Is everyone open for everything?

Rasim Özdenören We cannot expect everyone to understand everything. Everyone cannot be open for everything, either. One of my friends from my youth was not familiar with the notion of love. He didn't believe that love existed. He mocked and despised those who believed in love. He claimed that they deceived themselves and they tried to deceive others just because they deceived themselves. It was not naturally possible to discuss with someone who thought this way. The parties of a discussion should at least stand on the same ground to initiate a discussion. One should be familiar with love to be able to discuss the nature of love with her/him. The same situation applies to sacrificing animals on the occasion of the Greater Eid. How can you possibly discuss with a person who thinks that the Feast is only about killing a living creature? Let's assume that there is no historic reality behind the legend of Prophet Abraham. Let's suppose that it is pure invention. Even if it was mythical, aren't there any lessons to take out of it? Haven't library load comments been written on Greek mythology? Won't there be any more yet to come? We slide by the immense mental treasure if we sneer at it just because this myth doesn't have a solid basis. The value of the Greek myths as well as myths of other cultures has been the source of metaphorically invaluable intellectual products. Let's think the cave metaphor of Plato... This metaphor both summarizes the power of thought of the earlier times before Plato and has been the source of thinking thus far. It is not hard to find the rich connotations of the cave metaphor of Plato in the works of Aristotle, Al-Ghazali, Ibn Rushd, Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard and in the source of intellectual tradition of mankind up to now. However, it is almost impossible for a person, who rejects to comprehend the intellectual value of a metaphor, to follow the intellectual chain we have above mentioned. It would be impossible to penetrate prophet Ibrahim's sacrificing his own son without grasping the metaphoric value of it. Via this metaphor, we can get the opportunity to penetrate the essence of law and morals, what constitutes a crime and what does not and the position of human beings before tragedies. However, setting forth with one who does not have the sagacity to realize the metaphoric value of this anecdote would mean nothing but jumping into an abyss.