Omar Suleiman

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #352 – Omar Suleiman: Islam · 17 Jan 2023 podcast

Well, the truth has consequences.

So don't seek out the truth unless you're willing to abide by what you find.

So a lot of people want to mold truth.

their journey in accordance with a predetermined pursuit that they already have.

And so when they approach religion, they approach it like another product.

You know, there was an article that was actually written by a rabbi.

I've spoken about this in several sermons.

It was called The Allure of Narcissistic Spirituality.

The Allure of Narcissistic Spirituality, where he talks about, you know, how religion becomes just another product of your own

self-adoration and worship to where you only approach religion to the extent that it gives you more happiness in the worldly sense.

You only approach of it what is therapeutic.

So it becomes just as secular in its nature as any other practice of meditation or whatever it may be or some other product.

And it kind of mentions, you know, how

He took that from a person that is praying in a temple, and a guy walks into the temple and bumps into him, and then he curses the guy out.

So he didn't see his behavior towards that person as part of his trajectory of worship.

He just saw his being godly as the worship that he was engaged in.

The truth has...

The truth has circumstances that are required of you, actions that are required of you that may be somewhat inconvenient.

So you have to be willing to engage in a sincere pursuit of truth and look for truth for what it is and not simply look for comfort and convenience.

And when you engage in that journey of wanting to know, you have to engage it thoroughly and sincerely and try your best to remove any bias.

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