Definitions - #310 - #44 - A "Belief" society versus a "Reality" society

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(A “Hoped For” society vs. A “Financially and Productive” society)

A Society whose public gets its instructions from a “Hoped For” society is a society not based on how things are NOW, but how things are going to be in the “future”…(maybe!) There is certainty. It is written. It may not be “real” to a person who lives in the “real world”, but to the person who believes, it is “real”! It is hard for some people who live in the “real world” to understand people who just “believe”!
There is a difference!!!

In a “Caliphate” or a “Theocracy” the values and rules are written… open to interpretation, yes…but moderate. A person who memorizes these words and attempts to live by these words, is a person whose future is already planned …. and safe. He mustn’t change, he mustn’t comply! No matter what the “real world” is thinking or doing, he mustn’t change! Everything has been “ordained”…. has been “planned”.

But what of a different “interpretation” of these words? It can be brutal…it can be violent….it can be bloody. There simply is no room for compromise! Everyone “else” becomes an “infidel”… a non-believer! Everyone “else” must be eliminated or changed.

But suppose someone else does not wish to be eliminated or changed!!....War is the next step! …There is no “successful alternative”!

In other societies, change is to be accepted….change is to be expected. Compromise is looked upon as a “good” thing. A person can change his views. There is little that is written down. What is written are the “inalienable rights” that most humans wish. There was an attempt, by a learned few, to write a minimum code of conduct for the many. True ... it has been challenged and modified. It has changed… but only modestly. No where is a person’s change in views, been a call for “elimination” …. for violent, physical retribution. The future is not pre-ordained… is not pre-planned.

How can these types of mindset debate… how can they successfully communicate?
This is what America is up against in Islam!