From: "Santosh Helekar" <[email protected]>
--- On Wed, 8/12/09, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न
<[email protected]> wrote:
Is there any need to convince someone that the views they
hold are "homophobic parochial religious beliefs and personal
prejudices"?
I am surprised that such a basic rhetorical question is asked after so many
years of writing in the public domain.
It should be obvious to anybody, let alone journalists, that there is a need
to convince the rest of the people, including innocent children who might be
influenced by these homophobic parochial religious beliefs and personal
prejudices that they are being subjected to false propaganda. It is always
important to expose misinformation of any kind, and provide accurate
information from authentic sources. Otherwise, there is nothing to stop the
general public from falling prey to parochial false beliefs and prejudices,
as is true with casteism, astrology and miracle-mongering in India.
Now as for the purveyors of biased false information themselves are
concerned, I for one do not care what they believe in the privacy of their
minds.
***I do agree wholeheartedly with Dr.Santosh that we should not fall prey to
casteism, superstition, quackery. We have to enlighten the minds of children
about what is the scientific value of astrology without falling prey to the
"scientific manipulations" and "scientific quackery".... We have also to
teach why we Christians do accept the reality of miracles. It would be
unscientific for us to say that there are no miracles in the light of
Science. When we Christians speak of the truths of our faith (Trinity,
Resurrection of Jesus, Assumption of Mary, Eucharistic Real Presence of the
Risen Lord, Life after Death), we have to give them the grounding of our
tenets of faith ("dogmas of faith"). It would be unscientific to deny them
in the name of Science... We should write for the public domain. It is our
human right....
Regards.
Fr.Ivo
