(November 19, 2010 at 5:43 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Either Islam is the true religion or all religions are false, because it is the last and final religion.No, that's just a very bad use of logic. Islam itself makes the claim to be the last and final religion, and you make the assumption that this claim is true in order to come up with your false dichotomy.
Why is it a false dichotomy? It is because there are far more than two options when you remove all the assumptions from the picture. The only true dichotomy here is "Either Islam is the true religion or it isn't the true religion." Anything else is placing unfounded assumptions into the picture; for instance, Islam could be the one true religion, or Christianity could be, or Judaism, or none of them, or a religion that is yet to come about, or a religion that died out aeons ago and is completely unknown to modern day humanity.
Any of those possibilities are likely when you remove the assumption of "Islam is the last and final religion". Furthermore, it is demonstrably false that Islam is the "last and final religion", since in the 1,400 years it has been around, multiple religions have come about; some of them lasting a lifetime, some of them lasting longer.
