Casablanca- Religion is at the heart of the most debated subjects around the world today. It’s extensively employed in politics, social networks and other media for almost all kinds of purposes. Freedom of speech and expression, human rights and the sanctification of a given entity to claim power or influence over the others are the currently used manipulation strategies.
Heresy or delusional awakening?
A number of individuals across the internet have made use of the religious speech in both directions but for the same purpose: a quick step in their quest for fame. The first team in this league are religious fanatics and extremists, allowing themselves into the realms of any possible topics one can imagine.
Ranging from politics to economy and sport, their ability to produce useless speeches is endless. According to them, a person coming from a religious background gives them the right to discuss any subject without prior knowledge or education. This leads to one of the key problems here: the consecration of the self in all the religiously-rich environments.
“I am a faithful servant of the almighty, I inherit his powers!,” they claim.
We are then dealing with a category of people who clearly forget about the essence of religion itself, which is equality between the components of society and that, except prophets, there is nothing holy about someone who has barely studied religion.
The second team is the exact opposite, at the other extreme. The pseudo-educated minds, clearly influenced by the modern heretical movements. They blame religion for our social and cultural retardation. This is clearly not correct but partially true.
Religious Scholars and their deteriorating minds:
So who’s to blame?
As mentioned above, it is partially true that religion is the cause of our cultural backwardness, and most of those who read this will start sharpening their knives for an emotionally built reaction, but let’s stop and think about it for a second.
In fact, the main issue here is not religion itself but clearly the scholars who fail to deliver a modern perspective on religion. Are they afraid of being responsible for new explanations or adapting to the current situation? Or, do they just lack the necessary intelligence and knowledge to take a brave initiative and help our nation progress? Either way, the result of their actions and lack of courage are being directly reflected on society; we live in an era of social hypocrisy.
In the past, religious scholars were also scientists (mathematicians, physicists, philosophers, etc.). Back then, the Islamic empire was at the heart of the world’s advancement. Scientific and cultural advancements were never the enemies of religion. Are we more religious than they were? Not at all. We are worse, at every level.
I have noticed that most of the scholars do not live in the present. They do not even try to make it better, rather they live in the past, while waiting for an afterlife. As if God didn’t create us to make the most of our lives and make the earth a better place to be.
The subject being discussed here is beyond the scope of a simple and short article, but I hope to trigger a lot of production debate about the limitations of religious discourse, and I hope to continue the discussion in future articles.