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There Is Nothing Faithful About Blind Faith
We need to stop using piety as an excuse to evade thinking critically.
“Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear.
They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves.
And most importantly, they don’t think that shouting strengthens their argument.” —Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
I once got into a heated debate with someone about religion.
This person, who I shall endearingly name “Ali”, kept using conspiracy theories against the Jewish and about Dajjal to prove his theories as facts. He would tell me stories about ulamas that he met that confirmed his biases.
Even though I have only studied theology for a short three years, I realised a few slight discrepancies in his claims. Whenever I brought it up, he would furiously rebuke with “I’ve read the Qur’an from start to finish! Have you?”
