Hi Elisabeth and Joe Disrespect is in the eye of the reader. It is not what that author meant, as we used to believe in the past. It's like discrimination, (race, sex or religion), it is how does the individual recipient / victim feels about it.
Some may be so accustomed to reading and writing anti-Catholic rhetoric, that it becomes their norm. And when one comes across such writings, they are so de-sensitized, that it may appear "no scintilla of evidence" that the posts "have been disrespectful of other religions". As I said previously, being anti-Catholic in thought and words is likely the mantra of the agnostics. Any learned and self-confident individual, making a bold statement, should have the courage and finess to apologize for any insensitivity / offenses. And if one or more netter objects to the type of adjectives, one needs to show sensitivity in expressing the opinions (not the facts). Goans have a cultural tendency of showing-off their "intellectual superiority" by bad-mouthing (with mirchi-masala / exaggerations) something or somebody. There are a few who love to make "sarkem goddxem zalam" of what they reproduce of the post they read. They have a problem even to copy what another is saying without twisting it (knowingly or unwittingly) to make it nonsense. On the issue of religion, I have a lot of American friends who do not follow religion. Yet I have never heard them bad-mouth religion or the Catholic Church, as I see from Goans on Goanet. I have the feeling this is the experience of others in US, Canada and the UK. Kind Regards, Aum tujo Goenkar bhau, GL ---------------- Joe Vaz wrote: There is tons of evidence of the blatant abuse. Only one has to visit the Goanet archives, to get a gist of how disrespectful this individual has historically been toward peoples religion and their religious beliefs. It is amazing how netters can be oblivious and allow that kind of abuse on the forum. "Elisabeth Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have not seen one scintilla of evidence that Santosh or Cornel have been >disrespectful of other religions ... _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
