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[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story." What do you mean?" Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other' -- it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists... same old, same old. It seems to me that the book, at this point, bears witness to all that. ↗
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions. ↗
إذا كان تفكيك التجربة التاريخية للإسلام يتكشَّف عن أن السياسي لم يستقل بمجال اشتغال خاص عن الديني؛ وإلى حد ما لاحظ ابن خلدون من "أن العرب لا يحصل لهم الملك إلا بصبغة دينية من نبوة أو ولاية، أو أثر عظيم من الدين على الجملة"، وبما يعنيه ذلك من أن المُلك السياسي للعرب قد راح ينبني داخل الديني ويتجذَّر في قلبه منذ لحظة التأسيس المبكرة الأولى؛ فإن أهم ما يترتب على ذلك هو ما يبدو من تصور المرء أنه يسلك بحسب ضرورات "الديني" وفروضه، فيما هو يسلك حقاً تبعاً لقواعد "السياسي" المتقنِّع بالديني والمتخفِّي في قلبه. وهنا تكمن المعضلة التى تتعصى على الانفراج في عالم الإسلام؛ وأعني معضلة التمييز بين الديني والسياسي، والتي تتأتى ابتداء من عدم اختصاص الواحد منهما بمجال خاص يشتغل داخل حدوده، وذلك على العكس من اختصاص كل منهما بمجال يخصه في عالم المسيحية؛ الأمر الذي جعل، لا مجرد التمييز، بل الفصل بينهما ممكناً ↗
Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to be. But in politics and economics, which have taken the place formerly occupied by religion, there is a growing tendency to persecution, which is not by any means confined to one party. ↗
Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including our religions and so-called morals and values, are institutions steeped in traditions of absolute and total violence. ↗
This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink, and you attempted late the previous night to make stew out of a pot holder. Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought you left science the previous afternoon. Entertainment seems to have been knocked over and spilled on everything. ↗
Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks - serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere. Oil shocks have two causes. The first is natural, because existing oil fields may not yield enough to satisfy demand. Scarcity results in higher prices for oil products, reducing our standard of living. Natural scarcity was not a problem in the world's major producing areas until recently. The second cause of oil shocks is political. Political shocks happen when governments of oil-producing countries reduce or halt supply to gain the upper hand in dealings with other governments. This is the case in the Middle East, where oil has often mixed with politics, religion, and blood. The reasons for this have shaped the history of recent times. ↗
