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الإيمان مصدر لسعادة لا ينضب في حياة كثير من البشر. أما المشتغلون بالعلوم الذين يرجون الله فلديهم متعة كبرى يحصلون عليها كلما وصلوا إلى كشف جديد في ميدان من الميادين، إذ أن كل كشف جديد يدعم إيمانهم بالله، ويزيد من إدراكهم وإبصارهم لأيادي الله في هذا الكون. "بل هو آيات بينات في صدور الذين أوتوا العلم وما يجحد بآياتنا إلا الظالمون" العنكبوت٤٩ ↗
الديانة دين فادح، لا يمكن لأحد أن يوفي به، ديانتنا تديننا، تدين من دان بها بأكثر من غير المؤمنين و تدين أيضا غير المؤمنين الكل و الأب السماوي أقنوم مفارق محتجب خلف هذه الاعتقادات كلها. وهو لا يظهر لنا بتمامه لأننا لا نقدر على الإحاطة بظهوره التام هو فوق إدراكنا و هو بعيد عنا و نحن بعيدون عن بعضنا لأننا جميعا مرهونون بأوهامنا... الأقنوم ذاته وهم غامض اخترعناه و ضدقناه و اختلفنا فيه و لسوف نحارب بعضنا دوما من أجله و قد يأتي يوم يكون فيه لكل إنسان اعتقاده الخاص المختلف عن اعتقاد غيره فتنمحي الديانة من أساسها و تزول الشريعة... الأقنوم: الذات الإلهية من رواية عزازيل و حديث الراهب الفريسي لبطل الرواية حول الاختلاف في وحدانية الرب بين الطوائف المسيحيةمدان الكل ضال ↗
To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views with a believer even for a short time, and let us make the assumption that this is a mild and decent believer who does not open the bidding by telling you that your unbelief will endanger your soul and condemn you to hell. It will not be long until you are politely asked how you can possibly know right from wrong. Without holy awe, what is to prevent you form resorting to theft, murder, rape, and perjury? It will sometimes be conceded that non-believers have led ethical lives, and it will also be conceded (as it had better be) that many believers have been responsible for terrible crimes. Nonetheless, the working assumption is that we should have no moral compass if we were not somehow in thrall to an unalterable and unchallengeable celestial dictatorship. What a repulsive idea! ↗
It never occurred to me that somehow women did know about it. It just never occurred to me. Yes I am wearing sneakers too. You are in a suit, I am comfortable. So when she explained to me that this was the first event really of its kind, it floored me. So I called my daughter who is in her 30s now and I said “do you know what endometriosis is?” She said, “what? Have to pack the pack the busters.” I said “no man, you have never heard of it?” No she said. I do not know what it is, and it occurred to me that my 30-year-old daughter who I told about endometriosis and it didn’t stick. If she didn’t know, and she is one of the hippest people I know, and her daughter doesn’t know, she has 19-year-old and she is a 13-year-old. The boy, we don’t care much about if he knows about it so much. There is other stuff for him to learn. Like how to roll a condom, things like that. You know, and it occurred to me that if they didn’t know that there were hundreds of thousands girls out there that don’t know. It is not because their mothers don’t want to tell them, because it’s not religion, it’s pure ignorance. We don’t know, we don’t have the information, we have it now, and so now is why this very first gathering is happening. Now is why we’re all sitting here looking really fabulous as you are... [Whoopi Goldberg on endometriosis awareness from the 2009 Blossom Ball] ↗
La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen siendo. Claro, lo tienen que compartir con los grandes magnates de la tierra, esos que controlan el petroleo, las drogas, la tecnologia y por supuesto la television y la radio. La Iglesia domina los miedos y la promesa de la salvacion; las grandes empresas tambien manipulan los miedos y los paliativos para estos: la satisfaccion de las necesidades basicas - y las no tan basicas que hoy en dia parecen primordiales: carro, casa, belleza y entretenimiento - , una via directa al consimismo. Ambos en busca de lo mismo, la minipulacion del pueblo que los lleva a la gallina de los huevos de oro: el dinero de las masas. No es causalidad que la gente no quiera pensar. La Iglesia se encargo por siglos de esto, evitando la lectura de cualquier cosa que no fuese su religion. Desde Aristoteles, Ovidio, Pitagoras, Platon, Socrates, Antistenes, Heraclito, hasta Voltaire, Huxley, Hesse, Sade, Maquiavelo, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Dumas, entre otros, fueron censurados. ↗
Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It’s not that I terribly sympathize with them or anything—it's just that the Soviets have never done anything to harm me, or us.' At the time I thought this a rather naïve statement, even perhaps a slightly contemptible one, but by then I had been in parts of the Middle East where it could come as a blessed relief to meet a consecrated Moscow-line atheist-dogmatist, if only for the comparatively rational humanism that he evinced amid so much religious barking and mania. It was only later to occur to me that Edward's pronounced dislike of George Orwell was something to which I ought to have paid more attention. ↗
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo. ↗
لقد ارتسمت حقائق الأشياء أمام أفلاطون صوراً سماوية لا تتبدل ولا تتغير , و على الأشياء و فى دنيا الطبيعة و الواقع أن تقترب من تلك النماذج ما استطاعت . كذلك ارتسمت حقائق الأشياء أمام أرسطو أجناساً و انواعاً , لكل منها تعريف ثابت ساكن أزلى أبدى , يضعه حيث هو من بقية الأشياء . لكن حقائق الأشياء لا تثبت هكذا و لا تستقر إلا حين تجمد أوضاع الحياة على حالة هادئة ساكنة يرضى عنها الإنسان . أما حين يزول عن الإنسان هذا الرضا , و يهمّ بالانتقال إلى حالة أخرى , فعنئذ تكون حقيقة الكائنات أنها تتغير , و بخاصة الإنسان . و لا يعيب الإنسان إذ هو فى مرحلة التغير , مرحلة التحول , مرحلة السفر , أن تهتز القيم و ترتجَّ المعايير , بل العيب هو ألا ترتجَّ هذه و ألا تهتز تلك .. فلا ينبغى أن تكون لشىء أو لفكرة , أو لوضع , أو لنظام , حصانة تصونه من النقد و التجريح . إن كل الأشياء و الأفكار و الأضاع و النظم تريد أن تتغير , و تتجدد , فكيف يتم لها ما تريده إذا لم تقع على أوجه النقص فيما ننقده , و نجرّحه , لكى تتكشف حقيقته و تتعرى ؟ ↗
I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim resentment against the United States. (Incidentally, if he really does believe this, his lethargy and impotence in the face of Netanyahu's consistent double-dealing is even more culpable.) The Islamist fanatics have their own agenda, and, as in the case of Hamas and its Iranian backers, they have already demonstrated that nothing but the destruction of Israel and the removal of American influence from the region will possibly satisfy them. No, it is more the case that justice—and a homeland for the Palestinians—is a good and necessary cause in its own right. It is also a special legal and moral responsibility of the United States, which has several times declared a dual-statehood outcome to be its objective. ↗
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