David Trimble (1944–2022) Northern Irish politician
Human Rights' Other Face : http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/10rajiv.htm: 10 March 2004 , Rediff.com. . Quoted in S. Balakrishna, Seventy years of secularism. 2018.
“The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it.”
The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine
Context: The illusion of Sin and Guilt, the madness of our species, is the act of cursing the world under the misapprehension that one is cursing only one part of it. To curse the fig tree, as in the funniest and most misunderstood parable of Jesus, is to curse the soil in which it grew, the seed, the rains, the sun; the whole world, eventually — because no part is truly separate from the whole. The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."
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