{"id":300,"date":"2006-08-23T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andresb.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2006-08-23T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T23:00:26","slug":"la-unica-iglesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/post\/2006\/08\/la-unica-iglesia\/","title":{"rendered":"La \u00fanica iglesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hoy en <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minid.net\/2006\/08\/22\/leido-por-ahi\/\">minid.net<\/a> le\u00ed una frase que mi hermano tiene garabateada en la pared de su habitaci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab<em>La \u00fanica iglesia que ilumina es la que arde<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Hay tanto de cierto -al menos para m\u00ed- en esa frase, como de exuberancia activista-estudiantil. Hordas de zurditos desvelados que se devanan los sesos ideando nuevas formas de derrotar al sistema que les da de comer y los acoge alegremente cuando un d\u00eda se despiertan y descubren que <a href=\"http:\/\/piqueteestudiantil.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/me-morf-un-sanguce-de-putapari-como.html\">su tema favorito suena en el elevador<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Todav\u00eda se despiertan en m\u00ed esas llamaradas cuando escucho o leo expresiones de fanatismo religioso. Me sorprende y asquea encontrarme hoy con metodolog\u00edas de control de masas perge\u00f1adas en el siglo 5.<\/p>\n<p>La <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jihad\"><em>jihad<\/em><\/a> de Bush, la de Osama, la de Olmert, las de todos los que enarbolan la bandera religiosa para soltar bombas, ruegan por que alguien se despierte y pregunte algo. No importa qu\u00e9, algo.<\/p>\n<p>Una sencilla pregunta es lo peor que le puede pasar a un dogma. Es lo peor que le puede pasar a un fan\u00e1tico.<\/p>\n<p>Lo \u00fanico que habr\u00eda que preguntar, y s\u00ed, estoy siendo simplista, es: \u00ab\u00bfAlguien me puede repetir por qu\u00e9 estamos haciendo esto?\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00abThe only church that illuminates is the one on fire\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For me, that&#8217;s true, and also brings back the discourse of many exuberant student activists I found dwelling on my college. An army of lefties up all night trying to devise the ultimate way to beat \u00abthe system\u00bb. The same system that feeds &#8216;em then and happily takes &#8216;em back the day they wake up and take a shower.<\/p>\n<p>I stil react fiercely to any expression of religious fanaticism. I always get startled and nauseous when I find myself in front of those mass control methodologies dated on the 5th century.<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s jihad, Osama&#8217;s, Olmert&#8217;s, the jihad of everyone who raises its religion as an excuse to drop a bomb, begs for someone with the will to ask a question. Just that, a simple quiestion.<\/p>\n<p>The simplest of questions is the worst thing for a dogma. Is what a fanatic never expects.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be simplistic, please bear with me. All you have to ask is: \u00abWhy are we doing this again?\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoy en minid.net le\u00ed una frase que mi hermano tiene garabateada en la pared de su habitaci\u00f3n: \u00abLa \u00fanica iglesia que ilumina es la que arde\u00bb Hay tanto de cierto -al menos para m\u00ed- en esa frase, como de exuberancia activista-estudiantil. Hordas de zurditos desvelados que se devanan los sesos ideando nuevas formas de derrotar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andresb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}