RE: My world is tearing apart
April 25, 2016 at 5:20 am
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2016 at 5:21 am by bennyboy.)
If God is real, certainly he's not trying to confuse you by being illogical and making you believe anyway. Much more likely is that someone is trying to make you suspend critical thinking by forcing you to believe ideas that are unbelievable. This is why cults have such strong followers-- believing such dumb ideas forces someone to completely suspend rational thought, and accept with the heart what the mind knows to be false.
There's much good in Islam, IMO. Many great philosophical ideas and much great literature are rooted in it. But you have to be brave enough to separate out the useful from the useless, and not let any "authority" tell you to accept without thinking. God is big enough to include you, but Islam isn't great enough to speak for God. . . not even close.
There's much good in Islam, IMO. Many great philosophical ideas and much great literature are rooted in it. But you have to be brave enough to separate out the useful from the useless, and not let any "authority" tell you to accept without thinking. God is big enough to include you, but Islam isn't great enough to speak for God. . . not even close.
