La paranoïa monothéiste

"Muhammad Iqbal, who every Muslim should read, asserts that “the moral and religious ideal of a human is not self-negation but self-affirmation.” And a person attains this ideal by “becoming more and more individual, more and more unique…the greater a person’s distance from God, the less his individuality.”

This appears convoluted but it is not. Iqbal explains that in order to fortify the self, we must take actions that integrate into our selves the Divine attributes. " dit Paola Garcia dans un article sur le site moroccoworldnews.com (August 28, 2015).

Ce qui confirme mon sentiment ancien que le monothéisme conduit à une identification de soi avec une divinité suprême, un des symptômes de la paranoïa. 

Ma réponse à Paola Garcia :

"Self-affirmation" is the most primitive tendency of any living organism ! Even to the detriment of all that is not "I" (myself, my clan, my tribe, my religion) ... The very function of all religions deserving that name has precisely been all along human history to counterpoise that original elementary and brutal tendency with thoughts, beliefs and rituals that emphasize what " I " have in common with other people, families, nations and sects or religions.  That is the basic condition of any integration at the level of nations and presently of the emerging global society.

Integrate into oneself  "the Divine attributes" boils down to take oneself (one's clan, tribe, nation, religion and sect) for God himself.
It is one of the main symptoms of paranoïa.
That is probably the reason why Islam, taking force (physical, or military) as a sign of the divine election of those who are most endowed with it,  has always been at war not only with the non-Muslim world but with oneself. And it is surely not a model to follow for the coming world if it survives the present crisis.  

 
http://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2015/08/166084/let-us-not-waste-islam/