On 20 April 2014 15:15, Samiya Illias <samiyaill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris, I was replying to Spudboy100 who refuses to consider the Quran > because of the 'jihadis' 'behavoir' . The point I was trying to make is > that some people, from all religious persuasions, do strange and at times > horrible things. We need to look past people and their behaviours, and > examine the religious texts to evaluate for ourselves what it is. We are > all responsible for our own beliefs and actions. We come to this world > alone, we will leave it alone. What religious label we are born in, which > religious label or not we choose, eventually we all must face death alone, > and whatever's beyond that. Wishing it away because some people are poor > ambassadors or poor communicators of the message, won't change things > according to our wishes. We humans have intelligence and a vast wondrous > world full of thoughts and ideas and science and signs... we must explore > everything we can for its own merit before discarding it. > On this Everything list, I see earnest seekers exploring almost > everything, but somehow they stop short of scripture, especially Quran. I > understand much of this has to do with a filtered view of history, > long-held prejudices, popular media, as well as the actions of people who > poorly understand or use the religion, etc. > This is, at least in my case, due to a distrust of taking the authority of centuries-old texts when there is little to no evidence that any of them contain more than - at best - a slight grain of truth, and when from a present day perspective it is clear they were created for reasons well understood by psychologists (in particular, for social control). > The thing is, to understand everything, we must be willing to explore > everything. > Including Uri Geller, UFOs, a thousand people who want to "prove Einstein wrong", Borley Rectory, the people trying to sell me something from Nigeria, the Loch Ness monster, Ouija boards, Thor, Zeus, Odin and so on - yes, no doubt one shouldn't dismiss anything, but life's too short not to prioritise. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
