EDITOR: At times it is somewhat difficult to realize this is the
Age of Enlightenment. In looking at the news broadcasts, wherein
religions at all levels seem to be expressing rituals that are
seemingly strange to reasonable people. That is: Rubbing the hands
on door panels and transferring same to the face by said
“believer” sprinkling “holy water” and shaking of censer with
smoke.
EDITOR:
At times it is somewhat difficult to realize this is the Age of Enlightenment.
In looking at the news broadcasts, wherein religions at all levels seem to be expressing rituals that are seemingly strange to reasonable people. That is: Rubbing the hands on door panels and transferring same to the face by said “believer” sprinkling “holy water” and shaking of censer with smoke.
Why not submit to major operations and the rubbing on of the Bible, the Koran or Talmud would that be acceptable? How about walking around the stone in Mecca seven times, then throwing stones at the devils. Pebbles can’t hurt you know and this is a world of international galactic travel? With advances in engineering, medicine and sciences? And some believe in holy water, holy smoke and pebbles to be the “cure all”?
In my opinion neither politics nor religion has benefited mankind and has only created hatred, suspicion, envy, greed and the like.
Is it necessary to have to kill another person in order to enter heaven? Or to believe is it necessary to have to kill another person in order to enter heaven? Or to believe “For one to live, one must die?” What measure of thinking is that? Can anyone explain that statement in civilized religious terms?
The incidents in the Middle East are quite conclusive with evidence that proves that emotionally unstable people ruled by dogmatic rules should indicate that the world is under no obligation to support or lend any assistance to any nation that refuses to join the modern world and become a part of, instead of becoming an adversary as is the case in the present time.
J. Hamilton Khan, Morgan Hill
