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«Religião, porquê?» (Manuel Souto Teixeira)

Amanhã, 4 de Outubro, às 19 horas e 30 minutos, estarei no bar do teatro «A Barraca» (Largo de Santos, 2, Lisboa, ver mapa) para apresentar o livro «Religião, porquê? – Introdução a um problema», de Manuel Souto Teixeira.
Trata-se de um livro que aborda, principalmente, a história da religião na Europa ao longo dos últimos dois mil anos, de uma perspectiva não religiosa, irónica e sistemática.
[Diário Ateísta/Esquerda Republicana]
14 thoughts on “«Religião, porquê?» (Manuel Souto Teixeira)”
  • Pedro

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    M         MA

    A religião não é um problema, o problema é o próprio homem.

  • Anónimo

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29
    http://www.irishholocaust.org/complicity
    Complicity of the Catholic Hierarchy with London’s planned genocide is,
    sad to say, well recorded. London, prior to removing Ireland’s food,
    appointed a few Irish Catholic Bishops to a Dublin Castle commission and
    awarded a £30,000 lump sum to Maynooth while increasing its annual
    grant from £9,000 to £26,000!12 Before British troops began starving
    Ireland the London parliament enacted a law to return some of the seized
    foods in the form of rations to all of Ireland’s Catholic hierarchy
    down to the level of, but not including, curates. Faced with residual
    hierarchical disquiet, M.P.s amended the law to include curates. This
    ended episcopal objections to the Irish Holocaust; it proceeded
    efficiently thenceforth. An Irish poet subsequently wrote; “…for the
    spire of the chapel of Maynooth is the dagger at Ireland’s heart.” A
    Munster bishop thanked God that he “lives in a country where a farmer
    would starve his own children to pay his landlord’s rent”! For two
    centuries until 1795, priests in Ireland were felons a priori. The
    government paid a 5 shilling bounty for each severed head. In 1795,
    British ministers decided that to completely subjugate Ireland the
    collaboration of the Catholic Church was indispensable. Britain thus
    stopped murdering priests and founded and funded Ireland’s national
    seminary; Maynooth. The tactic worked; the Irish Catholic Church became
    London’s tool. 13 It facilitated the Irish Holocaust; it sided with
    Britain in the Risings of 1798, 1848, 1867 and 1916, destroyed
    Parnellite democracy in 1890 (traumatizing James Joyce) 14 and it has
    facilitated Britain’s vestigial genocide in the Six Counties since 1922.
    Cardinal Daly recently went so far as to “beg England’s forgiveness for
    the centuries of suffering inflicted upon it by the Irish!” Yet; isn’t
    Catholicism as gloriously redeemed by its persecuted Fr. Wilsons and Sr.
    Sarah Clarkes of today as by its earlier millions of saints martyred by
    Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Anne, George III, Victoria, et al?

    Irish Starvation Martyrs. Honorable Irish people everywhere are
    commemorating Ireland’s Holocaust of 1845-1850 by learning the truth of
    it. Thus, only dupes of British propaganda still refer to “The Irish
    Famine,” as nobody died of lack of potatoes; but over five million Irish
    Catholics died of starvation or of malnutrition-induced disease when
    British troops removed their meats, grains, dairy products, etc. Britain
    could have removed food enough to sustain 13 million (but not 18
    million) without starving Ireland. No Protestant starved in Ireland 15
    Britain didn’t target them.

