“I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others.”
The intellectual heritage of Islam should provide confidence for Muslims who are exposed to contemporary challenges that confront the rational foundations of their religion. Many of the answers to so-called new objections from atheist and secular thought have already been dealt with by Islam’s classical scholarship. From this perspective,
Muslims are standing on the shoulders of giants. Their only concern should be accessing that wealth of knowledge and learning how to contemporise it by using a language that is modern, relevant and
applicable.
Philosophical naturalism is the view that all phenomena within the universe can be explained via physical processes. Philosophical naturalists reject all supernatural claims and some argue that if there is anything ‘outside’ the universe it does not interfere with it. Atheists, according to Professor Richard Dawkins, are philosophical
naturalists. As stated by Dawkins, an atheist “believes there is nothing
beyond the natural, physical world”.
This problem manifests itself at different levels of the Muslim community, but an immense change is occurring on university campuses. The popularisation of atheist publications and social media, coupled with aggressive and fervent activism, has created an environment of intellectual challenge and peer pressure. A Muslim on campus who is not equipped with the adequate spiritual, intellectual and theological tools to address these challenges can be misguided onto the irrational path of denying the Divine.
Sayfa 29
⚠️ ATHEIST / ATHEISM ⚠️
⚠️ ATEİST / ATEİZM ⚠️
(ARASINDAKİ FARKLAR)
Öncelikle ateizm görüşü ile ateist tanımının farklı olduğunu anlamamız gerekiyor. Biri görüş iken, diğeri görüşü savunan veya kendini yakın bulan kişiye denir.
Bir ateist eksik, hatalı, yetersiz olabilir hatta ateizmden vazgeçip artık ateist olmayabilir. Ama şu da bir gerçektir,
Russel'in "Am I an Atheist Or An Agnostic?" yazısında dediği gibi; eğer sokakta yanımdan geçen bir adam bana neye inandığımı soracak olursa, ona Agnostisizmi uzun uzun açıklamaya çalışmak yerine kısaca 'Ateistim' demem daha uygun olacaktır. Çünkü hem yaşantı bakımından bir Ateist gibi yaşıyorum, yani herhangi bir ilaha ibadet etmiyorum, hem de Ateist kavramı en cahil insanlar tarafından bile kolayca anlaşılabilecekken, Agnostik kavramı belli ölçüde entelektüel bir birikim istiyor.
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Untaught
Just like the belief that the past was once the present, the existence of God is also a self-evident truth. What is meant by 'God' in this chapter is the basic concept of a Creator, a nonhuman personal cause or designer. It does not refer to a particular religious conception of a diety or God.
Untaught
Self evident truths do not need to be taught or learnt.For example, for me to know what spaghetti is, I require information of Western cuisine and Italian culture. I cannot know what spaghetti is merely by reflecting on it. By contrast,you do not require any information whether from culture or education, to know a creator for things exists. This may be the reason why sociologists and anthropologists argue that even if atheist children were stranded on a desert island, they would come to believe that something created the island. Our understanding of God differs, but the underlying believe in a cause or creator is based on our own reflections.
Some atheists exclaim, "believing in God is no different than believing in the spaghetti monster". This objection is obviously false. Self evident truths do not require external information. The idea that monsters exist, or even that spaghetti exists, requires information transfer. No one acquires knowledge of monsters or spaghetti by their own intuitions or introspection. Therefore the spaghetti monster is not a self-evident truth; thus, the comparison with God cannot be made. Diverting our attention from the context of this chapter, this objection also fails, as there are many good arguments for God's existence and no good arguments for the existence of a spaghetti monster.
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“In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical conceptions, as God, immortality, infinity, etc., thus have failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind as distinct from the body.”
—CHARLES PROTEUS
STEINMETZ (1865-1923),
electrical engineer and inventor,
in the American Freeman
newspaper (July 1941
Atheism is like a mother giving her child a toy and then taking it back for no reason.
Life,without a doubt, is a wonderful gift. Yet any pleasure, joy and love we have experience will be taken away from us and lost forever. Since the atheist denies a Divine and the hereafter, it means that the pleasures we have experience in life will disappear. There's no hope of a continuation of happiness, pleasure, love and joy. However, under Islam, these positive experiences are enhanced and continued after our worldly life.
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