From: "Joe Vaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: goanet@goanet.org
To: GOANET@GOANET.ORG
Subject: Re: [Goanet] False Innuendo, Insinuations and Accusations by
Santosh Heleka 2/3
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 17:15:52 +0000
"Joe Vaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Subject: [Goanet]Re: Santosh's chutzpah & S. Verses
Re: "Santosh Helekar" post
on Sun Aug 17, 2003
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Hi Santosh:
No amount of ranting and raving will do you good. Please pause for a moment
and review what you write before you make blatant statements and cry foul
that people are unjustly accusing you. Maybe a revisit and reread of your
earlier posts will refresh your thoughts and enlighten you as to why I
wrote what I wrote.
Lets face it - I am not the first one who has confronted you regarding
your bashing of Christian beliefs and religion, and (at the rate you
continue,) certainly I wont be the last. Youve had personal encounters
with more than a dozen people who took courage to stand up and repudiate
your refuse and your provocative/nonsensical posts. It appears that you
are taking advantage of bashing Christianity, and what it stands for, with
your continual abuse, sarcasms, and disrespect for scripture and religion.
My dear Joe,
I am as Christian as the next one and as saintly as the unworthiest of them.
But Santosh is no Christian-basher nor does he ever rave or rant and his
remarks are, consistently unblatant.
Santosh debates elegantly and relevantly, and always thrives on dissent.
He would never ridicule those of us who believe wholeheartedly in the
Holy Scriptures and the Gospels as gospel-truth.
However, the Church is done with muzzling dissent in toto. The unequivocal
apologies tendered Martin Luther as well as the lifting of charges of
"vehement suspicion of heresy" so spuriously levelled on Galileo Galilei
amply manifests this spirit of contemporary Vatican.
Would any of us advocate the dread "fatwa".
But please continue to avail of the splendid opportunity of debating
Santosh,
but unbiassedly and unaccrimoniously; thereby, not just you two but rest of
us
will also benefit.
Ever you friend,
Alfred de Tavares, 0046 8 7596214
Stockholm, 2005-07-02
