Is BJP's suggestion to introduce anti-conversion bill in the Parliament a good idea? Well, I don't think so. Here is one of the reasons. Suppose, a person from India goes to Cambridge University and receives the finest education available. He then realises that her religion, say, Christianity is not a good religion. He renounces it and becomes an atheist. Well, because anti-conversion bill is in place, there seems to me two options available before him: live as an adherent of this religion which he now believes is bad till his last breathe or go to jail and rot there.
Or, say, an atheist from India after having done proper study of the matter in Cambridge University realises that Christianity is true and right. Should he convert or still live with the belief that he now considers is mistaken? Well, it would be a bad law if he is not allowed to exercise his freedom of conscience and so freedom of religious belief. Why imprisoned a person in the religious belief that he is born with? Why not let people explore and exercise their choice? If the religious belief is good and right, it will eventually prevail; it has nothing to be afraid of.
What needs curbing is forceful conversion or conversion through allurement. Let the right to propagate one's religion and so the right to choose religion remain as it is.
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