@reasoned_islam What are your thoughts on how the Hebrew Bible (at least the oldest layers) seems to be positing Polytheism or Monolatry?
How do you understand this within the Islamic theological framework?
@ShaykhIshraq A non-controversial example in both Biblical and Quranic studies is the framing of Prophets within a certain archetype, such as how the story of the Exodus is emphasized differently in the Meccan and Medinan accounts.
@worldviewdesign Ghosts (aka conscious agents in the imaginal space) in the metaxy can clearly be explanation of cognitive phenomena as well.
There is good reason to posit the existence of this metaxy.
See
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@AhkiDem That’s Lindstedt’s view, one of many in the academic discourse.
I don’t believe his view is the majority at all, it’s just a popular one (at least online) since it’s spread more.
Doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong, but the alternative views affirming it aren’t -historical either.
@ShaykhIshraq What are your thoughts on the ahadith about how the Prophet Muhammad being created while Adam before Adam or God created the entire existence for us to know him? Very sufi-centric ahadith which historically have been critically rejected but accepted in meaning?
As an authority on Islamic law, I can tell you the claims this person are making are utter crap:
1) Islamic law does not require witnesses to prove rape, watch this (youtube.com/watch?v=eCUj1f…)
2) What he is mentioning is British colonial law, which was hostile towards
rape victims and generally assumed that any evidence put forth by a female victim was not
credible. See next.
3) Pakistani law does not require four witnesses to prove rape. (Section 375 of the Pakistan Penal Code). See the CMI report: (cmi.no/publications/f…)
4) The perpetrators are overwhelmingly British citizens or long-term UK residents, making it fundamentally a domestic failure of law enforcement, social services, and political will to protect vulnerable girls and deliver justice regardless of ethnicity.
5) Lowe's stats are inflated and highly inferential. Home Office 2020 report and Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Grooming cases in certain locales disproportionately involved South Asian. Broader child sexual abuse data shows most offenders nationally are white due to population demographics. Which is a bit of a no-brainer.
Trying to blame Muslims or Immigrants is an attempt to sidestep responsibility. Fomenting hatred and bigotry isn't going to solve the problem. Manning up and actually curbing the vices in your own society and having the political will to change will.
Joe Rogan is in total disgust after British politician Rupert Lowe just exposed that the Islamic community is responsible for the rape of 250,000 women in England:
LOWE: “If these Muslims rape a white girl it’s not considered adultery because she’s white.”
ROGAN: “Jesus.”
@AEnjoyer447201 The Paul Williams-Sinai slop IP produced, utterly butchering Sinai’s reading to push his Apologetic 🗑️
Also sorry about the Egypt game.
Many people believe in God but few reflect on why they believe that God exists in the first place. In this journal article, I present a logical argument for the existence of God and point out problems with typical arguments such as inferring God from the Big Bang, etc. The basic definition of God that I use is an "unconditioned Reality" - a reality whose existence is absolutely independent of anything else and upon which all beings depend upon for their existence. I then present a deductive argument to demonstrate how logic necessitates that God qua Unconditioned Reality must exist at every moment for anything else to exist.
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