Re: Czech Scientist explains conversion from Atheism to Islam
There is another possible reading of this. One which I believe that it is more interesting to us.
Admitting that science doesn't have the answers beyond its own limits, which are our own limits, and admitting that a spiritual belief on the other hand can help answer those questions, why would someone from a country in Christendom turn to a foreign spiritual belief instead of one which is home-grown?
This has, in my opinion, little to do with Islam itself. Already before Islam became an issue of concern you had people who were confronted to the questions that cannot be answered through science, and who looked to the east in search of these answers, converting to religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism.
What was striking here is that such people often did not bother with looking closer to them, and they ignored the rich tradition of Christian mystics.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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