Fatma

“‏كان سجنه داخل ذهنه.. ففي الذهن يكون الناس إما أحراراً أو سجناء.”
― Afonso Cruz, الكتب التي التهمت والدي

“They had weighed their lives against their beauty, and in the end had lost them both.”
― Natsu Hyuuga, The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 1

“إن الكتب التي تسند ظهورها إلى كتب أخرى فوق الرفوف عبارة عن عوالم متوازية!”
― Afonso Cruz, الكتب التي التهمت والدي

“But if we are all God’s children, why does God spend so much time in history ordering one branch of his universal family to wipe out another branch? Why did his love for his Jewish children have to be expressed by the extermination of his Palestinian children? Why did he later abandon his Jewish children in favour of his Christian children and encourage his new favourites to torment their older siblings? Why did he order his Muslim children who worship him as One to persecute his pagan children who worship him as Many? Why is there so much violence in religious history, all done by groups who claim God is on their side?
Unless you are prepared to believe that God actually plays favourites like some kind of demented tyrant, then there are only two ways out of this dilemma. The obvious one is to decide that there is no God. What is called God is a human invention used, among other things, to justify humankind’s love of violence and hatred of strangers. Getting rid of God won’t solve the problem of human violence but it will remove one of its pretexts.”
― Richard Holloway, A Little History of Religion