(July 17, 2012 at 8:11 am)MysticKnight Wrote: My first question, is do you feel Muslims are dishonest to themselves about their beliefs?
My 2nd question, why do you think some of them think Atheists are dishonest to themselves about their beliefs? Do you feel it maybe be self-projection?
As an agnostic I suspect no one is operating from a perspective of actual knowledge. So self honesty cannot be about accepting or rejecting the 'truth'. We simply don't know what that is.
Where people tend to fall into being dishonest with themselves is in regards to what they want to believe true versus what they have good reason to think true. Wishes aren't horses.
Here it is as easy for an atheist to fool themselves as it is a theist. Lots of people want the truth to be obvious and to think those who can't 'handle it' are defective.
I don't really have anything to base an opinion on regarding how honest Muslims as a whole may be with themselves. In general, I feel agnosticism is the key to keeping your head straight in these matters and it seems to be a position more rarely held by theists than by atheists, though it needn't be.
