Is your faith pragmatic enough to satisfy your needs?
 

Religious faith is amorphous, changing and often practical. If a circumstance arises which confounds the then current understanding, it forces a rejection of the former concepts or at least a reformation.

Does your faith meet your intellectual, your social, your emotional, your physical, or your needs of well-being?

Why or why not?

I enjoy the practical aspects of our faith community, the general good will and desire for self-improvement, and the willingness to forgive. Those elements satisfy a lot of needs.

Knowing what we actually need is always more satisfying than satisfy the need which might not need to get satisfied.

Here's a mental health question regarding Islam from the Shia perspective. In Islam, killing seems permitted if a person threatens certain religious sensibilities, i.e., misuse of the Prophet's image and what not. And an infidel may be killed.

My analysis of those willing to kill for religious reason seems to be motivated by anger, hate and resentment.

Yet mental health specialists advise against holding grudges, retaining anger and the like.

Several of the great religions Judaism, Christianity and to the extent one considers Buddhism a religion, forgiveness and allowing an affront to be forgotten for the mental health of an individual is essential.

It seems to an outsider that holding a grudge, holding on to anger, even against one' enemies, is a core doctrine of many Islamicists. Isn't that bad for mental health of adherents?

My faith is wonderfully pragmatic like a chapel pew:

http://www.thechapelpew.com

When was the last time you checked your assumption with a Shia faghih or a Shia scholar? Who has implemented to you that is permitted to kill people over an offensive images of prophet Mohammad ( peace be upon him)? Have you ever read stories about his life and the way he would deal with the offenders?

I know very little about you. But even though,your desire to hold such a wrong assumption for all these years and keep calling muslims out on that is beyond me.

So here is my theory about why you are trying to actualize your assumptoins with almost zero fact repertoire. You are quite intrigued by what you have found about Islam. And you would probably be considering beocme a Muslim if there werenot too much social political back lash. So you are trying to delay the process by injecting the false alegations to the story in order to appase your otherwise avid soul. Which is indeed considered unhealthy for mental health.

or this:

As an artist if I drew a portrait or image representing Mohammad (peace be upon him) and published it would my life be in jeopardy?

A general question I will throw out there:

Is your wife pragmatic enough to satisfy your needs?

In case you mean repulsive images, there is a huge difference between a permision being authorized from religious leader and some hurt feeling feedbacks. And i am quite happy that i dont have to explain it to you as you are a believer yourself.