(July 6, 2011 at 10:38 am)Darwinian Wrote: What about men and women who fulfil all these qualities except they are not muslim. Do they get any great rewards? After all, they are just as lovely as the muslims.
No, because religions are more like clubs than any means to a spiritual goal.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell