AND IN GOEM OUR CHURCH ……………. I blame Constantine. He fundamentally changed the church from the creation of Christ to the caretaker of an empire.
Christianity was never meant to be the religion of the rich and the powerful. Its philosophy is not of this world. Its teachings hark time and again to the renunciation of the material and the seeking of the kingdom of our heavenly FATHER. The New Testament has always scared me. It is just impossible to meet all its demands. The rich man and the eye of the needle; trust thy heavenly father like the birds of the sky; if you have more then one shirt …. Tough demands. Sybaritic savants amongst Christians have tried to compromise and claim that the teachings of their founder are but parables to be interpreted according to times. This attitude has propelled the church into materialism of such magnitude that it had at one stage surpassed the Roman Empire it replaced in its earthly magnificence. Even today the wealth that the church possesses makes a mockery of its founder’s admonitions. >From the days of my youth I have always looked askance at the blatant nexus >between my church and the landed and loaded gentry. I could never understand >why my Patriarch had to have a Mercedes limousine while Catholic Goemcars >counted amongst themselves people who could not afford the next decent meal. How could a faith that was founded on the premise that the lowlier the social status the closer to salvation one was have turned into a spectacle of wealth and pedigree? I am not comfortable questioning the current leadership of the church in Goem. The present Patriarch is, I know, a man of GOD. A man of humility and holiness. He has to take urgent and dramatic steps to return the church to its roots. Not the roots of our erstwhile colonial masters but to the basics of ancient Christianity. A religion where the masters were its servants and the mighty of this world were the last in the queue for heaven. The Patriarch of the East Indies has a wonderful opportunity to return Christ to our Christianity. He has to start by making a heartfelt appeal for forgiveness. He must appeal to GOD and Goemcars with a humility, which I know is not alien to him, for the injustices inflicted over the centuries. This will be the first step in re-establishing the kingdom of GOD on Earth and trust amongst men. The history of the Church in Goem has followed a pattern that has unfortunately been the hallmark of the Roman Catholic Church almost universally. Its nexus with the rich and the powerful down the centuries, has left a bitter taste in the mouth. In Goem this has been compounded by a form of racism that though not violently imposed is all the same a terrible blot on our consciences and our Church. I had always wondered why the Church in Goem has never produced a saint. I believe there are two main reasons. The first is the universally known fact that Goemcars did not believe in the equality of man. Rome was aware of this and therefore unwilling to acknowledge any candidate put forward by a body that pandered more to pedigree than piety. The second is the racism that powers in far of Rome share. How else can you explain such a predominance of European saints when an overwhelming majority of Catholics are not from the continent? The only way the church in Goem can reclaim any credibility is for it to confess its Christianity with vigour and zeal and weed out with an angry enthusiasm those who have turned the houses of our heavenly FATHER into dens of iniquity. Its salvation will only come with a confession. Followed by contrition. Than a fulsome confirmation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of GOD. Sincerely Xanno Moidecar Xanno Moidecar
