الصفحة الرئيسية - العلم من غير دين أعرج والدين من غير علم أعمى / عدنان عاكف - أرشيف التعليقات - Religion, science and other issues - Talal Alrubaie

Religion, science and other issues - Talal Alrubaie

- Religion, science and other issues

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Talal Alrubaie

2009 / 5 / 17 - 02:44
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Dear Dr Adnan
I read your conceptualization of religion and science and the relationship between the two, and wish to make the following comments:
1. You speak of the ‘religious person’. But who is the religious person? This is a very vague concept, and there are no well-defined criteria to guide us. Although in some prominent cases the characterization is easy to make, nevertheless, in many other cases, it could be very imprecise and based, greatly or exclusively, on self-designation or on external criteria related to religious rituals or some statements ‘parroted’, in order to give a deeply, though false, religious impression.
2. What makes you think that the religious person, even in an abstract term or when referring to the profits as the ultimate personification of religion, is the person who has freed him/herself of selfishness and reached a status of moral purity? This statement has no evidence from history and is not informed by research into social sciences, particularly social or moral philosophy or even religious texts themselves. A religious person, certainly ha

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العلم من غير دين أعرج والدين من غير علم أعمى / عدنان عاكف