Ando a ler um livro excelente acerca da ideia de deus, das raízes da fé e da natureza da religião. Estou a gostar tanto que um dia destes ainda me passo da cabeça e o traduzo. Chama-se The God Delusion e é assinado por Richard Dawkins. Atentem neste excerto:
"Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings. Then there is a great chorus of disownings, as clerics and "community leaders" (who elected them, by the way?) line up and explain that this extremism is a perversion of the "true" faith. But how can there be a perversion of faith, if faith, lacking objective justification, doesn't have any demonstrable standard to pervert?"
Faz pensar, não faz? É pena que tão poucas pessoas pensem sobre esta matéria, mas, também, como disse Bertrand Russel, ainda no tópico da fé, "many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do."
E vocês, o que é que andam a ler?..
"Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings. Then there is a great chorus of disownings, as clerics and "community leaders" (who elected them, by the way?) line up and explain that this extremism is a perversion of the "true" faith. But how can there be a perversion of faith, if faith, lacking objective justification, doesn't have any demonstrable standard to pervert?"
Faz pensar, não faz? É pena que tão poucas pessoas pensem sobre esta matéria, mas, também, como disse Bertrand Russel, ainda no tópico da fé, "many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do."
E vocês, o que é que andam a ler?..
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