I think we fail to remember that religious text is largely predicated on establishing systems of morality, the heart of the human condition.
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Replying to @likeplastic_
As they are mostly universalist, the aim here is to bypass the problem of time, if at all acknowledge it.
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Most people do not have a problem with religion today, they have a problem with universalism.
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You can't codify Islam, Islam was not meant to be contextualized. It is, at heart, an absolutist philosophy.
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Again, the point is to target questions that have plagued the human race for centuries. Can you really say these questions have changed?
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Our questions have changed. We form our opinions by doubt, not by authority. Religion cannot run an ever changing knowledge society.
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you provoke the obscurantist in me. Existentially, I cannot say we are very different my friend
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I fully agree with your take on religion. I just think that religion does not work for our times any more. No beliefs without priors, please
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