UNITED STATES, April 13, 2015 (Outlook India, by Tony Joseph): If you have been following Indian mass media or social media in the last few months, you couldn’t have escaped the narrative being spun by some. It goes something like this: “Christianity is posing a growing and serious demographic threat to Hinduism by converting large numbers of Hindus through aggressive proselytizing. This effort is heavily funded by Christian organizations in the West that see India as being ripe for large-scale conversions. Since proselytizing and conversions are not part of Hindu tradition, or that of any religion that originated in India, the playing field is tilted against Hinduism, and this is causing serious societal friction. This sometimes leads to spontaneous and violent reactions.”

To put it bluntly, the assertion that Christianity poses a serious threat to Hinduism would be laughable if its consequences were not so destructive of social cohesion. The fact is, the story of Christianity in India is a story of dismal failure, demographically speaking. No believing Christian would like to admit this in this manner, but both they and their detractors should open their eyes to the simple fact that stares them in the face: that India has mostly passed up Christianity, and that there is no other country in the world that has proven so resistant and so impervious to it as India. And so, what does Indian Christianity have to show for its humongous effort in terms of men, money and material, over two millennia? Almost zilch—or somewhere between two and three per cent of the population. And that number is on the way down, not up—from 2.6 per cent in 1971 to 2.3 per cent in 2001. The census figures for 2011 have not been officially released yet, but leaked figures suggest that there may have been another small decline.

Much more of this fascinating article at “source” here:
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/why-christianity-failed-in-india/293895

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