------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10) Online Media Partner: http://www.GOANET.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well said Selma; It's time all sensible people put the likes of Bandare into place. This guy is nothing but a sly and provocative fascist supporter and is always full of bullshit! Nasci caldeira Melbourne, Down Under. --- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh dearie me, Bhandare is insulted over my religious > insensitivity, while all this time this sentiment > was > obviously not to be extended to Christians and > Muslim, > by Bhandare himself. That is fodder for another > post, > and Bhandare is not worth the band-with. > I don't care whether one is a Hindu, Muslim, > Presbyterian or vegetarian. I have as much belief in > Gods or Prophets as I have in life on Mars, the > latter > having a higher probability of being the truth. I > don't care whether one believes in Ram, Jesus or > Thor > the Thunder God, it's all the same to me. > What I do care about is the purgatory of absurdity > that India seems to be caught up in. If it's not > Muslims calling for the beheading of writers, or > Hindus discussing the merits of mythological bridges > then it's Christians anguished over Salman Khan's > art collection. Where does the nonsense stop? > I realise that religion is like poverty, probably > more insidious and that its eradication will take time.In > the meantime, the best that we can do is offer to be > tolerant of everyone's elses dungheap of irrational > beliefs if they are tolerant of ours. Which is fine > with me, but when private beliefs become public > national debates, then we are in trouble. India over > the last twenty years has steadily transformed > itself > into a land of lawlessness, where every absurdity > can > be protected under the broad banner of "religious > sentiment". > Don't fool yourself into thinking that India cannot > mudslide into a theocracy. Just ask Iranians how it > happened to them. And don't fool yourself into > thinking that theocracies are anything but sheer > hell > on earth. Just ask Iranian dissidents or homosexuals > for that matter. > Everytime we aid and abet a society which retards > itself using religion as an excuse then we become > partners in robbing our children of a free, strong, > secular India. I, atleast, am not going to be party > to it. > > selma Sick of deleting your inbox? Yahoo!7 Mail has free unlimited storage. http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/unlimitedstorage.html
