{"id":1447,"date":"2012-12-25T13:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/agnosticism-part-3-of-4-a-fruit-of-false-religions\/"},"modified":"2012-12-25T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T13:34:18","slug":"agnosticism-part-3-of-4-a-fruit-of-false-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/agnosticism-part-3-of-4-a-fruit-of-false-religions\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnosticism (part 3 of 4): A Fruit of False Religions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-1446\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/rs\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/z1az.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"368\" height=\"245\" style=\"float: right; margin: 10px 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/z1az.jpg 425w, https:\/\/r-islam.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/12\/z1az-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So why the contemporary return <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">to heresy-slash-Gnosticism, with the official sanction of so many religious institutions?\u00a0 Well, it is understandable.\u00a0 Since no logical defense of modern day Judaism or Christianity withstands the pressure of present day scriptural analysis, this \u2018mystical exclusivity\u2019 is a last ditch defense of a rapidly crumbling doctrinal status quo.\u00a0 Significant attrition has occurred in numerous Judeo-Christian sects already.\u00a0 The remaining faithful are largely forced into \u2018believing agnosticism,\u2019 holding personal faith in the existence of God and a specific doctrine as the approach to Him, while at the same time recognizing that such beliefs cannot be objectively proven.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Immanuel Kant\u2019s <em>Critique of Pure Reason<\/em>, Sir William Hamilton\u2019s <em>Philosophy of the Unconditioned<\/em> (1829), and Herbert Spencer\u2019s <em>Principles<\/em> (1862) laid the cellulose foundation of the concept, and T.H. Huxley packaged and popularized it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So, does the concept of Agnosticism have value?\u00a0 Returning to the rock, which only has value to those in need of one, Agnosticism has practicality for those who feel the need of a theological defense system.\u00a0 Those who are satisfied with such theology end religious discussions by deflecting the threat of rational argument off the shield of Agnostic defenses.\u00a0 To all others, it is just a rock.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t change anything, it doesn\u2019t do anything.\u00a0 It just sits there like the impotent and self-evident lump it is, occupying metaphysical space.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Examination of the Islamic religion fosters an interesting thought, in this regard.\u00a0 The teachings of Islam were not available in the English language until Andre du Ryer\u2019s French translation of the meaning of the Holy Quran was rendered into English by Alexander Ross in 1649 CE.\u00a0 This first translation into the English language being notably of hostile intent and filled with inaccuracies, it fell hugely shy of inviting objective analysis of the Islamic religion.\u00a0 As the translator stated in his address \u2018to the Christian Reader,\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 54pt 8.25pt; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201cThere being so many sects and heresies banded together against the truth (by which the author refers to Christianity), finding that of <em>Mahomet<\/em> wanting to the muster, I thought good to bring it to their colours, that so viewing thine enemies in their full body, thou maist the better prepare to encounter, and I hope overcome them\u2026.Thou shalt find it of so rude, and incongruous a composure, so farced with contradictions, blasphemies, obscene speeches, and ridiculous fables\u2026Such as it is, I present to thee, having taken the pains only to translate it out of French, not doubting, though it hath been a poyson (poison), that hath infected a very great, but most unsound part of the universe, it may prove an antidote, to confirme in thee the health of Christianity\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The translator\u2019s prejudice clearly evident, a person should hardly be surprised to find the translation fraught with error, and inclined to exert little positive impact on Western consciousness.\u00a0 George Sale, having been unimpressed, picked up the torch and attempted a new translation of meaning, criticizing Ross as follows:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 54pt 8.25pt; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201cThe English version is no other than a translation of Du Ryer\u2019s, and that a very bad one; for Alexander Ross, who did it, being utterly unacquainted with the Arabic, and no great master of the French, has added a number of fresh mistakes of his own to those of Du Ryer; not to mention the meanness of his language, which would make a better book ridiculous.\u201d[1]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Not until George Sale\u2019s translation of meaning into the English language in 1734 did the Western world begin to receive teachings of the Holy Quran in an accurate, though all the same ill-intentioned, exposure.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">George Sale\u2019s perspective is evident in the first few pages of his address to the reader, with such statements as,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 54pt 8.25pt; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201cThey must have a mean opinion of the Christian religion, or be but ill grounded therein, who can apprehend any danger from so manifest a forgery\u2026.But whatever use an impartial version of the Koran may be of in other respects, it is absolutely necessary to undeceive those who, from the ignorant or unfair translations which have appeared, have entertained too favourable an opinion of the original, and also to enable us effectually to expose the imposture\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">and,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0pt 54pt 8.25pt; text-indent: 0pt; text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201cThe Protestants alone are able to attack the Koran with success; and for them, I trust, Providence has reserved the glory of its overthrow.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The translation of Reverend J. M. Rodwell, first published in 1861, coincided with the nineteenth century rise of oriental studies in the scientific meaning of the term.\u00a0 And it was during this period of dawning Islamic consciousness in Western Europe that Huxley presented his proposal of Agnosticism.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Many Muslims might wonder, had Huxley lived in the present \u2018information\u2019 age of ease of travel, broad cosmopolitan exposure to people, cultures and religions, complete with accurate and objective information on the Islamic religion, would his choice have been any different?\u00a0 It is an interesting thought.\u00a0 What would a man have done who, as previously quoted, stated, \u201cI protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.\u201d[2] To such a man, the comprehensive canon of Islam may have been not only appealing, but welcome.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This section began with the assertion that Agnosticism coexists with most religions of established doctrine.\u00a0 Doctrinal adherents can be divided into functional sub-categories on this basis.\u00a0 For example, the Theistic (Orthodox) Christians who conceive the reality of God to be provable, the Gnostic Christians who conceive knowledge of the truth of God to be reserved for the spiritual elite, and the Agnostic Christians, who maintain faith while admitting inability to prove the reality of God.\u00a0 The distinguishing difference between these various subgroups exists not in the presence, but in attempts at justification, of faith.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Similarly, most religions can be sub-divided by the manner in which individual adherents attempt to justify faith within the confines of doctrine.\u00a0 At the end of the day, however, these divisions are of academic interest only, for the how or why of belief does not alter the presence of belief any more than the how or why of God alters His existence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Copyright \u00a9 2007 Laurence B. Brown; used by permission.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">The above excerpt is taken from Dr. Brown\u2019s forthcoming book, <em>MisGod\u2019ed<\/em>, which is expected to be published along with its sequel, <em>God\u2019ed<\/em>.\u00a0 Both books can be viewed on Dr. Brown\u2019s website, www.Leveltruth.com.\u00a0 Dr. Brown can be contacted at BrownL38@yahoo.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman,times;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Ref. www.islamreligion.com<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 So why the contemporary return to heresy-slash-Gnosticism, with the official sanction of so many religious institutions?\u00a0 Well, it is understandable.\u00a0 Since no logical defense of modern day Judaism&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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