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Judas Didymus Thomas the Apostle of the East
Did Christianity arrive in India before Europe?
India's leaders are fond of telling their minority constituency that Christianity had arrived in India before it arrived in Europe. This historical conceit is not true of course. Apostle Paul says in Romans 15:24 & 15:28 that he plans to visit Spain. In Acts 19:21 he travels from Ephesus to Greece—Macedonia and Achaia—en route to Jerusalem and then Rome. This took place in the 40s CE: some historians say he was writing after 44 CE. So even if Apostle Thomas had arrived in Kerala by 52 CE—the spurious date is of 19th century origin only—Christianity would still have arrived in Europe a decade earlier.Knai Thoma or Thomas of Cana aka The Merchant
Bishop Joseph of Edessa
Who are the “St. Thomas” Christians of India?
Thomas of Cana or Knai Thoma led the first group of 72 Syrian Christian families to India in AD 345. There is no record of Christian communities in India prior to this date. Thomas of Cana and his companion Bishop Joseph of Edessa also brought with them the tradition of St. Thomas the Apostle of the East. Later, Christian communities in Kerala would identify Knai Thoma with Mar Thoma - Thomas of Cana with Thomas the Apostle - and claim St. Thomas had arrived in Kerala in AD 52 and established the first Christian church at Musiris - ancient port near present day Kodungallur - the main trading port of the time.
The Rev. Dr. G. Milne Rae of the Madras Christian College, in The Syrian Church in India, did not allow that St. Thomas came further east than Afghanistan. He told the Syrian Christians that they reasoned fallaciously about their identity and wove a fictitious story of their origin. Their claim that they were called "St. Thomas" Christians from the 1st century was also false.
Syrian Christians were called Nasranis (from Nazarean) or Nestorians (by Europeans) up to the 14th century. Bishop Giovanni dei Marignolli the Franciscan papal legate in Quilon invented the appellation "St. Thomas Christians" in 1348 to distinguish his Syrian Christian converts from the low-caste Hindu converts in his congregation. - IS
San Tomasso Cathedral Basilica, Ortona, Italy
The real tomb of Saint Thomas at Ortona, Italy
The bones of Thomas the Apostle at Ortona, Italy
San Thome Cathedral, Mylapore, Madras, India
First St. Thomas Church
San Thome Cathedral, Mylapore, Madras, was built in 1893 by the Portuguese. The first St. Thomas church to appear on the Mylapore beach was built in 1523 by Augustinian friars against the ancient Kapaleeswara Temple wall. The Christian tactic of encroaching on Hindu buildings and holy sites and then taking them over continues in Tamil Nadu till today.Hate-Mongering Tableau in the fake St. Thomas tomb at San Thome Cathedral
Idol on the empty tomb in San Thome Cathedral
Portuguese church on St. Thomas Mount replaced an ancient Shiva temple
Ancient Port of Muciri / Muziris on a Roman map
“India” was a synonym for all Asia in ancient times
The oriental ubiquity of St. Thomas's apostolate is explained by the fact that the geographical term "India" included, apart from the subcontinent of this name, the lands washed by the Indian Ocean as far as the China Sea in the east and the Arabian peninsula, Ethiopia, and the African coast in the west.
Ancient writers used the designation "India" for all countries south and east of the Roman Empire's frontiers. India included Ethiopia, Arabia Felix, Edessa in Syria (in the Latin version of the Syriac Diatessaron), Arachosia and Gandhara (Afghanistan and Pakistan), and many countries up to the China Sea.
In the Acts of Thomas, the original key text to identify St. Thomas with India (which all other India references follow), historians agree that the term India refers to Parthia (Persia) and Gandhara (Pakistan). The city of Andrapolis named in the Acts, where Judas Thomas and Abbanes landed in India, has been identified as Sandaruck (one of the ancient Alexandrias) in Baluchistan.
