Brief Statement Regarding Beliefs
I do not believe Islam, a word often translated into modern day English as 'asserting peace', hence way of peace, is synonymous with a way of life that is mainly comprised of unnecessary violence, terrorism, perversions, and generally what modern day Arabic language calls transliterated, ghuraba, which briefly translated, is strange ways, (strange) behaviors, (s..) psychologies, and (s.) intentions.
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I do not believe in wrongful simple carve-ups in society, especially to profiteer from war and oppression, is what should be the basis for anything. For example, I consider to be an inaccurate depiction, that there are only and always has been '3 main religions on earth', [ref. 'Islam, Christianity, Judaism' or 'Muslims, Christians, Jews'], an idea propagated perhaps by some colleges and universities in the Mid-Atlantic region of the USA starting about a hundred years ago; whereas, it starts out with what 3 was said, and their semantic details, a reference to aspects such as 'ity', 'ism', or an awkward 's' at the end to denote plurality, which right there some folks especially learned and kept knowledge handed down to them for hundreds or thousands of years, find tenuously to severely derogatory. Next, use of the term 'religion' is used in the statement, to refer to them and be the basis of the distinctions of the 3; and that the centricity of those (in those curriculum conveyor eyes) was limited to mainly large US cities and well known European cites, for instance, London and Paris, along with maybe 2 or 3 famous spots in the Middle East, such as Jerusalem, Damascus, Mecca, and Cairo, whereat, of course there are historians that state that there were practices with names of them used today, other than those 3 terms in the regions we now refer to as for example, China, Korea, India, Russia, South America. To illustrate, just how many 'followers' did Confucius, Lao Tzu, or known by some today as Guatama have? Unfortunately, as a recent and often occurrence, ways of life in Africa despite the large size and population numbers, were often largely left out of 'the English' speaking 'thinkers' that held job positions that involved giving academic instruction, spiels. How many of them knew or spoke of beyond a few sentences pertinent to the South Pacific, like Australia, and Canadian natives?
'People of the Book', is not really what this conversation is about; as it is distinguished from sloppily using 3 words, lumping groups based on criteria that have little to nothing to do with the 3 words, and other criteria that can barely stand as valid, if at all.
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I do not believe it is something acceptable for one to make outward statements about themself that one is one thing, and one is not doing what is stated.
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When detracting from correctly living your life, I do not believe in allegiance and fealty to ideological banners that emerge in different eras that may not necessarily be correct. For example, there are ideologies often called different names that suit their era, such as communism, socialism, and Marxism, where adherence to those systems may be digressing into misguidance and even flat out wrongdoing, when they conflict with the correct way of living and the law. Occurrences of heading down the wrong road can happen in a very pronounced manner especially when the ideologies are not needed, outdated, and their ringleaders for any given place and time call for wicked activities.
A quick illustration, a tyrant out of the blue dictates everyone in a designated area act as though they are in a commune that has a few farms way out in the country 200 years ago, (a reference to communism), no one gets to pray at any point, and anyone that does not go along with the plan is severely punished, when, the area is a densely populated city with no farms. It is clear here there is no need, for commune living methods in 2024 that match remote farm areas in 1824. When the law changed, to live in the city as though it were a city, when a few people keep acting like its 200 years ago wearing winter jackets in the summertime, not praying at prayer time, all because they insist on keeping going with their fealty to commune conducive ways, it is not acceptable. By some standards it is technically or medically craziness.
Watered down understandings of remnants and fragments of those ideologies, and placing going forward with them especially when they hold conflicts to what is correct, by easy inference, I do not hold as correct. Attachments to following the wrong ways of different groups calling themselves such (for example, the mentioned communists, Marxists, etc.), can result in going down a path that is not a correct path. That includes the attachments to the allegiances to those groups, especially when it involves engaging in behaviors other than correct behavior.
Even though certain allegiances and alliances may have been struck up historically for places and time, for instance a world war, where one country with a communist government sends troops to support freeing a group of oppressed, understanding of what the proper place, time, framework, and applications are, is important to have, so that one or a group does not wind up taking off in the wrong direction with an unfitting set of goals.
I certainly do not believe in putting allegiances [to communism, socialism, and Marxism] nor the subscribing to incorrect ideas, a priority over the safety and security of my country America, nor anyone else's livelihood.