Theology is the logic of the Devil.
Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.
My characters are not role-model Muslims, but they struggle to make choices using Muslim logic.
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests—who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, sometimes invents them.
I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls the world, he controls Satan. For me, religion was full of misstatements and reaches of logic that I just couldn't agree with.
I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.
