by Hammoudi Abdelwahab

Created on: May 27, 2008

The face

The most sacred part of the human being is his face.

Whatever might be this individual, the integrity of his face by which, he identifies himself to the world, is sacred.

It allows his relatives to recognize him, to inter him and to mourn for him.

That is why, when we want to hurt someone deeply in his soul, we disfigure him.

Then, he is marked forever.

The human integrity has always been an inviolable right.

The respect of the human person belongs to the Ten Commandments.

The respect of man goes through the respect of his opinion.

And any cultural production deserves the respect because it is the product of the human thought.

And the human thought is the culminant point of the biological evolution on Earth.

Someone said:

" Men die, monuments fall in ruins. What remains, it is the human thought. "

Let's have respect for this human thought. And the human thought is thought only when it hoists high the human dignity.
Ernest Hemingway said:

"Man is not made for defeat. You can kill a man, but you can never defeat him ".

For Hemingway, man is the idea and the idea is immortal.
We can get the upper hand of the biological matter but never of the spirit.

Most of the ideas that put in action the world today are ideas of persons who died a long time ago, often eliminated by strong men of their time.

The act of destroying can be done in the name of various things: there is the religious cause, the revolutionary one, the nationalist, the ..one.

Just put a name to fill in the gap and wrap it to make it marketable.

Two things get on well together, but often in life, exist separately:

Force and wisdom.

In front of a humane emergency, force postpones the falling due, wisdom pays cash. But how many bad payers are there in this world!?

DOCTRINES

The appliance of any doctrine is always restrictive because achieved in a confined and definite cultural and environmental social background.

If we consider the case of ideologies.

There had been the soviet Marxism, then the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav, Cuban, Egyptian, Yemenite etc.

In reality, these Marxisms were all local and peculiar experiences, of Karl Marx's communist ideal, all variants of the communist doctrine, different from each other and which sometimes clashed violently!

In the application of any doctrine, religious or whatever it may be, there is the source: the texts, the ideal and their application which is inevitably approximate, limited by the human weakness and its interpretation, inevitably limited, because humanly too.

It is not given to all Christians to be ecclesiastics, as it is not given to all Muslims to be Imams or to all Jews to be rabbis.

We are Christian or Muslim or Jewish but, at different degrees of faith with a different vision of the divine message.

The field of respect and comprehension of religion by its followers is large and varied.

That is why the same religion is practiced differently in various places of the world and that the same religion may become a source of conflict.
This explains too the presence of several sects in the great monotheists religions and we are tempted sometimes to say that, each country has its own religion (The religion that suits it?)

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