Steven wrote: «The rosary itself isn’t mentioned in the Bible, it’s a symbol created by people to help us pray. So for me, it’s not about the object, it’s about the belief behind it. I didn’t throw it away or step on it. I just kept it with my key because it’s something close to me. My intention was to keep it near, not to disrespect it. God looks at our heart, not at how we use or hold an object.
«Luciano, listen bro, I’ve known you for a long time, but honestly, I don’t agree with the way you talk most of the times, about others or judge people based on language or religion. I’ve heard you many times speaking badly about Muslims and Marathi people, and that’s not right. Jesus never taught us to look down on anyone. He taught love, not hate. And about Konkani, speaking Konkani doesn’t make someone more Christian. There are Christians all over the world who speak many different languages, and that doesn’t change their faith. Even Jesus didn’t speak English or Konkani; He spoke Aramaic. So, language doesn’t define faith, the heart does. Talking bad about other religions doesn’t make us better Christians; it just shows disrespect. God looks at how we live, not what language we speak or who we judge. »
Hi Brother Steven,
Thank you for your notes.
1. My name is Lucio, as I have repeated several times, not "Luciano," and not "Lucifer," as some have maliciously called me, because of my bearing witness to the Good News of our Lord God Jesus Christ. Lucio is Portuguese, and Spanish and Italian for Latin Lucius, which comes from Lux, light. It is the name of several popes, saints, also of sainted popes.
2. The Rosary is not mentioned in the Bible. True enough. The Trinity is also not mentioned in the Bible. Does that mean that we can treat the Trinity with disrespect? You are using a Rosary ("Cont" in Concannim, not "Konkani"), as a key-chain. In response to your statement in person where you said that the Rosary is not mentioned in the Bible, I explained that the Rosary IS The Bible, because the Rosary is the Psalter, the 150 Psalms. Due to the laity's inability to recite the entire Psalter of 150 Psalms, it was gradually replaced with the Rosary. Also, the Rosary, in its present form (I disregard the changes made by Antipope Karol Wojtyla, adding the Demonic "Luminous Mysteries") is what was given by Our Lady herself to St. Domingo de Guzmao (Footnotes 1, & 2). The Rosary is a Sacramental, an object exorcised, to remove it from the Dominion of Satan, and blessed, to bring it into the Dominion of our Lord God Jesus Christ. The Rosary is also an object and a symbol of Catholicism, a thing sacred in itself, and any insult to the Rosary, is an insult to God. Using a Rosary, where the Crucifix has fallen off, as a keychain, replacing the Crucifix with a key, is disrespectful towards God and towards Our Lady (Disrespect to Our Lady is Disrespect to Our Lord God Jesus Christ). I have not said that you replacing the lost Crucifix with a key is intentional disrespect, but it is disrespect, nonetheless. The presumption is always "Innocent until proven guilty," and I was drawing your attention to your perhaps inadvertent disrespect towards the rosary, not accusing you of deliberate, malicious disrespect. Yet, there is certainly disrespect, regardless of what your intention may be. People see, and they do not see your intention; they see the Rosary disrespected, and one possible conclusion they can draw is that it is okay to disrespect the Rosary, "It's no big deal" (Footnote 3). It's a big deal, and deliberate, malicious, disrespect to the Rosary, is disrespect to God, and will assuredly lead to Eternal damnation in hell.
3. I do not "judge people based on language and religion." As a Christian, the Bible warns that the Jewish people were the Chosen People, betrayed & murdered God Incarnate, due to which, they were grafted out, and we were grafted in. The Bible goes on to warn us against boasting, or becoming prideful, because just as we have been grafted in, we too can be grafted out (Romans 11, footnote 4). I understand that your objection is really regarding two aspects: I am an unashamed Christian apologist and polemicist, and I am a Concannim Nativist. The Bible makes it clear that no man is innocent, everyone is guilty; no one is a pagan or an infidel due to accident of birth or geography, but God is present to all humanity, constantly acts upon, and seeks out each soul, has set forth His witness before every human being, and so, any that walks wrong, is guilty of their own sin, their own blood, before God (Romans 1, footnote 5). Nativism is the belief that in every native homeland given by God to a specific nation, such as the Concannim nation in the Concan, must, all other factors being equal, have predominance in their native homeland (Footnote 6). The standpoint that you make, is the Condemned & Excommunicated Heresy of Indifferentism.
