AICU responses to the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Mob Lynching concoction
Source: IT News
Imphal, October 15 2019:
After the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) had responded slashing criticism to content of speech made by the RSS Chief, Mohan Bhagwat regarding his speech delivered on Rashtriya Seva Sangh's Foundation Day held at its Headquarters in Nagpur, M S, on Tuesday, the All India Catholic Union (AICU), also came down heavily to the RSS Chief.
Responding to the RSS Chief's contention that mob lynching did not originate in India but came from outside India and that it originated with Jesus Christ in that according to news report (www.indiatoday.in), the All India Catholic Union (AICU) said that The word "lynching" or "lynch" was never used by Jesus though its meaning is to "put to death, hang, kill, murder, slay" (The Concise Oxford Thesaurus, OUP, eighteenth impression, 2002)), and more precise, "to kill by mob action without legal sanction" .
In his speech delivered on the Foundation day of RSS, Mohan Bhagwat Chief had stated that the word lynching comes from an incident in the Bible where Jesus
Christ told people to hit a woman with stones only if they had never committed any sin in their pasts.
The AICU statement said that Jesus' answer to the people who had brought the woman allegedly found having committed adultery, was not to endorse their almost
unanimous decision to stone her but in effect, it was to put a stop to the supposedly emotional crowd by saying, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her" .
(John 08: 07) and after Jesus had thus said, "� they went away,
one by one, beginning with the eldest and Jesus was left with the woman standing before him." (John 08: 09) Actually, Jesus' reply was an anti-thesis, an rhetoric to the common understanding of the day.