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But his messy hair soon got him into all sorts of trouble

-Andy Stanley

but it was Harvey Wiley who first turned it into a matter of life or death

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Gods, Guns and Missionaries Art forms diminutiveAn ambitious and engagingly history of how encounters with Christianity have shaped Hindu identity and nationalism in colonial and contemporary India When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century, they entered a world both fascinating and bewildering. Hinduism, as they saw it, was a pagan mess a worship of devils and monsters by a people who burned women alive, performed outlandish rites and fed children to crocodiles. But it