayil pakkamaha mannukkul punthinay kappalin

sheythiye moopanar kahe vilakkam sheythar

ohoho… ohoho ..hey hey hey hey.. ohoho..ohoho..oho ho ho…

Mannil puthaintha parankiye kappatha

Attin palum thenum kond avar paykkapl chentru pani purinthar

ohoho… ohoho ..hey hey hey hey.. ohoho..ohoho..oho ho ho…

Mozhikal theriyatha thakilum cheyalukal anpodu vettavar

kapithane Combraye mooppanar thoniyil etti chentrar

ohoho… ohoho ..hey hey hey hey.. ohoho..ohoho..oho ho ho…

muthalil karaikkum pin attingal maha Raniyidam than kalai vandiyil

maha Raniyo eralamam anpalippu ekinal moopenarukku

ohoho… ohoho ..hey hey hey hey.. ohoho..ohoho..oho ho ho…

muppanar parnki kapithanay attingal vittu vanthan

muntru nal piraku poy kappithanai eti vanthan keladi …

ohoho… ohoho ..hey hey hey hey.. ohoho..ohoho..oho ho ho…

Avar parthaththile eralamana kapplil kondu ettinan kappithane

kappalo anju thengai thandi poyatho keladi Kelamma …

ohoho… ohoho ..hey hey hey hey.. ohoho..ohoho..oho ho ho…)

I heard this folklore few times on the occasion of baptism or celebrations for new born babies. One of the old ladies will sing this song in a very Tamil mixed Malayalam and the rest of the ladies and girls will repeat them. I am not sure whether anyone would remember this folk song now-a-days?

Vasco Da Gama’s (VDG) crew left Portugal on 8 July 1497. There were four vessels in the fleet. Three were naos (15 century large ships larger than Caravels) and 1 Carvel which was a standby ship. This spare ship was of not much importance to the fleet unless every other ship got in to trouble. This Carvel drifted away from the fleet as they entered The Arabian Sea. There were only three ships when VDG landed at Calicut. The missing vessel is the one that reached Indian soil first on 13 May 1498. Later the Queen of Attingal got word from her agents that a fleet of foreign ships landed at Calicut. She helped this vessel and its crew to reach Calicut. But the trade links of Portuguese were established at Anjengo as well as Calicut. Between 1498 and 1684 Anjengo enjoyed not only the trade post of Portugal but also got the Christian missionaries. The missionaries established two churches in Anjengo. The main church in the middle of Anjengo and a chapel on south end. Almost all locals converted to Christianity during this period. This is the time my Granny’s ancestors might have converted in to Christianity I am not so sure.

Later in 1684 Anjengo became the first trade settlement of British East India Company in India. They had official permission of a princely state head that was the queen of Attingal. The Queen of Attingal Sethu Lakshmi gave permission to British under the East India Company to make a factory in Anjengo to process and pack the spices for export to Europe. Permission to build a fort was given later in 1690. The fort construction completed in1695. All of the other settlements of British in India were built after Anjengo. Thus Anjengo has played a significant part in the making of Indian history.

My Grandmother was a community leader and trader of dry fish. She exports dry fish to Colombo-Ceylon, Singapore-Malaysia (At the time both countries together known as Malaysia), Hong Kong and Burma. I remember seeing in my childhood days in late 1950’s long queues of Lorries (Trucks) and the bustling of people around our home. This happens every second month except for June and July of the year, as it is the rainy season. Our house name was ‘Kunnumpuram’ means ‘on top of hill’. Anjengo being a flat land our land is the only place that is slightly elevated from the sea level compare to other areas. That is why they would have called it ‘Kunnumpuram’. But now it is almost flat land, they might have flattened the actual hill for construction of house.

My granny was a devout Catholic. Her ancestors became Christians before St. Francis Xavier scaled the shores of Kerala in mid 15th century. By the time the saint came around; Anjengo were an established trade centre of Spices and precious goods from India to Europe. Starting with Portugal Later on, Dutch and then to English colonies. Portuguese architect was demonstrably evident in both the churches. Now that church have been demolished and reconstructed by some so called modern Catholic priest. They haven’t even considered the significance of such historic structure & architecture the age & value of the building. The 50 feet tall roof made of pure black teak wood and the value of this wood alone will exceed well above the construction cost of the new church. 1.0 meter thick lime mortar brick walls would have lasted for the next 5000 years. However it is not my place to discuss these matters as I am no more a resident of Anjengo.

