My Tryst With Christianity ,, My Childhood Friend Keith Kanga of Atomic Forest
Today is the First Day Of Ramzan and a few comments on Facebook on my posts and I decided to share with you , the Contribution of the Christian Church on my Being ,, My initial schooling was at a Methodist Church for 3 years and than 8 years of Roman Catholic influence ,, at Wodehouse Church next to my School Holy Name High School..
My only Muslim influence was an Arabic teacher who used to hammer me and my sister .. he was a lame guy , sadistic ..I have never forgotten him he was a Sunni migrant from Uttar Pradesh..uncouth and totally uncultured , but in the years we lived at Wodehouse Road it hardly mattered , we had to learn the Koran.
My mother was asthmatic and had her own troubles .. so now 62 years old I think every faith religiosity strengthened my own Faith ..and I respect another mans Faith as much as I respect my own Faith too.. All these Christian Blogs are part of my set.. Christian Ethos I shot mostly in Bandra ,,,
My two teachers while I was growing were Fr Leslie Ratus and Fr Stephen Nazerath .. both died too soon,, I would visit Fr Stephen Nazareth at RC Church and kept in touch with him till he died.
I also had a brief encounter with Jheovahs Witness when I lived with late Keith Kanga Atomic Forest at Wodehouse Road Khatau Bhuvan that later would be called Jony Castle , and his grandmother would forcibly try to make me change my faith and I was staying at his house due to domestic problems ,, so I read the Bible every morning , The Watch Tower and listened to Granna ,, as we called Keith's grandmother ,.. dreaming of rivers of Milk.. luckily on the day she was to baptize me in the sea off Badhwar Park it rained heavily the baptism was postponed , and luckily my Dad returned , he had sorted all his problems and bought me home at Strand Cinema Mohini Mansions and my mother and my sister returned to a reunion back to Mumbai.
And later in life as an adult I met the Jesuits and got to learn a lot from them .. I made some great Jesuit friends Fr Lawrie Ferrao and Fr Gerard and Fr Jaun...so all in all I did not have to put blinkers or keep adding GIF image to reaffirm my faith at Facebook.. For me it does not matter which religion you follow I follow my own.. but I respect every Religion.
I have not come to Facebook to make my timeline into a religious site what I post is in the nature of photojournalism and sharing of diverse cultures ,,,
So we can be Muslims and yet our thinking our upbringing can make a lot of difference in how we feel and how we react.. and when Moharam comes I will re affirm my faith through Blood ,,
My Tryst With Christianity ,, My Childhood Friend Keith Kanga of Atomic Forest
Today is the First Day Of Ramzan and a few comments on Facebook on my posts and I decided to share with you , the Contribution of the Christian Church on my Being ,, My initial schooling was at a Methodist Church for 3 years and than 8 years of Roman Catholic influence ,, at Wodehouse Church next to my School Holy Name High School..
My only Muslim influence was an Arabic teacher who used to hammer me and my sister .. he was a lame guy , sadistic ..I have never forgotten him he was a Sunni migrant from Uttar Pradesh..uncouth and totally uncultured , but in the years we lived at Wodehouse Road it hardly mattered , we had to learn the Koran.
My mother was asthmatic and had her own troubles .. so now 62 years old I think every faith religiosity strengthened my own Faith ..and I respect another mans Faith as much as I respect my own Faith too.. All these Christian Blogs are part of my set.. Christian Ethos I shot mostly in Bandra ,,,
My two teachers while I was growing were Fr Leslie Ratus and Fr Stephen Nazerath .. both died too soon,, I would visit Fr Stephen Nazareth at RC Church and kept in touch with him till he died.
I also had a brief encounter with Jheovahs Witness when I lived with late Keith Kanga Atomic Forest at Wodehouse Road Khatau Bhuvan that later would be called Jony Castle , and his grandmother would forcibly try to make me change my faith and I was staying at his house due to domestic problems ,, so I read the Bible every morning , The Watch Tower and listened to Granna ,, as we called Keith's grandmother ,.. dreaming of rivers of Milk.. luckily on the day she was to baptize me in the sea off Badhwar Park it rained heavily the baptism was postponed , and luckily my Dad returned , he had sorted all his problems and bought me home at Strand Cinema Mohini Mansions and my mother and my sister returned to a reunion back to Mumbai.
And later in life as an adult I met the Jesuits and got to learn a lot from them .. I made some great Jesuit friends Fr Lawrie Ferrao and Fr Gerard and Fr Jaun...so all in all I did not have to put blinkers or keep adding GIF image to reaffirm my faith at Facebook.. For me it does not matter which religion you follow I follow my own.. but I respect every Religion.
I have not come to Facebook to make my timeline into a religious site what I post is in the nature of photojournalism and sharing of diverse cultures ,,,
So we can be Muslims and yet our thinking our upbringing can make a lot of difference in how we feel and how we react.. and when Moharam comes I will re affirm my faith through Blood ,,