<<From: "Santosh Helekar" <[email protected]>
What has been discussed is that all religions cannot be equally good.
The Constitution of India (art.25) announces equality of religions
before >the law. What Justice Gulab Gupte has said about the equality
of religions before the law, hence no discrimination on the basis of
religion, is >correct. The explanation given in terms of
"God-realization" is his personal opinion, it is not judicially held
and therefore, it is not part and parcel >of Law.
Fr. Ivo is misrepresenting Justice Gulab Gupte. Here is Justice
Gupte's quote again.
"Art. 25 of the Constitutional creed is the bed-rock of secularism and
is based on the belief that all religions are equally good
and efficacious pathways to perfection of God-realization."
.....Justice Gulab Gupte
***What is the meaning of "God-realization"? The statement of Justice
Gupte is legal, not theological. Therefore, he cannot speak of "all
religions are equally good". The Father of the Constitution,
Dr.B.R.Ambedkar, would have waked up from the grave if he had heard this
wrong interpretation. Dr.Ambedkar left Hindu religion and joined
Buddhist religion precisely because they were not equally good. Let
Santosh not repeat the blunder. Let him be critical as he is with all
other statements, mostly wrongly.
Justice Gupte has cited case after case as to how the supreme court
has interpreted the constitution in this matter, upholding the tacit
belief that "all religions are equally good".
**The reason given is his opinion. Certainly it is not acceptable to
those who wrote the Indian Constitution.
Please read Justice Gupte's entire article at the following link:
http://www.indiankanoon.org/cached/1736032/
**I do not need to read it again. The context is that of the empowerment
of women. The statement is legal, not theological. It is ultra vires, if
it is pressed in that direction.
Fr. Ivo has no knowledge of the Indian constitution, Indian law, and
supreme court precedents and interpretations of the Indian
constitution.
**Neither Santosh has the required knowledge to interpret the texts of
legal character, not even other texts in english. I may have dealt with
such texts more than Santosh. He has misinterpreted the texts, the most
notorious interpretation being that of Cardinal Cormack. He should not be
arrogant, accept the blunder with humility. A scientist should be humble
and not try to humiliate those who cannot agree with him on humpteen
issues. I stand by what I have said. If that is the interpretation given
by Justice Gupte as being official, then it is wrong. Even Dr.Ambedkar
would have agreed with me.
<<He is only a Catholic priest with knowledge of Christian theology.
Please do not give any credence to his false understanding
of Justice Gupte's quote in simple English.
**Please, be not misled by the neuroscientist Santosh. I have already
explained enough.
I stand by what I have written. A Catholic priest is able to understand
better than Santosh.
It is his tactics to malign the writers who do not agree with him. Even in
the scientific realm
I am not standing by him on several issues. He stated that a 7th std.
student knows more science
than a Catholic priest who has studied Science at the College level... Even
in scientific conclusions
the reader should be careful while reading Santosh. He will never tackle
the issues, but just try to put off
the person. This is his cunning methodology...
Regards.
Fr.Ivo
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No offense meant. But let the chips fall where they may.
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