Page 83 - The Religion Of The Ignorant

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

obliged to show respect. Respect is not part of their characters. From
that point of view, Ignorantists feel most at ease in circumstances
where they do not have to show respect for anyone and where they
can easily reveal their true natures. Under those circumstances, a
person's defects of style, distorted ethical understanding, and true
feelings and attitudes about other people emerge.
Just as the concept of "respect" changes according to place and
environment, it also changes with age. In the Religion of the
Ignorant, people need to prove their self-confidence, that they attach
no importance to anyone and therefore have no fear of them—in
other words, that their personalities are fully developed. This they
do with the exceedingly vulgar and disrespectful behavior com-
monly referred to as "being real" or "acting natural."
Environments perceived as "natural" have their own particular
forms of intrusive behavior. The most obvious manifestations in-
clude opening the refrigerator in the kitchen of a stranger, someone
one does not know, rummaging through a friend's room, opening a
closet and trying on clothes, putting one's feet up on the furniture,
assuming a recumbent posture when sitting down, being tactless
under the guise of sincerity, speaking loudly, and swearing.
As we've seen, Ignorantism's ethical model is the exact opposite
of all the moral principles revealed in the Qur'an. It has been forgot-
ten that an account must be rendered to Allah and that people have
been taken in by the baubles of the transitory life of this world. This
society is ignorant, as described in the Qur'an, since it lives as if it is
completely unaware of the existence of Allah and the Hereafter.
The sole arena for people in this society is the life of this world.
But the fact is, the life of this world offers nothing but deception:
Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a di-
version and ostentation and a cause of boasting among

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