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Think its time to act David. Surya has got three threads in which he is receiving some pretty direct feedback from the members and he is ignoring it.
Lotusgirl, FlexPenguin and a couple of others are quite fed up.
Hugs to you my friend. Thinking of you and wishing you peace and contentment
Post: Calm rational discussion regarding Hinduism and Abrahamic religions
Forum: Our Community - the Off Topic Forum
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Posted by: Surya Deva
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The difference is, if course, what I said IS a taught in the Abrahamic scripture itself and sanctioned by the
the ChurchFrancois Marie Arouet Voltaire (1694-1774) France’s greatest writers and philosophers, was atheist, and a bitter critic of the Church, which he looked upon as the instigator of cruelty, injustice, and inequality, wrote, in a letter to Frederick the Great (1712–86):
“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.” Where is the prince sufficiently educated to know that for seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm?’ “Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.”
“You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which most completely subjugated the human mind and annihilated reason.” “As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.”
In his ‘Philosophical Dictionary’, Voltaire gave a time-defying verdict:
“Pagan religion shed very little blood, while ours flooded the earth with it. Christianity has deluged the earth with blood for the sake of sophisms’.”
About the atrocities committed by the Roman Catholic Church in Goa in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, Voltaire in his ‘Fragments of India’s History’ observed: ‘Goa is sadly famous for its Inquistion, which is contrary to humanity as much as to commerce. The Portuguese monks deluded us into believing that the Indian populace was worshipping the Devil, while it is THEY who served him’.
