Re: Atheism
Yes it is a statement of faith, but you are wrong that it is not a statement of “fact” - it may be a statement of “fact” and that is the pure logical approach to this discussion. As long as that statement is possibly TRUE logically, then there is no hesitance in me to believe it so long as it ticks the boxes on a faith level too … i.e. hadith based, Qur’an based, ijma of scholars based … if evidence conflicts with my religious beliefs then I will ignore it as conflicting evidence. If a man shows you amazing things like flying and brings people back to life and causes rain will you accept his claims of God? I won’t … even if he shows me a great display of amazing things … the reason why I won’t is because I know God is not a man … it is as simple as that for me. Science has a similar appeal to the minds of people as such a man would have …
If you knew a bit more about Islam then you would come to realise that there is a natural process of authentic understanding that results from the consensus of scholars … it is a matter that is not existent in any other religion. We are people of scripture and majority opinion, on a rational level it makes sense that the greatest acceptance without any undue pressure from external factors will result in the middle way and the middle way is the right way according to me.
No … it is indeed an example of prejudice … My faith is only a faith because I deem it to be correct … in which case I would sooner be consistent and prejudiced rather than inconsistent and logically fair … According to latest ideas of evolution in order to get around the probability problem the pioneering “evolutionists” argue that there is a prejudice in nature that when life occurred it continued to develop through that principle. If it is okay for atheists to argue their ground on the basis of prejudice then so can I …