Sempre verdade

"‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect" (Salman Rushdie, 2015, a propósito do massacre no "Charlie Hebdo" - recordado daqui)

"As pessoas nunca são tão completa e entusiasticamente más como quando agem por convicção religiosa" (O Cemitério de Praga, Umberto Eco)

 

Edit (11:47) - O habitual

Condecorar a comunidade islâmica... porquê? O Estado não é laico??... "Os valores humanistas são, por natureza, os valores do Islão"???... "O Islão está na alma de Portugal"???!!!... Não basta já que a Vaticano S.A. tenha sequestrado uma importante parte da "alma de Portugal"???!!!... Não mereceriam muito mais ser condecoradas Aliaa Elmahdy, Amina Tyler, ou a riquíssima cultura árabe?... Não, isso seria pedir muito ao Marselfie, grande adepto dos hipermercados da superstição e incapaz de alguma vez ser apanhado a citar Salman Rushdie!

"Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion’. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect" (Salman Rushdie)

EIS, ENTÃO, UM ÓPTIMO PRETEXTO PARA O REPUBLICAR NUMA SESSÃO DE LANÇAMENTO COM POMPA E CIRCUNSTÂNCIA E EXIBIÇÃO DE "A VIDA DE BRIAN" (e leitura complementar de bónus)

30 LITERARY QUOTES THAT JUST MIGHT GET YOU LAID
(material de estudo e memorização)



Top 3

“For a fellow who’s not too much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion” (The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie - this man was once married to Padma Lakshmi. He must have done something right)

“She would lift her peignoir above her knees and say to her husband: ‘Give baby a kiss...’” (First Love by Isaac Babel - who enjoys saucy French words? Hopefully, your admirer does)

“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse” (Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller - infamous heartbreaker, that Henry Valentine)

(2011)

THE CHIMPANZEE PART OF THE BRAIN WORKING



"An atheist group in the Irish Republic has defied a new blasphemy law by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations on its website. Atheist Ireland says it will fight any action taken against it in court. The quotations include the words of writers such as Mark Twain and Salman Rushdie, but also Jesus Christ, the Prophet Muhammad and Pope Benedict XVI. The new law makes blasphemy a crime punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros" (aqui)

Três amostras (o resto está aqui):

Randy Newman, "God’s Song", 1972: “And the Lord said: I burn down your cities – how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That’s why I love mankind”



Frank Zappa, 1989: “If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine – but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you’ve been bad or good – and cares about any of it – to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working”

Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion, 2006: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully”

... a propósito (informação do Ricardo Gross): o tema do Hitchens na Casa Pessoa é "A Necessidade do Ateísmo"

(2019)