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Sadly, I was proven correct.
There is one other possibility, and it is the one that I am using as the kindest possibility: Emre has serious enough mental issues that he cannot function very well. He isn't listening, and isn't learning, and is repeating the same tired old nonsense in the hope that the next repeat will convince us. The kind part is that his mania is the result of an untreated illness, a medical issue that may be treatable in some way. The alternative can only be he is an utterly ignorant preacher of hate and violence. There's enough of those in this world today without him adding to that toll. |
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You can't defeat fascism through debate because it's not simply an idea, proposal or theory. It's a fundamentally flawed way of looking at the world. It's a distorting prism, emotionally charged and completely logic-proof. You may as well challenge rabies to a game of Boggle. @ViolettaCrisis |
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Well hell, superstition just means accepting things as true in the absense of evidence. Religion is exactly that. So there's 100% commonality between the two.
Superstition and religion are two words for the same thing. Who would have guessed that stating the banally obvious could be so much work? It's like throwing rotten tomatoes at a brick wall. After the first bushel, it gets tedious. |
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The knowledge that the Quran is the word of God and has been preserved to this day is based on evidence.
That is why we are obliged to believe. Because it is true knowledge based on evidence. And we are obliged to avoid superstition. Knowledge = strong belief based on evidence. The Holy Quran asks us to believe in true knowledge. You are confusing belief with conjecture. All knowledge is actually belief. In contrast, atheism, which is a superstition, is based on false conjecture. Islam offers true knowledge. |
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So which one of the following sentences are correct?
1) Allah is a liar. The Quran said he put down weights on the earth and we still have earthquakes. 2) The Quran lies. It says Allah put down weights on the earth and we still have earthquakes. 3) Mohammad writes lies. Allah never told Mohammad anything about weights and we have earthquakes. |
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When the very book that asks us to believe true knowledge is also the one source of any true knowledge we have a credibility problem.
It will lead those unable to think for themselves down roads that only benefit those that think for the mindless masses. Among the second group are preachers, imams and popes. Predators of the masses. Flocks are to shear and ultimately sacrifice for food. Why would anyone with any original thoughts be part of one! |
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OK, I will do it again.
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Show me this evidence.
Obliged to whom? How does this square with free will? Obliged to believe in what? As you are aware, your religion is but one of many... Show me this evidence. First up, as before: obliged to whom? Secondly: as has been pointed out to you many, many times before theism is superstition. You are claiming that your god demands we avoid believing in him. I wouldn't word it quite like that, but OK. Where did that 'true' modifier come from? Are there now two types of knowledge - true and untrue? This is all arse-about-face. Belief logically follows from knowledge. Nope: Atheism is a rejection of a specified form of superstition: that being the existance of gods, as you well know. Citation needed. |
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"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled. Where something so important is involved, a deeper mystery seems only decent." - Galbraith, 1975 |
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Believing in the existence of God is a belief (a knowledge based on conclusive evidence).
Believing that God does not exist is also a belief (a completely false and superstitious belief). So Islam is the true teaching. Atheism is a false and superstitious religion. (Knowledge = strong belief based on evidence) |
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True for the highlighted but by definition, it can't be a belief if it is knowledge.
Also true for the highlighted. Whether the belief is justified or not is not established. That has nothing to do with belief. FALSE! It is not a religion and its truth or falsity hasn't been established. |
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Nope. Belief is not that at all.
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Two questions for Emre_1974tr to ignore (again)
How do you explain your claim of a designed life with the fact that design wise life is a complete and total mess only a malevolent or incompetent being would make? And how would your life change if you discovered there are no gods? |
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No, I did not ignore it, I explained it many times for years and you ignored what I wrote. So it's the other way around.
This world is a test world, a mixture of paradise and hell. Just as hell is purely for punishment, the world (our universe) is a world of testing where punishment and reward are intertwined. And our universe involves an end because it is a temporary testing place. I have explained this in pages and pages of detail, but shamelessly, you don't even read what is written. And then you try to project your own disrespect on the other person. |
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Emre, try to understand. The things you believe aren't knowledge, and what you do isn't work.
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Emre_1974tr,
Which one of the following sentences are correct? 1) Allah is a liar. The Quran said he put down weights on the earth and we still have earthquakes. 2) The Quran lies. It says Allah put down weights on the earth and we still have earthquakes. 3) Mohammad writes lies. Allah never told Mohammad anything about weights and we have earthquakes. |
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Originally Posted by Emre_1974tr
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You have quoted your holy book. That is never an explanation.
But given that answer to the first question, if this world is intentionally made imperfect, then why are you harping on the perfection of the world as an example of god? How can one differentiate between an world made to be seen as undesigned by design or just undesigned? |
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No, no flaws. We are in a perfect universe.
that perfectly serves the purpose for which it was created. Hell also perfectly serves the purpose of punishment. Paradise serves the purpose of rewarding perfectly. The world (our universe) is a mixture of paradise and hell, perfectly serving the purpose of testing. Finally it comes to an end. It is a finite universe of trials that comes and goes. It perfectly fulfills the purpose and program for which it was created. |
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Oh boy ..... perfection everywhere. Where do you get those rose coloured glasses from Emre? On the contrary I, as I think most of us, don't see perfection anywhere. Even our bodies, when looked at critically, looked like they where designed by a committee. That is, if you make the assumption that we were designed, that is. I don't of course, as evolution is the elegant explanation. |
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So, you want your cake and eat it too.
Again, we cannot comment on the rest of the universe, as we have no clue what that is like, though from what we see it follows simple laws. But life on earth is clearly extremely imperfect. IF it was designed then the designer was either incompetent, malevolent or designed it in such a way that any form of design cannot be seen. And in the last case it is therefore not a reason to assume a god. So, is your god malevolent, incompetent or one that does not want to be seen? |
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I said:
Our world and our universe; 1-The world of testing (confronting people with themselves). 2- A mixed life of paradise and hell (rewards and suffering as a warning and/or punishment) 3- It contains a finite life in which his creatures and even the universe itself will surely die in the end. What is meant by perfection in this universe is perfection in terms of being suitable-serving for these three items, because this is the purpose of its creation. But since the purpose of creation and the conditions of the hereafter universe are different, perfection in the hereafter world is completely different. But punishment and rewards serve basically the same goal in the integrity of the world and the hereafter. https://free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9611966.0 |
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