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RELIGIOUS DILEMMAS - THE SCOURGE OF RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION AND THE NEED TO FREE HUMANS FROM IT.. PART 6.

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'If your 'God' does not talk to you, now, then how do you know that you are on the right path, doing his will, as he requires of you?' Indeed, an English edition of the Quran that I read, encourages the reader; the 'faithful', to seek after knowledge.  Now, what would be the point of seeking after knowledge, if, having found it, we do not use it to better inform ourselves about people and things, past, present and future? Any belief and/or religion which requires the believer or the 'faithful', as it were.  To put aside their critical reasoning or analytical prism, and apply 'blind faith or belief, when they examine that belief or the religion in question.  Is, I would argue, very problematic and ipso facto, illogical.  I have also rejected the what I will call, 'the theistic aspect' of all religions.  That being the premise or assumption or presumption that this and that, that any religion is based on some 'sa

JUST A THOUGHT, ON ALLOWING OUR COMPARATIVE DIFFERENCES TO 'VICTIMISE' US. ENDING!

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If a person finds that they cannot be, as it were, 'like all the other 'ordinary' people', because of the absence of this or that attribute, ability, appendage or capacity.  Then it is probably better for them to develop, as best they can, whatever skills and abilities they need to live their lives as fully as they can.  And not be too put off by whatever it is that is making them feeling incomplete or unfulfilled.  If a person is incapable of having a child by what has been considered the normative means, a man and a women having intercourse with each other.  Instead of suffering the torture of an artificial invasive IVF process, then, they could consider fostering or adopting a child. Difficult as it might actually be, we need to endeavour to avoid 'perceiving of ourselves as 'victims', because of our differences, and use them as opportunities to overcome the limitations which they  could , but  not have to , give r