Hi Aloysius,
I understand your boredom with the caste issue among Catholic Goans. I
honestly get pretty bored of it myself from time to time!
However, as someone who is intensely against caste for many many reasons and
which I have vigorously articulated, with others, on Goanet over the years,
please consider that if this kettle is not kept on the boil, one would be
providing the casteists exactly what they want i.e. to continue to practice
their evil without interference. This would effectively be the best recipe
to retain caste, when it is clear from many postings that, caste needs to be
hit hard on the head (intelligently and without much emotion) everytime it
rears its ugly head--as we have witnessed in the current spontaneous
response to Cybermatrimonials.
Clearly, the Catholic Goan community would be infinitely better off without
the abomination of caste, and thus, working towards this long term aim is
the best thing we could do in the interests of the Catholic Goan community
worldwide. The caste debate on Goanet is educative and is making progress
slowly but surely.
However, I want to now suggest that it could gather more momentum if the
majority began to ostracise the small hard core of casteists socially. The
casteists have survived only because the majority have not taken them on,
and especially, ostracised them like a bad disease within the Church
(including many clergy) or socially. Once stigmatised by the majority i.e.
when they are metaphorically at the receiving end of the 'poison' they have
historically emitted upon others, they would be less able to say utterly
absurd things like one was "highborn" as we saw from an absolute twerp in a
Goanet post very recently.
I therefore crave for your support and patience please, for the rationale
above, on this very vexed issue of fighting caste among the Catholic Goans.
Regards,
Cornel DaCosta, London, UK.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aloysius D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <goanet@goanet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:30 AM
Subject: [Goanet]Goan "CHRISTIANS' -- Caste
Dear Goans Everywhere,
I am fed up of reading messages since the last TEN YEARS over this
business
of Caste among Goan Christians ---
Being a CHRISTIAN automatically means that we believe that all men (and
women) are equal -- there is no such thing as being born
into different castes -- you are born a HUMAN BEING.
If any so-called "Christian" believes in Castes -- Brahmin, Chadda,
Sudra,
etc --
then HE IS NO CHRISTIAN.
