Not long ago, a poster from Holland wrote to me privately requesting information on the inquisition in Goa. I asked the poster if she had researched the atrocities of the Dutch in its colonies; of which we only know only a little, when we read about Fr. Joseph Vaz in Ceylon. She declined to continue the dialog. I guess this is the modern day version of the Dutch-Portuguese animosity, which still is alive.
It is my understanding that the Dutch stole the science behind ship building from the Portuguese. Perhaps someone can shed light who / why on the Portuguese traitor who passed on those ship designs to the North Europeans. I am also most intrigued by the veneration given to Dellon's writings. Yet if Dr. Charles Dellon TODAY committed the same offense in USA, he would permanently loose his medical license (for having a sexual relation with his patient), and be literally sued for all he is worth. Every year tens-of-thousand of doctors are sued in the USA (for thousands to a million + dollars) and more than a thousand physicians loose their medical license for professional misconduct. http://jrsm.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/full/97/5/211 http://www.health.state.ny.us/publications/1445/ Regards, GL ------------------- Frederick [FN] Noronha I made these comments particularly in the case of Buchanan, Dellon and Priolkar. Even for someone not defensive about the record of Christianity or the Catholic Church, the role of these much-cited authors on the Inquisition is intriguing to say the least. At the same time, much of our understanding of the Inquisition, I would argue, is based on the attitudes (far from neutral or un-interested) of the Protestant world, Jews, the North European rivals of (then powerful) South European colonialism, and, more latterly, the Hindutva world view. Yet, one needs to keep in mind the logic of "who said what and why".
