That may be so. Maybe we cant answer the questions to your satisfaction. But what is your answer Sparky? Where do you derive your ethics from? A divine source? Thats a staggeringly huge claim and the trouble is that you just cant prove it.
Hi Iris,
I don't think you can even answer the questions to your own satisfaction. That's why they are consistently avoided - just like the writer of this article.
Whether I can or cannot prove what I believe is irrelevant to the problems you face in this regard.
I dont follow - so a bunch of people claim to have seen a miraculous event i.e. the resurrection of Jesus. First of all, just because several people claim to have seen it and documented it and you can trace the history of said documents and know that they havent been falsified somewhere in the intervening millenia, does that make the claim itself true?
I didn't say that it did. I said that the claims of Christianity are different to those of Islam and therefore the reasons for rejecting Islam cannot immediately be extended to rejecting Christianity - at least in the way the author of this article claims that they led him.
Surely if the claim itself is irrational , it doesnt matter how meticulous the scholarship is?
And the conclusions drawn from the claim are even more irrational - the person who rose up from the dead was actually a superintelligent all-powerful superbeing who created the universe and yet had to come down to earth in the form of his own son (a human being) in order to kill himself in a horribly cruel way so that he could then forgive us for our sins? Huh? How on earth did anyone reach that conclusion?
How do you know the claim is irrational?
And why base your moral code upon an event that a few people claim to have seen 2000 years ago? Maybe social evolution, common sense, compassion, empathy, the golden rule, etc are all imperfect explanations and our ethical systems are deeply flawed, but even so - they have to be better than THAT!
On what grounds? They are exactly parallel - even in your book. According to you none of are grounded in evidence. That doesn't make one 'better' than the other - it makes them all the same.
This is the irony of the atheistic position. If it is true, then there is just as much reason for adopting Islamic morality than there is for any other.
Topic: Islam has made me an atheist