Tag: Philosophy

  • What I Did Not Say And The Mis­sion­ary Myopia

    What I Did Not Say And The Mis­sion­ary Myopia

    There are those who say that lying and deceiving is at the soul of all crime and that Christianity epitomizes these traits more than any other faith. As proof of their assertion they often quote Paul of Tarsus, arguably the true founder of Christianity, who is recorded to have said, "But if through my falsehood…

  • Mod­ern Sci­ence Finds God

    There was a time when sci­ence seemed to be the ene­my of reli­gious belief — that time is no more !These are only some of the sim­pli­fied con­clu­sions of a major work in progress, but we felt they are of such great sig­nif­i­cance that we had an oblig­a­tion to offer them to the ummah (the human soci­ety of Allah’s Cre­ation).…

  • Epi­menides Para­dox Revisited

    In response to our argument that Paul's fumbling of the Epimenides paradox is proof that the ad-hoc "apostle" was not inspired after all, one Christian has raised an objection. The attempted rebuttal acknowledges the paradoxical nature of Epimenides' statement, but then makes the bizarre claim that Paul's statement is true nonetheless due to other elements…

  • Kant­ian Phi­los­o­phy From An Islam­ic Viewpoint

    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) as a philosopher not only sought his own answers to philosophical questions but was also an expert on the history of philosophy. Having a thorough grounding in the philosophical tradition of the past, he was keenly aware of the standpoints of rationalists and empiricists. He believed that both were partly right and…