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This is my contribution to this funny debate that sometimes always remember me of the "Plato cave".
I used google language tools in the following text:
The GOD FACTOR
By JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Somewhere in India. A row of artillery pieces into position. Tied to mouth of each one of them is a man. In the foreground of a photo British officer raises his sword and will give the order to fire. Not available
picture of the effect of the shooting, but even the most obtuse imagination can 'see' heads and torsos scattered over the field of fire, debris bloody, viscera, limbs amputated. The men were rebels.
Somewhere in Angola. Two Portuguese soldiers raise the arms a black that might not be dead, another soldier wielding a machete and prepares to separate his head from the body. This is the first photography. In the second, this time there is a second photo, the head already been cut off and a stick, and the soldiers laugh. The Negro was a guerrilla.
Somewhere in Israel. While some Israeli soldiers immobilize a Palestinian, another soldier hammered him to the bones of his right hand.
The Palestinians had thrown stones. United States of America, New York City. Two U.S. commercial aircraft,
kidnapped by terrorists linked to Islamic fundamentalism, throw themselves against the towers of the World Trade Center and lay them down.
By the same process a third aircraft causes enormous damage to building Pentagon, headquarters of the United States war power. The dead, buried in rubble, reduced to crumbs, vaporized for thousands.
Photographs of India, Angola and Israel shoot us with the horror of face, the victims are shown to us at the very instant of torture, agonal expectation, ignoble death. In New York everything seemed unreal at first, episode, repeated without news of another disaster movie, really striking in the degree of illusion achieved by the engineer of special effects, but clean rales, spurts of blood, crushed meat, bone grinding and shit. The horror, crouching like a filthy animal, waited we go out of amazement to leap at the throat. Horror said the first time "I'm here" when those people jumped to the empty as if they had just chosen a death that was his.
Now the horror will appear at every moment to remove a stone, a piece of wall, a sheet of twisted aluminum, and will be a head unrecognizable, an arm, a leg, a broken abdomen, a chest flattened. But even this is repetitive and monotonous, somewhat longer
known for images that we see that Rwanda-of-a-million-dead, that cooked the Vietnam napalm,
those executions in stadiums full of people, and those lynchings beatings of Iraqi soldiers buried alive under
tons of sand, those atomic bombs that leveled and pulverized Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those Nazi crematoria to spew ash, those trucks to dump corpses as if they were trash.
Something we will always die, but I have lost count of beings human dead in the worst ways that humans were able to invent. One of the most criminal, the more absurd, what most offends the simple reason is that since the beginning of time and civilizations, has called killing in the name of God. It has been said that the religions, they all, without exception, have never served to bring together and unite the men who, by contrast, have been and continue to be concerned
untold suffering and massacres, of monstrous violence
physical and spiritual are one of the darkest chapters of miserable history. At least out of respect for life,
should have the courage to proclaim it in all circumstances evident and demonstrable truth, but most believers of any religion not only pretend to ignore him, as they arise, enraged and intolerant against those for whom God is nothing more than a name, nothing more than a name, the name for fear of dying, we gave him one day and that would block our real step towards humanization. In return
paradises promised us and threatened us with hell, so fake ones like the others, blatant insults to the intelligence and a sense common for us so much effort creating.
Nietzsche said that everything was permissible if God does not exist, and I answer that precisely because of and in God's name do you have permitted and justified everything, especially the worst, especially
more horrible and cruel. For centuries the Inquisition was, she also today as the Taliban, a terrorist organization that is dedicated to perverse interpretation of sacred texts that should merit the
as to who say they believe in them, a monstrous covenant between the conúbio Religion and State against freedom of conscience and against the most
human rights: the right to say no, the right to heresy,
right to choose something else, that the word heresy means.
And yet, God is innocent. Innocent as something that does not exist, that not exist or never existed, innocent of having created a universe integer to beings capable of committing the greatest crimes
soon to justify themselves by saying they are celebrations of their power and of his glory, as the dead up, these towers Twin New York, and all others who in the name of a God made killer through the will and action of men, covered and insist on covered with blood and terror the pages of history. The gods, I think, only exist in the human brain, thrive or languish in the same who invented the universe, but the "God factor" that is present in life as it actually was the lord and master. There is a god, but the "God factor" that is exhibited on the dollar bill and shows us
posters asking for America (the U.S., not the other ...)
divine blessing. And the "God factor" in the god of Islam is turned that shot against the World Trade Center planes the revolt against the contempt and revenge against the humiliation.
Dir will be a god who walked to sow the wind and another god answers now with storms. It is possible, even certain. But they were not, poor blameless gods, was the "God factor", which is terrifyingly equal in all human beings wherever they are and whatever
religion they profess, which has intoxicated the mind and open the door to more blatant intolerance, one that respects only it own belief, that after that supposedly made the beast a man came to make man a beast.
The reader believer (of any faith ...) that has been able to bear the disgust that these words will probably inspire you, do not ask we proceed to the atheism of those who wrote them. I simply ask that
understand, the feeling if not for the reason that if there God, there is only one God, and that in its relationship with him, the least important is the name that you were taught to give. And that distrust of the "God factor." Not lacking the human spirit enemies, but this is one of the most dogged and
corrosive. As demonstrated and unfortunately continue to demonstrate.
Writer, Nobel Prize in Literature
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