Understanding Islam honestly or filtering its absurdities? (2)

Question:
Thanks for beautiful reply. I believe in God, the merciful God. A Just God not the God appointing someone as policeman to compartmentalize his own creation. My mind is clear about God's magnanimity therefore I am very relieved to leave any man-made trap of dividing mankind. God speaks in all of us and we are the reflection of the true God. He is our internal illumination available to all of us equally rather than emerging from his so called messenger.

When I see Javed Ghamidi Sb defending the Qura'nic fallacies and answering intelligent students in a TV program, I really wish if he gets a paradigm shift and understands the folly of following man-made religion. The Good thing about you people is that you are considered as heretics vis-a-vis the mainstream Muslims. It actually transpires that your intelligent mind has subconsciously (may be consciously) filtered the absurdities of religion to make it more acceptable. Then you know, you have actually devised your own system of ethics and way of life aligned with global morality and ethics and mannerisms which provide you satisfaction of following a less absurd 'religion'.

Think, this is really disconcerting to review cherished beliefs but one has to tide over the cognitive dissonance associated with breaking the long held beliefs. We as a society need to come up with an ethical and moral system encompassing social, political, economic and democratic dynamics and live peacefully brushing aside the religious follies. For this purpose, we need honest people like you to renounce the absurdities surrounding us whether they are religious or political.

Imagine the day when you don't have iota of bias about a human being just because of his belief or unbelief! How happy you would be! You are born free. Don't let any ideology devised politically incarcerate you in an invisible prison.

Response:
I don't have any bias against any human being. That is exactly what I preach in my sessions to Muslims: All humans are equal in the eyes of God and Muslims enjoy no superiority over non-Muslims. In fact, if anything, Muslims are very likely to face a much more difficult accountability than the non-Muslims on the Day of Judgment.

My ideas and those of Ghamidi Sb owe themselves to the Qur'an. While you have an understandable desire that we become non-Muslims, we have an equally strong desire that people like you see the true face of Islam and become Muslims. In any case, we need not entertain any bias against each others' ideology while we interact.

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