![]() Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. ![]() two of them said that, after death, the just go to Paradise. “I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.). To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.” If all will admit that all have an equal right to think, then the question is forever solved but as long as organized and powerful churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority, the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. We do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?Ĭhristians tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is-not that they love their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those who differ from them, with simple fairness. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. Why a difference of opinion upon predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other seems beyond the comprehension of man and yet in all countries where Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. You find it in the Samhitas, the infinite of extension most marvellously painted and placed before the readers, such as has been done nowhere else.“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. When Milton or Dante, or any other great European poet, either ancient or modern, wants to paint a picture of the infinite, he tries to soar outside, to make you feel the infinite through the muscles.There are wonderfully sublime passages in them but there it is always a grasping at infinity through the senses, the muscles, getting the ideal of infinite expansion, the infinite of space. Take for instance, Milton, Dante, Homer, or any of the Western poets. ![]()
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