Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.