Re: [Goanet]Please respect opposing views

2005-07-06 Thread Peter D'Souza
Marlon, Please explain, with examples, where and how people have not been able to co-exist with Christian fundamentalists? Do you know of fundamentalist Christians who have been responsible for brutalities on the scale of the Taliban, or called for the execution and torture of Bible- or Christ-bas

Re: [Goanet]Please respect opposing views

2005-07-05 Thread Marlon Menezes
Fr. Ivo, You are trying to have your cake and eat it too! It is like saying that you sympathize with the terrorists, but dont actually endorse what they are doing. It just higlights my personal view that one cannot really negotiate or coexist with religious fundamentalists as they wish to annihila

Re: [Goanet]Please respect opposing views

2005-07-04 Thread Fr. Ivo Da C. Souza
From: Marlon Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Kevin, > > Here is a nice email I > received from one such person... > Marlon > > > From: "XXX XXX"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Marlon , > > Don't mess with Chriatianity , and least of all > Jesus who is God !! > > Consider this a Warning as well as Fr

Re: [Goanet]Please respect opposing views

2005-07-04 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Marlon Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, any tips from anyone on the best ways to > protect > myself from the impending lightning strike that is > about to hit my head :) Marlon, I am told the best protection is to wear an uninsulated metal cap with a spike in it. Mervyn3.0 _

Re: [Goanet]Please respect opposing views

2005-07-04 Thread Marlon Menezes
Kevin, Obviously, some of the fundamentalists on this list simply "do not get it". Here is a nice email I received from one such person. I have deleted his email to protect his identity. The threat was not from any one recently involved in the various debates on goanet. BTW, any tips from anyone

[Goanet]Please respect opposing views

2005-07-02 Thread Kevin Saldanha
Dear Joe Vaz and other believers on this list, Your right to believe in a God and follow the religion of your choice is as "hallowed" as my right NOT TO! GoaNet is a secular forum and opposing viewpoints can be made without resorting to personal invective. I was on Santosh's cc list but have