Tuesday, December 26, 2006

On freedom of religion

I was misfortunate enough yesterday to be listening to Radio Sawa and part of their program is something called Sawa Chat where they go out on the streets and ask different people the same question to get different reactions.
Yesterday's question was "Do you believe that a person should be free to choose his own religion?"
And the answers went like this (all Egyptian people):

Man: yes any person should be free to choose based on readings and understandings of other religions but in the end one must choose Islam as it is the true religion.

Woman: Well I am lucky to be born a Muslim girl and any Muslim person should know that his religion is the true one so one should never think of changing but as for the Christians yes I think they should be free to become Muslims as it is the better religion

Man: A child is born and raised to be what his parents are, but when he becomes older he should read about all religions and be allowed to choose as long as he chooses Islam.

Me (to myself): May God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

Waldorf

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Lol
The answers are not enough to pass Philosophy 101, where I come from.

May God have mercy ...

Stine