Boreal

Stopping the Draining of the Light

I have been asked, on more than a few occasions, why I write about the Book and the alleged illiterate tasked with acquainting mankind with its content, knowing the consequences of one wrong word, a typo or a misspelling.

The risk is there, but it is nothing compared to the risk we ask our young people to take when we send them to fight religious extremists like the Islamic State, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda... and unlike yours truly, they risk lives not yet lived in what many have to know is a forlorn battle because of what is happening at home.

With the new race and religious hate laws coming through [after the London bombings] it could be considered illegal if Pain, Pleasure and Prejudice is deemed an attack on a person’s religious belief.

A publisher expressing his regrets.

The suicidal insanity of Western countries making an honest critique of a religious text a crime while sanctioning hateful quotes from that same text encouraging violence against nonbelievers.

Words, the most effective weapon against an advancing darkness are being constrained in a futile attempt to appease an intractable foe who lives, murders and maims as per the instructions contained in a self-proclaimed error-free book of revealed truths (immutable facts communicated to a mortal by a god).

39:28 We made it an Arabic Qur’an without any defect that perchance they might be God-fearing.

Sam Harris:

How do we know our holy books are free from error? Because the books themselves say so. Epistemological black holes of this sort are fast draining the light from our world...

The End of Faith - Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, p. 35

The darkness cannot smother the light on its own. It requires our complicity, our collective willful ignorance of its teachings. I will not be an accomplice, the reason for my books about the world's fastest growing religion.

Bernard Payeur