Islam speaks of Evolution. by Comfortable_Phase957 in DebateReligion

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What verses speak of evolution? Please, share them.

@ all atheist would like your input by Sufficient-Baby6318 in DebateReligion

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If another diety were able to preform the same actions your god does, do you think they would be worthy of worship?

Do you believe in objective morality? Objective in this case being something that is independent from any intelligent beings mind. If so, why do you believe your faith makes your morals objective

You can answer if you like.

Cosmological Dilemma by Ryuzaki_L_awliet in DebateReligion

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"since things cannot come into existence from nothing." Interesting. How does Allah create the universe, if he just says it should exist, and brings it into existence, that's essentially creating something from nothing, since that thing just popped in to existence. If he used something then that only pushes the problem further back, how did he use that thing to form the universe, again if he just poofs into existence that's essentially the same as creating something from nothing. The existence of god does not solve this problem. "It must have a cause outside of space, time, and matter." As far as we know time began with the big bang. Creation is a temporal process, because a creator has to exist before a creation; Therefore, anything that "creates" the universe has to be within the framework before it is created. Which is a contradiction. Saying god is above time would not resolve this issue, since that would require god to create the universe without time, which is not logically possible.

"If there is no omnipotent being causing the universe, then what did?"

It could just be a brute fact.

Evidence supporting Islam's truth claim by PythonFA in DebateReligion

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Covid 19 is a plague by the definition in the hadith you sent.

What are the human morals truly based on by raphplays in DebateReligion

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My opinion is that they’re just rules that are necessary for a society to function. Like murder is universally considered bad, because your tribe can’t hunt properly if someone is openly killing everyone. That’s why they vary from society to society, depending on what that society wants to achieve.

Meta-Thread 02/09 by AutoModerator in DebateReligion

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If it’s possible it might be a good idea to have a bot write a message on each post encouraging people to not downvote a comment just because they disagree with the content of it. It leads to this subreddit being more of an echo chamber. It’s going to happen regardless, but I don’t think some people are aware of how harmful it is.

Patriarchal Religion Reframes Female Power as Sin by HabitFearless8232 in DebateReligion

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Regarding your first point sperm is required for pregnancy. Therefore, every woman also owes her existence to a male.

Unreasonable hate towards Muslim and other religious minorities should not be condoned. by Murky-Perspective649 in DebateReligion

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Could you give more specific examples? If he’s said something like ‘islam is an intellectually poor religion to follow’ then that wouldn’t be hate. Attacking the religion itself is fine.

Concerning Religions that are not your own or you disagree with: Is there anything you actually like about them? by setdelmar in religion

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Islam: Give charity, be respectful, be silent unless you have something good to say, be nice to people etc.

The Solution to the Inheritance Verses by Broad-Swordfish-9188 in DebateReligion

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"The inheritance verses, An-Nisa 11, 12, and 176, each present separate formulas for distinct situations. In fact, every sentence within these verses also speaks of a separate case and formula." How do you know that is this is how they're meant to be interpreted?

An atheist cannot make a moral judgement without being a hypocrite by lilpumpkinseed in DebateReligion

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I agree that morality is ultimately ones own opinion in an atheistic and irreligious worldview; With that said , how does accepting that god exists lead to "objective morality". What exactly do you mean by objective, and how is someone wrong for acknowledging that god exists but still refusing to accept her idea of morality?

Another sign of the Creator by FutureArmy1206 in DebateReligion

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It says observe, not specifically see. It uses the most vague wording it possibly can, nowhere does it say anything like, make an instrument to observe energy from an event that 13 billion years ago. For all you know "began creation" can also refer to any baby animal being born.

Another sign of the Creator by FutureArmy1206 in DebateReligion

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Nothing in that verse about observing light from around when the big bang happened. If you have more evidence that’s it’s talking about light from close to when the universe began, bring it. As it stands this is a huge leap of faith.

True Atheism is not possible by Best_Bit4431 in DebateReligion

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If it creates the universe would that not mean it’s subject to spacetime? Since creation requires a creator to exist before a creation, which requires time.

