Christians wanting to convert the Hare Krishna’s

We had an interesting confrontation on last Saturday’s harinam in Hamilton (24 April 2010). An elderly woman sidled up to us and offered to give us her testimony as a Christian. She said Jesus is the way, the truth and the light and no one can come unto the Father except through Jesus. I thanked her for her testimony and encouraged her to be a pure follower of Lord Jesus. She quickly recounted that she couldn’t claim to be pure but Jesus had saved her since he died for her sins. She went on to say that she would at the end of her life go to heaven to be with Jesus. I asked her what she understood she would be doing in heaven for all eternity. She looked at me blankly and admitted that she didn’t know. I politely suggested to her that if she wanted to be with Jesus in heaven she should perhaps make some enquiries from her church minister to find out what happens in heaven; and what would be her relationship with Lord Jesus. She thought for a moment and then said it didn’t really matter. When I asked her which Christian denomination she followed she wouldn’t tell us. Like so many sincere Christians, this nice woman had a sincere sentiment of love for Lord Jesus but was sadly lacking in any philosophical knowledge. We understand that religion without philosophy is simply sentimentality. An intelligent person will combine loving devotion for God and bona fide philosophy. We wondered afterwards why the Christians often thought it their duty to particularly try to convert Hare Krishna devotees. Perhaps they are too afraid to approach Muslims; or see Buddhists as too impenetrable; and Jews as perhaps too close to Christianity to bother with. Hare Krishna’s on the other hand are clearly in need of saving and desperately in need of conversion to the one true religion. Such a poor fund of knowledge they have; and what self-importance they have to try to impose their quaint sentimentality on the practitioners of original sanatan dharma – eternal religion.

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