{"id":3352,"date":"2017-06-21T04:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2017-06-21T04:01:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:01:39","slug":"if-this-is-the-best-apologetics-islam-has-to-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3352","title":{"rendered":"If this is the best apologetics Islam has to offer…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Question from Abu (“Muslim until death”, as he wrote in the name field):<\/strong>
\nI always feel pity for the stubbornness (to believe in Allah\/God\/Elohim\/Ubangiji) of\/by Atheists.
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\nThus I have a lot of questions to harden your brain (and if Allah wills for you goodness; you may take heed).
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\n1) First of all: Why do you deny the existence of Allah [the Almighty God] ?
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\n2) Second of all: Do you go with your life (here I purposely mean) for breathing, able to motionize, able to so likes of ?
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\n3) Third of all: Do you think that everything goes freely by its power of nature ?
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\n4) Fourth of all: If you think that Allah doesn’t exist, how all things came to existence ?
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\n5) Fifth of last: I do argue to prepare for yourselves the last destination, there is a world to come after this, don’t let yourself be loser in Hereafter.
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\nBye !
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\nAnswer by SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong>
\nInteresting idea for you while I’m answering these: if none of the preaching has any effect on me, does that mean Allah wills me to reject him? The Bible talks about God hardening people’s hearts so that they’ll reject him; maybe some people just aren’t meant to be saved.
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\n1) I deny that Allah exists (or at least I say that it seems very unlikely) because I do not believe that Allah exists, and I have decided to be honest about it. Even a genuine lack of belief is difficult for some believers to accept. Sorry folks, but there are people who truly disagree with you.
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\n2) This one was honestly difficult to interpret, so tell me if I’m on the wrong track. I don’t think I need help to breathe, move and so on because there are mechanisms in my body which make these things happen for me. Even if Allah is real he doesn’t necessarily have to run everything manually.
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\n3) I think everything obeys natural laws, only some of which we understand well enough to predict behaviour. An interventionist god like Allah would influence our lives by violating these laws, and I don’t think there’s good evidence that this is happening.
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\n4) I don’t know how everything came to exist. To say that this lack of knowledge supports an assertion that a being with an equally mysterious origin must exist is an argument from ignorance<\/a>. (It’s no accident that this is the most common hyperlink on this site besides the one for my Twitter.)
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\n5) This is not a question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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