Page 16 - The Religion Of The Ignorant

TO BE A "FINE" MAN

"Be smart!" "That wouldn't have happened if you had used your
head!"
You must have heard those words countless times during your
life: especially during childhood, when you said or did something
your elders didn't agree with or didn't want you to do again.
For someone who utters these words, being a fine person is more
important than anything. That means adhering to the understanding,
culture, attitudes and lifestyle generally accepted by the great major-
ity in society, and conforming to a certain system of values, models
and rules deemed acceptable. This is adopted and implemented in so-
ciety. It's difficult to initiate any debate on where these models and
rules originated and whether they're correct. Their inconsistencies
cannot be questioned easily, because to question values adopted by
the majority risks contradicting masses of people and becoming the
target of their hostile reactions.
This structure, whose rightness is so firmly believed in, is not pe-
culiar to certain societies alone. The system is practiced in the East as
well as in the West, and maintains itself in widely different cultures as
a particular system of beliefs and values with its own prohibitions,
sanctions and recommendations—just like a religion.
The concepts of Ignorantism are directly opposed to being a
Muslim, believing in Allah, having proper moral values, and even

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