For centuries, missionaries and their sponsors in secretive networks—be they royal societies, merchant cartels, or cloaked “orders” like the Illuminati or Priory of Zion—have played a calculated game: using religion as the tool of empire. Missionaries, priests, and nuns were not selfless servants of humanity; they were the foot soldiers of a global strategy of power. Their task was to break native cultures, manipulate emotions, and exaggerate false claims that only Europe gave “civilization, clothes, and education” to the world. But when we scratch beneath their propaganda and look at historical evidence, the narrative collapses.
Europe’s Miserable Condition Until the 18th Century
Far from being the “civilizers,” most Europeans themselves were in conditions that today would be described as near-starvation poverty.
Literacy: Until the mid-18th century, literacy in Europe rarely crossed 20–25% even in advanced countries like Britain and France. Rural literacy was much lower, often under 10%. In contrast, ancient and medieval India had gurukuls, madrasas, and temple schools that preserved vast knowledge in astronomy, mathematics, medicine, metallurgy, architecture, and philosophy. Even the ordinary artisan class in India possessed advanced technical know-how in textiles, dyes, and metalwork.
Food & Clothing: Europe was repeatedly struck by famines, plagues, and cold waves during the “Little Ice Age” (14th–18th centuries). Contemporary reports describe peasants walking half-naked, covered in rags, surviving on barley husks and acorns. The word “shirtless” in European literature was not metaphorical—it was the lived reality of millions.
Science & Free Thought: Scientists and philosophers were often persecuted in Europe. Giordano Bruno was burned alive, Galileo was silenced, and countless herbalists, astronomers, and midwives were executed as “witches.” Compare this with India, where debates between Buddhists, Jains, Shaivites, and Vaishnavites flourished openly for centuries without mass persecutions.
India’s Wealth and Education Before Colonization
India, on the other hand, was not merely self-sufficient but one of the wealthiest civilizations on Earth until colonial disruption.
Global Trade:
India accounted for over 23% of world GDP in 1700 (Angus Maddison, economic historian).
Indian textiles were world-famous: Dhaka muslin, Kanchipuram silk, Calicut cotton, and Bengal’s fine weaves dressed not just Asia but also Egypt and Europe. Europeans looted Indian cotton because they had neither the skill nor the climate to produce it.
Spices, diamonds, steel (wootz), and medicines from India were exported as far as Rome, Egypt, and China for millennia.
Education:
India had thousands of pathshalas, gurukuls, and madrasas spread across villages.
Scholars like Aryabhata, Bhaskaracharya, Charaka, Sushruta, and Panini produced works that Europe studied only centuries later through translations.
Even during Mughal rule, centers like Banaras, Nalanda’s remnants, Ujjain, and Madurai were active in learning.
In 1820, British surveys (like William Adam’s report in Bengal) admitted that almost every village had a functioning school—a far higher educational spread compared to Europe.
Dress and Lifestyle:
Photographs of Indian freedom fighters, farmers, and workers from the late 19th century show them properly dressed in dhotis, sarees, turbans, or kurta-pajamas. Clothing was not “gifted” by Europeans—it was woven locally in every household. In contrast, many Europeans in the 18th century still relied on stolen colonial textiles to clothe themselves.
The Conversion Mafia: Emotional
Manipulation & Cheap Tricks
Missionaries claim they “educated the natives” and “clothed the pagans.” But the reality is clear:
They arrived after looting Indian cotton, silk, spices, and diamonds which kept Europe alive.
They demonized native traditions—calling Ayurveda “witchcraft,” Sanskrit “pagan,” and Indian gods “devils.”
They used schools and charity as bait—not to uplift but to weaken native cultures and harvest converts.
Their propaganda survives today, with exaggerated tales of “civilizing India” when in truth India was 10 times more advanced than Europe in trade, mathematics, textiles, and metallurgy until colonial exploitation destroyed its backbone.
The Real Civilizers
It was not Europe that clothed India—it was India’s textiles that clothed Europe.
It was not Europe that educated India—it was India’s knowledge systems that lit the first sparks of mathematics, astronomy, and medicine in Europe through Arab intermediaries.
It was not missionaries who gave civilization—it was India that exported civilization to Egypt, Greece, China, and beyond.
Religious conversion mafias thrive on distorting history and exploiting poverty. But history, when read without colonial filters, proves one truth: India was not civilized by Europe. Europe survived because of India.
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