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Are you religious?

I'm not religious at all but a colleague gifted me a book. I took it home, it was the Quran. I started reading it and somehow made me feel so calm. Does all religious books do the same thing. My friends are telling me that I will be brainwashed....I just roll my eyes and sigh. Is Islam really peaceful, can I find peace this way.

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LadyGrace ·

No. Your friends are right. Here's some interesting facts I think will be very useful to you.

It is the extreme religions that is the problem. Religion is man-made philosophies. That's why they don't work.

In religions, you have man creating his own God. That's idolatry.
In religion, you have man trying to earn his salvation by "good works".
While Jesus tells us it is only by grace through faith, that we're saved.
No other religions have a living God, that hears prayers and answers.
In addition, none of the other gods died on the cross for our sins. Jesus did. In religions, there is rhetoric or rituals that have to be closely adhered to. Other religions are about man trying to reach up to God. Christianity is about God reaching down to man.