(February 5, 2012 at 10:17 am)Zakir_250 Wrote: Okay. Be honest but what do you think of Muslim apologetics?
I hold Muslim apologetics in the same regard that i hold all apologetics, they cling to.a foundational assumption regardless of the direction their various debates take.
Say two scientists are discussing evolutionary biology, if scientist A presents evidence that contradicts scientist Believe, scientist B will have no choice but to reevaluate his/her preconceived notions and adjust to the new evidence. Apologists simply jam their fingers in their ears and retreat or redirect the conversation.
We have different definitions of evidence. The rational mind follows evidence, the irrational mind manipulates the evidence to support what they already believe. They hold your beliefs dogmatically, not tentatively as the secular world does. Apologetics remain apologetics even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
The most damning evidence is however that there are Muslim apologetics, christian apologetics, scientology apologetics, Mormon apologetics, ad nauseum for every religion still in existence today. And though you have different brands, different methods, different holy books and favorite sources all apologetics presume to hold onto the truth that the rest of the world denies. I find all cases underwhelming.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