My granny had two daughters, my mother and her elder sister. My granny also used to sing these folk songs when she becomes happy. At times she gets some foreign drinks like sweet wine that was given to her by the merchants coming from overseas as present. She has few drinks when she is happy. Normally ladies won’t drink alcohol in India, as it is considered a social taboo. Those songs tell a story of a captain ‘Coimbra’ The legend is that the first European ever to scale the shores of India was a ‘Coimbra’. It is not known that this captain was ever had a recognition from the Spanish king? Whatever the case might be Anjengo was the first port to welcome any European on Indian soil. It was a major port and trading centre even before the arrival of Dutch, French or British to India. This story has been handed from generation to generation. Being an oral tradition I am not sure whether this had any official recognition or place in history. I am sure that no one at this point in time remembers nor sings these folklores. However I was born in the village that changed the modern history of India.

The point is that not just my name is unique but even the village I was born was unique. When you have such unique start in life I am sure that something is in store for you originally. It is true and you may realise it at the end of the book. Once the Portuguese came in and started trading the missionaries also came with it. Most of the coastal residents who were been down trodden by the ‘Chathur Varnam’-The four caste system of Hinduism-converted in to Christianity. This new religion had no segregation. Most residents of Anjengo were fisherman that makes them the lowest cast ‘Shoodras’. Naturally they all went for the new religion.

I must mention the fact that there was no compulsion in the religion of Hinduism. Otherwise most of them would have been killed or were forced to flee to some other states. Being fishermen makes you ‘Shoodras’ that is the lowest of the -castes-. Christianity doesn’t carry any cast system as such. These fishermen felt better of socially upon conversion. On top of that Christianity teaches that all human are created in the image and likeness of God. All are equal in the eyes of God. Simply believing in Jesus gives them the ability to be the children of God and his inheritance. What a beautiful concept! Creator of the entire universe is offering his inheritance to human!!!

48386.png

3

The theory of Evolution is

copied from Hinduism

Now why the name is important? Do we need a name at all? Does the name make any deference in our existence? I think it does as long as we live in this world. After death it might not be! Let us see who and what has names? Apart from us human being, everything, other being, places, an event or phenomena that are identifiable have names. The names basically define the nature or aspect of them. Only thing that I know doesn’t have a proper name is the Judaeo-Christian God. When Moses asked "God said to Moses, "I am who I am. or Yahweh"(Exodus 3:14). It meant that I cannot be contained in a name. I think it is true. If the creator, of the universe can be contained in a name then he cannot be God.

God being the creator of all known material and non material things he got to be beyond the comprehension of any creation. He got to be beyond the precievable meaning of a name or identity. Otherwise there is no point in claiming to be God. Every religious deity has a name with the exception of Judaeo-Christian God. I thought about it hard and fast for several years. If the creation can comprehend its creator then the creator is not any better than him? Creation can overpower the creator and the existing balance of the universe shall be altered. Considering the nature of human mind the only way it can respect or revere or even consider to do so becomes possible if God is incomprehensible. Man is created in such a way that he/she is capable of comprehending anything and everything comes to his/her mind. The next thing is to possess and rule. Unless the precept of God is beyond him/her then it cannot be God. In my humble opinion it is a necessity for God to stay incomprehensible to Human to the extent of ruling it. That is why he doesn’t want to name himself.

Well, when I say him, I meant God have to be a person. God have to be a person who is capable of understanding that is memory, conception and desire. Memory to understand who he is and what is happening around. Conception means perceive things from different aspects and angles. Desire means to have an urge to make a decision and act or not to act upon it. Then only he can control the workings of human mind and non human powers of the universe. Otherwise the game becomes unbalanced. The ability of human mind of comprehension is developing as we progress in technology and sciences and other aspects of comprehension. But after all those so called years of existence; living on earth hasn’t changed the basic characteristic of human behaviour. Nor it has increased the use of human brain. It has rather decreased with the modern methods and implements of technology. Technology offers aids to gather; retain and use of information or say knowledge as a whole. In this instance further usage of human brain is really not required. When there is no requirement then the possibilities of progress is minimal.

