Re: [Goanet] Atheism vis-a-vis religion - Dr Ruth Pfau

2017-08-14 Thread Venantius J Pinto
True Marshall. It is good evidence to offer: Sanyal, Charu, Guevara. For sure, justice, social justice. And faith to live and work and shape through justice. + On any way of being: too often we are impressed by the reasoning laid out by any given proponent. Often it’s because our perceptions are

Re: [Goanet] Atheism vis-a-vis religion - Dr Ruth Pfau

2017-08-14 Thread Marshall Mendonza
Frederick Noronha: Marshall, for a change I'm not in agreement with you. Charity is just one of the criteria on which someone's "goodness" could be judged. If the criteria were changed to, say, fighting for justice, and giving up one's lives for that, then the non-believers might come out leagues

Re: [Goanet] Atheism vis-a-vis religion - Dr Ruth Pfau

2017-08-11 Thread Frederick Noronha
Marshall, for a change I'm not in agreement with you. Charity is just one of the criteria on which someone's "goodness" could be judged. If the criteria were changed to, say, fighting for justice, and giving up one's lives for that, then the non-believers might come out leagues ahead.

Re: [Goanet] Atheism vis-a-vis religion - Dr Ruth Pfau

2017-08-11 Thread Roland Francis
Abdus Sattar Edhi who set up the Edhi Foundation was as equal in stature as her, his activism being in helping the wounded, whether victims or perpetrators of violence and of natural disasters all over Pakistan. Edhi was a cultural Muslim (in Pakistan you cannot be an atheist) but was in

[Goanet] Atheism vis-a-vis religion - Dr Ruth Pfau

2017-08-11 Thread Marshall Mendonza
https://www.dawn.com/news/1350773 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40886234 I have yet to hear of any prominent atheist who has done similar work Regards, Marshall