Radiant Whispers Gabriel Porras

My atheist friends love to cite Immanuel Kant, David Hume and Voltaire as leading thinkers who opened new horizons for humanity, freeing it from the religious prejudices that had enslaved it for centuries. But things were very different, and the writings of these three influential thinkers provided a framework that supported the slavery and exploitation of non-European races more than anyone else. We examine the great ambiguities of the Enlightenment and the main myths of atheism, such as The Myth of Progress, The Myth of Human Rationality and The Myth of Human Goodness, with a discussion of Steven Pinker's "Enlightenment Now".

Programme written, presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Music:
"Joking Together", by Michele Nobler/Memory Tapes @artlist.io
"Alive and Well", by Campagna/Hello Love @artlist.io

The inspiration for this programme comes from a debate between Steven Pinker and Nick Spencer, titled "Have science, reason and humanism replaced faith?", available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ssf5XN5o9q4?feature=shared

Nick Spencer published a well-argued article entitled "Atheist Fairy Tales: exposing secularism's major myths" on Premier Unbelievable: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/topics/atheist-fairytales-exposing-secularisms-major-myths/12200.article

Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project, published a book entitled "The Language of God", in which he makes a strong case for the existence of God.

Jack and the Beanstalk,
by Roald Dahl


This version of the classic children's story is way funnier... and it rhymes!
Roald Dahl is a genius: his plot twists are mind-blowing, and that ending too! Brace yourself for a laugh-out-loud journey.

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor (gabrielvoice.com).

Cover design: Ricardo Gil (ricardo@scrav.com).

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!)

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music:
"Jay C”, by Synthet from the album Free Synthet! at freemusicarchive.org Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Sound effect: bbc.co.uk – © copyright BBC

A much funnier version of the children's story we all know...and written in rhyme! Only the fantastic Roald Dahl could twist the end like this. Get ready for a hilarious adventure!

Presented and produced by Gabriel Porras, professional voice actor.

Copyright Roald Dahl Story Company Ltd
Roald Dahl Nominee Ltd, 1982
Puffin Books, Penguin Random House 1984
Illustration: Quentin Blake, 1982
ISBN: 978-0-141-37885-5
(Treat yourself to a copy. It's a beautiful book!)

Visit the great Roald Dahl's website here: www.roalddahl.com

Music:
"Gypsy Bill”, by Ofer Koren and The Hill Bullies, at artlist.io

A lucid and easy-to-understand view of how ground-breaking Jesus' message was in his world (and ours). Jesus once said that the greatest display of love is sacrificing oneself for your friends, but by "friends," he meant every single person, regardless of our differences in nationality, race, religion, opinion, age, gender, blindness, or wisdom. Understand how and why we all fit in his comforting embrace.

Credits:
Programme produced and recorded by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Cover:
Jesus walks on the waters, image generated by artificial intelligence ai-generated-7922881_1280 at pixabay.com

Music:
"Devotion", from The Pilgrimage Series, Part 1 on artlist.io

Text:
"What Jesus taught and why" is a chapter from the beautiful book Jesus: a biography from a believer, by Paul Johnson.
Copyright © Paul Johnson, 2010 ISBN 978-0-670-02159-8

Biblical passages taken from The Message, Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

According to Islam, Paradise is a luxury brothel. As many as six Suras (chapters) of the Quran are devoted to this notion, with sensuous descriptions of steamy pleasures for those who gain entrance. And these descriptions are further enhanced by numerous hadiths. Sadly for all of us, only terrorists who die in jihad qualify for immediate access, which explains why they are so eager to blow themselves (and others) up. And Muslim women are not invited to Paradise because they would only spoil the party for the men.


Credits and references:
Programme written, produced and hosted by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and murmullosradiantes.com

Cover:
"The Believer's Dream", by Achille Zo (1870). Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

Music:
"Qanun al-Tarab" and "El Arte de Escuchar" by Gnawledge, from their great album Granada Doaba on freemusicarchive.org. Buy it on Bandcamp!
"Undeniable", by Ketsa, on freemusicarchive.org.
"Devotion", from The Pilgrimage Series, Part 1 on artlist.io.
"Reflections Eastern", from Master 1, on freemusicarchive.org.