The most prolific argument may say the monkeys may talk to human in a billion years. The truth is that in the last billion years no such thing has happened? Nor it is going to happen! The irony is that there is not even a sign of improvement in these years we have known or recorded. Funniest of all argument is the ‘theory of evolution’. No such thing has ever happened or happening? No dog has ever become a horse? It is only a food for thought or brain-exercise hypothesis. It has not proven or presented any real evidences so far. Even the drawings presented by the so called experts were turned out to be fake, made up ones. The worst of the case is that it is taught at schools as if it is true. This hypothesis has a place in the scientific labs of the universities and it had to be stored there for scholars who wanted to further on it like several other hypothesis.

As soon as Darwin came up with this theory and some fake drawings people got excited and jumped on it. The major reason for this was the unfair actions of Christian churches on people at the time. The intellectual community was looking for an exit from this crocodile lock of Christian churches on common man. So they supported it and got out of the Christian claim that God did create everything. Slowly the ‘theory of evolution’ found its way to the text books and to the school’s curriculum.

Let me shed some light on this matter from a truth perspective. First thing I would say that so called theory of evolution was not new at the time of its publication. Hinduism had a universal patent on it, long before the idea being conceived. The concept of evolution was given to Darwin by his close friend Captain Robert Fitzroy. Robert Fitzroy was a seasoned sailor. I am sure that he must have got this story told somewhere along his travel by a practising Hindu. Alternatively he might have read it from the epics and mythologies of Hinduism from a library or his own library in the ship. In any case the story of Desha Avatar The decennial incarnation of the chief Godhead; Maha-Vishnu was told with a new dressing in Theory of evolution.

‘Desha Avatar’ goes as follows:

The first incarnation of the Vishnu was ‘Maltsya’, that is the fish. Darwin’s interpretation of water bound single cellular animal ‘Amoeba’ the Maltsya got smaller.

Second one was ‘Koormma’ the tortoise, which was second stage of development ‘amphibian’ – Land and water bound animal- with multiple cells and a hard shell for protection.

The third stage of development was the land animal. It came as ‘Var aha’ The boar, that was the land animal.

The fourth stage let us say would be a mix of animal and human; say ‘The Sphinx’. That came in the form of ‘Narasimha’ The Sphinx – half man and half lion- that is half man and half animal.

Fifth one was ‘Vamana’ the dwarf – this would be the first short or say primitive human.

Sixth one was ‘Parsuram’ man with the axe –unsophisticated weapon- the wild man; this would be the hunter gatherer in real human form.

Seventh one was ‘Rama’ the reasoning man; progressed in a man acting on emotions. The stage has set for real progress in human development.

Eighth one was ‘Balarama’ the farmer. Now man started settling down with his family and possessions of animals, tools and the rest. Humans are on the road to a sophisticated being.

Ninth one was ‘Krishna’ the blue man; who uses his brains to do the jobs. This is the real progress on intelligence. If you want to call - end justifies the means- is progress of intelligence then yes. That’s Krishna for you.

Tenth one is ‘Kalki’ the warrior with advanced weaponry. That is yet to come with weaponry of destruction. I suppose we ourselves are capable producing one now anyway any day.

These are the ten different stages of human development in to a social being as we are today. This story influenced young Darwin. He thought long and hard to develop his hypothesis. He knew well that his hypothesis needs some evidence and visual representation to convince his colleagues. So he drawn some convincing sketches from his imagination and photographed it. Somehow he managed to sell the hypothesis to a hungry mob of anti-Christian (anti-creationist) in the country at the time. The religion and the churches were so corrupt that people were looking for an alternative. That was the time Darwin came with his hypothesis of evolution and got recognised by many. Even now or at the time half of the scientific community did not accepted his hypothesis anyway.

When this story came to Darwin he created a hypothesis with Natural selection and mutations at DNA levels and so forth. The problem is; we have seen not even one animal in the process of natural selection and mutation so far. If it is happening we must be able to observe it now at some stage of its progression. Not a thing has so far has changed from say Dog to horse or a banana plant to a human nor in the process of changing. In any event theory of evolution is the most talked and researched hypothesis in the world, without any solid evidence to take it from a hypothesis to a scientific theory. And so far nobody has proved that Theory of evolution beyond it’s status of a hypothesis to a scientific theory.

