It seems that many have evidently found their ideal interpretation of faith.
LONDON: This is with reference to George Fulton’s article “Losing my religion” (October 20). Every religion has some form of vision of an afterlife. Whether it’s hell or heaven or nirvana or rebirth. However, you look at it, we are judged by the Maker as an individual and in the end we are responsible for our actions. It’s a simple notion, yet so easily corruptible. Is there some insecurity or guilt within us which requires such overt displays of religiously and such staunchness and intolerance of those who diverge ever so slightly from our beliefs? You may have concluded that there is a risk of losing one’s religion, but in this intensifying global-religiosity that is magnified by the media, it seems that many have evidently found their ideal interpretation of faith. And now they are doing their best to make sure that everyone else follows it.
Syed Nadir El-Edroos
Published in The Express Tribune, October 25th, 2010.