Texts quoted from the Qur'an:
"those who deserve paradise occupy themselves with delightful things": 36:55.
Description of paradise and the Huris: 55:66-76
"The pious will be in a place of safety": 44:51-57
Description of paradise and the Huris: 56: 15-37
Eternal mancebos "like hidden pearls": 52:24

For the original sources of the Qur'an:
W. Tisdall, The Original Sources of the Quran





Hadiths of al-Bukhari and others:
Paradise is in the shadow of the sword:
Sahih al-Bukhari 4:52:73
Muhammad is not guaranteed salvation:
Sahih al-Bukhari 5:58:266
Women with "desirable frontal passages" and men with penises that do not become flaccid:
Sunah Ibn Majah, 5:37:4337
Believers will receive the sexual potency of a hundred men:
Jami at-Tirmidhi 4:12:2536
What will the Day of Judgment be like?
Sahih al-Bukhari 8, Book 76, hadith 577; Bayhaqi
Every pacifist Muslim is a hypocrite:
Sahih Muslim; Sunah Abu Dawud 2502. Book 15, hadith 26

Official Islamic biography of Muhammad:
The Life of Muhammad, a translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, with introduction and notes by A. Guillaume. Karachi, Ameena Saiyid, Oxford University Press, 23rd impression 2010.

History of the invasion of Kaybar in which Muhammad has a Jewish leader tortured and burned:
Sirat p. 510-19; History of al-Tabari VIII, p. 122, 123.

Tafsir of Ibn Kathir:
To occupy oneself with "delightful things" means "deflowering virgins":
Ibn Kathir IX, 383
Tafsir al-Khalalalayn, Surah Jaseen verse 55
https://i.redd.it/ga0ox7sd2a851.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/exmuslim/comments/12frh1x/deflowering_virgins_quran/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CritiqueIslam/comments/hjec12/proof_that_men_are_rewarded_virgins_that_they/

The story about Ayatollah Khomeini’s thesis on copulation with chickens I read in the wonderful and very moving book Reading Lolita in Teheran, by Azar Nafisi. Read it!

A very interesting article on the religion of the Vikings:
https://scandinaviafacts.com/did-vikings-have-to-die-with-sword-in-hand-to-reach-valhalla/

A billion women live under the shadow of Islam today (that's almost one in eight human beings walking the planet today). And all the evidence from fourteen centuries of Islamic history and theology points to the uncomfortable fact that Islam hates women. We examine numerous texts from the Qur'an and hadiths of Sahih al-Bukhari to illustrate the thesis.

Credits and references:
Programme written, produced and hosted by Gabriel Porras at gabrielvoice.com and radiantwhispers.com

Cover:
Carte Portale 532 - Jeunes Filles Arabes, by Lehnert & Landrock at zeno.org/bildpostkarten/m/

Music:
"Broken", by Michael Vignola at artlist.io
"The Art of Listening", by Gnawledge, from their album Granada Doaba at freemusicarchive.org

Texts quoted from the Koran:
Distribution of inheritances: 4:11 and 12.
Islam is the "perfect" religion for all mankind: 5:3
What to do with women "who commit unlawful sexual acts" (and those who are raped): 4:15 and 24:2
Men are superior to women: 4:34

Commentaries (tafsir) of Al Qurtubi, Al Tabari, Ibn Hajar:
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Wife_Beating_in_the_Qur%27an

https://www.al-islam.org/tags/tafsir

Hadiths of al-Bukhari:
Most of the inhabitants of Hell are women, and they are deficient in intelligence and devotion:
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:301

It is not permissible to mourn a woman for more than three days:
Sahih Bukhari 1:6:310

Not to whip the wife as a slave:
Sahih Bukhari 7:62:132

The beaten woman who sought help from Aisha:
Sahih Bukhari 7:72:715

Hadith on the benefit of drinking camel urine:
Sahih Bukhari, Hadith: 233, and Sahih Muslim, Hadith: 1671.

Hadith on the wings of flies:
Sahih Bukhari 4:54:537 and also Sahih Bukhari 7:71:673.

You can learn more about Bukhari here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahih_al-Bukhari

Ayaan Hirsi Ali:
Ayaan has written several books, among them "Infidel", about her own story and her flight from Islam, and "Heretic", about the reformation that Islam needs today. Visit his website here: https://ayaanhirsiali.com
The quote read comes from:
"Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now", http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/why-islam-needs-a-reformation-now