Last Serge Pongtong speech

Here are verbatim The Serge Pongtong's last speech At thirty-third congress of Sciences Enchanted Which gathered together scholars animans in the oasis town of Nouakchottong * Dear friends in this so inclement year for our people I would like to talk again of the serious problem Posed by the triumph of monotheism Among humans Are they considering Since they presuppose the existence of one god In whom they believe That this god is not only their god but the god of all And since he is the god of all The prayers addressed to him The ritual dedicated to him Can be as diverse as humans are Why this god would he not pleased with the diversity Of rites Of their exoticism Of their fancy Why would he not angry That they are maintaining the holocaust of living beings In his name Year after year, century after century How do these humans don't realize It is impossible for a creator to rejoice of bloodshed During the sacrifice of one of his creatures By another of his creatures in order to be nice to him How can they assume that God may require from one of his creatures The sacrifice of her child to make sure of her submission to his law The death of Abraham's son Isaac and finally the substitution of Isaac by a sheep So the substitution of a murder of living being by the murder of another living being As if a sheep was not worth a man As if a man was worth more than a sheep As if a sheep was worth less than a man

As if a living being was not worth another living being All evil comes from this Treating us we living animans like vulgar livestock Treating us we living animans like game Treating us we living animans like meat The polytheism certainly did not prevent this ultimate evil of killing his neighbor But at least we living animans were often seen as protector gods In the egyptian polytheism the gods for instance were Half man half animal or quite animal There was Horus the Wholy Above the Wholy Distant Falcon god Guarantor of universal harmony There was Thot the Wholy Knowing Ibis god Inventor of language There was The wonderful Bastet Cat goddess of music joy motherhood At which the faithfuls devoted the mummy of their died cat And many other gods goddesses in Egypt and in many other countries where The animals were regarded as gods or brothers of the men therefore entitled To the same consideration to the same treatment as humans after death In this case the embalming The transition from polytheism to monotheism Has broken this bond of brotherhood between living beings Between humans and ourselves Beings animans It is true that monotheism Is not a block A monolith Despite this affirmation of the Single One Indeed three rivers flowing from monotheism originate to three sources The first of these sources makes to gush clear water The second of these sources makes to gush sweetest milk The third of these sources makes to gush oil the blackest From the first source flows a Nile with its numerous meanders From the second source flows a Mississippi with its numerous calms From the third source flows a Congo with its numerous rapids Which unlike the first two rivers ravages peoples takes away their soul

The Nile with its numerous meanders is one of the three great ways to live monotheism This one which sees in the sacred texts speak of God Thus a speak that we must study constantly For one day hope to grasp its full meaning Because in each word of god There is an infinite That we living beings by God created If as long is that He exists Can not fully grasp because we are finite beings The Jewish philosopher Maimonides blessed be he by his god If as long is that He exists Is a good example as he uses reason to interpret the word of God And we all know that our mind is a labyrinth with many detours Of which we find it difficult to find the exit that Maimonides helps us to find As the Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd As Christian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas As the naturalian philosopher Samuel levingpongtong Guide us when we are astray The Mississippi with its thousand calms is this trend of monotheism More inclined to respect the spirit than the letter of the sacred texts Of which Judaism gives us a wonderful example in the Psalms Christianity with the figure of Jesus Islam with Sufism Congo with its Thousand and one rapids illustrates this trend of monotheism To understand the scriptures literally Since it is written in the bible that the world was created 5,000 years there All delighted scientific truths that demonstrate the contrary are rejected Way of see illustrated yesterday by the Pharisees Today by a contemporary movement of Judaism that makes of the covenant with Yahweh A paradigm to distinguish Jews from other nations A chosen people above the community of all living beings As if we orangutans had nothing to do with this Yahweh if He exists and created us If you bonobos you chimpanzees you gorillas you macaques Had nothing to do with this Yahweh if He exists and created you As if all other creatures were not elected in the same way by this Yahweh if He exists and has created them Unfortunate trend that we also find among Christians River with its whirling rapids of intolerance Black Congo Taking away everything in its path all living beings in the last Jews And today We orang-utans you bonobos you chimpanzees you macaques And even you gorillas With your unfortunate tendency to take you to the salt and honey hominid Which as I already said last year Leads these monotheistic fanatics to dispose of our planet

As if it was only available in favor of them And seriously threaten our survival and theirs blinded by their certainties Finally there is the Islam where this black Congo with its swirling rapids of intolerance grows Because to the Muslims the sacred texts are the word of god himself So uncreated Our camel driver and husband of Khadijah Muhammad is only the medium of Allah Especially since the compilation of this word in the Quran Follows a plan that is not indicated by Allah only inspired by Him if He exists And is the result of a choice made by a commission of experts Who ordered for the greater good of imams ulemas and other ayattolahs But not for the understanding of Muslim To the said compilation by classifying the suras in length the longest first By selecting a classification by subject And no chronologically Which apparently seems a rational choice but merely obscures the understanding of the suras Hence the school Mu'tazilite for whom the Quran is created not uncreated therefore interpretable Which uses reason to inform the word of god Which unfortunately was fought till disappearing So if the Quran is the word of god To be faithful to Allah as best as possible It must be interpreted literally Or rather not interpreted but applied to the letter What gives at these partisans of literalism In this monotheism A formidable force The good Muslim is this who lives the Quran to the letter And it is said that men have authority over women Sura IV 34 They can hit them as suggested for submission in case of disobedience It is not possible because the Quran is uncreated to mitigate the brutality of the Arabic term used To eupheminismize Another frightening rapid of this black Congo the loss of identity that this literalism produces For the Muslim peoples hitherto preserved That we orangutans we can see from our enchanted forests In some of our Indonesian friends That you bonobos you see in the Sahel countries You chimpanzees in Middle East Sufism is everywhere chased repressed women's status into question When it got closer to equality between men and women What to do we can only say to humans As we have done and as gorillas have undertaken to do so Abandon this Congo where are rolling the black oils of intolerance of deculturation Of lowering of women

For the Nile with its clear waters of reason and tolerance Otherwise the Mississippi with its camel milk so sweet and so loving to all and especially for women Like Jesus in the presence of adulterous woman sentenced to stoning You cries it out that he who is without sin cast the first stone Abandon like us orangutans Us macaques us bonobos us chimpanzees us gorillas This dangerous monotheism Black monolith which us you crushes for enchanted polytheism The fate of Jessica this american sentenced to death and executed in Virginia for murdering her husband That of Sakineh this iranian which fortunately the sentence was not yet executed Are there to make us pessimistic But it is not necessary to hope to undertake but necessary to undertake to hope * Following this conference Violent demonstrations took place in a large number of countries A fatwa was launched by an obscure cleric Regarded as a saint because of his blindness Serge Pongtong Was the victim of an attack that cost him life to him and his friends accused Of being impure beasts Their feet and hands were cut for using like ashtrays *** I recommend this poignant documentary about an orangutan : http://www.greenthefilm.com/