On Saturday, November 15, 2014 4:27:31 PM UTC, zib...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Saturday, November 15, 2014 8:30:37 AM UTC, Samiya wrote: >> >> >> >> On 15-Nov-2014, at 12:31 pm, LizR <liz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Organised religion in its entirety is a veiled threat. >> >> >> Temporally, yes, because it is abused by humans against humans. However, >> temporal worries and troubles should not deter us from seeking the eternal. >> We come alone and we leave alone, and where we came from and where we are >> headed are giant question marks. Is our temporal existence without any >> purpose? Something within me says that there is a purpose and there is much >> more before and after our temporal existence, and we are here to figure >> that out, so that we can head in the right direction when it's time to head >> onwards in the eternal journey, or that is my fairytale >> > > That's a nice fairy tale, that is to your credit. > > But the big fairytale with you, is that you are an honest emissary of > Islam to other peoples and cultures. Being honest means facing up to hard > questions, and spending a lot of time seeing things through the eyes of the > people you want to be an emissary to. Not to beat them in argument. But to > understand, and to experience where appropriate sobering realities about > your religion as it happens on the ground in reality, and your people as > they happen on the ground in other peoples societies and cultures. > > You don't do anything of this. I've tracked. You don't. > > So there it is. The real fairytale >
sorry that was harsher than I had in mind at outset. This reflects a more general problem on my side...not personal -- 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.
