Outgrowing the Past

by Bradford Tuckfield (February 2016)

I recently read an interview with a musician I admire who described a time in his youth when he had been a devout Christian. He is no longer religious at all, or as he described it, he “grew out of religious ideas.” Upon hearing this, I thought of the other things that people often describe growing out of – old clothes, for example, for which one becomes physically too large during childhood, or youthful bad manners, for which one’s nature becomes too civil during early adulthood. Is religiosity or belief in God something that becomes too “small” for us, like the clothes we wore as children? Is it a feature of immaturity or ignorance that we should progress past?  more>>>

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  1. One becomes lost like a leaf in the wind without the faith in our Christian God and Jesus. The arrogance to claim “I am intelligent enough to decide what is right and what is wrong” accompanies the atheists. They feel as compassionate to be pro-gay, but there is nothing more compassionate and loving toward a gay person as to help him out of his perversion that is based on early childhood traumas and abuses. To help him understand this background and get out of the subconscious defense of his own self in the form of seeking same sex relations, is to free them out of their own prison.
    The same is valid for muslims. Instead of pretending universal tolerance to “foreign cultures”, it is better to show them the great defects of islam and discrepancies in koran. The early muslim history must be studied without scruples and sugar coating both to muslims and non-muslims. One cannot imagine that in any “foreign culture” there is a child bride happier for her role than would be any elementary school girl student torn out of her school and put to have sex with an age equivalent to her father, or grandfather and to pass the rest of her life in consecutive pregnancies and caring for her much older male companion (husband would be inaccurate to name him). Being forced to cult believes under the fear of death by beheading, stoning or life long humiliation by the rest of the society is not much more pleasant for an inhabitant of Asia than it would be for us. To free muslims of their submission to islam is the only compassionate thing we could do as civilized humans.
    No relativism is right, political correctness to do the greatest damage to human dignity and life. People are being killed and tortured because of our decisions to be politically correct and tolerant to “different cultures”. Cultural diversity is the label for turning the sight away when a honor killing or wife beating happens in our neighbourhood.

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