Sunday, September 16, 2007
If we can just stop turning life into a debate..
... whether or not an individual emerges a believer or non-believer in the process, he would have been through a Damascus experience anyway-- one where he is granted with a deeper sensitivity to the questions of life itself. The significance of dealing with religious knowledge lies in its nature, and my opinion here is echoed in the words of Charles Davis, "Religion is the drive towards transcendence, the thrust of man out of and beyond himself, out of and beyond the limited order under which he lives, in an attempt to open himself to the totality of existence and reach unlimited reality and ultimate value. "
Those lines were how I concluded my Independent Study for KI.
Uneasily though, I know how superficial my study really is when I really look at the world of religions and their various schools of thought and feeling. Not really in the academic sense (I mean cambridge should understand that a mere 3000 words can do no justice if I were to discuss all forms of human thought to religion)
I'm uneasy in the existential sense... That I know in the world today- There exists the athetists that decalre that there is no such supernatural interference in our lives. There exists the religious zealots that share ethusistically about their faith with people around them, imposing pieces of informations to interrupt the routine of their listeners. There exists the humanists that are angry with Christians who are against abortion and stem-cell research. There exists Christians who are self-righteously certain of precepts that their denomination preaches. There are free-thinkers who are hopeful that the irrationality of believers will fade, so that the world can be safer place. Those who blatantly ignore the questions of life, caring more for their immediate meanings. Those who live in fear because of the state's law that is 'according to God'. Those that are so faithfully devout, piously praying moment by moment, and painstakingly reading the bible daily. Those that are fustrated by the arrogance of believers in their know-it-all attitude and hypocritical community. Those that are worried about certain doctrines, that are considered the crux of the theology for some, a peripheral issue for others...
No exact pattern of course, all those people. But in that diversiy of examples I've raised... I guess you can make out the gist. Its not only about the propositions and oppositions - there are those that hope. Those that seek. Those that die.
Discrimination gets worse when its complicated. When it concerns an issue that can integrate race, ethnicity, ideology, intellect, language, culture... the voice that shouts for the equality of mankind since his on a level playing field can only remain as a hesistant thought.
Its too confused to be otherwise.
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