Re: Description of God is corrupted by followers of all religions
Reply #6 - April 18, 2009, 08:53 PM
kope, you are not the first and you won't be the last to have your doubts that you're desperately looking for a way to relieve. It's a sign of intelligence if one can actually look critically at the things they were taught and discard those things that are wrong either because they are cruel or because they are irrational things. You don't have to hold on so tightly when your heart is telling you otherwise. Nobody will judge you, there won't be a lightning bolt coming out of the sky for you. We have all been there... most of us here were Muslims and we believed in ALL the justifications you can possibly come up with.
Let go of the dogma and imagine for a moment how it would be if you could really follow your heart and your own rationality instead of defending an ideology that is not who you are. You are more than the religion you were born into. You are a human being first. Try to open your mind and know that you are not alone in your journey.
I will quote Omar Khayyam here for you:
You want to know the Secret--so did I,
Low in the dust I sought it, and on high
Sought it in awful flight from star to star,
The Sultan's watchman of the starry sky.
Up, up, where Parwin's hoofs stamp heaven's floor,
My soul went knocking at each starry door,
Till on the stilly top of heaven's stair,
Clear-eyed I looked--and laughed--and climbed no more.
Of all my seeking this is all my gain:
No agony of any mortal brain
Shall wrest the secret of the life of man;
The Search has taught me that the Search is vain.
Look not above, there is no answer there;
Pray not, for no one listens to your prayer;
Near is as near to God as any Far,
And Here is just the same deceit as There.
But here are wine and beautiful young girls,
Be wise and hide your Sorrows in their curls,
Dive as you will in life's mysterious sea,
You shall not bring us any better pearls.
Allah, perchance, the secret word might spell;
If Allah be, He keeps His secret well;
What He hath hidden, who shall hope to find?
Shall God His secret to a maggot tell?
So since with all my passion and my skill,
The world's mysterious meaning mocks me still,
Shall I not piously believe that I
Am kept in darkness by the heavenly will?
The Koran! well, come put me to the test--
Lovely old book in hideous error drest--
Believe me, I can quote the Koran too,
The unbeliever knows his Koran best.
And do you think that unto such as you,
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,
God gave the Secret, and denied it to me?--
Well, well, what matters it! believe that too.
If I were God, and this poor world were mine,
O thou shouldst see on what a fair design
I would rebuild it like a dream for thee,
Nor shouldst thou ever blush to call it thine.
If I were God, the very stars and flowers
Should be more fair, and all the sterns and sours
Change to a music sweet as rivers flowing--
If I were God, and this poor world were ours.
If I were God, I would not wait the years
To solve the mystery of human tears;
And, unambiguous, I would speak my will,
Nor hint it darkly to the dreaming seers.
"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused."
Topic: Description of God is corrupted by followers of all religions