Re: [Goanet] "All religions cannot be equal"

2010-08-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
Sandeep, Which statement of mine on Goanet are you responding to? The post you think you are responding to was not allowed to appear on Goanet. I guess the moderators decided that Goanetters did not deserve to read my side of the argument. I am hoping this response of mine will not be blocked l

Re: [Goanet] All religions cannot be equal......

2010-08-23 Thread Ivo
From: "Mervyn Lobo" < All religions are equally unequal except when they unequally equal, although I have heard some religions are equally equal when they are not unequally unequal. Hope this helps and clarifies the matter. **I am sorry. this is riduculous. You are mocking at the structural di

[Goanet] "All religions cannot be equal"

2010-08-23 Thread Sandeep Heble
Santosh has misinterpreted the provisions of law and has drawn wrong conclusions. Nowhere in the Constitution of the land does it say that "All religions are equally good or equally bad". Religions have their own distinct features and characteristics and can therefore never be equal. From differe

Re: [Goanet] "All religions cannot be equal"

2010-08-20 Thread Ivo
From: "Cajetan Alvares" *As a secular pluralist, I believe that one's religious views are* *his/her own problem, as long as they do not cause harm to humanity. * What if Religion DOES harm society and humanity? As is in Somalia, Indonesia, the poor north part of Nigeria, etc (with the exceptio

Re: [Goanet] All religions cannot be equal

2010-08-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
A lot of the material in the post appended below has been selectively lifted verbatim from a blogger named Siddhartha from Bangalore, without giving him credit, without putting his text in quotation marks, and without providing a link to one of his webpages containing this text. Please see for e

[Goanet] "All religions cannot be equal"

2010-08-19 Thread Cajetan Alvares
*As a secular pluralist, I believe that one's religious views are* *his/her own problem, as long as they do not cause harm to humanity. * What if Religion DOES harm society and humanity? As is in Somalia, Indonesia, the poor north part of Nigeria, etc (with the exception of help with petrol $ count

[Goanet] All religions cannot be equal

2010-08-19 Thread Ivo
--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Frederick Noronha wrote: I disagree with Santosh's attempts to mix both up, or the suggestion that one's religious views would be decided by the State's approach to a >[parallel] matter. >... As a secular pluralist, I believe that one's religious views are his/her own

[Goanet] All religions cannot be equal

2010-08-19 Thread Ivo
From: "Santosh Helekar" Scholars who understand and respect the constitution of India, such as the prime minister of India reject the claim that the concept that "all religions are equal" is wrong in a secular country. Please see: http://pmindia.nic.in/speech/content.asp?id=524 When we say ou

[Goanet] "All religions cannot be equal"

2010-08-19 Thread icsouza
Santosh Helekar wrote: > --- On Wed, 8/18/10, Frederick Noronha wrote: > > > >I disagree with Santosh's attempts to mix both up, or the suggestion that > >one's religious views would be decided by the State's approach to a > >>[parallel] matter. > > > > This is Admin Noronha's fabricate