At a Glance

RELIGION, FLOOD AND VIOLENCE

When it rains for just an hour, Surabaya –especially IAIN Sunan Ampel campus –is almost in flood. To what extent, it refers to people’s view and attitude toward this world life.

Many of them consider the world as themselves own, not as an entrusted from God. From theological perspective, they have a religion not to get God’s moral teaching, but to legitimize apparently their greed, even hostility among themselves. Though they have religion, they are not so religious in relationship, one with another, and with the universe as well. They do not set religion as a basic source for developing worldview. In turn, they lost morality control.

This religiosity brings about tragedy in human live, such perpetual violence in Palestine-Israel, terrorism threat, and environmental disaster. It is certainly included the flood in the IAIN Sunan Ampel complex coming almost every time when it rains.