Re: Zakir Naik: Inventing a Jagadguru
Originally Posted by
Spiritualseeker
Not an exciting story, but I am very grateful that I have left Islam. I sometimes think negatively of those times, but my wife tells me everything happens for a reason.
On contrary its quite an extraordinary story. However, with all due respect to you and your journey through the maze of faiths and doctrines to find meaning and God – your story also reflects the fundamental contradiction and reason why it happens, i.e Man’s search for truth outside, in an external institution, faith or religion.
The truth or meaning can only be found inside and not in books or teachers or mosques or even temples. Till one realizes this, it’s going to be confusing and difficult road.
I believe having the courage to stay away from religion and rather accept the vacuum as an atheist and agnostic is many times better, courageous more human solution than knocking on the doors of world religions. Such people are more advanced people than religious persons as they are already able to find happiness within themselves.
Bottom line, we should only encourage people to find meaning in themselves, free and independently from external institutions – particularly those created in the lowest points of human intellectual achievements, by people who had no credential other than being able to organize masses into frenzy and who were mostly illiterate and uneducated people of their time.
What is Here, is Elsewhere. What is not Here, is Nowhere.
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