Jesus Christ’s life was a continuous revolt against the corrupt political & religious leaders during his time. Today which catholic clergy or protestant pastors are speaking out against corruption. Most of the catholic/protestant clergy are neck deep in corruption especially misuse of church funds and the illegal sale of vacant church properties so obviously they cannot speak out against corruption. In western countries even churches are being sold and in the place of church now mosques, temples, gurudwaras, yoga-ashrams, hotels, dancebars, discos, restaurants, etc etc etc are being built.
According to Christian belief, a child is born tainted with the sin that passed on to him from the great sin of Adam and Eve. At Baptism, the child is relieved of this sin and he becomes a child of God and a member of the church……..But what if the baptism mass is performed by a corrupt catholic priest or a corrupt protestant pastor. Like all Western countries Christianity is also dying in Italy. The Vatican does not have any strategy to revive Christianity/Catholicism in its own backyard but the Vatican has a strategy of converting more non-catholics in India to Catholicism through the catholic church/clergy/missionaries in India which obviously offends the right wing hindu groups. Indian news media has never shown Sonia Gandhi attending a church service in Delhi or anywhere in India neither the media has shown Sonia Gandhi celebrating Christmas or Easter at her residence BUT the Indian news media has innumerable times shown Sonia Gandhi attending various Hindu religious functions……..it appears that Sonia Gandhi has abandoned Catholicism & joined Hinduism…….ofcourse it is no ones business whether she is a catholic or non-catholic…….but Seven years back when UPA had won more seats than the NDA and there was news that Sonia Gandhi would become Prime Minister the Right Wing Hindu Groups proliferated false propaganda that if she becomes prime minister then Christians in India will get high posts in Government depts. and Hindus will be sidelined…….Sonia Gandhi and her congress party is only interested in the votes of the minorities but when it comes to providing a 10% job quota in Central/State govt. depts. for minorities the congress diverts the matter into the courts and the courts as usual reject religious quotas since the constitution only permits caste quotas…..so the muslims & christians are left with no option but to dig into their castes in order to get job quotas under the obc/sc/st category…..and since islam & christianity does not permit caste system hence it is difficult for muslims & christians to get caste certificates. Churches are over-promising, and under-delivering. They promise happiness, contentment, joy, etc. but deliver tedium, scorn, lame doctrines, foolish debates, and more…… Too many churches are too controlling, some are too money-driven. Some are just too darn big, some are too darn small…..More and more, people feel that churches do not fit their real needs. Some churches offer great emotional experiences, some offer great teaching, some offer social opportunities, but few really offer 'community' any more…….Christians & Christianity can only prosper if the Church becomes community oriented…..Serving the community of members should be the focus of the Church- who has what needs? How can we help? Jobs, babysitting, parts for a broken car, pet care advice- all would be fair game…….Change the financial structure- Put the money to service the parish community……Use vacant church properties for setting up community centres – parish halls – graveyards - gardens…….Have the community share the duties- rotate teaching assignments, different groups running the service different weeks……Spend as little time sitting and listening to boring sermons of the clergy. Spend more time cleaning your villages, taking care of the sick and needy, and taking care of each other……and install statues of Jesus Christ & Mother Mary in all the entry & exit points of your villages. All Catholics in Bombay should agitate to change the name of the Bandra station to Mount Mary Station. If other communities are changing names of stations, bridges, roads in honour of their gods & leaders why shouldn’t catholics also change names. Money for paying salaries, pensions, hra, rations, da, ta, pf, insurance, etc of armed forces, police forces, government servants, bureaucrats, diplomats, ambassadors, governors, primeministers, presidents, chiefministers, mps, mlas, corporators, etc etc etc……Money for purchasing fighter jets, ships, missiles, bombs, guns, police equipments, etc etc etc……..Instead of charging various taxes and frequently increasing price of diesel, petrol, gas to pay salaries, pensions, etc..….why cant the govt. simply print more currency notes and pay salaries, pensions, etc etc etc…….the govt. will say that printing more currency notes will increase inflation…..but even without printing more currency notes why is the inflation increasing every year ? Dawood has invested a lot of wealth accumulated from Bombay into the Stock exchanges, construction industry, hotels, etc in Pakistan which everybody knows. It is not just India’s or Maharashtra’s economy which is dependent on the tax revenues from Bombay even the Pakistan economy has benefitted from Bombay AND its time Pakistan Army & ISI removed Bombay from their terror radar……Why kill the Hen that lays the Golden eggs……..Sure Indian Muslims have been deeply hurt by the Gujarat 2002 riots and are taking revenge for what happened in the past and Pakistan Muslims are deeply hurt of not getting Kashmir but why target Bombay for what happened in Gujarat & Kashmir. Here in Bombay anyone from any part of India can come encroach land setup shanties become vote banks get ration cards get voting rights get free housing get free water connections AND the political parties that control Maharashtra Govt. & BMC will also ensure the shanties & slums get legal protection and are regularized…….The Shiv Sena started the free housing scheme Slum Rehabilitation Scheme believing that the slum dwellers of bombay would become the shiv senas permanent vote banks. But nothing is permamnent in politics. The slum dwellers of bombay have now become the vote banks of Congress Party……One ex-chiefminister of Congress in one public meeting in chembur went on to say that ‘Slum Dwellers are our Gods’. No wonder every politician worth his salt is seen prostrating before slum dwellers prior to elections. What better could be expected from our politicians when they are out to exploit the weaknesses of the migrants and illegal slum dwellers and convert it into the currency needed to come back to power – votes. If the UPA govt. clears the file for