Modified from Google's AI: The Catholic Church has condemned & excommunicated "latae sententiae" religious indifferentism as a heresy, which is the belief that all religions are equally valid and that a person can be saved through any of them. This condemnation stems from the belief that there is one true religion and that a loving, holy God cannot be equally pleased with both truth and error, or good and evil. The Church teaches this through dogma, Scripture, and tradition, citing popes and councils like the Council of Trent to reaffirm the unique role of the Catholic faith and the necessity of a response to God's truth for salvation.
Condemnation of indifferentism: In 1832 A.D., Pope Gregory XVI in his Encyclical "Mirari Vos" strongly condemned indifferentism, calling it a "deadly error" that claims eternal salvation can be obtained through any religion, provided morality is maintained. Indifferentism is also condemned by Pope Pius IX's "Syllabus of Errors." Pope St. Pius X issued the "Syllabus of Modernist Errors," further zeroing down on Indifferentism. Indifferentism and or Panreligionism is one of the Central Doctrines of the WhoreChurch, HomoChurch, since its secession from Catholicism in Oct. 1958, and which I summarize as "All gods are one, all religions are true, one can attain to heaven by the sincere practice of any belief system."
"Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" Or "Outside the Church, there is no salvation": This doctrine, declared by the Ecumenical Council of Florence, based on the teachings of St. Fulgentius, bishop of Ruspa in Numidia ("Algeria") and himself a disciple of St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regis in Numidia, is a key part of the Church's teaching against indifferentism, and is a binding and inalterable tenet of Catholicism.
Blasphemy against God: The Church views indifferentism as blasphemous because it suggests God does not care what people believe, which is seen as inconsistent with a God of essential truth and holiness.
Heresy and its implications:
Denial of duty: The heresy is specifically defined as denying that it is a man's duty to worship God by believing and practicing the one true religion.
"Most subtle enemy": The Church considers indifferentism a subtle and dangerous enemy of religion that is harder to combat than open hostility.
Challenge to evangelization: The belief undermines the mission of evangelization and the efforts of those striving for holiness, as it suggests that all paths lead to salvation.
Response and or duty of the faithful:
Defending the faith: The Church encourages its members to understand and defend their faith with charity and clarity.
Living witness: Catholics are called to be a living embodiment of Christ's teachings through love, compassion, and understanding as a way to witness to the truth of their faith.
Embracing divine truth: Catholics must remain committed to the truths of their faith, acknowledging the Catholic Church's unique role as the one and only path to salvation as instituted by Jesus Christ.
4. Does one have a duty to respect Hitlerism, Nazism? If not, why not? What, in its essences, is different between Hitlerism and or Nazism and the Foreign Uttarakuruvan Cult presently called Hinduism, which includes Manuwad or the Manusmriti, as an essential element, and which worships gross and grotesque monsters, worships dumb animals as gods, while dehumanizing humans and degrading them below the level of animals, on one side, and the gross and grotesque cult of Mahomettanism, which boldly lies, falsifies, distorts, and grossly blasphemes the God of Abraham Elohim-Jehovah, Christianity, the Mosaic Covenant, our Lord Jesus Christ, and Mother Mary? If you believe that "All belief systems are good and true, must be equally respected," you must equally respect Hitlerism and or Nazism, or the beliefs of the Thugees who kidnapped, robbed, abused, including sexually abused, and "sacrificed" human beings to their demons, and you must also equally respect and honor the beliefs of cannibal tribes who wish to kidnap and eat you as food, sacrificing you to their demons. If not, why not? Be consistent, do not be inconsistent!
