This article serves to discuss the reasons behind the incompatibility of religion and enlightenment
On the Incompatibility of Religion with Enlightenment
“To
gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” —Allen Ginsberg, WD
In the modern day, post-enlightenment recurrence of religion but there lies an inherent problem in that discourse. Writes Jonathan Sheehan, what kind of questions might one ask about religion and enlightenment, an enlightened religion? That is synonymous to a rational religion. Is there such a thing as a rational religion?
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There might be rational arguments in the doctrine of one religion to refute the belief system of another. It was by this process that the three most well known traditions came one after the other. Taking the example of Islam and the story of Prophet Abraham, one can see rationality and reasoning in every part of his monologue and refutation. He refuses to follow blindly the tradition and religion of his forefathers, there is a loud application of rationale is his denouncement of the stone idols as God, he believes that something that has been made by man himself cannot be the god of man. “And mention in the Book (the Quran) Abraham, indeed he was a man of truth, a Prophet. When he said to his father: “O my father! Why do you worship that which hears not, sees not and cannot avail you in anything? O my father! Verily! There has come to me of knowledge that which came not unto you. So follow me. I will guide you to a Straight Path.” (Quran 19:41-43) What is helpless to defend itself cannot possibly be the defender or the God of people. The story continues and in his monologue to the discovery of God there
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