France, Alternative Libertaire AL #247 - Read: Artillery
antireligious (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Here's a great triptych who wants to criticize religions of the Book with arguments
provided by es members directly from these cultures. ---- First Black Boy by Richard
Wright. Communist and atheist, Wright wrote the book as an autobiography of his childhood
and his early years as a young adult, in the 1920s it seeks to demonstrate the double
oppression that constitutes racial segregation in the States States and the Christian
religion whose grandmother is a fanatic, what he suffers greatly as an atheist (he becomes
very young). ---- The second book is Confessions Allah to Saphia Azzedine. Hilarious but a
formidable rawness (not to put in too timid hands) Confidences Allah evokes the trajectory
of a young Moroccan who suffers throughout his childhood patriarchal and religious
hypocrisy of men before ... to become a prostitute.
The third book - lighter - it's The Lamentation of the foreskin of Shalom Auslander.
There, it's the middle of the New York Orthodox Jews is blasted by a young adult who never
stops trying to negotiate every event of his life with a ruthless god. Again, the laughter
is powerful and implacable against small meanness (father hides the pornographic magazines
under the bed) or intrinsic schizophrenia all religious practice in our technological
world ...
In these three books, the child raised in the religion has only two choices: suffer or
rebel. In all three cases, it is the second option he or she chooses.
Another common feature of these books is to remember that if taken out of context,
religions can sometimes seem to us worthy of respect or consideration, it does not hold
true when exposed to the harsh light of personal experience. Thus, as the vampire (though
they loathe) religions of the Book do not suffer the detail of the sun that vividly
demonstrates the incompatibility between their theory and their application inevitably
biased by human all too human. Besides the religions are based on a message of terror,
hatred, rape and human rights abuses: just read Genesis to be convinced.
At the tedious reading of the Bible, the Koran and the Torah, so rather than oppose
Wright, Azzedine and Auslander: three beads subversive and anti-religious literature.
Guillaume (AL 31)
Richard Wright, Black Boy , Gallimard, 448 pages, 8.50 euros.
Saphia Azzedine, Confidences Allah , Editions 84, 126 pages, 7 euros.
Shalom Auslander, The Lamentation of the foreskin , 10x18, 305 pages, 8.40 euros.
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