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From: Xavier William <varekatx@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [india-unity] Re: Fwd: The lecturer
To: india-unity@yahoogroups.com, keraladd <KeralaDD@yahoogroups.co.uk>
Sugrutha,
U r right. Humility and so on cannot go hand in hand with atheism. Your father, your mother, your brothers and sisters and everyone you know and trust goes to church on Sundays and going to church every day is considered the best of things and then people frown upon you when you say things which you think are right and so on ...It is not pleasant to become an atheist for one who was brought up in a Catholic family and studied for priesthood and so on. I wish the sacred lies I was brought in were sacred truths. But after years and years of the search for the elusive truth I have came to certain conclusions and one of them was that my parents and my society was leading me astray in the matters of religion though they did it with the best of intentions. I had to break away and a man of too much humility cannot break away.
On second and third thoughts if Jesus and Mohammad and Krishna were really humble could they have spoken against the establishment as they did?
I think that humility and cowardice are often mistaken for one another. Sugrutha, Humility and courage are not mutually exclusive.
-- From: Xavier William <varekatx@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [india-unity] Re: Fwd: The lecturer
To: india-unity@yahoogroups.com, keraladd <KeralaDD@yahoogroups.co.uk>
Sugrutha,
U r right. Humility and so on cannot go hand in hand with atheism. Your father, your mother, your brothers and sisters and everyone you know and trust goes to church on Sundays and going to church every day is considered the best of things and then people frown upon you when you say things which you think are right and so on ...It is not pleasant to become an atheist for one who was brought up in a Catholic family and studied for priesthood and so on. I wish the sacred lies I was brought in were sacred truths. But after years and years of the search for the elusive truth I have came to certain conclusions and one of them was that my parents and my society was leading me astray in the matters of religion though they did it with the best of intentions. I had to break away and a man of too much humility cannot break away.
On second and third thoughts if Jesus and Mohammad and Krishna were really humble could they have spoken against the establishment as they did?
I think that humility and cowardice are often mistaken for one another. Sugrutha, Humility and courage are not mutually exclusive.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Sugrutha R. Kamat <sugrutha@yahoo.com> wrote:
I think the above is in very bad taste.
--- In india-unity@yahoogroups.com, Xavier William <varekatx@...> wrote:
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> Instead the Brahmins lorded it over the low castes and lived a
> parasitical life doing nothing but eat and f---
Sadly atheism somehow seems to look down upon aesthetics and grace along with its contempt for the concept for divinity. The above is not the first example in this forum as everyone knows thanks to my bringing up the other example every now and then ! For some reason attributes like humility and self-doubt and introspection somehow dont seem to go alongside atheism I can never understand why. Perhaps it is this uncouth, arrogant and offensive attitudes of aetheists that actually scare people away from atheism ! :-)
Thanks,
Sugrutha
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Palash Biswas
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