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- Indians must wake up to their civilizational identity – Jagmohan
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- A textbook case of Indian history howlers – Michel Danino
- European misappropriation of Sanskrit led to the Aryan race theory – Rajiv Malhotra
- Marco Polo didn’t go to China – Media Report
- Who controls the Indian media? – Gautam Sen
- Bring media under RTI Act – Beyond Headlines
- The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple – 2010 – Ishwar Sharan
- The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple – 1991 – Ishwar Sharan
- St. Thomas: The Great Indian History Hoax – Sita Ram Goel
- “Thomas in India” neither factual nor secular – Koenraad Elst
- Pirates in Priests’ Clothing: Francis Xavier & Robert de Nobili – Sita Ram Goel
- Francis Xavier SJ: The Man and His Mission – Sita Ram Goel
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Judas Didymus Thomas the Apostle of the East
Knai Thoma or Thomas of Cana aka The Merchant
Bishop Joseph of Edessa
San Tomasso Cathedral Basilica, Ortona, Italy
The real tomb of Saint Thomas at Ortona, Italy
The bones of Thomas the Apostle at Ortona, Italy
San Thome Cathedral, Mylapore, Madras, India
Hate-Mongering Tableau in the fake St. Thomas tomb at San Thome Cathedral
Idol on the empty tomb in San Thome Cathedral
Portuguese church on St. Thomas Mount replaced an ancient Shiva temple
Ancient Port of Muciri / Muziris on a Roman map
The Fable Called The Acts of Judas Thomas
The Holy Foreskin
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Ishwar Sharan Interview
“Generally speaking the men who have written on India were a set of liars.” - Strabo"Journalists have a vested interest in ignorance." - George Bernard Shaw
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- Indians must wake up to their civilizational identity – Jagmohan
- In search of Muziris – A. Srivathsan
- Why is Indian history an area of darkness? – Shohan Saxena
- A textbook case of Indian history howlers – Michel Danino
- European misappropriation of Sanskrit led to the Aryan race theory – Rajiv Malhotra
- Marco Polo didn’t go to China – Media Report
- Who controls the Indian media? – Gautam Sen
- Bring media under RTI Act – Beyond Headlines
- The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple – 2010 – Ishwar Sharan
- The Myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple – 1991 – Ishwar Sharan
- St. Thomas: The Great Indian History Hoax – Sita Ram Goel
- Why Indians should reject St. Thomas and Christianity – Koenraad Elst
- “Thomas in India” neither factual nor secular – Koenraad Elst
- Pirates in Priests’ Clothing: Francis Xavier & Robert de Nobili – Sita Ram Goel
- Francis Xavier SJ: The Man and His Mission – Sita Ram Goel
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- The question of the St. Thomas origin of Indian Christianity – C.I. Issac
- Pope denies St. Thomas evangelised South India – Ishwar Sharan
- Treachery: India and the Syrian Christians of Kerala – Pradeep Nair
- St. Thomas: The making of an “Indian” apostle – Sandhya Jain
- Jude Sannith and the Times of India: Telling lies for Thomas – Koenraad Elst
- Muziris: Dr. Nagaswamy nails false propaganda on St. Thomas – Media Reports
- How Christian missionaries invented “Dravidian Christianity” – Rajiv Malhotra
- The Deccan Chronicle Deceits – Ishwar Sharan
- Did a Hindu king kill St. Thomas? – Ishwar Sharan
- Temple looting in Kerala: Yesterday and today – Leela Tampi
- Ishwar Sharan’s correspondence with the Vatican
- Christian Churches threaten Dalit rights – Leela Tampi
- St. Thomas and Anti-Brahminism – Koenraad Elst
- St. Thomas and Caste – Ishwar Sharan
- 2 – Legend of a Slain Saint to Stain Hinduism – Swami Tapasyananda
- 1 – In Memory Of A Slain Saint – C.A. Simon
- 2 – Archbishop Arulappa sends his document forger to jail – Ganesh Iyer & K.P. Sunil
- 1 – Archbishop Arulappa’s history project goes terribly wrong – K.P. Sunil;
- Is not Archbishop Chinnappa obliged to accept the Pope’s stand on St. Thomas in India? – V. Sundaram
- 3 – Mythical Thomas, Devious Deivanayagam, and Conniving Church – B.R. Haran
- 2 – Mythical Thomas, Devious Deivanayagam, and Conniving Church – B.R. Haran
