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Originally Posted by kiLLeRrrr
so are you guys really Arabic?
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Are you asking me?
I have studied the Quran for some time now, as part of my regular interesting and application of many religious texts, ideas and understandings.
I'm not more Christian than I am Arabic (
edit: Moslem) or a practitioner of Judaism than I am Hindu. I feel connected to many paths and ideas and feel they express my personal feelings in language and metaphor that I myself couldn't have expressed in such eloquence.
Do I see them all as infallible texts of God, no, but I feel the Gods they describe are or were possibly at the time, peoples high aspirations and ideals. Fear and distortion has certainly taken place and it's up to the practitioners to seek past that and find deeper meaning in their lives.
I consider myself closest to the path of Dharma, in terms the Buddha used to describe it. Yet these ideas and philosophies also have helped me understand and grasp meaning in many many spiritual and philosophical traditions.