According to a brief item in the Faith News section of the Times last Saturday, the general secretary of the Hindu Council UK is calling for attempts to convert members of one faith to another belief to be made "a crime under international law".
So he wants it to be against the law for me to tell someone that I believe worshipping a cow is wrong and that they should worship God, who created this world including the cows?
The amazing thing is that this kind of talk comes in the name of tolerance. It's not just the Hindus. You get this kind of comment from all directions in this pluralistic society we live in here in England - we should all respect each other's point of view, we shouldn't be trying to persuade anyone else that our way is better. Which means tolerance of everyone's point of view as long as that point of view does not include a belief that their way is the right way. Which is not tolerance at all!
If I didn't believe that Jesus is the best way and indeed the only way to God, why would I bother with him? I could have kept things much simpler, stuck to the normal Jewish ways and not risked alienating my family.
