Why are Hindus easily converted into Christians but not vice-versa?

[sridatta]

[The Nice Centurion]

Also in India poor hindus are constantly bribed by evangelical christians with social help; Job, place to stay, food .
.If they convert to christianyity.
If they return to hinduism all is taken away again by the loving christians.

[Dimmesdale]

While this topic most likely has a wide variety of answers, I would say that Hindu "Dharma", or, in other words, the attitude of service and maintenance of religious principles, has died down quite a bit over the last several centuries. The Vedas are not currently understood very well, nor subsidiary literatures like the Puranas. Many younger Hindus are quite ignorant of their parents' religion, and their parents themselves are quite ignorant, following the religion virtually by rote more than anything.... If you are ignorant about what you are following, it is much easier to follow something which purports to have all the answers, is more straightforward, and more than anything requires much less of you in terms of time, effort, etc.... Evangelical Christianity, I think, simply fits the bill as an alternative. And that's just from the philosophical point of view. With Christianity, there are no stringent dietary conditions, there are no rigid meditational practices, there are no demands in terms of elaborate ritual or temple worship, and, on the bright side, there seems much less fanaticism compared to a lot of the more fundamentalist Hindu worship, which in my opinion is a good thing. As a person who believes in all good and sincere faiths, I hope that all people, Hindu and Christian, find what they are looking for spiritually, and do not simply default to one faith over the other due to mere weakness or last resort.