VivekaJyoti: The fabled, fabricated and fraudulent myth of the visit of St. Thomas to Mylapore in the first century AD

Jul 4, 2008

The fabled, fabricated and fraudulent myth of the visit of St. Thomas to Mylapore in the first century AD

& his murder & martyrdom in 73 AD

Church has remained unrivalled. No other Christian denomination—there are as many as 23000 of them comes anywhere near the Roman Catholic Church when it concerns committing of blatant forgeries and foisting of pious frauds. It is no exaggeration to say that starting with Jesus Christ, the entire doctrinal and institutional edifice of Catholicism rests on a series of staggering swindles. The Roman Catholic Church in India has remained true to this tradition. The literature it has produced during the last five centuries is full of lies of the filthiest sort, not only about Hindu religion and culture but also about its own `religion' and role. And this garbage heap is topped by the hoax about the so-called St Thomas'.

After our Independence, the Catholic Church went on spreading the myth of murder and martyrdom of St. Thomas at Mylapore in the first century A.D. Meanwhile, the Liberation Theology of the Church had added a new dimension to it. St. Thomas started being sold not only as the first founder of Christianity in India but also as the first to proclaim a new social message in this country. A section of the `secular' media in Madras, in the late eighties, presented this new portrait of St. Thomas through articles written by one C A Simon under the title `In Memory Of a Slain Saint'. After repeating the same old standard fraudulent story of the Catholic Church in India, C A. Simon struck a new revolutionary note: `St. Thomas spent the last part of his life in Madras preaching the Gospel. A large number of people listened and embraced the way of life preached by him. The oppressed and downtrodden followed him and claimed equal status in society as it was denied to them by the prevailing social norms. He condemned untouchability and attempted to restore equal status to women'.

This bold and brazen Christian scribe had written with great confidence because similar fictitious stuff, presented in a plethora of books as well as in the popular press, had passed off without being challenged. He was not aware that formidable Hindu Scholars had started examining Christian claims about Christian doctrines and Christian saints, as also calculated Christian calumny about Hinduism, Hindu society, Hindu culture and Hindu history. It is very unfortunate that certain editors of the pseudo-secular media allowed their respected columns to be used to promote this Catholic romance as historical fact in this age of excellent and critical scholarship. Though Veda Prakash had sent his book on the myth of St Thomas to the media as early as in September 1989 for review, yet the media had ignored it. The media did not apply the same standard of censorship to C A Simon. While it treated Simon with respect, it treated Veda Prakash with utmost contempt. The anti-national and anti-Hindu pseudo-secular mafia of print and electronic mass media is being closely watched by the awakened Hindus of India today. Hindus of India are determined to win their war against the planned, organized and launched dissemination of disinformation in regard to Sanatana Dharma, Hindus, Hinduism, Hindu culture and Hindu society by the criminal cabal controlling the print and electronic media in India today.