Can there be New Ways of Understanding and Practicing Ancient Religious Teachings?

[Leonardo17]

Ah yes.  As well all know, allah is super cool with dudes blowing each other and anyone who says otherwise isn't a real muslim.

   I do not say that my interpretation is the only interpretation. But the other interpretation is a very scary one. Look at this, this is scary. Aren’t you scared when you see something like this?




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Their entire interpretation is fear based. I don’t like approaches that are fear-based. In most of the spiritual traditions that I had the chance to study there is the idea of “awareness of consequences”. If you do or omit to do something, like if you do now sow you plants in the right season, there will be no agricultural produce during the next season.
 
Fear based religious interpretations are more cult-like. People are in a constant state of guilt, fear and lack of love and respect for their own very existence in this material plane in order to make a fearful animal like flock out of the is easy to control and manipulate.
 
So you are not entirely wrong when you say that fascism is not really a new invention.
 
But I said. There is little correlation between my way of doing thing and their way of doing things.