--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ***Well done, Dr.Gilbert Lawrence. Our duty is to enlighten
> those who are in
> error.
> If Da Vinci Code is a fiction, let people know why it is a
> fiction and not
> history.
> Being a scientist and oncologist, you have proved your
> knowledge of
> Christianity.
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Forgive me for being in a really vile mood this morning but I've just read that
10 more churches have been burnt in India. Now, somehow this bears a striking
resemblance to Nero. While Christians in India are burning, you and Gilbert
Lawrence are writing about Dan Brown, DA Vince Code and miracles in some
obscure place in Europe. I cannot fathom the minds of religious people, but
their priorities seem a bit skewed to me.
Now forgive me again for being even more impertinent, but being a "scientist
and an oncologist" does not qualify Gilbert to have any more "knowledge of
Christianity", than that raving, lunatic lady I met on the number 22 bus, who
kept telling me that Christ was going to redeem me. Having felt sorry for her
carrying a huge bag, I offered her a seat on the bus. Had I known that it was
Bibles she was carrying in that big bag of hers, I would have kept my seat and
my sanity for the rest of that bus journey.
The truth is, Gilbert, that lady and everyone else who professes to have
"knowledge" of anything religious are all shooting in the dark. For the record,
Gilbert's knowledge about the historicity of Christianity is zero, zilch, zip.
The most pretentious thing religious men of all hues, colours, caste and creed,
do is pretend they have some hot-line to the Divine. From this position of
assumed knowledge, they then want to police and pile everyone else with moral
platitudes.
It's too much to hear about miracles and being saved, when our people are being
burned and raped. So, please not today.
selma
