2009/6/20 Gilbert Lawrence <gilbert2...@yahoo.com> > By selecting the title as "Trinity", likely Fred > was constrained to refer to only three names > often quoted by the Goa-Inquisition bashers. > However if one surfs the web for the hate-Goa > (specially hate-Christian) sites, one > encounters several other names excluded > from "The Inquisition trinity"....
I do not believe that what one could call the Black Legend about the Inquisition in Goa should be portrayed as "hate-Goa" or "hate-Christian". This doesn't do justice to the debate, and the wider issues involved. As I see it, this centuries-old debate is simply inaccurate, exaggerated and politically-motivated. As was the case with the Black Legend created about Spain by the Dutch, for instance. What is probably also true is that a number of well-intentioned, waiting-to-make-amends individuals might have also bought into this depicition of the Inquisition, specially at times when it was not possible to get counter-views that challenge such a portrayal. I'm more concerned about its political deployment in current times, specially since the 1960s particularly and Priolkar's work, because this is something which markedly affects our understanding of Goa and equations here. FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org "If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground." - Ralph Waldo Emerson