Comments on: There is No Place for God in Religious Indoctrination /region/europe/there-is-no-place-for-god-in-religious-indoctrination-10147/ Fact-based, well-reasoned perspectives from around the world Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:00:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Rajai Masri /region/europe/there-is-no-place-for-god-in-religious-indoctrination-10147/#comment-32033 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:00:44 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=47210#comment-32033 Dear Sara, a wonderful article. However, sadly, it is dogma and the demagogues who shape our lives: past, present and the future. The Masses rule, however, sadly, mostly as a manipulated lot, a manipulated force that is not bound by rational and logic. This how it has always been, as, discouragingly, how it will always be.

Rajai Masri

]]> By: wei de-li /region/europe/there-is-no-place-for-god-in-religious-indoctrination-10147/#comment-32025 Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:20:06 +0000 http://www.fairobserver.com/?p=47210#comment-32025 This is an interesting article and in essence I think that I somehow agree with it. However the author describes “religion” at great length but does not offer an explicit definition of it. Therefore only those who have had a similar experience with religion as she can identify with her ideas with some clarity and share her understanding. For an Oriental whom might simultaneously take part in several religions drawing a definition merely from the author’s description obstructs the reader from understanding what I presume to be the author’s meaning, the fallacy of a literalism that oppresses and an adherence not to spiritual essentials but instead to totemic social structures created in the name of a given religion or deity by a human community which of course has removed its self from divinity. That is only common sense and one wonders why that needs to be explained. In East Asia, generally speaking religion does not define “us” and “them”; it is not “naturally divisive” nor does it necessarily act as a means to obstruct the believer from Divinity. Of course there are exceptions to this and that is very sad, regrettable. The author would do better to vent at the actual culprit of all social indoctrination of all types – the hierarchy that is imposed upon humanity by social elites where they do so using religion, nationalism, racism or ideology or even media and advertising. Currently an atheistic, “scientific” – even nihilistic — West is trying its best to indoctrinate us all to their way of thinking that all traditional structures are void of content. The truth is all socio-political structures are cultural adaptations to real circumstances until they become outdated. I suggest that the current structures are outdated. All of society needs to adapt to a new reality. Clinging to structures that harm or deny one access to an experience of the Divine is the same as the idolatry condemned by older religions when they were young. Certainly the author’s definition of religion and my own are different.

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