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    Thread: Atheism is not a belief!!
Post: RE: Atheism is not a belief!!

So there is no God? Something might be true today and not true tomorrow - E.g. It's my birthday. But saying there is God entails it is true forever. Saying there is no God would also have to be tru...
Dawud Religion 73 21895 April 28, 2013 at 5:52 am
    Thread: Theists- do you believe without evidence?
Post: RE: Theists- do you believe without evidence?

I believe what I know!
Dawud Religion 69 22220 April 27, 2013 at 7:18 pm
    Thread: Theists- do you believe without evidence?
Post: RE: Theists- do you believe without evidence?

I think that "different religions" disproves belief in God as much as differing opinions amongst scientists (many theists too) disprove their theories. To say - Religious people do not believe in sha...
Dawud Religion 69 22220 April 27, 2013 at 6:57 pm
    Thread: What makes something a faith?
Post: RE: What makes something a faith?

Religious faith is inventing an answer based on no information.... So everyone who is religious does this?
Dawud Religion 20 5284 April 27, 2013 at 6:46 pm
    Thread: Dear Christians
Post: RE: Dear Christians

Probably not.. ;)
Dawud Christianity 131 22098 April 27, 2013 at 6:38 pm
    Thread: Theists- do you believe without evidence?
Post: RE: Theists- do you believe without evidence?

As I said earlier - I don't use belief in the everyday sense it is used here. I am using it in the Anglo-American Philosophical manner "holding something to be true" The meaning if belief of "having...
Dawud Religion 69 22220 April 27, 2013 at 6:31 pm
    Thread: What makes something a faith?
Post: RE: What makes something a faith?

Well - there is such a thing as atheistic religion if you count forms of Buddhism. (April 27, 2013 at 6:16 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: You make a decision on faith when faced with an existential choice b...
Dawud Religion 20 5284 April 27, 2013 at 6:25 pm
    Thread: Religion
Post: Religion

I suspect - like Wittgenstein - that there is not one thing that is common to all things referred to as "religion" or "religious." Instead there is a family resemblance between certain things that peo...
Dawud Philosophy 4 1259 April 27, 2013 at 6:19 pm
    Thread: What makes something a faith?
Post: RE: What makes something a faith?

So there is no such thing as an agnostic religion?
Dawud Religion 20 5284 April 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm
    Thread: What makes something a faith?
Post: RE: What makes something a faith?

Does a religion need faith?
Dawud Religion 20 5284 April 27, 2013 at 5:06 pm
    Thread: Dear Christians
Post: Dear Christians

Allah and God- same thing or different. In Arab countries its not the case: Christians. Mislims, Atheists, Jews etc. use the Arabic word for God: "Allah" (literally the God). Hence why the Arabic bi...
Dawud Christianity 131 22098 April 27, 2013 at 5:03 pm
    Thread: Theists- do you believe without evidence?
Post: Theists- do you believe without evidence?

There are a lot of people who hold religion to be "holding beliefs without evidence". This is known as fideism. Martin Lither argued for people to believe - despite - reason. I don't think it's tru...
Dawud Religion 69 22220 April 27, 2013 at 4:31 pm
    Thread: If I would visit the U.S.A., which state would you recommend me to visit?
Post: RE: If I would visit the U.S.A., which state would...

I'd say go to the state with the best mosque facilities... But that might just be me....
Dawud Off Topic 27 11224 April 27, 2013 at 4:28 pm
    Thread: What makes something a faith?
Post: What makes something a faith?

I hate this quite Christian-centric word. But if people think there is such a thing as a faith out there - what is a faith?
Dawud Religion 20 5284 April 27, 2013 at 4:26 pm
    Thread: Atheism is not a belief!!
Post: RE: Atheism is not a belief!!

Your personal truth holds that there might be God if you are agnostic - is that corresponding with reality? Is it true to say there might be God?
Dawud Religion 73 21895 April 27, 2013 at 4:24 pm
    Thread: Show me your definition of GOD(s).
Post: RE: Show me your definition of GOD(s).

God is considered to have no Gender in traditional Islamic scholarship - They don't take their theology from Atheist Forums. Don't you have it when some theist comes along and tries to define atheis...
Dawud Islam 84 11897 April 27, 2013 at 3:29 pm
    Thread: What makes Islam so special?
Post: RE: What makes Islam so special?

Just cos Stalin was atheist doesn't mean atheists kill to spread atheism!
Dawud Islam 72 23285 April 27, 2013 at 9:09 am
    Thread: Atheism is not a belief!!
Post: RE: Atheism is not a belief!!

(April 26, 2013 at 4:59 pm)Gearbreak Wrote: Why are babies always used? They lack a belief in god, but they also lack empathy, intelligence, survival skills and emotional control. Babies are terribl...
Dawud Religion 73 21895 April 27, 2013 at 7:58 am
    Thread: Does this idea really seem stupid?
Post: RE: Does this idea really seem stupid?

I was saying people have knowledge that they are atheist (an awareness of an atheist identity) I say that this knowledge like all knowledge can affect people. Others had denied this - hence me makin...
Dawud Philosophy 18 5537 April 26, 2013 at 3:08 pm
    Thread: Pi is the answer
Post: RE: Pi is the answer

(April 8, 2013 at 6:29 am)Zen Badger Wrote: [Image: https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/h...1777_n.jpg] When you think of it like that... It's just coincidental - it's not like we live in a self...
Dawud Mathematics 22 6972 April 26, 2013 at 3:07 pm