One of the most important elements of the human fabric is faith. Whether faith in God, science, friends, family or even your self, faith is an integral part of what it means to be human, regardless of one’s affiliation with a certain religion. Over the last few years, I have become more and more fascinated in people’s search for truth. For fear of sounding preachy or “mystical”, I use the word truth because in some ways, that is what every single person seeks from the moment they are born to the moment they die. Much like faith, truth can take many shapes and forms and can be pursued in infinite ways. And also like faith, truth does not need a specific religion to facilitate its search.
However, religion is one of the main ways that faith and truth are both debated and sought after and for some, even found. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are only three ways that truth is sought through an act of faith. In some ways, these three Abrahamic religions are simply variations of each other with different cultural and traditional influences but in other ways, these seemingly similar schools of thought are fundamentally different and even irreconcilable at times.
What I aim to do in the allowed time is to profile each of these and possibly more religious ideas not to reach any particular conclusion. I believe it is in the searching that answers are found and in the finding that answers are given. Over the next few weeks, I will be searching, observing, questioning, and trying to understand the experience that binds and divides all people that is faith.
*I am in no way qualified to comment on any practices in Islam because I am not Muslim or have studied the Qur’an. My only credibility is my experience. Having said that, my goal is to simply observe and share my observations
