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--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pardon me if we cannot hold our breath
> while
> waiting for you, an avowed agnostic, to "...come
> across a post that I find offensive to my Catholic
> sensibilities..." What "Catholic sensibilities" can
> an avowed agnostic claim to have??
MY RESPONSE:
Mario, please don't get unnecessarily perplexed by the
things I write. Rest assured I have a very good grip
on whatever it is I write. Religion has always been as
much a badge of cultural identity as a religious one.
Long before India became a geographical and political
identity, it was loosely grouped together based on its
cultural identity, shaped in large part by its
religious rites and rituals. So, there is no dichotomy
in my statement. I am and will always be a Goan
Catholic, culturally.
Mario write:
> Since you all have repudiated and devalued religion,
> including the ones you were born into, anything you
> say on the subject is biased by definition, and
> frequently offensive to the rest of us. So, why not
> quit the patronising and contemptuous and
> contradictory comments about religion and religious
> people and stick to opining on the several other
> issues that plague the world, as you have
> recommended
> to your forum adversary, Joe Vaz, but not to your
> friend, Santosh.
> >
MY RESPONSE:
Is that what you really want Mario? That we should
quit discussing topics because they offend someone or
the other. Then, so far I have been asked to quit
commenting on Goa because I don't live there, quit
commenting on America because it's off topic and now
quit commenting on religion. So what topics does that
leave me, Albert's pinag recipe and the GDP of
Guatemala?
Now listen boys, I'm going away for the weekend. When
I come back I want all of you to have kissed and made
up. Except Gilbert ofcourse. A benign handshake will
do for him :))
selma
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