Love in the time of science
Feb. 8th, 2012 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akilanajmahIt is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
"The incentive repeated in many places in the Qur’an to “contemplate” cannot be interpreted otherwise but as a firm conviction (and promise) that the testimony of the senses and reason will not suppress the soul’s belief. At some horizon, science based on observation and religion based on revelation are no longer conflicting and they can even support each other. That horizon is what I call the horizon of Islam. -Alije Izetbegovic, "Notes from Prison 1983-1988", father of the modern Bosnian Muslim nation.
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
"The incentive repeated in many places in the Qur’an to “contemplate” cannot be interpreted otherwise but as a firm conviction (and promise) that the testimony of the senses and reason will not suppress the soul’s belief. At some horizon, science based on observation and religion based on revelation are no longer conflicting and they can even support each other. That horizon is what I call the horizon of Islam. -Alije Izetbegovic, "Notes from Prison 1983-1988", father of the modern Bosnian Muslim nation.
