Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Chill out with the fundamentalism.

Here's an intesting article that i read in this month's Time magazine. Check it out and let me know your opinion.

posted by Martin's @ 10:59 AM   2 Comments

2 Comments:

At 8:16 AM PDT , Blogger Jeff, Shino, Saya, and Meisa Neima said...

5 pages, holy cow! Ok, lemme give it a go.

The author seems to come into the article with a sense that Iran's leader is only out for violence and war, which he infact he may be but we don't know for sure, and an already set position against Islam. His sentence, "Just because it isn't the God that many of us believe in..."; already the author is assuming that readers of this aricle are of his faith. But as I read the article more, the author seems to switch gears into more of a examination of all faiths than from an accusation against one faith.

Yes, the Muslim faith is real are some percentage are fanatics, but I doubt that billions of followers are "gripped by fervor and fanaticism" as the author states. There are only about 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide according to the latest statistics, hardly billions, and that's if 100% of them are fanatical, which they are not.

This peace and compelte calm that certain religious fanactics seem to exude, as the author states, is with them because they see their decisions as not entirely their own, but enacted upon by way of their God. "It's not what I want, it's what my God wants." You know, pass the buck. Scary stuff.

What is true here though is that religion is the basis for most, if not all, wars, past, present, and probably future. What everyone needs to realize here is that there are no real differences between these faiths except those that their followers falsely create. "My God is better than yours..." type rhetoric. Broadly speaking, this "God" that everyone speaks of is really the same idea.

There is no arguing with these religious fanacics, including those in a leadership position, you'll never change them, whether it be Mahmoud, George, or whoever. How did they get that way? Parents, cults, indoctrination, isolation, etc... The only way we "true" people can change this is in the future, by keeping young minds from this religious separation and hatred. This will be hard, more likely impossible.

I disagree with the authors claim, as well as many others', that God is something separate, that God "surpasses our human understanding." This world will never change until we start placing the responsibility and definitions of our faiths in ourselves, not in some higher being who "works in mysterious ways." No, everyone of us IS God, we all can be perfect beings, separate and one at the same time. Maybe these thoughts of mine only stem from reading a book called "The Key". Then again, I've read the Bible, I've read the Koran, and both seem not entirely real to me except as true stories that have been changed and altered over time, that some have and do mistakely take as fact. However, "The Key" does, in it's description of what our place as human beings really is, strike me as real.

What's our future? Bleak, and then an explosion of true spiritual realization. While it may be hard, I would prefer this transformation to happen sooner than later, this way we can experience it in our lifetimes.

 
At 8:49 AM PDT , Blogger Martin's said...

great reply jeff

 

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