Re: what’s happening to me ?
Peace sharaabee
With regards to the what if you were wrong concept I’ll have to wait until this evening to find out to watch the video. I agree with the concept that “religious obsessions” are or can be counterproductive even wasteful. It does not mean however that religion or to be adequately religious is the same as having an obsession. Being religious and having an obsession are two different things. One can have atheistic or irreligious obsessions which are equally as counterproductive.
Growth to our civilisation - well things like language you could argue is critical for the betterment of civilisation. On the advent of Islam - research in Arabic grew because of the power and precision of the Arabic langauge rooted inteh Qur’an - it led to many developments and Islamic concepts of research and hadith sciences and authentication helped developed the world of encyclopedic works and the importance of referencing.
Science is a good aspect to civilisation growth you would say and modern science finds it roots in Islamic works.
The latest atheistic bases for developments do not take into consideration the concepts of whether something is good for society or bad. Latest science tells us to explore “possibility” this will lead to things like genetic manipulations and nuclear bombs, because there is no ethical cap to science.
If you understanding of growth is unethical development then I agree with you religion does indeed stop unethical development, but the absence of religion does not stop unethical things coming in to society and in the long run this will be our downfall. The best sort of growth for civilisation is not too rapidly that it gets growth pains and not too slowly that it becomes stagnant. It needs to be rooted in religion because from it we can discover our purpose rather than imposing our personal desires over others.