Since the opening of this blog, its subtitle had been a rather lame and boring “the blog.” I always planned to create a catchy subtitle, but kept on putting it off because of other priorities. However, due to the overwhelming increase in traffic to this blog (hits literally doubled from the last month) I put some thought into renaming. So, instead of “the blog” this blog is now called “The godless Liberal.”
The reasoning behind the new subtitle is rather simple, I don’t believe in god and I am quite the liberal fellow. According to Google, there aren’t any other blogs titled “The godless Liberal” and so, I guess I am the first to adopt the title as a blog.
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Over the past couple years, I personally have undergone a period of deep and critical thinking on the subject of “god” and religion. My research first led me to Islam (surprisingly the religion of my parents) and I was quite satisfied with the answers it gave. It seemed to me like the obvious truth and I personally defended it at any chance I could. Since my family was also Islamic, it was also a great comfort to be closer with certain people I never had been. Islam provided this sense of community and brotherhood which I really had never felt previously, as I suppose most religions do. So for a few months, I tried to live my life as closely to what I believed Islam asked of its followers.
In that period of time, I had realized that I had never actually read the Koran beyond simply reciting it in Arabic. So I set out to actually read the “holy book” and further my knowledge of Islam and hopefully of the world. I looked for the English translations that were generally accepted by the scholars in Islam (not the hardcore fundamentalist, but the more intellectual batch). Once I began to read the book, it led to a startling discovery…I simply did not believe most of what was printed in the supposed holy book. It really came down to the line between what has been proved (science) and what was simply here-say. I, being a person who always fully supported the advancement of science was now at a crossroads.
Shall I accept religion, and throw away every single rational explanation for the creation and evolution of the Universe? Or shall I reject religion? I choose science. I never knew what the implications accepting science were nor did I care, since I certainly knew what the implications of rejecting science were; a life of ignorance and superstition.
To be continued…
Update - Click here for Part 2
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