Dear child of god who has probably had an overdose of religion (btw, were you ever in a seminary?):
On 23 January 2011 08:46, Joao Barros-Pereira <joaobarrospere...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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! I like the way you put this. I would not complain if every Roman Catholic (and many non-Roman Catholics) saw the divine in the Mandovi bridge. Sitting at such distance, away in Japan, do you have a clue how that bridge shakes and sways everytime a six-wheeler truck crosses it? Happened to receive a call on my mobile the other day, and couldn't believe my cerebellum. It only seems to have gotten worse! Please, let us show our love for that bridge! Before it's too late. Secondly, I think your approach is definitely inferior to that of Mother Teresa's. She managed to psyche herself into caring for that beggar in Calcutta. So what if she used the image of Christ? I doubt rational you or me would ever be able to care for our fellowman thus, using whatever excuse. Having said that, I do agree that those who do not rock the boat, and support the system, would be treated as saints. It wouldn't be Archbishop Romero or, closer home, Tissa Balasuriya. > Church, which is one of the leading landholders of the twenty-first > century. But, in the 21st century, is land really such an important lever of power, as it once was? > 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? If you're looking out for frauds, how about that unchallenged global myth of the biggest overspenders in the world to convince everyone else that the greenback should continue to be the currency of exchange at the international level, even if its own domestic economy is broke? Or the belief that Switzerland is clean and green, while it stashes away the unquestioned funds of so many tinpot dictators who have effectively gone about finishing the planet... including some in our backyard? Aren't Ralph Nader and his consumer activists aware of this? FN
