I hate responding to stupid, ill-thought-out, almost headache-inducing posts with silly analogies and strawman arguments (and the spelling mistakes and grammatical errors don’t help either).
No need for personal b.s. You responded out of choice, I think I made a valid point.
You said ”if that gave abduls father some peace”. WTF? I don’t think it gave his father any peace.
Something unknown is simply the unknown. We simply don't know. End of. His father is dead, and it gives peace to Abdur that his father did some incantation before his death, and Abdur can sleep peacefully at night thinking his father is in a 'better place' so it had some benefit.
The only person who was garnering any peace out of this was Abdur himself. Nobody is lambasting Abdurs father . His father was a dying man who was none the wiser. I am however lambasting a belief system which creates the kinda warped, disturbed mentality displayed by Abdur who believes his father will burn in hell unless he utters these words.
Maybe have you ever entertained this crazy ass idea, that the whole reason why religion exists is because it appeals to some innate trait in some? Abdur himself is a victim to Islam. Everything is not in black and white you have to look at things from a different perspective.
As for your stupid example of a car crash on the highway in which a whole family is wiped out except the father who is left holding his headless child in his arms.... erm.... appeal to emotion much?
That was not an appeal to emotion that as an analogy, another example can be a mother dying from cancer, and the family praying and doing some pointless incantation to resolve some psychological conflict. It gives them a peace of mind, its a well documented fact, try reading some Evolutionary Psychology Of Religion.
Aside from the dead and the person mourning the dead, your carcrash scenario (no pun) also consists of a third party who is trying to reassure the person mourning the dead. That is not the case here. There was no third party involved when Abdur was trying to convert his dying father whilst filming it on camera to show on the IERA youtube channel.
Well filming it was, assholish like I said. Even if his father didn't believe in Islam, maybe you should try to entertain another crazy idea I am going to throw out for you. Imagine, you're dying and are on your death bed it is the last moment and you know it, your daughter is a Muslim and she is pleading with you to re-convert to Islam, since the REALLY believes you will burn in hell forever, would you not just do a conversion (which is pointless and has no meaning to you) to give some peace of mind to your daughter? As a human being, I can tell you in such as situation I wouldn't put past doing something so pathetic just to alleviate the pain of someone.
^ That was the only sensible thing you said.
ok.
Topic: Hamza Tzortzis on his non-Muslim parents