Culture and Islam; coinciding with current events

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hasanwhy said:

True, all so very true. If I have described culture as this unstoppable behemoth that we all bow down towards, then I may need to do some editing. Culture can be changed, worked around, and or even forgotten over time, I was merely stating that it helps to define some of our actions. Although as human beings, we tend to shape ourselves and who we want to be. Culture helps points us in a certain direction but that doesn't necessarily mean we have to follow that laid-out path. 

And logic, reason, and evidence, isn't just used by yourself alone, I believe lawyers also use them as well. I try using them time to time. 

One of the most amazing reasons of being born into this time is the amount of progression that we humans have gone through. In this day and age, we don't have to follow the paths of our fore-fathers no longer. We can make our own future based on our own merit. I truly believe that since we as a race have progressed past old world thinking that we can relieve ourselves of such practices without being shunned, ostracized, or even stoned to death for being different.  

Ironically you think that way precisly because you live in a society which allows and even encourages such thinking.

In the past you most likely would not have though this way (or if you lived in a third world country).