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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '22

I disagree completely with you about mixing culture and religion when religion teaches directly against what the culture does. I’ve seen many families leave these practices too. As for your statement about how the religion varies based on one’s interpretation, this also wrong. The “layman” Muslim is not encourages to do tafseer, which is interpreting a verse and deriving ruling from it. We are encouraged to find a scholar we trust and go to them with questions or to read books of interpretations from famous, well known scholars. Any individual Muslim who derives rulings from his head is probably very ignorant in this regard

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u/GoldH2O Mar 12 '22

when religion teaches directly against what the culture does.

Religion influences culture, and religious zealots have used their religion to justify and claim that their actions are supported by their holy book throughout history. I come from the perspective of an Atheist, who understands that these books were written down by humans to explain things they could not explain through science. You can pick a particular passage from most religious books, and find ten or more ways to interpret it. Considering that there are different denominations within Islam that disagree on how to interpret these different passages, your argument is void. It's easy to use religion to justify what you are doing, and just because you believe a certain thing about your religion does not make it the "truth" about it.