RE: Most humans aren't too logical when it comes to world views and how to go about it.
October 8, 2018 at 4:59 pm
(October 7, 2018 at 2:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: That is a person may be justified to say well I don't know any proof for God so I don't believe in her/it/him.
A person on the other hand, maybe blamable if they aren't sincerely reflecting over the proofs offered for God especially in his holy books.
There are no proofs of God in any holy book that I have ever seen or heard of. None.
And if there is a God, and if it cares at all about people worshiping it, then it should've provided actual evidence of itself, not words written by agenda-driven holy men.
(October 7, 2018 at 2:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: At any rate, how much time we invest in study of religion over other things in life is not a matter of reason per se.
It's a matter of love. We set our priorities according to what we deem most important, which is another word for what we value more, and that is another word for love.
Somethings we may not love but our priority out of necessity sure. But other things formed in our list order of priorities is due to how much we love.
You are free to love whatever you like. You can imagine God in any form, any culture, and love him/her to your heart's content. But, which aspect is correct? Which properties are real? How you do know you have the right god, or even love the right thing? Are you going to live your entire life assuming that an ancient writing holds the truth about life, while ignoring the knowledge of the present?
(October 7, 2018 at 2:05 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It's not good enough to assert that I am doing wishful thinking. All my wishes and desires is in fact, to abandon Islam, and it's been like that for a while, because I would rather embrace a hedonistic style of life and enjoy and chase pleasures.
The reason I ignore those desires is because of insight of the true higher beauty and the path which forbids letting chaotic passions take over your heart and destroy your inner world, I hold on to Islam despite dark desires to abandon it being overwhelming, and sins being easy to do where I live.
Are you better or worse for your shunning of hedonism? Are those around you better or worse? Do you have an inner peace from your beliefs? Do your doubts haunt you? If you were shown proof tomorrow that your God didn't exist, would you still decide that your spiritual path was the best one you could follow?
I'm an atheist, and I don't live for hedonism. Well, lets say that I enjoy whatever life has to offer, but that includes not just desires for sex, consumerism, and acclaim, but also love, purpose, integrity, value, and ultimate meaning. I don't have to have a god to achieve a balance.
At the end of my life I'll say "I got what I wanted out of life. Now I hope the next generations do as well". Nothing is there to judge me except my personal meaning.
