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In my part of the world the jesuits had done a lot of good by starting schools.

by arkj 5y ago

tommcshwa 5y ago
The motive behind their good schools, is just to prove their superior culture... Make non-Christians familiar with Christianity and western culture, make them admire them... And then convert people.. the school also provide jobs for people who are converted.. Jesuits are just doing crusades but in a more psychological and cunning ways... And I say this from broad experience and insider knowledge.
naruvimama 5y ago
I have heard this very often. The queen of England did not send ship loads of gold to do charity work in the colonies. The native tax payers to this day pay the salaries including the priests who work as principals or head masters. The land is almost always ill gotten, by force or on 99 year lease for $1. And in many parts of the world these schools were started explicitly to breed subjects loyal to the colonizers, Macauly's children.
- arkj 5y ago
  I have heard your argument too often from outsiders but never from anyone who actually studied in these schools. Luckily, I don't know any queen sympathizer among my friends who passed out from Jesuit institutions neither do I know anyone who converted. One thing I do know is that their schooling helped them to get jobs and get out of poverty when the software revolution happened. I am not well versed in European history but common sense tells me a conversion collusion between the protestant British Queen and Catholic Jesuits has more probability to be a fiction.
  - naruvimama 5y ago
    My only point is the Christian schools or missions are not deserving of any of the praises you heap on them. Their contribution to the actual school is 0. In fact it legitimizes their continuing hold of land and wealth grabbed from the natives and temples for a "good cause" Colleges like Loyola in Chennai built on temple land manufacture derascinated Hindu hating Indians who go on to work in media, bureaucracy and judiciary and it does have a substantial negative impact, especially in a country trying to decolonise.

In my part of the world the jesuits had done a lot of good by starting schools.

by arkj 5y ago

In my part of the world the jesuits had done a lot of good by starting schools.

The motive behind their good schools, is just to prove their superior culture... Make non-Christians familiar with Christianity and western culture, make them admire them... And then convert people.. the school also provide jobs for people who are converted.. Jesuits are just doing crusades but in a more psychological and cunning ways... And I say this from broad experience and insider knowledge.

naruvimama 5y ago

I have heard this very often. The queen of England did not send ship loads of gold to do charity work in the colonies. The native tax payers to this day pay the salaries including the priests who work as principals or head masters. The land is almost always ill gotten, by force or on 99 year lease for $1. And in many parts of the world these schools were started explicitly to breed subjects loyal to the colonizers, Macauly's children.

arkj 5y ago
I have heard your argument too often from outsiders but never from anyone who actually studied in these schools. Luckily, I don't know any queen sympathizer among my friends who passed out from Jesuit institutions neither do I know anyone who converted. One thing I do know is that their schooling helped them to get jobs and get out of poverty when the software revolution happened. I am not well versed in European history but common sense tells me a conversion collusion between the protestant British Queen and Catholic Jesuits has more probability to be a fiction.
- naruvimama 5y ago
  My only point is the Christian schools or missions are not deserving of any of the praises you heap on them. Their contribution to the actual school is 0. In fact it legitimizes their continuing hold of land and wealth grabbed from the natives and temples for a "good cause" Colleges like Loyola in Chennai built on temple land manufacture derascinated Hindu hating Indians who go on to work in media, bureaucracy and judiciary and it does have a substantial negative impact, especially in a country trying to decolonise.