Re: [Goanet] "Religion Not the Crying Need of India" to Santosh Helekar

2008-01-24 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
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Re: [Goanet] "Religion Not the Crying Need of India" to Santosh Helekar

2008-01-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
Quite predictably, my post elicited another bout of religious chauvinism on Goanet. It is unfortunate that this form of prejudice is still so rampant among educated people in secular countries. Swami Vivekananda was not a chauvinist. He taught that all religions and belief systems were of equal v

[Goanet] "Religion Not the Crying Need of India" to Santosh Helekar

2008-01-22 Thread Edward Desilva
"Brethren of America, you erect churches all through India, but the crying evil in the East is not religion. They have religion enough, but it is bread that the suffering millions of burning India cry out for with parched throats. What they want is bread, but they are given a stone. It is an insult