*Faith Healing.* *Tue Nov 3 14:17:32 PST 2009* Of course, Alfred! We had a lot of respect for Sacrula. I was alwayspuzzled why our schoolboy colleagues from Mapusa, and the othervillages, failed to understand the man :-)Btw, there is a rare photo of the "Pope of All Religions" in, I think,one of Goanetter Joseph St Anne's books on Goa.
No, it would not be right to suggest that Albert is "another...preacher". I guess he's just a guy with his views, even if they mightnot tally with the aggressive non-belief we often see flaunted thesedays :- Joao observes: I agree. Faith healing is real, even atheists believein it! They may not believe in God but they may have faith in some cure or other! Some people may believe in Jesus, others in Mary, still others in the Ganges, and others in the house cobra. It works! That is why doctors sometimes prescribe placebos which work if we can convince the patient - the believer - to believe in it, whatever the disease and treatment. Diseases are not limited to the body alone but are body-mind. Tell the mind something (that is, believe in something or someone!) and the body will follow .... Maybe, nature cure is better and more accurate term than faith healing. But what's in a term, eh? Cheers! )http://www.alternet.org/belief/143674/are_the_"new_atheists"_as_bad_as_christian_fundamentalists?page=entireFN2009/11/4 Alfred de Tavares < alfredtavares at hotmail.com<http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org> >:>* In my tender old days...there used to be another celebrated nigh-ubiquitous* >* preacher, from dear Fred's neighbourhood, Sacru de Saligao, who went about,* >* garbed in a franciscan habit, preaching pretty apochrypal interpretations of the* >* divine word that would never merit even passing credence in the Vulgate of the* >* august R.C. Ch. far beyond and daunting than John's Revelations...* -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490Writing, editing, alt.publishing, photography, journalismBooks from Goa:http://tiny.cc/goabooks
