Religionists
The religionist is a specialist in the after-life reward, said the wag from Ponda. Thus spoke Guru. After which, I started to think about dear Mother Theresa. Would she have worked as hard or worked at all if there was no after-life reward? She went all over the world asking for money to do God's work. She often received large amounts of money from crooks and unsavory characters and politicians who wanted to have their picture taken with her or to enhance their image and career. All this is well documented and easy to look up. I ask, was it right because it was for God's work? How many people suffered immeasurably at the hands of the crooks and criminals who gave tainted money which Mother Theresa accepted? I guess this question never crossed her mind, eh? Mother Theresa was a typical religionist. She supported the status quo. She decided that charity was much more important than the fight for justice. It was, no doubt, a safer decision and a good strategy as she also could score points in Heaven, at least that is what the Roman Catholic Church teaches - for good works done in this world, you will receive a reward in the next. So, what motivated her? Never forget, at the heart of the religionist is the after-life reward, says Guru! Business as usual, in the spiritual world, too? She received enormous publicity, mostly from the Western press, and a lot of respectability, eventually winning the Nobel Peace Prize! She was really a great social worker, as are thousands and thousands of social workers in Bengal who never did get the recognition they deserved - there can be only one media star. What fun! Christians like to think that they invented love, as Americans like to think they invented freedom. Did love not exist before Jesus Christ, and was there no freedom before the birth of the USA? What fun! Never forget, at the heart of the religionist is the after-life reward, says Guru! What is shocking are Mother Theresa's words. She said that she never saw the sick man or woman in her arms but Jesus Christ! Now, this is insanity, this is not love. Whatever it is she felt, ideological conditioning or whatever, it wasn't love! A loving and compassionate person would have seen the suffering man or woman and not Jesus Christ. By this logic, a Roman Catholic who is more loving and compassionate than Mother Theresa should be able to see Jesus Christ everywhere, including the Mandovi Bridge. I cannot accept this nonsense. If it is a different kind of madness from someone who does harm to someone else, I can accept it. But it is madness all the same! Here is a classic case of a psychologically divided person. Poor Mother Theresa or is it poor Saint Mother Theresa? There are numerous examples of Roman Catholic saints who have made all kinds of neurotic claims and statements all through history - psychologically divided people who were more in need of a doctor than sainthood. The Pope is the most famous religionist in the world. He is the head of a billion dollar organization known more commonly as the Roman Catholic Church, which is one of the leading landholders of the twenty-first century. They represent the status quo. He and his priests encourage charitable works while paying lip-service to the cause of justice. Whenever, however, it is a case of Roman Catholics not getting justice, then of course they raise hell. But what can we expect from a Church that will not allow its own Roman Catholic women to become priests, but is willing to spend millions and millions in hush-hush money to save homosexual priests who have abused underage boys? All this information, of course, is well documented and soon can be at your fingertips! Hypocrisy and more hypocrisy! How do priests of other religions control their believers? Would the three or four Hindus on Goanet care to comment on their religion? There are no Muslims, I guess. So, what we have on Goanet is the choice of looking at the vastness of existence only through the Roman Catholic window? What fun! I hope you are enjoying yourselves ... because I am! Every Sunday the religionist Pope and thousands and thousands of his priests all over the world claim the host and wine is the body and blood of Jesus Christ! This is fraud. Is it legal? Are Ralph Nader and his consumer activists aware of this? While it is true they don't charge for the show, itis still fraud, isn't it? Maybe it is a subliminal advertising technique? Oh, and they do pass the collection box around every Sunday, don't they? Is this trickery or simply a ritual no one in his right mind actually believes in, not even the priest? The priests use guilt and greed for the after-life. If fed a weekly dose from infancy it is not easy to escape this poison as it has entered into the deepest part of our being, and even though intellectually it may be possible to be expunged, the emotions run in one way and the intellect in another, and of course, the legs remain paralytic. But, greed is greed. And, if you agree with me, then the priests use the ultimate threat, everlasting hellfire. Best wishes, Joao Barros-Pereira aka the anti-Christ! Have a nice Sunday!