Friday, January 14, 2011

You don't have to take my word for it

Turkey: Proliferation of Koran Translations Pushing Turks to “Verge of Division” | EurasiaNet.org

This is good news. Many centuries after Islam branched out into Sunni and Shia, maybe now the time is ripe for the real Reformation. The news is good, because it inevitably will lead to the acknowledgment that your version of Islam, although without doubt the correct one, is not the only one, which in turn has a decent chance to result in living in peace with all sects that acknowledge Muhammad as their original inspiration. Hopefully we can get to this point without too much bloodshed. Of course, if the history of Christianity is any guideline, this is a rather optimistic view.

Not by necessity, believers turn violent by adherence to the idea that your belief is the one and only word of God and that the salvation of all of us, you included, depends on us all accepting your belief.

It is my belief that none of us has any clue, certainly not any verifiable knowledge, about the purpose of life other than the purpose we give it ourselves. That's as close as we can get to a universal theory or common understanding. But you don't have to take my word for it.

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