I recently took issue with CSF, concerning a post where links of Facebook pages which presumably hurt sentiments as in F*** X, or Y or Z (BVM, Jesus, Mohammad (PBUH), etc). My point was that there was no need to list the urls. It also reminded me of pastors suggesting to people to take a walk through red-light districts, or peek into sex stores. So they can really be anointed by the proof in the pudding?! I personally believe it was crass to first of all list the urls. Why? So already weak-minded and weak-willed Christians have even more reason to feel shattered.
On another note it is pathetic when someone puts you on a list without asking, or for that matter designs an email that can only help people into taking on a siege mentality. In any case I was not taken off the list and the response I receive were not addressed in a round about way. That people wanted this issue taken up with Facebook, and stuff like that. Anyway, moving on-- beyond a point I can control only so many demons outside of myself. But the following is something that caught my attention. See my comments below, ans they have nothing to do with CSF. +++++++++++++++++ *Goa Graves Vandalized* Unidentified people have vandalized two graves in a Catholic cemetery at Goa Velha, prompting the police to register a case of hurting religious feelings. Father Raul Colaco, parish priest of St Andrew’s church at Goa Velha, complained police that someone had dug up two graves in the cemetery and that a cross had been removed. Police suspect that the incident happened at night. A person working to clean the found the place intact when he left in the evening, but found the graves dug up in the morning. The graves were of people buried buried on June 27 and June 29. Police suspect thieves dug them up thinking that the dead would be adorned with gold and jewellery. It is a custom when bodies are taken for funeral rites, the gold worn by them is not removed. “However, before burying, the ornaments are removed,” police said. “We have filed an FIR for hurting religious sentiments. Investigations are in progress,” a police official said. ++++++++++++++++++++++ The following FIR should not have been about hurting religious feelings. PERIOD. Considering that people make pathetic correlations with any given information, this FIR does not bode well emotionally. It will create hatred on the part of Christians. Its is baseless to be emphatic, as in the first part of what that the police official says. venantius j pinto
