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The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary
by
Rajan P. Parrikar
Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008
http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf
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Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 16:46:57 +0100 (BST)
From: CORNEL DACOSTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi Mario
Einstein was Jewish ethnically and like numbers of
Jews, an atheist. What's the difficulty in
understanding this simple point?
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Mario clarifies:
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Cornel,
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While I have understood this simple point, the
discussion was more nuanced, and was based on
religion, not ethnicity.
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I had kiddingly questioned whether Einstein still
believed there was no God, based on the unprovable
possibility that he may have been shocked to find
himself at the gates of a heavenly afterlife. While I
had rhetorically mentioned him coming face to face
with St. Peter, this mythical Christian gatekeeper to
heaven, who also came from an ethnic Jewish
background, was not the crux of my musing, the
possibility of a heavenly afterlife was, which I
speculated would shock an avowed atheist like Einstein
and show him he was not as clever as he thought he
was.
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By my scientific calculations, it won't be long before
we all know the correct answers to all these
possibilities. Until then all we can do is blow lots
and lots of speculative hot air on the subject since
everyone admits that the existence of God cannot be
proved, or disproved.
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