Re: My Latest Video - "Morality"
Reply #13 - May 25, 2009, 09:11 AM
One point you bring up which is very important is how religions, and in particular Islam with its belief that it is the final world of God and cannot be developed upon or changed, ever, goes agains everything else in existence.
Everything in existence comes, developes, changes, then dies and turns into something else. Nothing lasts forever, including our thoughts and feelings. One min i could be feeling low, then i might see something that makes me laugh and the feeling of being low vanishes.
The Sun, Earth, seas, our bodies, the house your in, the PC your using, all other religions, languages, cars, cultures, nations all these things right down to the tiny particles in your bones are always in a state of change, coming and going.
Some of you may know ive been following Buddhism for a while, and this imperminance is a big part of it. Even in Buddhism it is accepted that one day the buddhas teachings will change and be lost.
So the point im making is religions that claim to have the unshakeable truth, that never changes, that keep us fixed, is very dangerous to our natural existence as a species, that we need to be free to develop new thoughts and 'morals' in order to stay in touch with things. In fact this will always happed, because it simply has too.
So Islam is really trying the impossible by trying to impose a universal unchanging set of human rules upon us all, and the belief that it can never be changed or altered is going against the nature of things always change.