[GJM] Atheistic Social Constructionists, The Qur'an, and other Belief Systemshat

[marguerite hampton]

Dear Dr. Alam, (and All) 
 
Greetings for peace, and with all due respect for you and how you feel, I
would like to bring  attention to others who are certainly not aetheists,
but are choosing to "find God without religion".
 
If we truly search back in history, it is replete with a long history of
bloodshed which the human family has experienced because of organized
religion's political and economical interests.  Yet, if we search back into
the Neolithic Age, before the time of the "dominator paradigm" from which
emerged religiosity, we find instead a natural spirituality which was the
underlying premise of the peaceful "partnership" society of that time when
worship was directed toward the goddess and the earth as givers of life.
 
Yet, today,  we are living in a world that is continuously aflame with
religious hatred that shows no signs of abating.  And Western religions may
be the ones putting fuel to the flame as we hang on to Dark Age religious
fundamentalism which proclaims the world to be the domain of a remote,
transcendent, authoritarian God.
 
In view of this, millions of people are deciding that it is now time to say
farewell to faith-based religion, and to embrace more positive approaches to
a personal spirituality.  Many of these approaches are suprisingly based in
the new science" which embraces quantum physics and tips us toward an 
expanded sense of self which embraces life not death. .  
 
One does not have to be Jewish, Christian, or Muslim to see the real message
that God is part of us all and we are all part of God. We are both creator
and co-creator, and as such, true spirituality runs deep for those who have
set themselves free from religious dogma.
 
More and more people, Dr. Alam, are now recognizing that there are many 
ways to become spiritual, one of the most profound being a reuniting with
their 
Earth Mother.  Reunion with the Earth Mother brings about a true recognition

of that which is divine through the feminine, the "giver of life" while
acknowledging 
"the partnership" that emanates from the participation of Father Sun in
bringing
forth life.  .
 
One of those questioning centuries of "accepted truth" and attempting to 
help us all transcend religious dogma is Sankara Saranam.  Saranam is the
author 
of "God Without Religion". This book, with a forward by Arun Ghandi, a
grandchild of
Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi and founder of the M.K Ghandi Institute for
Nonviolence, is for those who want to see an end to contentiousness and
bigotry as is 
found in our places of worship today. Let us bring to an end the rule of
demi-gods 
as they continue to use the podium for economic and political exploitation
rather than 
to bring peace and cooperation to the world.  It is time for us to end this
practice and 
again return to the inner knowing innate within us that will set us free.  

I ask you, Dr. Alam, to join with me in ending war by ending the
devisiveness created
by religious belief systems. 

I do not believe that adversarial religion is any more beneficial than
adversarial politics.  

To order this book:   
 www.godwithoutreligion.com  

marguerite 

There is no path to peace -- Peace is the way .M. Gandhi




 
 
 
 
Message: 3
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:14:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Muhammad Mukhtar Alam <mukhtaralam2000 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [GJM] Atheistic Social Constructionists, The Qur'an, and
  other Belief Systems .
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Dear Margaret,
 
  Greeting for peace,
 
  With praises to Almighty for giving us the intellect and the knowledge of
names of things..food that we eat and the air that we breathe..I would like
to note that those who reject the communications of messengers as recorded
in the Holy Quran and then present people with no faith in the
communications as role models are hurting themselves..I find your writings
inspired by such men who believe in false atheistic social constructionist
accounts about ethics,aesthetics and epistemology...about the origin of the
world and about so many other issues..I concluded for categorising the
narratives in atheistic,polytheistic and monotheistic narratives..Please see
the conceptual organisation of mine...at http://muhammad_mukhtar_alam
tigblog.org
 
  I know all you say and also guess about the responses in the atheistic
narrative..Spirit is a gift of life and we get this spirit working either in
abidance to the commands of Allah or in abidance to the commands of Satan..
People not believing in Moses (PBUH) and Jesus (PBUH) and not ready to study
the word of God may take recourse to the version of X,Y.Z..about the word of
Allah/God/..the creator of all universes .."Muslims" believe in the
communications of the word of Allah.
 
  I may not be able to convince you ..I have chosen to follow the word of
God..and I find that suitable for addressing the ecological and all
challenges..All the messengers were asked to communicate and not be worried
about the result..as the guidance for men and women is from God only.
 
  I will be grateful for the reference for the verse as I have not come
across such a verse..I know of verse calling the beleiver to obey Allah and
obey the messengers..Muslim send greetings of peace to all messengers..I
send greetings with the hope of guidance to you..we need to prayer for our
guidance consistently...Muslims recite the first Sura in all Salats...where
a prayer is there for guidance from Allah..we never get arrogant...unless
for asserting the word..even there is protocol for using the best means of
communications with non-Muslims..
 
  With best wishes
 
 
  Dr.Muhammad Mukhtar Alam
  Delhi
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