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* * * 2006 ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET - GOA * * *
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WHERE: Foodland Cafe - Miramar Residency - Miramar, Goa
WHEN: December 21, 2006 @ 4:00pm
More info:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-December/051747.html
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--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Secularism rejects religious chauvinism of all
> types. In a secular democracy Abrahamic religions
> are no better than the Hindu culture of our
> ancestors nor the Muslim cultural practices that
> evolved in the Middle East. All religious and non-
> religious beliefs are equally good or bad.
>
Mario responds:
>
These are just some facts. Interpret them as you
wish:
>
a) The topic is secularism on Goanet, not some country
that is a secular democracy.
>
b) I did not say anything about Abrahamic religions
being superior to Hinduism or any other religion
within the framework of a secular democracy.
>
b) The Goan caste system comes from our Hindu roots.
>
c) The caste system is a diabolical and abhorrent
system of institutionalized discrimination.
>
d) The Muslim religion considers women and men to be
equals. However, by their actions and strictures if
not by their words, women are treated as subservient
to men within the Muslim culture that has evolved over
hundreds of years in the middle-east.
>
