Monday, November 17, 2008

Islam as religion

Todays presentation, from Angelica and Justien, about Islam as Religion, really cought my attention. They discussed about the goods and the bads about Islam. First of all I want to say is the "People believe what they want to believe. Personally, It is not a bad thing at all to believe something that will lead you to better live, like believing in religion. There are many moral lessons that we learn from religion. For instance, we are taught not to steal, not to envy, not to kill, and so many others. Those moral lessons are the sources which will help us to have better personalities and better behaviors. However, there are some false understanding about the doctrines, which are taught by the dumb priests. From what I found from my live, back to Indonesia, I knew one of the Islam dumb priests. He was one of my Mother's employees. He never go to school since he was a kid. He is unable to write and to read. Due to his lacks of education, He always gets difficulties to understand what other people are saying. However, he can become an Islamic priest and has four wives. How can such a person can become a priest? How will he interpret the Quran while he always gets difficulties to communicate? No wonder there are people who kill others because of false doctrines, just like Amrozi, Imam Samudra, who bombed Bali. They don't feel guilty and think that what they had done are right. All I can say is what a person they are. Again, believe in religion is an important and good thing to do. But, we should not be too fanatic and too extreme, which will lead us to do such dumb things.

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