https://freethinker.co.uk/2024/04/surviving-ramadan-an-ex-muslims-journey-in-pakistans-religious-landscape/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=surviving-ramadan-an-ex-muslims-journey-in-pakistans-religious-landscape The magazine of freethought, open enquiry and irreverence Sat, 06 Apr 2024 07:14:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://freethinker.co.uk/2024/04/surviving-ramadan-an-ex-muslims-journey-in-pakistans-religious-landscape/#comment-262 Sat, 06 Apr 2024 07:14:16 +0000 https://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12588#comment-262 https://youtu.be/9xgKIOzPwko?si=U2LmS9tHiIDBgbaQ

]]> https://freethinker.co.uk/2024/04/surviving-ramadan-an-ex-muslims-journey-in-pakistans-religious-landscape/#comment-261 Sat, 06 Apr 2024 03:16:01 +0000 https://freethinker.co.uk/?p=12588#comment-261 I thought all religions were religions of peace? What I find “quaint” is how the natural cycle of life has been appropriated by religions and religious ritual. What are these religious festivals but a marking of natural time in terms of planet Earth’s location relative to the Sun and the onset and ending of the different seasons on Earth? Instead of using terms like Ramadan, Easter or what ever other religious term, we should all simply call it Spring and wish one another a Happy Spring Time!

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