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“Reason and religion”

In your editorial "Reason and religion” (Parsiana, August 21, 2006) you state that the British built churches to spread Christianity in India. The fact of the matter is that the protestant British were only interested in spreading English in India and to that end they invited Portuguese and Spanish missionaries to start English medium schools and colleges. However, the Roman Catholic missionaries took advantage of this opportunity to spread Christianity.  You cite the example of the Reverend John Wilson converting two Parsis to Christianity. In another glaring incident sometime in the 1940s, the Mother Superior in Sophia College converted two Parsi......



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