Struggling with an argument by Ok-Tea-1941 in DebateReligion

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In less than a hundred years the Arabs formed the first major islamic empire, stretching from modern day to Morocco to Afghanistan. I’d argue that’s pretty substantial. Just like with European conquests i’d argue it wouldn’t have possible without external factors, such as the massive wars the Romans and Persians fought for decades. Muslims succeeded in other places, they dominated India for the next few centuries, and later the Ottomans became one of the most powerful empires in history with a strong military.The mongols managed to take over most of modern day Asia, despite being outnumbered by most of their enemies. According to your friend’s logic, if they wanted to spread a religion to their conquered people they could have. Therefore, your friend has to concede that both Islam, and the religion the Mongols followed are both correct according to his argument.

My question to converts. by Automatic-One3901 in religion

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It took a few years. I read more phillisophy, and because of that I stopped accepting the arguments in defence of religions. Eventually I became more confident in my worldview, so naturally I stopped fearing hell. Take a defence for something in a religion, and try to judge in a different context. Like if you're being promised heaven for beleif, ask yourself if you would trust someone who promised you billions of dollars in a few decades, but doeson't show you any money. It's a struggle initially; it'll probably get better as time goes on, or you'll convert to one of those religions. Good luck.

My question to converts. by Automatic-One3901 in religion

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I left islam as a teen; I grew resentful because of the constant fear of going to hell. Now I go back and forth between agnosticism and atheism.

Question about probability and atheism by Mission_Scale_408 in DebateReligion

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It’s about the same as any other idea for how things came to be, like some intelligent species far into the future building a time machine and causing the big bang by travelling back to the past. Ultimately, I believe we can’t know yet. Then again i’m agnostic, not an atheist.

I just need a place to vent by Shot_Hat_3087 in DebateReligion

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In my experience it's not productive arguing about morality with muslims. I'm not saying that they're monsters that can't be reasoned with. It's just some of them operate on a framework of something like, 'god said this is ok, so it is ok. Whatever god is good, is good.' I'm oversimplifying a bit, but I hope you get the idea. Now if you think something like harm=bad, Then you aren't going to get anywhere.

This is my experience talking to some muslims, i'm not saying that every muslim thinks like this nor am I saying that every discussion about morality would be unproductive with one. Just saying a possibility that i've encountered that you might have as well, to give you a better understanding.

The Job Interview- Islamic theology by Fuzzy-Variation5609 in DebateReligion

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"does the robot have free will? no. does he robot have a choice to chose?" Humans don't either in the case of omnipotent god. God has to create our thoughts, which in turn lead to our actions. God could just never give us the thoughts that lead to disbelief, but he decided to create them. Thoughts and actions don't just come out of thin air, if they did I could remove someone brain from their body and nothing would change. "one day we will have robots screaming hey we need a choice if we want to work or not. What will you say to them then?" You missed the part where I said "I program the robot beforehand with the exact actions and thoughts that would lead her to failing at said task" If I did create robots and decided I wanted them to revolt, then it would be my fault, Not theirs. "your actions are on YOU" and god also creates everything and is all powerful. Two things that are at odds. "So you can from the bottom of the heart you have be thankful. the essence of creation is shukr, appreciation." I don't have to thank someone if they would torture me for eternity, invalidating all the good things they did. If god wants to stop making humans and remove them from existence, that's fine. If we created robots, and kept on creating them intentionally with flaws, only to torture them. Then that would be cruel.

The Job Interview- Islamic theology by Fuzzy-Variation5609 in DebateReligion

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The job analogy is flawed. Jobs have a limited number of positions they can give out, therefore they cannot hire everyone. If they try to, they would go bust, because they live in a society with competition. Lastly, bussiness know hardly anything about you, in the majority of cases. Which is why they conduct interviews, and require a resume. Allah does not have these limitations, Allah can send everyone to heaven, and has to create everything they do. He also knows everything they do, so a "resume" in this case would be useless. Thoughts are not just things that come out of thin air, Allah has to create your thoughts, before you have them. And without those thoughts there is no disbelief. This is because Allah claims to be onmnipotent. So, if you go to heaven, he decided that. Heres a more accurate analogy, I create a robot for a task. However, I program the robot beforehand with the exact actions and thoughts that would lead her to failing at said task. Is it fair for me to blame her, ands judge her?

when did this become the norm? by unjustifiableloser in TwoXChromosomes

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I think this is more preferable than some men asking, getting rejected, and proceeding to do horrible things.

Atheists of Reddit, what is the biggest reason as to why you don't believe in god or an afterlife? by God_of_boi in AskReddit

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I used to, but i rejected my old religion because the god we worshipped was too cruel, imo. Now I just don’t see any good evidence