Is atheism self-contradictory ?

[Parsim0ny]

You can only rationalize by the existence of a superior power in the eyes of creatures with similar minds and intelligence.  Which puts you in the exact same position except you're adding an unneccesary unproven god into the mix.

This brings me back to what I was saying before.

An agnostic says they don't know.

You say you do know that the quran is perfect, muhammad is perfect and all the prophets are perfect yet you're judging them using your own imperfect, bias, indoctrinated mind.

This isn't to pick on you for being indoctrinated, bias or imperfect.  I believe all humans are bias, imperfect and indoctrinated in some way.

So what's the one thing agnostics know for sure ? If there's no common ground between agnostics and theists, the latter cannot do anything to prove their belief for them. It's like entering an Euclidian Geometry course and expecting the teacher to successfully convince you of a theorem while you reject all Euclid's postulates, under the (pretext) that you don't know. You know you rely on your mind's judgment all the time to perform day-to-day tasks, you know causality exists since you don't expect your computer to turn on by his own without plugging in the power cable first, and also you know your house was broken into if you find damaged doors and broken windows, and you're sure that a burglar exists and therefore will turn to the police immediately, without sitting there second-guessing everything you know about your mind or the universe.  

It's just plain impossible to convince you of anything if we don't share some kind of common logical assumptions such as the trustworthiness of our mental judgment, the need to explain it or any other kind of logical statement.

I know the Qur'an is perfect because that's what these assumptions lead me to, since a perfect being exists He can't leave his creatures without guidance, so there must some kind of a connection between Him and us, and the most acceptable condidate for me is Qur'an. The Bible/christian belief is fundamentally irrational since it requires you to simply accept that three different and separate entities are one unique god and vice versa, it's a direct violation of the simplest laws of logic.

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Whatever you think about the prophet of Islam

Trust me on this, mon ami.  You do not want to know what I think of the "prophet of islam."

I talked to many atheists before joining this forum and I know exactly what you think of him, but here's the thing : you cannot condemn anything he did or anyone's wrongdoings since nothing is "immoral" outside belief systems. Even assuming that the Prophet commited immoral actions nothing says to me that they ARE indeed immoral. Homosexuality for example is gravely immoral in Islam, and was considered as such in the Western civilisations until modern times, so whose perspective should you adopt and why ?

Also if objective moral truths exist - and you are compelled to believe that at least one does exist because only then you can say Muhammad violated moral codes because he did this or that - this would immediately warrant a supernatural explanation - according to the atheist philosopher J.L. Mackie, and this directly leads us to the famous argument from morality.