No catholic can and has ever become stronger after reading criticism on the net . Its hope against hope. Such issues are to be handled very carefully on the net. No doubt religious is dogmatic belief and a faith which inspires but when you splash muck on religion one may not want to be associated with such a belief or attach oneself to catholicism due to what one has read on the net, irrespective of its fool proof validity.
Faith is based on what you read not what you imagine, if we have been taught that bible has to be read everyday as it educates us , when going to church a priest preaches about god's teachings, we read a lot of religious literature and we form an opinion, independent opinion or due to the information that surrounds us then we do develop strong faith because such information was conveyed to us by the institution called Church.I may have the strongest faith 'am a human being with what i read on the net be it good or bad i may form a second opinion and think hundred times now. Everything is to be criticised but let it be constructive, if you imagine most of the articles pertain to catholic religion why? is it because most of the people on the goanet are catholics? Let the net be a source of good information, criticism pertaining to catholic religion or for that matter does not provide any positive information, on the contrary it makes matter worse. I fully agree with PAT DE SOUZA.Goanet should impose limits on religious bashings. Salus correia starts his note "SUNIL/AVERTANO" WHOEVER YOU REALLY ARE, didn't your folks teach you how to address people. No one on the net is whoever Mr. salus its very important you show respect towards each other while addressing. Indeed there are many people who are interested in knowing about religion , why not tell us something about JIHAD(ISLAM), TELL US ABOUT HINDU,WHO ARE THE PEOPLE WHO CREATED CHAOS IN FONTAINHAS IN REGARD TO THE PORTUGUESE NAMES?TELL US ABOUT ZOROASTRISM, ISMAILIS,SHIAS, SUNIS,(AGHA KHAN'S)DIVORCE WITH HIS WIFE,AND THE RELIGIONS ARE TOO MANY LET'S TAKE A TOPIC EVERYDAY ON EACH AND EVERY RELIGION. Kindly educate all the netter on every religion. Salus i am not against your writing but you think it the otherway, religion has always created chaos be it Ayodhya or ramjanmabhoomi/be it Muslim jihad v/s Americans, be it RSS role in Goa or the elsewhere, the hatred between hindus and muslims. Discuss religion freely and wholeheartedly but with limits as everything has a limit. And its time Goanet thinks about it seriously . lopes
