Closer to Allah

by Richard Butrick (August 2016)

Jack Jenkins, senior religion reporter for ThinkProgress, made an important point regarding the evaluation of religions:

If you try to define a religion by what is in its text, you’re already on a fool’s errand. Religion is a community. Religion, whether it’s Islam or Christianity, whether it’s Hinduism, is a group of people that interpret things, whether that’s text, whether that’s different sorts of rituals and then move on from them.  more>>>