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Wednesday 16 February 2011

AGNOSTIC INDIFFERENCE - How to regard God with the PROPER Philosophical Detachment

An intelligent reading of the Koran is the recommended route to the Ideal Philosophical State of acknowledging the certainty of God existence as a concept (because it was Man who created Him after all), while at the same time playing with the possibility of His actual existence or non-existence, depending on whether you seek doubt or certainty. Both have their uses.

http://www.paltelegraph.com/opinions/views/8439-gilad-atzmon-left-and-islam.html 

"In both Islam and Judaism there is hardly a separation between the spiritual and the civil. Both religions stand as systems that provide thorough answers in terms of spiritual, civil, cultural and day to day matters."
 "the biggest current threat to world peace is posed by the Israeli-Arab conflict; a conflict rapidly becoming a war between a Jewish expansionist state and Islamic resistance."
"both Liberals and the Left are falling here, into a clearly supremacist argument, for both Islam and Judaism are more than just religions: they convey an entire ‘way of life,’ and stand as a thorough attempt to answer crucial questions regarding being in the world -- in dismissing them therefore, the Western Lib-Left are in danger of a complete dismissal of a large chunk of humanity."
 "a genuine Leftist and a good activist ... was sure that hating every religion equally was a ‘proper humanist qualification’, but the fact that an Islamophobe also considers himself a Judeophobe and Christiano-phobe is not necessarily a sign of a humanist commitment.  I kept challenging that good man; he then argued that it was actually Islamism (i.e., political Islam) which he didn’t approve of. I challenged him again, and bringing to his attention the fact that in Islam, there is no real separation between the spiritual and the political ... the Islamic unity of body and soul."
 "Rather than loving ourselves through the Palestinians and Egyptian masses and at their expense, we need to accept Palestinians and Egyptians for what they are and support them for who they are regardless of our own views on the world."
"This is the only real form of solidarity, for it aims at ethical rather than ideological conformity, and it puts humanity at its very centre. It reflects on Marx’s deep understanding of religion as the “sigh of the oppressed”. If we claim to be compassionate about people, then we should begin to learn to love them for what they are, rather than for what we expect them to be."
"Claiming to know more than others on base of ideological or political affiliation is nothing less than supremacy in practice."

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