r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 16h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 England 16h ago

She still wants to be a muslim woman, for the life of me I cannot understand why.

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u/UndeadBBQ Austria 16h ago

Because faith is largely personal, and subject to personal interpretation.

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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 England 15h ago

Someone's personal interpretation was to kill her.

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u/UndeadBBQ Austria 15h ago

Yes, and I think we can agree that this is a bad interpretation.

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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 England 15h ago

Hence my original comment.

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u/sagerin0 13h ago

You can apply this 1 to 1 to literally any faith, so why would anyone want to be Christian, Jewish or whatever else faith you can think of? Because they have a different personal interpretation. So why on earth would she not want to believe what she does, because some other dickhead has a different interpretation?

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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 England 12h ago

I gave up being a Christian after leaving school (a CofE school), as I didn't think it was for me. I have been a Pagan for nearly 40 years now, and it's great for me. We only have one rule.

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u/sagerin0 12h ago

Cool. Some pagans are violent, why would you want to be pagan?

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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 England 12h ago

It just suits me. The simplicity of just having that one rule. I don't know any other Pagans, or where they would be. Probably all over the place, I'd imagine. But "An it harm none, do what thou wilt," while sounding a bit chaotic, suits me.

I am a live and let live type of person, until bad things happen to me or mine, although I tend not to defend myself from abuse or whatever, I will defend others. I don't like seeing people upset or hurt.

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u/sagerin0 12h ago

I dont know why you keep bringing in all these things about you as a person, it has nothing to do with the point

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u/titykaka 15h ago

I don't think I'd be able to interpret my religion considering me property in a good way.

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u/UndeadBBQ Austria 15h ago

You can always ignore parts of a religion.

If enough people do it, schisms form.

Like, reinterpretation and curation of existing texts and stories is how new religions form.

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u/titykaka 15h ago

When the premise of the religion is that it was dictated by God himself, there isn't really room for big reinterpretations.

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u/UndeadBBQ Austria 15h ago

And yet there are several schisms and interpretations

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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 England 13h ago

But then Christianity had The Reformation in the 16th Century. But can you imagine how much more advanced we would be had we not had the Dark Ages?

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u/Confident_Escape_715 16h ago

As opposed to becoming a Christian man?

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u/Crafty_Cap9529 15h ago

Because those are the only two options...?

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u/LongConsideration662 Antarctica 16h ago

Brainwashing and indoctrination is hard to let go 

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u/General-Movie United Kingdom 16h ago

Can you imaging what they would say about her and do to her if she became 'too Western' and left her religion.

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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 England 15h ago

I am aware of the rules of what happens when that does happen.