Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Unwanted Side-effects of...

In this segment I'll be focusing on the unwanted portions of religious texts that we find, or at least some of us would find inconvenient, distasteful, deplorable, or outright despicable.

Components of the texts that the vast majority of populations, those that find such contents inconvenient or inapplicable to the modern world, as they believe it was meant to apply to the time it was conceived and written, would rather forget about, not discuss, and/or be or remain oblivious to the hard truths and realities of the notion of faith.

For instance, as I can only speak about my own faith and experiences I had encountered with It,
it was by chance that I had discovered of a little known lines in the Koran, Islam's holy text, that permitted the forceful conversion of nonbelievers, accepting the deaths of people, in the millions, reserved for those that could not be persuaded through other means.

This was the reasoning used by Bin Laden for political ends, with religous endorsement.Just as there is a Bin Laden in Islam, there is a Paul Hagee in christianity, who publicly

Found out by chance because no one person, either my family nor the teachers in those faith-based schools I once attended, bothered to even recognize its existence, much less mention it to their children or their students because they found it too inconvenient or conflicting with their modern secular beliefs.


(No 2nd nor 3rd party source in this post. This is entirely reflections and conclusions drawn from past experiences.)

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