(January 20, 2016 at 8:24 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(January 20, 2016 at 8:02 pm)Sheed1980 Wrote: Again I'm explaining what we believe in Islam. In the Qur'an numerous times it says "innalladhina amanu wa 'amilu saalihaat" Those who believe and do righteous deeds. So one by itself won't do. Both of them must be done in order to succeed
What you believe is nowhere near as important as why. If you come across a person who believes a thing for no reason at all, for example, or in direct contradiction to the evidence, would you say that this person has a belief worth taking seriously?
Moreover, if a person asks you for the evidence underpinning your belief, effectively asking you the "why?" you're not answering the question at all by just restating that what you've said is the "what?" We already know what you believe, if you're having to say it again: you were asked why that is.
I believe you overestimate our friend's capacity to see the difference.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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