a statehood for Telangana then what about statehood for Vidharbha, Konkan, etc etc etc. JRD TATA wrote a letter to Prime Minister Jawarhlal Nehra warning that the rapid rise in India’s population will result in various social problems…….. Jawarhlal Nehru shot back a letter to JRD saying that Population is the Strength of India. Due to OVERPOPULATION now India is plagued with unemployment problems, poverty, lack of peace, lack of education, lack of jobs or other employment, lack of hygiene, lack of sanitation medicines and health care, lack of transport, food shortage, water shortage, land shortage, growth of slums, anger, fights, beating, shouting, quarrels, crying, breaking of things, arson, rioting, communal disharmony, forced begging, forced labor, prostitution, committing variety of crimes, various nefarious activities like smuggling, settling personal feuds or in creating trouble during elections, mob mentality and damage and burning of public and private property, etc etc etc…………AND rampant female foeticide/infanticide has resulted in a bigger social problems………Government is not serious in controlling population & female foeticide/infanticide…….so expect more & more social problems in the months & years to come………..Governments also don’t have any serious policy to improve infrastructure, industries, job industries in backward districts so expect more & more people from backward districts to migrate into urban cities creating more problems on the overburdened infrastructure in cities………Politicians & Political parties controlling governments are pre-occupied with various scams, builders lobby, land acquisition lobby, mining lobby, etc and they don’t have much interest in solving social problems. In 2006 when Prime Minister Manmohan singh visited bombay he gave a lecture of transforming bombay to shanghai and he gave the green signal for the metro project in bombay……In 2008 the first 11 Kilometers metro line project began and it is now not even 75% complete…….why this delay……...because the people who control the politics & administration of bombay are more interested in serving the interests of builders lobby and not bothered about fast tracking projects related to public utilities, public transport, water projects, etc etc etc.........what is even more shameful is that the people who dominate the politics & administration of bombay are passing on the last few bits of openspaces, gardens, playgrounds, saltpanlands, mangroves, etc into the control of the builders lobby......an ecological & environmental disaster is waiting to happen in bombay. With all the agricultural lands of the catholic natives or eastindians ( www.bombayland.blogspot.com ) of Bombay being eaten up by the British govt., Indian govt, Maharashtra govt, BMC, Collectorsoffice, MHada, MMrda, Slumlords, Politicalgroups, Airportauthorities, Railways, RightwingHindugroups, Landmafia the EastIndians ( www.east-indians.com ) were left with only their Old Portuguese type houses in their 189 Gaothans/Villages in Bombay……DUE TO ALCOHOLISM, INFIGHTING, UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY MOST EASTINDIANS WERE NOT IN A POSITION TO MAINTAIN THEIR OLD DILAPIDATED HOUSES……so the only option left was to give the house to builders for redevelopment……only those eastindians who had bigger houses with bigger compounds benefited because the builders could built 4 or 6 floors building and gave two or three or four flats and lots of money……but a vast majority of eastindians had smaller houses with no compound so small time builders could only built Ground + 1 structures and gave the ground floor along with some small amount and the builder sold the first floor to his clients……these new ground + 1 structures have monsoonal problems – leakages problems – paper thin walls…….and the eastindians who gave their property for this ground + 1 redevelopment are now suffering….because not only they have to incur every year repairing charges but also have to pay more property tax……..Go in any EastIndian village in bombay and you will find only around 25% are eastindians the rest 75% are from other religions, castes, states. A few eastindians did tried to get economic benefits to the eastindian community by agitating for the OBC status but since EastIndian is not a caste so now there is a problem in getting caste certificates. Some eastindians have also setup Mobai Gaothan Panchayat to take up the problems faced by the gaothan residents with the BMC & Maharashtra govt…….now again like the OBC caste certificate problem this panchayat which has Mobai in its name will have to face problems since there did not exist any city by the name Mobai neither any temple by the name Mobaidevi…..hence questions will arise as to the logic behind the name Mobai……..Most EastIndians in Bombay are comfortable with the name Bombay and not Mobai & Mumbai…….those eastindians who came up with the idea of giving the panchayat the name Mobai did not do proper homework…..they should have sticked to Bombay Gaothan Panchayat. There is Bombay Parsi Panchayat – Bombay Times – Bombay Dyeing – Bombay Realty – Bombay Scottish School – Bombay Cambridge School – Bombay Chambers of Commerce – etc etc etc so why can’t there be a Bombay Gaothan Panchayat. Portuguese gave the seven islands the name Bombahia which was anglicized to Bombay by the British……….Neither any city by the name Mumbai existed before the Portuguese arrived neither the kolis had agitated to change the name of Bombay to Mumbai……the kolis are preoccupied with catching & selling fish & drinking alcohol……...it was the marathi migrants who changed the citys name……. The Marathi migrants in Bombay got what they wanted. They got all jobs in BMC, Police, Collectorsoffice, citysurveyoffice, rationoffice, talatisoffice, tehsildarsoffice, bestundertaking, town planning dept, urban development dept., mhadaoffices, mmrdaoffices, etc etc etc in Bombay AND 70% of all jobs in the central/state/public sector undertakings in bombay AND 50% of all jobs in private sector in Bombay……………THE MARATHI MIGRANTS also achieved their goals of changing the name of the city, museums, landmarks, streets, bridges from British & Parsi given names to Marathi names………..THE MARATHI migrants also succeeded in changing all records in BMC, Police, Collectorsoffice, rationoffice, citysurveyoffice, etc from English language to Marathi lanauge…….The Maharashtra govt. does nothing to improve the infrastructure, industry, job opportunities in the backward & rural districts in Konkan – Marathwada – WesternMaharashtra - Khandesh – Vidharbha so the only option left with the marathi people in those backward & rural districts is to migrate into bombay for jobs. Jorge Monteiro jorgepmtrgmailcom Bombay.
