{"id":144,"date":"2016-11-12T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T14:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2020-07-10T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:09:10","slug":"free-thought-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Free-thought and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span title=\"Edited\">&#8220;You shall not accept information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them.&#8221; [Quran 8:22] <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">The idea that religion suppresses free thought and encourages blind belief certainly is by no means, representative of the Quran. However, the opposite is true; the book emphasizes free-thought and acquiring knowledge. God repetitively asks us to question and contemplate, numerously demanding us to use our intellect: &#8220;Will you, then, not think?&#8221; Our personalities are a consequence of our experience, knowledge, what we read, hear and see: we gather information on quantum physics, psychology, astronomy, LOVE, happiness, parenting, money and, biographies of great thinkers from various amazing writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">Think, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">What about The Book sent down by The Creator of the souls, The One who knows what&#8217;s inside each of us and how to fix it? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You shall not accept information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them.&#8221; [Quran 8:22] The idea that religion suppresses free thought and encourages blind belief certainly is by no means, representative of the Quran. However, the opposite is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,219],"tags":[340,283,342,264,287,356,347,74,346,267,65,66,343],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appearance-vs-reality","category-slider","tag-discipline-the-soul","tag-islamic-quotes","tag-islamic-sciences","tag-islamic-spirituality","tag-islamic-wisdom","tag-one-creator","tag-purification-of-self","tag-quran","tag-rumi","tag-self-realization","tag-self-knowledge","tag-self-love","tag-sunni-theology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}