INDIA, May 5, 2022 (Goa Chronicle): Some Goans remember the horrid past of the Portuguese oppression and brutality with hurt and anger; some Goans opt not to acknowledge the trauma of 500-years of the Portuguese colonial rule and a few Goans have in their wisdom considered their identity to be one with the colonial oppressor, they consider themselves to be Portuguese not Indians. When people look at the Portuguese colonial rule over Goa, they often side-step one of the most critical factors that led to the brutality meted out to the indigenous people of Goa. The Portuguese as colonizers were not only focused on economic control but also religious control in a territory of conquest. The Goa Inquisition was not an act of colonizers attempting to take control of the economic activities of Goa. It was a planned act to convert the religious beliefs of indigenous people of Goa to Roman Catholicism of the Catholic Church in Rome.

Even before the Inquisition was authorized the Portuguese government unleashed its diabolic intent on the indigenous people of Goa especially the Hindus, Muslims, Jews and New Christians. In 1540, the proselytizing by the Catholic Church under the Portuguese government took a vicious form. A Portuguese order to destroy Hindu temples along with the seizure of Hindu temple properties and their transfer to the Catholic missionaries is dated 30 June 1541. Whether you accept the truth about the Goa Inquisition or not is a matter of choice but it does not change the fact that the people of Goa were brutalized by the Inquisition because the Catholic Church in service of their truth resorted to violence. Scars of the Inquisition run deep in Goa. There is an imminent need for reconciliation. The first step to reconciliation is accepting the truth of the Goa Inquisition.

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