Religion is the greatest impediment to freedom there is.
I don't defend every religion; but the religion of God is that which I defend.
If one asks, discusses and thinks .. this is the required thing.
Man should not blindly adopt ideas and beliefs.
Quran 2: 170
{When they f are told, "Follow [the statements] that God has revealed [in the Quran]," they say, "We follow only [the traditions and customs] that we found our fathers holding!"
What if their fathers did not understand g, and were not guided [to the truth]?}
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f i.e. the pagan Arab, of the pre-Islam ignorance.
g Had they used their minds and reason, they would not have worshipped the stone.