False Teachings Quotes



Innovator in this sense refers to one who innovates within Islam—who tries to change or reform the religion departing from the original message of the Prophet. Unfortunately there are many Muslims who believe and argue that the everything that is important or necessary for life is in the Koran. Therefore any idea or statement that is innovative is at best useless and unnecessary and at worst blasphemous. Therefore all innovation is to be discouraged and this is the main reason for the Islamic stagnation since innovation was encouraged during the first 300 years of Islam and Islam far surpassed the Christian world which itself was suspicious of anything innovative them,


Ironically, most religious fundamentalists would agree with this statement. Where they differ is that they have diametrically different notions of what are the false ideas and false teachings. Religious leaders have warned about the dangers of heresy for centuries, but the notion that religious, fundamentalist teaching, can be harmful is a relatively modern notion of the last 3 centuries. Some scientists now see the problem as one of the reasons America is not producing enough scientists. There are very few world class scientists in the last century who were religious fundamentalists of any kind. And the more fundamentalist a person’s upbringing, the less likely he or she will be to become a modern scientist and see science as a positive force. .A typical modern