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Gilbert
Firstly, I am at a loss to understand your current talk of anti-Catholic
views. How can you possibly arrive at such a view when, as in my case, all
one is seeking is historical veracity on the temple/church issue in Goa
because of intellectual curiosity?
Secondly, I want to suggest that you might end up taking the Zionist kind of
line that any criticism of Israeli policy on the occupation of Palestinian
land is anti-semitism. Surely, you do not believe in this kind of nonsense
that is subscribed by, for instance, Orthodox Jews against Progressive Jews
within Israel and in the Jewish Diaspora.
Thirdly, one more example may be pertinent. There are extreme views which
have argued that the Jewish Holocaust (aka Irving etc) never took place in
German controlled lands in WW2. However, we know that the evidence of death
camps etc is there for all to see to be able to dismiss the rantings of
modern day Nazis. I have also personally been to Dacau etc to see for
myself -- to make sense, if at all possible, of man's grotesque brutality
to fellow man in the name of a demented ideology. However, I have strong
reservations about the only European country (Austria) that treats Holocaust
denial as an imprisonable offence. In other words, the element of
proportionality must come into play and thus finding criticism of aspects of
Catholicism cannot possibly be seen as anti-Catholic except by those who
might be deemed to be rather narrow minded.
In my own case, just as I have reservations about aspects of Judaism,
Hinduism and Islam by way of examples, I have honest reservations about
aspects of Catholic doctrine. In what way does this make me anti-Catholic?
Some Catholic priests indeed share my reservations and this is one of the
reasons why there is a substantial exodus from the priesthood and a serious
decline in entry into the vocation. Are such people anti-Catholic as per
your highly questionable and indeterminate criteria?
After reading the above, I would be interested to see if you might wish to
reconsider your blanket term "anti-Catholic."
Kind regards
Cornel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gilbert Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 10:38 AM
Subject: [Goanet] Destruction of Hindu temples and replaced by Catholic
churches.
Hi Cornel,
I will assume that the following is the British way of saying, "I stand
corrected".:=))
Now if we can only get the other Goan anti-Catholics on the same page as
you, I will have done my "missionary work". Pray, please tell us where do
you keep reading this Goan anti-Catholic propaganda?
Kind Regards, GL
--------------- cornel wrote:
I definitely made no claim that I was in any way certain that Hindu
temples were destroyed for Catholic churches to be built over them. To say
I had read about this is not to make a claim.
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