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http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Martinho, Why are you SHOUTING? Hysteria will get you no-where. Why does some-one else's belief (or lack of it) bother you so much. For all his eloquence (which does not necessarily translate into intelligence) Mario falls into the same category. Is it because the Bible exhorts conversion of the heathens? Church-smashing and clergy-bashing are despicable acts but resorted to by dis-illusioned and desperate members of an organization that has kept it's workings private, to it's detriment. As Santosh has mentioned, you are COMPLETELY off-base with your insistence that 'Goan culture is essentially Catholic in nature'. And incidently, haven't you heard of 'ex-communication'? The 'spirit of baptism' is theological hocus-pocus to remove the stain of 'original sin' that we are all supposedly born with. Babies who died without the benefit of baptism could not avail themselves of the eternal salvation of heaven and so were banished to 'Limbo' - where's that???? We tie ourselves into imaginary pretzels trying to make sense of all of this and are told constantly 'don't try to understand the ways of God, they're mysterious'. After all, God made man in his image, but gave him only half a brain :-) Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON. ---------- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 15:08:51 +1100 From: "Anthony and Nolette de Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] ATHEISTS, TURNCOATS AND QUISLINGSa THE ATHEISTS IN GOA TODAY ARE FAR FROM SINCERE. THEY ARE THE KIND OF FOLK WHO GO AROUND CLAIMING, 'THANK GOD, WE ARE ATHEISTS.' HOWEVER, IN THEIR HEARTS THEY KNOW THAT ATHEISM IS UNGOAN. BESIDES THESE GOAN PSEUDO-ATHEISTS, THERE ARE A FEW GOAN CATHOLICS WHO HAVE JOINED FUNDAMENTALIST PROTESTANT SECTS WHICH INDULGE IN CHURCH-SMASHING AND CLERGY-BASHING OF THE VERBAL KIND. THESE GOAN TURNCOATS OUGHT TO REMEMBER THAT GOAN CULTURE IS ESSENTIALLY CATHOLIC IN NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE AND WHATEVER SECTS THESE GOAN MALCONTENTS JOIN, THEY SHOULD REALIZE THAT ONCE A CATHOLIC, ALWAYS A CATHOLIC. ACCORDING TO THEOLOGY, THE SOUL OF A CATHOLIC IS MARKED BY THE SPIRIT AT BAPTISM AND NOTHING ON EARTH CAN ERASE THIS MARK. A CATHOLIC IS CATHOLIC TO HIS/HER DYING DAY EVEN IF WHEN ALIVE HE/SHE 'LEAVES' THE CHURCH. SOME OF THESE CATHOLICS ARE QUISLINGS WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDENTITYCRISIS. WHEN A CATHOLIC LASS CALLED RITA CHANGES HER NAME TO SITA, SHE BECOMES CONFUSED ABOUT HER RELIGIOUS STATUS. ALSO, IT IS FOLLY TO CHANGE ONE'S NAME IN ORDER TO GAIN FAVOUR WITH SO-CALLED PROGRESSIVE MATERIALISTS WHO WORSHIP MAMMON. MARTINHO de SOUZA 14 Chuculba Crescent Giralang ACT 2617 AUSTRALIA Phone # + 02 6241 4440