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A short answer to your powerfully worded pertinent questions below, might be
that the Catholic Church, like most other churches, is a business first and
foremost. The centrality of its business lies in exploiting human
frailities, fears and uncertainties, well laced with some dubious
spirituality. Through this process, it has become internationally, one of
the richest successful businesses ever known with a massive clientele.
Notwithstanding the view above, I absolutely insist in respecting and not
deriding sincere believers in the teachings of the Catholic Church. Sadly
however, the Church has many sordid appendages to its history. This
includes, in Goa, its close historic association with the hegemonic evil of
caste practice. Priesthood in earlier times was significantly caste-based as
historical records, in my possession, clearly illustrate. Further, social
and political control within the Church, from the 'upper' caste echelons
has continued to reflect this policy to this day. If this is not true,
hopefully, the Archbishop of Goa (or his entourage) will rush to refute this
proposition by drawing from his personal knowledge and experience.
Cornel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elisabeth Carvalho"
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:19 AM
Subject: [Goanet] Re: Cardinal Dias Deplores Anti-Christian Films
I really love it when the Catholic Church talks about distortion of facts
by "evil" people and how we should all pray for them.
What about 2000 years of distortion by the Church?
Let's talk about an "evil" Pope who made MaryMagdalene to be a prostitute
when we now know that if the ministry of Jesus existed, she probably was a
rich patron who played a dominant role.
What about Gospels that existed alongside the four that we know off, like
the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Judas which never saw the light of
day because they didn't fit in with their theology.
What about scrolls found at Nag Hamadi written by Gnostics, a sect of
Christianity probably persecuted and driven to extinction by mainstream
Christians of the time.
What about centuries of manipulation of theology by Popes and Bishops and
Cardinals that conveniently created Virgin births and Holy Spirits to
explain away loopholes in the gospels?
And when all else fails let's not forget "blind faith" for none shall be
so bold as to put their doubting fingers into the palms of Christ and
question the Catholic Church on issues, on theology or on history.
Ofcourse, as Cardinal Dias states, "more things are wrought by prayer than
the world can dream off", like tsunamis and earthquakes and genocides and
famines.Let's not forget that "God has a plan for every
natural disaster victim" because ofcourse there was something wrong with
the original plan of him spending the rest of his life with his loved
ones.
The Catholic Church can easily put Mafia Dons to shame when it comes to
spiritual extortion and Stalin had nothing on totalitarian regimes and
towing the party line when compared to the Catholic Church.
Enough! At least Dan Brown's novel is labeled fiction.
What has the Church been pedaling all these years?
Elisabeth
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