الأديان في بلادنا قد مُنحت امتيازات خاصة نتيجة نشأتنا في بيئةٍ تقدسها وتعتبرها مصونة من الاستهزاء أو حتى النقد، لكننا غالباً ما ننسى أن الأديان والرموز الدينية ما هي إلا ‘أفكار’ من
والقدسية التي نسبت إليهانوع آخر، وأن الحصانة التي تمتلكها هي بكل بساطة نتيجة مباشرة للحكم الديني وتدخل السلطات الدينية بتشريع القوانين وسنّها..
People say it’s my choice since my parents “asked” me when I was 8 years old, but how can a child understand and make such a decision, a decision that I saw as an opportunity to become like my mother and the women in the family.
Freethought Lebanon represented Lebanon in the Rationalist International Conference 2016, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia on April 23-24, 2016. Our talk, entitled “Freethought in Lebanon”, was given by Mario Ramadan.
You could never say that things are dull in the Middle East, but this last week has been a particularly eventful one for the region. As I’m sure you’re aware by now, a bunch of right-wing Christians and Jews united with a soft-porn director to create a shitty film about the “evils” of Islam, and the Muslims in the Middle East did
