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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

characteristics of people who live far removed from religious
moral values is their behaving in accordance with the condition-
ing of that society. These people determine just about all their be-
havior through this mentality of going along with the majority.
That mentality will also shape their point of view about religion.
All his thoughts about religion are instilled by his environ-
ment. Since he has not read the Qur'an even for once his whole
life he possesses a conception of religion based on hearsay ac-
quired right from a very early age. He becomes convinced that
everything he hears about religion is truly a part of it.
He vigorously avoids reading the Qur'an and learning
about true religious moral values, while also conditioning the
people around him in the same way, and is thus instrumental in
their also generally avoiding those same religious values. People
with this incorrect attitude and understanding are described as
follows in the Qur'an:
"Others they keep away from it, and themselves they
keep away; but they only destroy their own souls,
though they do not perceive it. (Surat Al-An'am: 26)
Because of the ignorance of people with such values, the fact
that the majority of society avoids living by religious moral val-
ues will be the main justification for their exhibiting the same at-
titude. Their ignorance causes them to be negatively effected by
the way that famous and leading members of society live cut off
from religious moral values.
By keeping away from religion, he, in his own mind, thinks
he becomes a modern and contemporary person and "is doing
what the elite do." Because of this mass psychology he forgets

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