Let us look at the real reasoning behind it. In most of the Christian countries the clergy ruled the people to the ground with their theocracy. Mainly the poor and the down trodden. As we progressed on the administration and management of resources and distribution of wealth to all; people got better off in terms of financial dependency. Now economical parity made it possible for human to be individual and rebel against the system. When people are economically dependent; the voice will not be heard well, unless you rebel.

Now there is a peaceful system in most European countries for normal survival and living for everyone. Everyone can voice their opinion. The people who were suppressed in the past by the theocracy rebelled against them and got away from the churches. Theory of evolution acted as an alternative to the belief that God created human beings in his own image and likeness. It was an easy comforter for many, and doesn’t need to confine to creationist theory of Christianity. Immediately it became a fashion statement among people. But the fact still remains that only when you say you are created in the image of God –the Creator- you carry intrinsic value. Otherwise the value is relative, functional and seasonal.

Let us look at the reality of it. Does it carry any weight as such? Human brain is said to have 22.5 Trillion connections with in this 350 to 400 or so gram mass. Now if we take the entire connection of the internet in the world so far it accounts to only 50 billion. Well internet is praised to be the most intricate work ever done by humanity. With 7 billion people and the rest of the computers and sciences we are able to create such minuscule amount of a human brains capability (0.0002%) is appreciable? Now this is the human capability verses the creator’s love of human to such enormous scale! Do you think such hypothesis that human derived from apes would be any match? You must be joking? Let me put it this way with all this knowledge we accumulated over a period of say 5000 years or so we are still not capable of finding one particular wind blowing direction or coming whereabouts. That primitive is our capability. Primitive being of such scale is refusing to believe there is an intelligent creator who created us all out of love???

There are lot of things in the universe we do not understand that doesn’t mean that they do not exist or they are wrong. Our life span is not enough to understand all this. Even today we do not know how and or why magnetism and gravity functions. Thousands or even millions of miles away the gravity impacts on celestial bodies. We know these things do exists and work. That doesn’t mean that these things are wrong or not in existence. Likewise God is in existence, those who believe can experience it those who don’t will still experience but will not accept it. But if we believe what God said, then it becomes easy to conceive everything else. The time was ripe for Darwin to sell his story. Darwin offered a very good story line and people believed it and still believing it. Even though the hypothesis was recognised by many, half of the scientific community could not make any sense out of it still.

Later at the end of 19th century lot of people tried to get a real grasp of it. The fact remained that Darwin mainly depended on two people in the know at the time namely Karl Ernst Von Baer and Ernst Haeckel the most prominent European scientists who supported his hypothesis. By the end of First World War things were turned around quite differently. Modern embryology study dismissed the drawings presented as evidence was fake, fabricated or misrepresented. The funniest part of all is that even today there are many who believes in the theory of evolution. What a wonderful world we inherit at the beginning of the 21st century! (A.I. Oparin Life: its nature, origin and development 1961 Page 31: Hubert. P. Yockey A Calculation of Probability of Spontaneous Bio Genesis by Information Theory," Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol.67,1977, Page 398)

48410.png

4

Who can measure up to truth?

Even after the truth is known and proved beyond any reasonable doubt, people on the top of the helm keep pushing the false concept. That was for the sake of winning an argument against creationism. It is only human nature that any argument forwarded has to win at any cost; irrespective of the truth value. In this instance the intention doesn’t just confined to the above factor but extended to a new and varied standing on the social arena. Eventually it has become the trend and became a fashion statement. It has become convenient and fashionable at the same time to say I do not belong to a religion nor practice one. Before this, freedom of expression period when religious authorities were in power the atrocities committed by them were so bad that no one wanted to associate with them in anyway. Even though it is basic human nature to rebel, humans are the only ones who have the sophistication of thought and intellectual capability to hold truth to its highest esteem.

