Some might judge , that I'm not an original thinker , but merely a mixer or a popularizer of other people's ideas .
I'm certainly not a scientist , an established philosopher , nor a historian recognised by scholarly institutions . But I believe that reason is available to and surely attainable by the many , and not restricted to the educated few . A degree in the natural sciences , philosophy or literatures is not required to enter my sphere of reason , or follow my logic , or sometimes my humour .
IN theocratic and religious thinking , I feel that religion has not civilised man . Man has civilised religions . Gods and their religions improve ( if at all ) as man advances .
Is it , that nowadays religious orthodoxy all over the world is being fused with social and economic conservatism , intolerance , blind violence and the guns and assault weapons freedom ??
To my American and worldly opinions , and reasoning of most current affairs , I'd refer to M. Robinson . She said in "Night thoughts of a baffled humanist" ; Yet it seems to me , on the darkest nights , and sometimes in the clear light of day , that we are losing the ethos that has sustained what is most to be valued in our civilisation .
AS to my reasoning in Arabic and Middle-Eastern affairs , it is I feel my duty and primary civic aim to help restore the historical memory of a founding generation of Arab thinkers , and a very vivid popular secularism , mostly in the late 19th to the first half of the 20th century , that had explicitly rejected theocracy as the basis for national governments , and to all forms of governance in most Arab countries .
Vaclav Havel once said ; "Non of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population , or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events " and the leveled reasoning .
Your patience and time are greatly appreciated as usual , salamat.
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