About jerks. The mathematician Etymology, works and quotient of the believers (and not) • There is a bestseller and he wants us to go (almost) everyone to be stupid • Who knows what kind of millennia exit polls showed
Section from The Gazette of March 28, 2007
Giuliano Zincone
Chrétien de Troyes, who was he? The singer's Parsifal, among others. An idiot's name and in fact (understand it) by Piergiorgio Odifreddi, logical / mathematical and author of the bestseller "Why can not we be Christians." His brilliant introduction entitled peacefully "Christians and morons," and builds on etymology.
The word "cretin" derives from "Christian", since, according to the Encyclopedia (1754) "
individuals such as these were regarded as simple and innocent people, or because, stupid and foolish as they are, seem almost absorbed in contemplation of heavenly things. " Furthermore, according to Odifreddi, the same Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, he began with a list of the Beatitudes: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." Where are the poor in spirit (evidentemente!) idiots. Finally, the author explains that the religion of idiots
has become much more widespread "because, as shown by statistics, half of the population has below average intelligence (na)". I can not understand how it was possible to perform a similar statistic. Measuring (and how, and for how many centuries?) All IQ of the planet? Examining samples, as the exit polls? And what criteria are weighed, the intellectual level? Who determines them? Which parameters must comply? Perhaps those carved by the logical / mathematical West?
And who is the mean average (na), if half lower than average? And if the media were not the majority (as many idiots presume), what sense would despise the middle of the world? Here hath been jammed my reading: instead of going forward, I get mixed up in these silly questions , which certainly Odifreddi could answer with a simple formula. I can think of the sublime pinnacle of science, the explanation that Superman gave her a firm, when (not niccianamente) called Nimbus Kid: "I handle a beam, like the famous Archimedes. Here, the sentence on the lower half of the average (na) seems less clear than it shoots (leaves) in the skies over Metropolis.
Holdings of beauty is so unintelligent
Despite its etymology, then, is obviously reductive
decreed that only Christians are idiots. In fairness, this sentence can not hit only those who believe in the virginity of Mary, the resurrection of Christ, the Eucharist, etc., but also (agnostic) all the faithful of every religion, watered by promises and not verifiable, often more disturbing than those contained in Christianity. In short, thousands of years are (almost) all idiots. We secularism, but become polytheists: I love Money & Success, the Divi & the Dive. We marxistizzarci and build (as in the USSR) the grotesque museum of atheism, but persists in need of any religion: that of the Party and the Leader, for example. The soldiers charged the Führer kept bellies on the motto "Gott mit uns". Gott Which was it? Not by the Jews, of course. But even God was essential to Hitler, who secretly hunted the Grail, just as Parsifal. Not for the self-proclaimed atheist regimes has never concealed the need to postpone the conquest of paradise next to a very remote. According to Mao, the Revolution would have made "ten thousand years", a figure that, for Chinese, is close to infinity.
Billions and billions of believers have walked the globe. Why? "I think quia absurdum," preached a ruling deducted and / or assigned (Tertullian? Augustine? Two jerks, anyway). It seems very difficult to deny that mankind has hunger and thirst for absurd, impossible dreams, of hope in a life beyond life, in the most diverse forms, from reincarnation to purgatory. I find it rather childish idiots
slap the hell of all the genes that religions have produced. What surprises me, however, is not only the fact that, in human history, has never been a totally atheistic society, but the alleged coincidence of the abstractness of believers (including the stupid "absorbed in the contemplation of heavenly things") with their formidable practical and visible achievements. No one denies that individual atheists have produced excellent results in the intangible areas of science, literature and philosophy (often taking on the burden of pars destruens). But it is interesting to note that
dazed men have built (almost?) All that embellishes the crust of the planet, from the Sistine Chapel at Angkor Wat. In short, the idiots have left traces very solid assets and the beauty that still amaze the world. Atheists / intelligent, however, have built cathedrals particularly noble words Often contradicted by their descendants, often ephemeral. This makes me suspect that the superstitious with their heads in the clouds have more experience in terms of works than they have some scholars (materialistic?) Of mathematical logic. The lovers, you know, they cultivate. But when the crop becomes a cult, ends up imitating any religion, including that of Christian / jerks.
