Religious Perceptions of Superiority of Belief are Lost Causes in Modern Examination of Spirituality

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Sep 14, 2022 at 14:45

Being devout, whether in the Christianesque or Muslim context (or any other religious persuasion), is a matter of personal (innately intimate within one's own perception of mind and heart of conscience) meditation in order to resolve the perennial human question: why are we here?
If one is reared in one specific religious environment and is not exposed to the alternative(s) for reaons of impracticality or isolation, it can be expected that the experience will be limited and to the point of such exclusion, ignorance is a human condition that can be imputed to all who considered such things.
To the contrary, as has been imminently expressed here in Dr. Pipes forum, explorations of contravening thought from each and every religious (and non-religious) expressions of understanding humanity's need to explore and determine one's own mortality is a sincere situation that each who do so need to contemplate that there are reaons why many rebel and resort to self-imposed restrictions for the sake of sanity or the fear of loss of sane meditation.
A reliance upon a greater than human sense of the supernatural is an ages old condition that by many cofessions of faith appears necessary in order to make sense of those things mankind cannot control; such as calling out when death is imminent. Who controls that?
Even in the most religious expressions of devotions there is not a man or woman (with only one exception) that has ever lived or died that could successfully explain either by revelation or Holy Writ how life on earth operates or terminates; not in Christianity; nor in Islam, nor Hinduism, Buddhism, et al. The one exception is the One that appeared to the People of the Book, left His witness (in deed and propehtic evidence); and even that is noticed, both in the Hebrew Holy Writ and even mentioned erstwhile in the Quran.
That Reader Prashant even takes the time to peruse the teaching os Isalm indicates the need to verify what issues of life are consistent with living it in peace with it all before finding that life does not humanly answer that question above: why are we here? There is the correct supernatural answer; but who agrees with the Supernatural Almighty Sovereign that created all and Who expects the right answer when that terminal time arrives. It must be spiritually determined before or all is lost. Devotion does not necessarily provide the answer if it does not meet the Creator's plan for salvation. Who does one trust to have the right answer-the devout Christian or the One he or she serves?

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