It's not healthy to be religious to the point that you seek its permission to attend the funeral of your good neighbour.

Originally posted by ElPunto: There is a simple answer here. As a Muslim one believes that Allah's method for governance, if properly applied, will be superior to whatever man-made systems there exists including the secular ideal you espouse here. That there haven't been any present day examples doesn't mean that this quest should be abandoned or that it is hopeless. Christians used to believe just that. Time has proven them wrong.

^ An ironic post, as almost the reverse is true. The only time that man's freewill becomes under question is when we suppose there to be as such thing as divine intervention in human affairs. Faith more often than not happens to be a threat to the human intellect; it’s arguably reason’s nemesis. And giving man a supposedly divine name doesn’t change his nature; it’s just that, a label.