    The Truth Outs as we, the descendants of the survivors of that
    starvation will no longer be silenced. We denounce Ireland’s Strokestown
    “Famine Museum,” for its shameless “bait and switch” scam. Visitors
    seeking details of one of history’s worst genocides are subtly invited
    to admire the genocidal landlord’s grandiose taste in architecture and
    furnishings; all looted from the unpaid labor and land of the Irish
    families he murdered. It is highly unlikely that a Jew exists so
    depraved as to establish a Jewish Holocaust museum that similarly
    invites the visitor to slur the victims and admire, say, Goering’s taste
    in looted Jewish property. How dare President Robinson say “the famine
    shames the Irish”? It is her cover-up that shames the Irish! As
    Holocaust guilt is Nazis’, not the victims’, so the guilt for 1845-1850
    is the British perpetrators’ and the above cover-up artists’; not ours
    and not their murdered victims’. Irish-America must tell the truth of it
    because in Ireland it is still too dangerous. The Irish government has
    announced that in June, 1997 it will end the “Irish Famine
    commemoration” in a “wake cum musical celebration to bury the ghost of
    the famine.” Thus; the Irish government advertises its quisling status
    by ending the commemoration prior to the anniversaries of the murders of
    more than half of the 5.2 millions. What else can one expect from the
    government whose Consuls spoke in Illinois’ State Legislature in
    opposition to the McBride Principles for Fair Employment in Northern
    Ireland? They pose as anti-terrorists while collaborating with the
    British terrorists who, since 1969, have murdered over six times16 as
    many noncombatants as have the IRA. An Irish bureaucrat recently joined
    our campaign to get the Irish Holocaust graves monumented, fenced and
    consecrated. He tells us that he will be fired or worse if his superiors
    learn of his involvement. He echoes another Irishman who, two centuries
    ago, observed; “Having a natural reverence for the dignity and
    antiquity of my native country, strengthened by education, and confirmed
    by an intimate knowledge of its history, I could not, without the
    greatest pain and indignation, behold … the extreme passiveness and
    insensibility of the present race of Irish, at such reiterated insults
    offered to truth and their country: instances of inattention to their
    own honor, unexampled in any other civilized nation.” 17

    Dishonored Martyrs; their Mass Graves. The discovery of mass graves
    resulting from genocide always causes international outcry. But the mass
    graves of the Irish genocide are unmarked and unmourned by the world at
    large. Why? Because the Truth was interred in those pits along with the
    martyrs. The bones of the murdered 5.2 million are scattered across
    Ireland, the Atlantic sea-floor and North American littorals; but they
    are concentrated in mass graves the permanently-abandoned state of which
    eloquently reveals the genocidists’ power. It was also mass martyrdom;
    as the victims could have saved their lives by renouncing their Faith.
    Food crops that civil law had forced them to tithe (before soldiers took
    the rest) to the local English State Church parson was on offer to
    whoever would renounce Catholicism and become Anglican. But they died
    for Faith and Freedom, and their mass graves are Ireland’s holiest
    places (excepting, perhaps, the graves of those who died resisting).
    Yet, the souls of these murdered millions still cry to us for justice.
    After 150 years their murders remain misattributed and the mass graves
    containing their sacred remains are still unfenced, unmarked and even
    unconsecrated. It is not the Irish people who are such brutes. The
    condition of the mass graves reveals the brutal extent of English
    control of Ireland today; how unfree Ireland actually is. But America is
    free; Britain’s MI6 can slur us but cannot murder us with the impunity
    they do in Dublin, Monaghan, the Occupied Six Counties, and as did
    British guards who entered the Maghaberry prison cell of Irishman Jim
    McDonnell on 3/30/96 and kicked him to death for asking to go to his
    father’s funeral. British terrorists, however, are operating in the U.S.
    In Valhalla’s Wake, authors McIntyre & Loftus report that,
    according to CIA sources, an MI6/SAS team of assassins murdered an
    American, John McIntyre, in Boston a decade ago. Five US citizens have
    been murdered by British terrorists in Ireland; none by the Irish. A
    law-abiding FBI agent alerted us a few years ago that some of his fellow
    agents; British-bribed; were planning MI6-type “dirty-tricks” crimes
    against us and that he was powerless to arrest them. Soon thereafter,
    FBI gangs, led by agent Edward P. Buckley, conducted five armed raids
    upon us, incarcerated me and my wife and two others, and fabricated
    evidentiary tape and committed perjury in an attempt to imprison us. 18
    The FBI also framed me for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Langert in
    Winnetka; but the actual murderer, David Biro, saved my life by
    confiding his crimes to school friends who informed the police. Biro, a
    16-year-old, got life without parole. I would have gotten lethal
    injection. I knew nobody involved; had never heard of them in my entire
    life until the reports of the murders. Our attorneys photocopied the
    signed, FBI-fabricated police report that framed me. FBI/IRS crimes
    against us started shortly after we began exposing Britain’s Big Lie re
    Ireland. American democracy is, we sense, less violated by these FBI/IRS
    crimes than by the fact that law enforcement, pols and the news media
    have all, British-style, knowingly covered them up and that the legal
    profession is cowed. The FBI criminals’ British handlers tried to “take
    us out” to stop our support for basic rights in Ireland. The FBI later
    fabricated a malicious “immunity certificate” for me and my wife (making
    us appear to be FBI collaborators) and leaked it to an FBI asset for
    publication. 19 …

    • jmc

      já paravas de spamar isto…

      • Anónimo

        as verdades contra a igreja não te convem ???

