Deep Pencil - the musings of Morgan Bell

Christianity first came to Sri Lanka upon the arrival of the Portuguese in the sixteenth century. Under their rule, Roman Catholicism was spread out in a mass scale of the Island with many Roman Catholic schools for the Sinhalese and the Tamils. With the attempts of the Portuguese to Christianize native people, Buddhism and Hinduism were severely affected. There were an increasing number of both Sinhalese and Tamils converting to Roman Catholicism. When the Portuguese were driven out by the Dutch, Protestantism and the Dutch Reformed Church was introduced. During the British rule conversions to Christianity increased. Later on due to the nationalism movement among the Sinhalese who held sway the political power; Christianity in Sri Lanka was somewhat restricted.

It is quite common to see the conflict in Sri Lanka being portrayed as one between Buddhists and Hindus - especially in the Western media, deliberately ignoring the Christian factor, which is becoming more and more important in the light of the recent developments pertaining to the unethical conversions controversy.
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Even though the Christian population is "still" at 7%, the Christian Church has tremendous political influence in Sri Lanka. A majority of the major business tycoons, media organization owners, civil activists and almost all the senior cabinet members of the former UNP government (which suffered the worst electoral defeat in its history at the recent PC elections) were Christians.

Both Ranil Wickremesinghe and Chandrika Kumaratunge are also widely believed to be closet Christians.
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The reasons for the Church and these Western countries to back these organizations are more politically and economically motivated than religious per se.

The ultimate goal is weakening and destabilizing these countries so that their natural resources etc. could be exploited freely and the holy message of the gospel could be brought to the "uncivilized" masses.
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The father of modern separatism, late Mr Chelvanayagam, MP was a Christian. As the renowned Tamil writer DBS Jeyaraj wrote in the (Christian owned) Sunday Leader a few months back, Christians have contributed much more to the "Tamil cause" than Hindus. LTTE's ideologue Dr Anton Balasingham, a former employee of the British embassy in Sri Lanka is also a Christian. The same goes for Velupillai Pirapaharan's son, Charles Anthony and most of LTTE's lackeys across the globe, ranging from NGO wallahs to left-wing extremists to British and Canadian parliamentarians.
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There is also evidence that Christian priests have been directly aiding and abetting the LTTE to carry out terrorist attacks. In the late 90s, reports of Christian priests being caught trying to smuggle in banned items used to make bombs to uncleared areas were not rare in daily newspapers. It is also suspected that the Tigers have been using some churches in the Kotahena as safe houses.
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There is reason to believe that the moment the Eelam is created, the Church of South India that has contributed so much to the Tamil separatist cause, is set to re-establish itself as the "Church of Tamil Eelam" and become the official Church of the new state. This is the ultimate end that the Western countries, NGOs, the Christian Church and the LTTE are striving for.

It is relatively easy for those who have chosen to make a business out of marketing Jesus, to pontificate on an abstract notion of peace, while Buddhists who wish to visit their most sacred places of worship such as the Dalada Maligawa and the Sri Maha Bodhi have to wade through check-points and be subjected to searches.
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The LTTE is not just anti-Sinhala, they are anti-Buddhists as well. And in this, they do seem to have a holy pact with certain sections of the Catholic Church and countless evangelical outfits all over the country.
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The point is that the missionaries have historically been part and parcel of the colonial project. That project, now called Globalisation, is still incomplete. It includes the erasure of all cultures outside the ambit of Judeo-Christian bigotry. It is in this context that the efforts of Christian Evangelical Alliances or whatever else they may want to call themselves, have to be viewed. And opposed.

Norway, which got independence from Sweden only in 1905, is obsessed with the right of self-determination for nations, a concept that was formulated for them about hundred years ago. Having got some money from petroleum and minerals in the last three decades they are acting like a new rich person who has found a cause to spend money on. Like the other western countries they are propagating their culture and are interested in destroying the indigenous cultures in the other regions. They have found only recently the "Christian zeal" of the other western European states that came to Asia and Africa in the sixteenth century and thereafter.
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The church also had played a role in these activities in Norway with the involvement of the World Council of Churches to which the National Christian Council (NCC) in Sri Lanka headed by Rev. Kenneth Fernando is affiliated. The National Peace Council, of which Mr. Jehan Perera is the secretary, has been established by the NCC. A Christian priest by the name Devus had campaigned that the Norwegian government should take steps to pressurise the Sri Lankan government to stop military operations in Jaffna. These are only few of the involvements of the LTTE and its front organisations in Norway.

It is no secret now, that the LTTE terrorist movement in Sri Lanka is a Catholic/Christian backed movement which has been using the LTTE as a cat's paw to achieve their anti-Buddhist, anti-Hindu agendas of creating racial and religious fragmentation of this country of ours. Every LTTE function has been patronized by Catholic/Christian Clergy and there is ample evidence of it.
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It is also a known fact that the Norwegians disguised Prabhakaran as a Catholic Priest when they smuggled him out of Sri Lanka to travel through Maldives to Norway during/prior to The Tsunami of 26th December 2006. All these events have been reported in the press. Prabhakaran who is a Christian convert, has been protected by the Church right through in their efforts to destroy Buddhist/Hindu hold on our society.

The Catholic Church in its quest to destroy the religious & social fabric of this country has been working tooth and nail to bring in various opinions, inter-faith groups which they profess will bring religious harmony to this country. In fact, what it will do is exactly the opposite.

During the last 11 years under the Presidency of Chandrika Kumaratunga, she surrounded herself with Evangelical advisors who advocated a policy of shrewd manipulations to twist the judgement of The President into taking action against the majority Buddhists and Hindus and pampering the anti-Buddhist/Hindu activities of the Christian Churches.

I believe that the core of the problem has a lot to do with a very Christian concept, Creation. As far as the Tamils are concerned, this country and everything in it were "created" for them and them alone by the European masters (read: God) and how dare the Sinhalese take that from them!