--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mario > As often, you seem to miss the point being made. I > asked if, because Gilbert had not personally found > the evidence about Hindu temples, he was happy to > accept that there was no such destruction? > Mario responds: > It would help if you avoided wild claims about "arrogant displacement" without having any credible evidence, which you have admitted you do not have, and then resort to absurd rhetorical questions when challenged. > It is entirely possible that this may have happened during Goa's deplorable Christian-fascist period, a.k.a. the Inquisition. However, it may also not have. A temple may have been demolished without a church being built in it's place. > Regardless of how you may want to spin it now, here is what you actually said to Gilbert, "However, my understanding is that in Goa, some Hindu temples were demolished and Catholic churches were built in their place in a spirit of arrogant displacement. Have I got this entirely wrong according to you? Are you saying that it is not acceptable to say that Catholic churches were built following Portuguese destruction of Hindu temples as you have not found firm historical evidence for such a claim? I regret I do not have the hard evidence which would be appropriate as I have been busy doing other things!" > Of course it is not acceptable to make such inflammatory claims of extreme religious intolerance without credible historical evidence. > Cornel writes: > > I have come across material in texts and I am sure > Gilbert must as well that, there were Hindu temples > destroyed for the construction of Catholic churches > in Goa. However, I have not done such research > myself and do not know how hard is the evidence > that I encountered. > > I hope you have now understood something quite > simple that I was saying. > Mario responds: > It's not quite that simple when making such an inflammatory allegation, especially when it comes from someone I believe is hostile to religion while trying to hide that fact. > The kind of evidence that is relevent here does not necessarily mean that you have to go and personally dig under a Church to see whether there was a Hindu temple there. Hard evidence includes credible findings by reputable archeologists and historians and reports or writings by credible people who may have personally witnessed such atrocities or interviewed someone who had. > An equivalent of The DaVinci Code would not qualify. So, it depends entirely on what texts you have been reading. >
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