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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ After reading Claudius Buchanan's book entitled "Christian Researches In Asia", and the first of the letters compiled under "An Apology for Promoting christianity in India", which Frederick Noronha forwarded to Goanet in order to smear Anant Priolkar by osmosis, the following suspicions of mine have been thoroughly confirmed: 1. That Noronha has not read what he has forwarded, copied and pasted, written about and passed judgment on on Goanet regarding Buchanan and Priolkar. 2. He has relied on superficial perceptions, generalities and biases derived from such things as titles of books and political rhetoric, rather than what is inside the pages of those books or anything of substance. 3. Using the aforementioned tactics, Noronha has completely misled Goanetters and readers of his articles on this issue in Herald and Christian publications such as South Asia Religious News (Please see: http://www.sarnews.in/details.php?n=1112). I am particularly appalled by the latter because of the communal/religious slant given to this false propaganda against Priolkar, which has now been widely circulated on the internet. Please see: http://www.speroforum.com/a/19896/The-Inquisition-in-India-and-its-critics, for another similar deception. After reading Buchanan's book and letter, the understanding that I have achieved is exactly the opposite of the frivolous impression created by Noronha on Goanet and elsewhere. I want to substantiate this assertion of mine in great detail at a later time. But let me just state now that Buchanan's account of what he witnessed in the Holy Office of the inquisition in Goa is much more restrained, objective and clinical than I had ever imagined. I could not find anything in it that stretched my credibility, and any reason to believe that Buchanan was exercising his prejudice against the Portuguese or the Catholics. By contrast, his descriptions of Hinduism and Hindu rituals are horrifying. A devout Hindu would be outraged by them. Given the latter fact, my admiration and respect for Priolkar's objectivity has grown by leaps and bounds. Let me close by quoting from the very material (Buchanan's letters) that Noronha has forwarded in his latest fabricated indictment of Priolkar. It will give you a good idea of where Buchanan's sympathies lay, and perhaps, those of Noronha, as well. It will also reveal to you why I think that Noronha does not read what he forwards to Goanet. QUOTE There is a disposition prevalent at present to disparage the testimony of the Christian Missionaries. It is supposed by their adversaries that, if they can in any way impeach the credit of a promoter of Christianity, they gain somewhat in the present question. But the cause of Christianity will prevail. It will be found, that the profession of Christianity and a desire to promote it, are generally accompanied by a love of truth. The respectability of the Christian Missionary will increase in this nation, while the character and testimony of the supporters of Brahma will sink and be diminished. It is true, an ardent zeal for the diffusion of the blessings of religion will, in some cases, particularly in the view of impious scenes, excite indignation, and may produce too high a colouring in statement (which is exeeedingly reprehensible,) and narrators may make mistakes in description. But still the substance of the facts (which they think it necessary to communicate to their country in defence of the honour of Christianity) will remain. In like manner, a writer, animated by a zeal of a contrary character, may be able, by the power of high embellishment, by noticing indifferent circumstances and entirely suppressing others, to represent the idol Juggernaut as being merely one of "the gay and elegant deities of Greece and Rome;" but the substanee of the facts, as stated by others, will remain the same: it will still continue true, that Juggernaut is a fountain of vice and misery to millions of mankind; that the sanguinary and obscene character of the worship is in the highest degree revolting; and that it will be a must happy event when our Christian nation shall dissolve its connection with that polluted place. UNQUOTE .....Claudius Buchanan More later. Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 8/2/09, Frederick "FN" Noronha <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hard to believe that this is the same person so widely > quoted by Anant > Kakba Priolkar in his book on the Goa Inquisition: > > http://books.google.com/books?id=nI0NAAAAYAAJ&dq=an+apology+for+promoting+christianity+in+india&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=_EGp9ul0pI&sig=gBtY0le8ZsMUNyoPR1l_nHJHdU4&hl=en&ei=bi12SrDoLdeIkQWSwYSODA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false > > --