- 1 – Mythical Thomas, Devious Deivanayagam, and Conniving Church – B.R. Haran
- “Film will legitimize destruction of the original temple,” says Dr. Subramanian Swamy
- Madras-Mylapore Archdiocese plans blockbuster movie on St. Thomas – Ishwar Sharan
- San Thome Cathedral Cover-up Uncovered – G.P. Srinivasan
- Kapaleeswara Temple Memorial Plaque – Ishwar Sharan
- Alas and alack, Robert Beckford is no Dan Brown! – Ishwar Sharan
- Tamil scholars condemn Christian author for misrepresenting Tiruvalluvar as St. Thomas’s disciple – R.S. Narayanaswami
- Wikipedia & Encyclopedia Britannica: Their counterfeit St. Thomas entries exposed – Ishwar Sharan
- St. Thomas the Apostle of Brazil – Francis X. Clooney, SJ
- S. Muthiah: Chennai’s Own Holocaust Denier – Ishwar Sharan
- Tsunami: St. Thomas abandons fishermen, saves himself – Ishwar Sharan
- St. Thomas in the American Cyclopaedia – George Ripley & Charles A. Dana
- Indian historian makes a mockery of Indian history – Veda Prakash
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Marco Polo the Liar
Marco was the first writer to put Thomas on the Coromandel Coast
Marco Polo is the first writer in history to locate the tomb of St. Thomas on a seashore and by so doing he revolutionizes the legend. All documents prior to him locate the tomb in a mountain of royal sepulchers following the Acts of Thomas. Marco Polo is also the first writer to locate the tomb in South India, in a certain unnamed little town which the Portuguese later identified with Mylapore. Marco Polo probably never left Constantinople and collected his stories of China and the Fabulous East from Muslim and Syrian Christian merchants who traveled west to Constantinople to trade. Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy and Marco Polo's contemporary, called him a liar and maintained that his book was full of falsehoods and fabrications. New research in Oxford agrees that the stories recorded in the Milione or "tall tale" were invented or recorded from travelers he met in the Constantinople bazaar, and that he had not actually visited the places he writes about.
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Spanish pirate Francis Xavier SJ is the great temple-breaker of India
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"I know not how to describe in words the joy I feel before the spectacle of pulling down and destroying the idols by the very people who formerly worshipped them." - Francis Xavier SJ
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Books & Articles
- Hindu View of Christianity and Islam – Ram Swarup
- Spiritual Symbols – Ram Swarup
- An Account of the Inquisition at Goa – Gabriel Dellon
- Francis Xavier SJ: The Man and His Mission – Sita Ram Goel
- Jesus Christ: An Artifice for Aggression – Sita Ram Goel
- The Vatican Billions – Avro Manhattan
- The Bone Collectors – David Farley
- Vatican steals Jesus’s foreskin – David Farley
- St. Peter: Of bones and boners – Frank Zindler
- The Syrian Church in India – G. Milne Rae
- History of Hindu-Christian Encounters – Sita Ram Goel
- Hindu View of Christianity and Islam – Ram Swarup
- The Social Record of Christianity – Joseph McCabe
- A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to 1707 A.D. – Stephen Neill
- Francis Xavier: Apostle of India and Japan – John C. Reville
- The Origin of Satan: How Christians demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heritics – Elaine Pagels
- Christians and the Holy Places: The Myth of Jewish Christian Origins – Joan E. Taylor
- Ecclesiastical History – John Kaye
- Julian’s Gods – Rowland Smith
- The Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai – J. Frederick Price
- Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them – Sita Ram Goel
- The Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activies – Introduction by Sita Ram Goel
- Radical Universalism – Frank Morales
The Bottom Line
"I even think that some very important virtues are more likely to be found among those whose reject religious dogmas than those who accept them. I think this applies especially to the virtue of truthfulness or intellectual integrity. I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized belief." - Bertrand RussellBharata Bharati
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