5. What is my objection to the Marathi? The Marathi are outsiders, foreigners in the Concan. You and I are both Concannim, although we have been heavily Anglicized & factually Anglicanized by the Macaulayan "Education system." I am "Goan," while you are a Mangalorean "Konkani." In both Mangalore, Udipi, Karwar, etc. of the former North Canara & South Canara Districts, and in the "Maharashtra Konkan or Kokan," the native Concannim are LEGALLY 2nd class citizens with aliens, foreigners, specifically, Kannadigas, and the Marathi, being "legally" recognized as "Bhoomiputras," ("Sons of the Soil") and or as "Sthaniya Lok" ("People of the Land") with preferences and quotas in jobs in government services, bureaucracy, municipality, police employment, employment as judges and magistrates, licenses for vending on the streets (hawker's licences, and or "Concessionaries,"), employment prospects in both public or governmental jobs and in private, etc., a situation that is a Grave Offense to the Justice of God, an offence to the Just God, and by no means a situation of indifference to God, and not an attitude of indifference tolerable by the Just God! There is active political persecution of the Concannim by the Marathi, not only by the Shitsenas, including by the MNS, but also by the Government of Maharashtra illegally ruling the "Maharashtra Concan," where only the Marathi are allowed, Bhaiyas are tolerated, and the Concannim are treated, by foreigners and aliens, as instead being foreigners and aliens!
As a native Concannim, I and my fellow Concannim have an exclusive & God-given right to my homeland, the Concan, and all its resources, and no other nations, nationalities, and ethnicities, such as the Gujaratis or Saurashtrians, Marathi or Maharashtrians, Kannadigas, Malayalis or Keralites, etc., have any rights on my homeland, my motherland, my fatherland, my patria, the Concan!
If I were to watch with indifference how my native homeland, the Concan, is being raped and bartered by foreigners, aliens, while I and my own native people are "legally" disenfranchised, we are not merely "indifferent," we are grossly stupid, and also disloyal to God, who has not in vain set the boundaries between nations!
I am determined that regardless of the number of Concannim quislings, I will not compromise, I will continue to affirm and uphold my rights to my homeland, my motherland, my fatherland, my patria, the Concan national homeland, I will not, like Esau, the progenitor of the nation of Edom, sell off and betray my birthright for a meal!
Nor is my fight for Concannim Irredentism a betrayal of my duty to Jesus Christ, and to His Good News, the Gospel, nor does it compromise, and negate, my duty to Jesus Christ, to His Gospel, and to Christianity! For both duties are from God, and commanded by God to be offered to Himself, to God. God is integral, and my Concannim Patriotism and Nationalism is as important an aspect of my duties to God as is my witness to Christianity.
Of course, Christianity, preaching the Gospel, has a higher hierarchic standing as compared to patriotism, which is an inferior good, yet, nevertheless, a real good.
6. Am I a “Racist Supremacist”?
I am not a Racist Supremacist because I believe with the Catholic Church that the human race is one single race and because, with the Catholic Church, I reject the heresy of Racialism, the notion that the Whites, Blacks, “Orientals,” etc., constitute separate races.
I am the adoptive father of daughters of an Ambedkarite Marathi or Maharashtrian of "low caste" according to Hinduism, the daughter of a Mahomettan from Philibit, the daughter of "Bhaiyyas," the daughters of Brahmins of Kumaon in Uttarakhand. I could not have accepted as my adoptive daughters, these children, if I was a RacistSupremacist!
Lúcío João Mascarenhas, #BombayNotMumbai & Goa, Whatsapp; repairmychurch.blogspot.com, Interdum blog & The Way Of The Saints. The Eteo-Catholic or Sempiternal orthodox True Catholic Church: VaticanInExile-Official.org.
FOOTNOTES:
1. Fathers Herbert Thurston & Andrew Shipman, article "The Rosary" in The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13, Robert Appleton Company, New York City, 1912 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13184b.htm
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Rosary
3. 1 Corinthians chapter 8, https://drbo.org/chapter/53008.htm, & 1 Corinthians chapter 10, https://drbo.org/chapter/53010.htm
4. https://drbo.org/chapter/52011.htm
5. Romans chapter 1, https://drbo.org/chapter/52001.htm
6. Deuteronomy 32:8 https://drbo.org/chapter/05032.htm & Acts 17:26 https://drbo.org/chapter/51017.htm
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