--- On Sat, 3/21/09, Mario Goveia <mgov...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Why wasn't this posted by one of the vaunted defenders in > India of everything Christian.? Did Marshall not see > this?? Where is Fr. Ivo?? Where is Jason > Keith?? Don't any of our Indian Goans read the Times of > India?? I'd like to know what they have to say for > themselves.
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:53:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Carvalho <elisabeth_...@yahoo.com> I'm not quite sure why Jason Keith has suddenly come in for a lot of abuse lately on Goanet. If I can't defend Christianity then at least let me defend Jason Keith. I can't recall him ever being a defender of anything that ails the Catholic Church and I assure you Goveia, I know him a little better than you know him. Mario responds: To see why Jason Keith came in for opprobrium in graphic detail see the following post http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-March/175458.html which you seem to have missed or failed to understand. Since you apparently know Jason Keith so well, instead of making snide comments, why don't you defend his column and the "smackdown" by his critic, if you dare? No one said you can't defend Christianity. What I said was that your pretense of defending Christianity was uncharacteristic since you have worked quite hard at making clear to everyone on Goanet that you are an agnostic. What you were actually doing was attacking Dr. Barad, oblivious to the contents of his post, just as you were oblivious to why Jason Keith was being dressed down. Having said that, what you were implicitly defending when you attacked Dr. Barad, was not Christianity but an evil, un-Christian practice by some Catholic priests who have been found - in investigations by the Catholic Church, not some Hindutva group - to be abusing and oppressing Catholic nuns, while a reprehensible Catholic Cardinal was content to do NOTHING until it occurred to him to mention it in his memoirs. Since you seem to be having a hard time grasping what is going on on Goanet, in my post I was wondering why Jason Keith, in addition to Marshall and Padre Ivo, were not the ones who were outraged enough by the contents of the report in the Times of India to have brought it to our attention and led the charge against this abominable situation. If that is an attack on him, he richly deserves it. To see what a REAL attack on him looks like, please see the link in my first paragraph.
