Brave Eastern Athiest

[Plane]

http://www.islam-watch.org/ExMuslims/Fable-of-Religious-Sentiments.htm

Is it the state's duty to harbor, nurture, and protect 'religious sentiments'? If the state will impose any ideal or philosophy over the inhabitants that that would be ideological despotism. Any type of religiously motivated ideology is suspicious and harmful, and it is not only harmful, but it leaves men blind, restricts their creativity from unfolding. The evolvement of knowledge during the last few hundred decades have not been an easy phenomenon, religious ideology made the path of knowledge more difficult and restrictive; many knowledgeable men have been persecuted and killed. Later it was revealed that the knowledgeable men were set on the right path, while the blind religious ideology was wrong, but forceful and brutal. Even though religious ideology does not play any real role in human life, but it still remains powerful by the careful protection of state machinery. The state is validating blind faith over reasonable knowledge. Even in this age of science mythological beliefs are being intensified, men are being intoxicated with such beliefs; and the irony is the gifts of modern science and technology are being used to transmit such ideas rooted in blind faith.

-Prof. Huyamyun Azad