Huff Post: Dr. David Liepert.
Islam’s Eid ul-Adha reminds me every year that what we believe about God doesn’t matter as much as whether we believe in God in the first place.
I’d like to ask my Muslim, Christian and Jewish brother and sister believers a quick question: Even if we believe our source texts come from God Most High, does that change the fact that what we make of them — the doctrines and dogmas that make up the things that sometimes make our faiths so very different — is something made by us?
Because I think Muslims, Christians and Jews should have a problem with caring too much about religious dogma, and I think Muslims should have the biggest problem of all because of Eid ul-Adha, the Feast of Abraham.
Muslims like me are frequently described with labels like “liberal” or “moderate” or “progressive,” but I actually think of myself as a staunch conservative, and have been since the day I believed, first as a Christian, and then as a Muslim.
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