RELIGION: BECAUSE THINKING IS HARD. - Dan Brown

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency.

Both Christianity and Islam are logocentric,” he told his students, “meaning they are focused on the Word. In Christian tradition, the Word became flesh in the book of John: ‘And the Word was made flesh, and He dwelt among us.’ Therefore, it was acceptable to depict the Word as having a human form. In Islamic tradition, however, the Word did not become flesh, and therefore the Word needs to remain in the form of a word … in most cases, calligraphic renderings of the names of the holy figures of Islam.

I’ve learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.