The truth is that, Christianity is the religion that introduced the concept of human equality, humanitarian values, and the universal brotherhood of love primarily. The very fundamental principle of love is introduced in the nature of the GOD himself-TRINITY-. The Christian God is Love. How can a god express love if there is no other person to love. So within the nature of God there are three persons and they are in eternal love. In Christianity there is God the Father, God the Son and the God the Holy Spirit. If there is two then it becomes simply a reciprocal love. I love you and you love me. When there is an outside person the reality changes to sharing and enjoying each others presence. Then the love becomes unconditional. To be very frank if we look at the goodness Christians have delivered as a whole to the world will definitely minuscule all the bad things the religion has done. That doesn’t mean to say that the bad things they have done is not wrong. Let us look at all the nations of the world and see if anyone ever benefited anything from the Christian religion. Can we name a country in the world that has not received the human values and love from Christianity. The answer would be no.

Let us look at say the most distant countries like India, Srilanka, Middle Eastern Islamic countries including Saudi Arabia. The Middle Eastern countries do have wealth; all the riches in the world with the oil money. But have no basic human equality or freedom of speech. Generally Women constitute half of the population in most countries. These countries don’t even consider, not given the rights to even stand in the elections or express an opinion in public to half of the population. In Saudi Arabia and most Islamic Kingdoms, Emirates and Sheikdoms there were not even the right to Vote for women until recent times.

What is happening in other parts of the world? Say Africa there is only few states that have democratically elected governments. These states had Christian influence and majority in the making of their constitution. Most others states either run by military Juntas or armed gangs with dog squads. Such states have minimum Christian population as well.

China has the largest population of the world. Its political secrecy and Autocracy will get any one who expresses his/her opinion publically get killed, jailed or disappear without trace. 25% of the Communist party members rules rest of the population. Russia even though it has declared democracy no such thing is happening as yet the situation is similar to China but in a bit more subtle way.

What about India and surrounding countries. All these countries still distributing ration. Say alms to subjects; 70 years after independence from its colonisers. Even the citizens have nothing to eat, drink nor proper infra structure in the country the military budget is between 2.8and 4.1% of the GDP. Whereas developed countries like France, Germany and Australia spending accounts between 1.3 to 1.5% of GDP. India still dwells on its ‘Chathur Varnam’ the four caste social system even though it is declared illegal to discriminate any one on the basis of cast.

It may be the only country in the world that still holds the orderly system in the military as well in public service. Every other country in the world has taken away this orderly system from their administration but not India. That escalates to the whole of the country; discrimination in a different form. Unless discrimination is taken out of the minds of people it will still survive in some form or other. That is what Christianity has done in all European countries. These Asian countries still have more than half of the population under poverty line. The so called largest democracy in the world has no real democracy.

Coming to Europe, every country except Russia has proper governments with equal rights and economic opportunities for everyone. Even though Russia says it came out of communism; human freedom is still a rare commodity. After all these years Russia is still ruled by Communist leaders. It is true that everyone in Russia is trying to get out of it. Does it say something? Every other Russian affiliated country doesn’t have a proper government means there is no rule of Law. Autocracy can run the show as long as you need that is not freedom or humanity.

South and North American countries those have strong Christian affiliation have governments with rule of law. All others countries run with the rule of guns. So it must be saying something isn’t it? So it is evident that only Christian countries in the world hold intrinsic value of life and equality of human rights. Simply because of the fact that Human are the image bearers of the God.

Christianity the new definition of humanity and human love above all philosophy and every Systems of social order known to humanity. Christianity and church system derived out of it; is given to humanity directly by the exponent of truth, righteousness, love and universal brotherhood; The God Almighty personified himself as human Jesus Christ. Any faith and or organisation will only survive long periods of time with a systematic management maintained with humanity and integrity. The social fellowship and the love of families that we enjoy today is the reflection of the integrity maintained by the Christian church for the past 2000 years.

All these argument is not to forgo the atrocities Christians have committed at times and at several states. Yes they have done some wrongs at some stage yes. But when you run such large organisation it is natural that corruption gets in. Yet the truth remains that Christianity paved the way in almost every country in the world for public goodness. Public transport, Public education without prejudices, Public hospitals, Public orphanages, Educational institutions for women, Technical schools, colleges, Public administration and systems of governance and almost every walks of human life. All these are introduced in almost every country only after the arrival of Christianity, specially -Christian missionaries- in to the country or is influenced by it. This is an undeniable universal truth.

It is calculated that at least 60 million people are seeking political or economic asylum from different parts of the world. Out of all these people 99% of them wanted