You have repeatedly mentioned the disbelieving West, so-called America, and the true Islam on your website. These are well-known phrases in Iran that people have been hearing from religious leaders for decades, yet they have not had any beneficial effect even as much as a single grain of millet. The biggest mistake in the current world is entrusting the government of countries to religious leaders, which has undeniably left its undesirable marks on the political, economic, military, and social management of countries, just as you can see that the people in Iran are stuck in a swamp under the rule of a religious government. Religious leaders and their entourage will never be able to lead a nation to comprehensive progress in the age of space and the internet. We have heard since ancient times that the honor of a place lies with the one who sits in it. Religion, in a position of deceit, discrimination, self-aggrandizement, and hundreds of other flaws, cannot lead humanity to honesty and righteousness. So far, human history has never witnessed such a thing.
Dear brother!
Talking about the incompetence of religious leaders in governance has become as old and clichéd as talking about their competence in it; because these two theories have always been presented together, and neither has had “any beneficial effect even as much as a single grain of millet!” If religious leaders have ruled for decades, then secularists have ruled for centuries, but the result of their rule has been nothing but ignorance, poverty, discrimination, corruption, war, insecurity, and savagery for the world! It appears that the phrase “the honor of a place lies with the one who sits in it” is the only thing you have heard “since ancient times”; because you have not even heard that the greatest, most devastating wars in history were not waged by “religious leaders” but by those secularists who gained wealth and power through the plundering of the resources of weak and oppressed countries and the exploitation of the working class and the deprived, and built their rule on the broken bones of Black people and the spilled blood of Indians. Yes, the religious leaders in the Catholic Church, during their rule over Europe, also brought nothing but terror and misery to the people of that land. They nurtured “the Antichrist” -this child of Satan- in their womb as prostitutes. However, it was secularists who brought this ill-fated child into the world in the eighteenth century as midwives, and after two centuries of training, they made him dominant over the whole Earth.
From here, it is understood that the government of religious leaders and the government of non-religious leaders are two sides of the same coin, and neither has had, as you put it, “any beneficial effect even as much as a single grain of millet!” Therefore, Mansoor Hashemi Khorassani believes that “the biggest mistake in the current world” is not just “entrusting the government of countries to religious leaders,” but entrusting the government of countries to all those whom the Creator of the world has not considered qualified for governance, including religious leaders; considering that the Creator of the world is the Most Deserving One to manage it, and He does so by presenting “the perfect human” as His caliph.
Yes, of course, if you do not believe in the existence of Allah, then you must believe in His existence considering His signs in the sky and on Earth, the order that encompasses everything, and the rhythmic movements that govern nature. However, if you believe in His existence, then you must submit to this inevitable truth that the rule of the world belongs to Him alone and that humans are not qualified to rule over humans. The realization of justice in the world is contingent upon the establishment of Allah’s sovereignty over it. Allah’s sovereignty over it is established when His caliph in it assumes rule. His caliph in it assumes rule when those like you abandon religious and non-religious leaders, stop their wavering between them -between idols and false deities-, turn their faces away from them toward “the perfect human” -Allah’s caliph on Earth-, stretch out the hand of need to his doorstep, submit to him, acknowledging their inability, and plead with him to forgive their thousand-year mistake and accept the rule over them to save them from ignominy and wretchedness and lead them to honor and happiness.
This is the only path to your salvation. Any other path is a path to destruction, whether you call it religion or disbelief; because without Allah and His caliph on Earth, there is no discernible difference between religion and disbelief. Whoever does not pledge allegiance to Allah and His caliph on Earth may pledge allegiance to religious leaders if he wants, to non-religious leaders if wants, or even to a stone or a piece of wood if he wants; because it is all the same to him!