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Get your free subscription at: http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-sports-goanet.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >I would have a lot more respect for your righteous >indignation, had you also declared "ignorance and >bigotry" when a lot of muck was raked about >Christianity. Righteous Indignation?!? Far from it, just exposing a woeful lack of knowledge of many posters on matters relating to the Indian subcontinent and Goa in particular. You want to discuss Chrsitianity and its role in the sub-continent, try reading about what former Hitler-youth Ratzinger caused the Vatican to do to Tissa Balasuriya and Sebastian Kappen, both first rate indigenous theologians. Take a vote among your Goan friends to see how many have read articles by these two versus those who watch the charlatan Benny Hinn on Miraclenet, and then talk to me about hypocrisy. In your backyard of Verna, find out about Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues(founder of the Pilar order) and his association with the Jan Sangh, Advani and Vajpayee in particular. Are you aware that these priests specifically invited L.K. Advani to innaugurate their Engineering College in Verna? Why won't anyone come out and call them hypocrites. Is it because they have done more for higher education than any other organisation in Goa. You can then read how the Vatican has quite succesfully surpressed liberation theology in South America, in its desperate attempt to ensure the dominance of a small coterie of cardinals, mostly European. Then again its best to stick to matters that are your area of interest i.e. name calling and innane generalities rather than risk making a fool of yourself with specifics. Unlike you, I feel no obligation to support the hallucination of the Vatican being the saviour of oppressed third world pagans, just like most Hindus do not feel obliged to support the RSS as the guardian of their culture. Further, unlike you I refuse to defend the Inquisition, Colonialism, the Crusades or Paedophillia in the Church due to some delusional sense of loyalty to the Vatican instead of to the real teachings of Christ. Sunith Velho