Voltaire.
Ah, mankind. How we are longing for a higher being above us. Whether it is for our personal comfort, our social solidarity, or our mere political vehicle.
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Dan untuk itu diperlukan sebercik keragu-raguan. — Prof. Peter Suwarno, menyarikan tulisan Peter Berger dan Anton Zijderveld.
Yoweri Museveni
Said after Gaddafi’s (that Libyan head of state) remark on Christianity, “Bible was human-forged!”. Though being a majority, the Ugandan Christians chose to forgive him. I wish the Muslims counterpart could be like this.
Additional notes: I’m not sure why several Muslims love to mutilate and claim other religions’ sacred texts (like Bible) as “false” while they don’t have proper knowledge on them (never read on them and being an ethnocentric bastard).
Goenawan Mohamad
(via Twitter)
Mas Narimo.
Saya sepakat. Seperti kata Ali bin Abu Thalib, “undzuur maa qoola, wa laa tandzur man qoola.”
Guru Agamanya mba Rizma Adlia.
Touche!