It is now over 500 years that the Portuguese landed in Goa followed by the Christianity. When the Portuguese came to Goa they introduced certain discipline and system for the people inhabiting on this land because even though the inhabitants of this land in the pre-Portuguese era possessed certain qualities different from those of the people beyond the borders of Goa yet the fine tuning of their disciplinary character was conducted by the Portuguese in Goa. By nature Portuguese were kind and mild hearted, they were sincere and straight forward and not like cunning. Being the Christians from Roman Catholicism, Portuguese religious system introduced the time consuming rites in the Churches and in their prayers, these rites and prayers kept the faithful constantly on their toes and busy, of course many times unnecessarily without any Biblical significance and this fallacy is now exposed by the innumerable Non-Catholic Christian denominations which are mushrooming all over Goa and also in other parts of the World. These denominations headed by their clever and holy pastors are all out to pin point the wrongly delivered Christian doctrine by the Catholics and when they do so much openly and aggressively exposing and yet RC are keeping their silence.
For example, according to one Pastor, the Catholic leadership wants to keep the faithful constantly busy as per the wishes of the Colonialists so that these people will think nothing and also will do nothing much except religion even though it is in the wrong way. See we Catholics are celebrating the Feasts of innumerable Saints whom we adore so much spending so much of our time daily on our knees praying for them that we even forget Jesus Christ by ignoring Him.Is it right to do so? Who are Saints and who is Jesus Christ? In fact all these Saints prayed to Jesus Christ only. When these Saints adored and prayed to Jesus Chriust and even sacrificed their life, they attained the Heavenly bliss and when this is the case is it right on our part to ignore Jesus Christ and embrace the Saints ? However, inspite of this, the Portuguese were more humane and being so they were not discriminators as their counterparts the British in other parts of India were.
One of the reasons why the Goans are accepted as good and decent people while those from other parts of Bahrat as cunning, rough, rude, uncultured and corrupt because these attributes they learnt more from the British which finally the British bequeathed to the Indians who are known even in the outside world as cunning and crook people if not the major portion then at least very many as compared to Goans most of whom are very good in character and discipline. Many times many Kuwaitis while I was in Kuwait asked me why the Goans are totally different from those Indians from other parts of India? They found Goans of much superior quality. We as far as our decency, discipline and character are concerned have reached to such a top height but suddenly and unexpectedly there applied a brake to our progress and development by Nehru’s Bharat on 19th December in 1961 when our Goa was suddenly and forcibly acquired with the mighty military force of about 20 thousand troop by Bharat without our consent and that too in the name of liberation and turned Goa into like any other corruptplace in Bharat. What character and discipline people saw in Goans after the forcible acquisition of Goa on 19.12.61 was just a shadow of the rich pristine genuine Goans’ character and discipline.
To be concluded/2.