And to answer, i'd have to say no...not Islam in particular...Religion in General....the Christians in Lebanon (in General, I Don't mean EVERYBODY) are just as fanatical and close minded.
Maybe if one was to interpret religion with a VERY broad mind and not try to adhere to to literally it would be ok....but by its very nature religion fosters an us vs them mentality....the faithful and the "others"....which cannot be helped, but at the VERY least seperate affairs of state and religion so that we do not have men of the cloth (or religious leaders) dictating policy or law or anything else that is temporal when their speciality is the afterlife!
Religion definetly gets abused for personal gain...but that's because its human nature....the only way to avoid that is to ban all religion (maybe that's not a bad idea...but i'm in the minority in that regard lol).
Stay safe.
Perfection does not exist. The question therefore, is: what level of imperfection are we willing to settle for?
And to answer, i'd have to say no...not Islam in particular...Religion in General....the Christians in Lebanon (in General, I Don't mean EVERYBODY) are just as fanatical and close minded.
Maybe if one was to interpret religion with a VERY broad mind and not try to adhere to to literally it would be ok....but by its very nature religion fosters an us vs them mentality....the faithful and the "others"....which cannot be helped, but at the VERY least seperate affairs of state and religion so that we do not have men of the cloth (or religious leaders) dictating policy or law or anything else that is temporal when their speciality is the afterlife!
Religion definetly gets abused for personal gain...but that's because its human nature....the only way to avoid that is to ban all religion (maybe that's not a bad idea...but i'm in the minority in that regard lol).
Stay safe.
Perfection does not exist. The question therefore, is: what level of imperfection are we willing to settle for?