On Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 9:46:21 PM UTC-5, Samiya wrote: > > فَاذْكُرُونِي أَذْكُرْكُمْ وَاشْكُرُوا لِي وَلَا تَكْفُرُونِ > > So remember Me, I will remember you and be grateful to Me and (do) not > (be) ungrateful to Me. > [Al-Quran 2:152 <https://www.islamawakened.com/quran/2/152/>] > > The Quran does not discourage the HOW questions, rather it encourages > humans to ponder upon the creation, but it emphasises the WHY questions. > God does not need our help in creating, sustaining, destroying or > recreating everything. What He wants from us is realisation and > acknowledgement for all He has done, and is continuously doing, and to > realise that there is great purpose in all of this. >
For this reason religion has the effect of dulling minds. Science is about asking how, it is not really about why questions that are more in the philosophical domain. Paul in one of his epistles admonishes against study of the world because one is worshiping the "creature" and not the creator. As such this sort of religious ideology induces people to focus on "the Truth," or really some illusion of such, and they lose the ability to ascertain whether some proposition has some probability or reason for being true or false. When religion takes over you get a dark age. The expansion of the influence of Christian fundamentalism is one reason the US has this orange baboon, or Godzilla, as President. People are becoming stupid, and this unfortunately appears to be a trend in the rest of the world as well. Please, I wish this religious stuff were taken somewhere else. Religion has no more sense than if I wish upon a star my fairy godmother will come, transubstantiate mice and a pumpkin into a horse drawn coach and take me to eternal bliss --- or happy ever after. It is all just magical thinking and ultimately preposterous nonsense. LC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/09e49351-9bd8-41b4-b6c0-d640dd0f7531%40googlegroups.com.
