I have configured my email program to recognize and dispose off endless and deliberate repetitions of serial misrepresentations that take far too much time to correct over and over again. Thus I only see young Marlon's posts when I visit the archives. In doing so I noticed that he has been getting away with more of the same, and no one else is wasting their time correcting him either. > Here are some examples of why it is a waste of time to seriously debate anything with him. In http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2006-June/043760.html he says, "And when did Mario become a friend of the catholics? Mario's vile comments comparing the Pope and the Vatican to the islamic terrorists, just because they opposed the Iraq war, leaves a lot to be desired!" [end of excerpt] > Other than being deliberately snide, this is a blatant misrepresentation which Marlon repeats at every opportunity, even though he knows exactly what I said and why I said it. These comments are also ironic coming from a vicious Christian basher like Marlon as we will see from other comments below. > BTW, I defy Marlon to cite one shred of evidence that I have said anything against the religion of Catholicism, as opposed to some of the institutions and personalities that besmirch it. Anyone who reads Goanet would immediately recognize his first sentence above to be a calumny. > I am not just a "friend of the Catholics", Marlon, I am a practicing cafeteria Catholic myself. But I digress. > What I said in answer to a question from Marlon about the Pope's peculiar opposition to the liberation of Iraq was that ANYONE who opposed the removal of Saddam Hussain, the most brutal and sadistic tyrant of our times, as the Pope and the Vatican did, was by my definition, an "Islamo-fascist sympathiser", Saddam being the Islamo-fascist. I did not compare the Pope and the Vatican to Islamic terrorists. > It turns out Marlon too is an "Islamo-fascist sympathiser", but for financial reasons. He opposes the liberation of Iraq because he says it is costing too much. This is the accountants method of liberating a country. I wonder what Marlon has to say about WW-II. > Is it even debatable that Saddam would still be sadistically brutalizing his people and threatening the security of his neighbors if President Bush had listened to the Pope or to Marlon? This is the same Pope mind you, who fought tooth and nail to bring down the old Soviet Union that was brutalizing Christians and Jews. Marlon, of course, only fights AGAINST Christians and Catholics and religious people in general. > With the subsequent discovery of Saddam's rape rooms, torture chambers and hundreds of thousands of massacred Iraqi skeletons discarded in mass graves, and the manifest electoral preference of most Iraqis (other than about 20,000 insurgents) for freedom and democracy, the Pope and the Vatican and Marlon were even more wrong in hindsight than they were when they opposed the removal of the Saddam regime. They had all sadly stayed silent while the atrocities were in progress throughout the 80's and 90's. > Marlon continues his spin, "My questioning of christian beliefs does not equate to me being anti christian. All it does is that it exposes certain people's insecurities about their own religion. The record clearly shows that I have supported the rights of christians (and all religions for that matter) and have provided material support for Goan Catholic organizations."[end]. Yeah, right! > In http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2006-April/041649.html, here is Marlon apparently "exposing the insecurities" of Christians", in his own words: > "Nasci was perhaps a little careless in not being more specific about the christian god he brays to. Christians too have many gods and depending upon which god you pray to, your mileage will obviously vary. > To begin with, there is the holy trinity - the Father, son (Jesus) and the Holy Spirit - kind of like the hindu trinity of Shiva/Vishnu/Brahma, except that the christians say that they are three gods some how squeezed into one. Like whatever!" [end of excerpt] > Believe it or not it gets worse. See for yourself by clicking on the URL. The nadir was the following passage(s) in which Marlon even ridiculed his own mother: > "Hmm... my mother did once pray over a cancer sufferer, who after many false hopes, still died (note to self: check if she prayed to Jesus or St. Peregrine). The list of saints and their specific specializations is endless. > Nasci, I hope I am not being too nosey. Can you tell me which christian god(s) you pray to? > Blessings from the christian god(s)." [end of excerpt] > This is the same Marlon who now says he should not be equated with being anti-christian. Yeah, right! Let's see him prove it with comparable comments viciously ridiculing other religions. Guess who has the REAL insecurities!!! > I think Goanetters know me well enough to know that I am a persistent debater with those who engage in honest contrary debate, even those who claim that there in no true knowledge in science :-)) My friend and dogged philosophical opponent Elisabeth has also affectionately accused me of ultra PDD by Proxy, or some such nonsense :-)) > Thus, if you see an insulting and disrespectful post specifically aimed at me, Christians or the things I believe in, with no response thereafter, it has to be because I have not noticed it in the archives at that time, or that others have not responded to it either. >
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