Ram Mohan Roy criticized Christian doctrines, and asserted that how unreasonable and self-contradictory they are. He further adds that people, even from India were embracing Christianity due to the economic hardship and weakness, just like European Jews were pressured to embrace Christianity, by both encouragement and force. Vivekananda regarded Christianity as ..collection of little bits of Indian thought. Ours is the religion of which Buddhism with all its greatness is a rebel child, and of which Christianity is a very patchy imitation. Philosopher Dayanand Saraswati, regarded Christianity as barbarous religion, and a false religion religion believed only by fools and by the people in a state of barbarism,. He included that Bible contains many stories and precepts that are immoral, praising cruelty, deceit and encouraging sin. Highly acclaimed Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, writes :- “Unfortunately Christian religion inherited the Semitic creed of the ‘jealous God’ in the view of Christ as ‘the only begotten son of God’ so could not brook any rival near the throne. When Europe accepted the Christian religion, in spite of its own broad humanism, it accepted the fierce intolerance which is the natural result of belief in the truth once for all delivered to the saints.” Shlomo ben Aderet criticized Christianity, adding that it has lesser form of monotheism, and lacks a unified deity compared to Judaism. David Flusser viewed Christianity as Cheaper Judaism and highly anti-judaism, he also highlighted the failure of christianity to convert the Jewish people to the new message as precisely the reason for the strong anti-jewish trend in christianity. Professor Moshe Halbertal, regards Christianity to be idolatrous religion, and he further adds that the idolatry by Christians opened the door to the easing of many other restrictive prohibitions. Stephen Samuel Wise in his own words was critical towards Christian community, for their failure to rescue Jews, from Europe, during NAZI rule. He wrote that:-“ A Christian world that will permit millions of Jews to be slain without moving heaven by prayer and earth in every human way to save its Jews has lost its capacity for moral and spiritual survival.” Much African Traditional Religion criticism of Christianity has centered on the lack of coherence of its doctrines, its relative regression in morality compared to African Traditional Religion, the witnessed hypocrisy of its followers, its coercive use for colonial and neo-imperialist domination of Africa, and its lack of suitability to the African environment.
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