        • jmc

          o spam não me convém, nem a ninguém. era melhor se tivesses posto só o link em vez do lençol de texto. aliás, se pudesses condensar as várias respostas semelhantes que deixas em cada post, sempre era mais limpinho, mas se calhar já estou a pedir demais

      • Anónimo

        que magnifico… o clero traindo os irlandeses…..

  • Ateismo_jamais

    …de uma perspectiva não religiosa, irónica e sistemática.

    Acho que é louvável a sinceridade:
    Já advertes que é uma brochura de fala de religião, numa óptica anti-religiosa, trocista e tautológica.

    Não é que eu não soubesse disso, mas acho que assim não corres o risco de que te entendam, enganosamente,  como sendo um livro sério. 

    Até porque o título dava pano para mangas. Para os ateus, que vivem obcecados pelas religiões, vendo que a base integradora de toda a Europa e de todo o Ocidente é religião, sem a qual teríamos uma cultura e um desenvolvimento entre a Albânia e as sociedades tribais, é um problema ter quer conviver com isso e ver que não há argumentos possíveis para refutar essa realidade. 

    Então, colocam a tónica nos comportamentos particulares de pessoas ligadas à religião, como se as religiões são fossem corpos exclusivamente colectivos e públicos.

    Imagino um exemplo de uma chalaça, ia jurar inserta na  tal brochura: “a inquisição é um exemplo doutrinal do problema das religiões na Europa”. Quando a inquisição  nunca teve suporte doutrinal ou teológico, foi uma arma essencialmente de cariz temporal civil e de gestão regia. 

    Outro chiste é a critica anti-religiosa, partindo da suposta inobservância dos valores religiosos por parte dos crentes. Como se não fosse um burrice e uma imbecilidade alguém exigir que o adversário cumpra e siga aquilo que o sujeito critica e considera inválido.  A isto chama-se demência.    

    • jmc

      Tem uma certa razão quando diz que a base integradora da Europa foi a religião. Hoje não me parece que seja, e acho bem. É altura de nos livrarmos das superstições que nos dominaram no passado. Tiveram efeitos positivos e negativos, mas a sua falsidade torna-as desnecessárias para continuar a evolução da sociedade.

      Se pegarmos no bem (e só o bem, esquecendo a discriminação e fé cega) que a religião trouxe e compreendermos que estes valores podem ser seculares e continuar a ser tão válidos, conseguimos entendê-los, apreciá-los e aplicá-los individualmente.

      • ateu sim, e dai ?

        Lista os atos de “bondade” da religião do seculo 1 ao 18. É o período da integração européia. Não consegui pensar em nada. talvez possa me ajudar…

    • JOsé Oliveira

      Verdadeira autópsia, dura, severa, que esquarteja, impiedosamente, essa forma contestatária, cega e irada, de um ateísmo pouco menos do que muribundo… julgo que não é o melhor processo, mesmo que com admirável clareza, de espalhar a luz intelectiva de um bem que ilumine a todos sem olhar a quem. Dois mil anos de conhecimento e de progresso do pensamento humano, podem fazer algo melhor do que a defesa, através de um apologismo intransigente, dos crentes e da religião, ou do que a passiva afirmação do Nazareno: “Deixai que os mortos enterrem os seus próprios mortos”… Cumprimentos.

  • Anónimo

    Olha quem fala!!! e voces bons.. filhos de Jesus… que tem obsessão de atacar o comunismo.. o islam.. o aborto o feminismo…. o preservativo etc??? vocês nao tem moral!

  • Anónimo

    Ah.. Sarkozy poderia ser clérigo!!! Afinal.. ele é hipócrita demais
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO1oiuOtL6k&feature=related

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