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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't blame Muslim PP for constantly contesting what others say by putting down their authority to say it.

I feel sorry for her because she was taught to defend her religion solely by saying this is what so and so supposed authority has said rather than by using critical thinking to lay out a reasoned rational defense of her beliefs.

She has been taught a winning attack on others' reasoned views consists simply of dismissing them solely on the grounds that they are not a regurgitation of what some supposed scholar who has undergone years of study has said, never mind the quality of that scholarship.

She is not unlike those Christians who cannot defend their beliefs except by quoting verses from the Bible.

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The Christian Reformation was instrumental in introducing critical thinking and analysis to Christianity. (Well, others like Augustine, Aquinas and more attempted to apply classical logic to religion before the Refornation, but the Refornation was a huge step.) My understanding is that Judaism has undergone similar periods of critical thinking.

Some in the Muslim world have called for a similar revolution in Islam. In fact, Islam's earlier centuries were renowned for inquiry and critical thinking. Reform today is made more difficult by the fact that Islam has no central authority like the Pope (again, absence of a priestly class was a key tenet of early Islam). For many, this happens on an individual basis, as they decide to read and interpret the Quran for themselves and/or question the beards and their authority/biases. As you say, PP is clearly not up for that.[/quote]

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