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A comment to atheist people

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

I don’t have much problems with most atheist people. Most of them doesn’t care much about what other people believes. But few of them are just looking for problems. They always say that religious people do not have logic, religious people only rely on their faith. While atheist people just too proud with their logic and sciences. It seem that their logic and sciences can explain and solved anything, and they are more superior than religious people.

To answer them, I have this beautiful movie on youtube. After you see this movie, do you still believe that there is no God?

Earth is just a dust in this universe, and this is just the universe that we know. What will happen in the next 50 years? Maybe they will find something million times bigger that the biggest thing today?

Do they still proud with their small brain and small logic? They can’t even find the cure for common flue.

Do they still proud with their small brain and small logic?

Not so long ago, people believed that the earth is flat, they believed that the earth is the center of the universe.

Do they still proud with their small brain and small logic?

Sciences changes everytimes, what the truth today maybe become obsolete tomorrow.

Can they see the big picture?

This universe is just too complex too run by it self, somebody have to manage it, and for religious people we call it God.

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Ulama-ulama yang membingungkan

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Saya semakin hari semakin bingung dan takut, dengan semakin banyak orang yang mengaku sebagai ulama Islam, tapi ucapan mereka bertentangan dengan agama Islam. Apakah karena pengetahuan saya tentang Islam masih belum dalam, atau mereka sudah terlalu amat pintar sehingga susah di mengerti oleh orang kebanyakan?

Bagaimana mungkin mereka bisa mengatakan kalau Islam tidak melarang perbuatan homo?

Bagaimana mungkin mereka bisa mengatakan kalau muslimah bisa menikah dengan lelaki non muslim?

Sedangkan perbuatan yang jelas-jelas di perbolehkan oleh Islam di larang oleh mereka. Tidak percaya, apa ang terjadi ketika Aa Gym menikah lagi? Apakah perbuatan Aa Gym adalah perbuatan haram menurut Islam? Tetapi mereka beramai-ramai menghujat Aa Gym sambil membela kaum Homo yang jelas-jelas haram.

Saya rasa otak mereka sudah terbakar karena mereka sudah terlalu pintar.

Musuh Islam bukan orang bodoh, tapi orang pintar yang tahun benar tentang agama Islam. Mereka bahkan mungkin hapal Al Quran dan hadits. Tetapi dia menggunakan kepintaran mereka untuk memutar balikan kebenaran menjadi kesalahan, merubah yang halal menjadi haram. Mereka mengedepankan sebuah ayat, tetapi menyembunyikan ayat-ayat yang lain. Mereka menggunakan sebuah hadits tanpa menceritakan mengapa hadits tersebut ada. Mereka pintar tetapi tidak memiliki iman. Justru kepintaran mereka itu mereka pergunakan untuk merusak agma Islam. Merekalah musuh-musuh Islam yang utama.

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Arthur C. Clarke opinions about Islam

Monday, July 14th, 2008

In one of the internet forum, someone give me the link to the Council of Secular Humanism.There is an interesting article, an interview from Free Inquiry Magazine with Arthur C. Clarke where his short biography can be found in here.

From the interview, I understand that Arthur C. Clarke is an atheist.

As from an atheist point of view, this is an interesting interview to read. The title also provocative as my opinions, “God, Science, and Delusion, A Chat With Arthur C. Clarke

But while reading the interview, somehow I really surprised with the interview.

This is an interesting quote from the interview that surprised me.

FI: Do you see any value at all in the various religions?

Clarke: Though I sometimes call myself a crypto-Buddhist, Buddhism is not a religion. Of those around at the moment, Islam is the only one that has any appeal to me. But, of course, Islam has been tainted by other influences. The Muslims are behaving like Christians, I’m afraid.

FI: What appeals to you in Islam?

Clarke: Historically, Islam had a great deal of tolerance for other views and offered the world its priceless wisdom in the form of astronomy and algebra. And, as you know, Islam helped rescue Western civilization from the Dark Ages by preserving classical texts and transmitting them to the West. We, on the other hand, burned the library at Alexandria. If Islam hadn’t fallen into internecine warfare and had gone on to conquer the rest of Europe, we’d have avoided a thousand years of Christian barbarism.

So based on an atheist opinion or simply said based on Arthur C. Clarke opinions, that Islam has more tolerance and more respect for science rather than any other religions.

But sadly, from time to time, Islam become more corrupt because of some reasons. Some Imams or some leaders uses only few verses from Quran that will only benefits them, and disregards the others verses.

You must read Quran as a book, not only verses by verses.

I’m a logical person, and until today, I only see that Islam is the most logical religions compare to others.

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Bir di Mini Market

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Beberapa hari yang lalu, saya mampir ke sebuah mini market di dalam Kota Wisata Cibubur.

Pertama kali masuk, saya terkejut, karena pas di rak tengah, dekat dengan susu kemasan, di pajang secara demonstratif belasan kaleng dan botol bir dari dua merk yang berbeda. Seingatku, tidak pernah ada mini market yang menjual bir (atau mungkin memang menjual?). Bir hanya di jual di supermarket besar seperti carefour dan hypermart, tidak di mini market.

Menurut saya, bir atau minuman yang mengandung alkohol lainnya, sangatlah tidak pantas untuk di jual bebas di dalam minimarket, apalagi biasanya minimarket ada di dalam perumahan.

Apakah ada tanggung jawab moral dari pihak mini market untuk tidak menjual bir kepada anak di bawah umur? Seperti anak SMP dan SMA. Apalagi biasanya mini market biasa di kunjungi oleh anak-anak. Penempatan botol bir secara demonstratif apalagi dekat dekat dengan susu kemasan, tentu sedikit banyak berkata kepada anak-anak kalau bir adalah sesuatu yang umum, yang lumrah.

Mungkin perlu dipikirkan kembali perijinan menjual minuman ber alkohol di dalam mini market.

Dan tentunya, kita bisa memilih akan belanja di mini market yang mana? Yang menjual minuman ber alkohol atau yang tidak?

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Ketika jilbab menjadi perhiasan

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Dalam sebuah angkutan umum, saya melihat sepasang kekasih sedang berangkulan di kursi belakang. Tentu hal ini tidak terlalu saya perhatikan jika, sang wanita tidak mengenakan jibab.

Ketika jilbab tidak datang dari hati.

Seorang siswi sekolah Islam terkemuka di Indonesia, berjalan menuju ke arah teman-temannya yang sedang menunggu di tempat parkir. Tentu saja hal ini tidak terlalu saya perhatikan jika, sang siswi tidak berjalan sambil membuka jilbabnya.

Ketika jilbab di paksakan.

Seorang teman wanita berkata, bahwa dia mungkin akan menggunakan jilbab. Tentu saja hal ini tidak terlalu saya perhatikan, jika sang teman wanita tidak berkata karena kelihatannya jilbab sedang nge-trend sekarang ini.

Ketika jilbab menjadi perhiasan.

Alangkah indahnya, jika jilbab datang dari hati.

Bukan demi suami.

Bukan demi orang tua.

Bukan demi sekolah dan guru.

Bukan demi lingkungan sosial.

Bukan demi mode.

Tapi demi Allah semata.

Tapi, ini tentunya hanyalah pendapat saya.

Just before midnight, my mind tricked me.

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