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Is there a time when we can leave religious books and intellectual knowledge aside?
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Of course we can !Is there a time when we can leave religious books and intellectual knowledge aside?
When? . .For what?Is there a time when we can leave religious books and intellectual knowledge aside?
Is there a time when we can leave religious books and intellectual knowledge aside?
If one is practicing a religion, then not really. for example Muslims and Jews read the Torah and the Qur'an on regular basis. as for intellectual knowledge there is nothing that gets Jews going more than debating.Is there a time when we can leave religious books and intellectual knowledge aside?
Um, when we sleep?
Seriously now...
If someone is in deadly danger, we don't have to go read texts to find out if it's OK to try to save them.
If we ever set down these twin burdens of ours, how would we know who to hate? That's probably why children are considered innocent.
On the Sabbath.
If one is practicing a religion, then not really. for example Muslims and Jews read the Torah and the Qur'an on regular basis. as for intellectual knowledge there is nothing that gets Jews going more than debating.
Its very unlikely. Humans by nature are very curious about the universe around us and what makes it all "go". The accumulation of knowledge is the direct result of the findings that come from the pursuit of this curiosity.
Unfortunately, from time to time, people of a certain faith will feel that their faith is "threatened" by a new discovery and will seek immediately to repress the discovery and the people that purport it. (Copernicus, Gallileo, Kepler, Darwin, ect)
The seeking of salvation and the pursuit of knowledge cater to two, very different basic human needs. The need to belong, self importance, and the desire to understand. These needs feed off eachother instinctively but are troubling when they are contradictory.
I don't know if the common Hindu or Buddhist worshiper reads the respective scriptures on regular basis, but Hinduism without its major scriptures has nothing to lean on, while the Buddhist religion holds one of the biggest scriptural libraries in known religions.What about eastern religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism?
Who do we have to hate...and why?
What about eastern religions such as Hinduism or Buddhism?
We have religious and political and intellectual enemies because our books of knowledge and books of religion say it must be so.
What about self-knowledge? How much book or intellectual knowledge does that require?
They are very much only communicating deeper causes, however. Mainly various forms of chauvinism and nationalism. Avoiding texts doesn't much change anything.