Loopholes in Religion

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Re: Loopholes in Religion

@MangoMan

Once again, thanks for the detailed response.

I think this is where religions are turned by human beings into dangerous cults. When you ask humans not to use his/her senses to understand something or to differentiate between good and bad, rather just submit to an authority to decide for him/her what is allowed and what is not. For example, I know killing is wrong, and I will never kill. But if I were a part of some cult which would demand that I kill human beings in order to please god, if I used your logic, I would never come out of that cult. But if I used my own mental faculties, I would be able to understand the inappropriateness of the act.

I am sorry, but replying to each point of such a long post would not be possible for me, so please accept my apology for that.

No apologies needed …

I may have failed to demonstrate that the above also applies … But it takes a secondary rank after the authority of the text and the wealth of combined interpretation … The way to remain sure and right is to seek out the opinion of many Islamic groups … Get their official opinion and you will find a middle ground … And that will never be aligned with any of the cults. We have a mind so we should use it … But we also have a heart and we should use that too … And we also have desires that are selfish and we should rise above them too. Then we should treat the subject matter with impartiality and no bias and use the outcomes to strengthen our resolve and continually check ourselves against the majority and never be content in our states … Always trying to improve and always trying to seek out the authentic meaning upon our reliance that the original message is one of purity as our intellects tell us should be the case if such a message has come from God.