--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excellent! "Anyone" has finally conceded that the > moral compasses of disorganized religions can be > better than those of organized ones. So I have > nothing more to say in response. > Mario responds: > Since he is responding to my posts I guess I am the one that Santosh is sarcastically calling "Anyone", because he has little else to say that makes any sense. BTW, while the possibility exists that the odd atheist may have a moral compass that is better than one proposed by a religion, the chances are pretty slim, and certainly inconsistent and changeable based on situational convenience. > Santosh writes: > > Since "anyone" has started becoming emotional about > this matter, and is now appealing for sympathy from > any Goanetter who might have accidentally read one > of his posts, let me wrap this one up as well. > Mario responds: > Anyone who reads what I written about St. FX would know that this is simply false. When Santosh runs out of intellectual steam, the misrepresentations begin. > Santosh writes: > > When actually asked to produce evidence ruling out > artificial, semi-natural or natural preservation of > SFX remains, "anyone" could neither produce nor > reproduce anything. > Mario responds: > It is Santosh who has made snide, sly and cynical allegations, totally unsupported by any evidence, that St. FX's body was artificially preserved, so it is up to him to show some rational proof that may support his allegations. I have simply reported the facts as we know them. If there is no scientific evidence that St. FX's remains were artificially preserved, the claim of a miracle remains untouched by mere cynicism. > Santosh writes: > > The best he could do is mutter that SFX was not > wrapped from head to toe like an Egyptian mummy from > the Dynastic period. It is quite clear that "anyone" > has no rational basis to conclude that a > supernatural, > miraculous phenomenon has taken place. > Mario responds: > Reiterations of previous statements are obviously inevitable in responding to repetitions of bogus allegations ad nauseum. I cannot make up fresh rebuttals to the same tired old allegations. > I'm not sure how one can "mutter" in writing, but the fact is that there is no evidence that Santosh or any of his cynical band of atheist evangelists and religious obfuscators on Goanet can show that St. FX's remains were artificially preserved in any way, and no rational basis for their insinuations other than transparent cynicism. > All they can raise are puerile possibilities from speculative reports written decades after the event. Yet the challenge to lead a modern forensic examination of the remains was not taken up, obviously because of the realization that it may fail, and that it would have minimal effect on the religion they seek to denigrate. > Better to raise bogus insinuations that may influence the weak-minded than to respond to such a challenge, before crawling back under their metaphorical rocks to await the next opportunity to denigrate religion. >
