Ali Ataie – Is Faith Blind or is Faith Confidence in the Evidence of God
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The word faith, unfortunately, has been tarnished by
new atheism. People like Richard Dawkins, they they
say that faith means belief without evidence. So
I like to use the word confidence. What
what does the word confidence mean in the
Latin? Con with faith, it just means faith.
So we believe in the prophet salam alayhi
sallam. We have confidence
in the prophet salam alayhi wasalam precisely because
of evidence. In the Quran, he is called.
The evidence that he is the And sometimes
it's very tempting to say that all religions
are essentially the same, but that is a
misrepresentation
of Islam as well as these other religions.
These differences matter, and they are important. I
personally know a guy who identifies as a
pro choice Catholic.
Pro abortionist means pro death, pro murder. The
tradition in binding teaching before to the Roman
Catholic church is against abortion. He said, I
don't care. And I said, can you be
a Unitarian Catholic? And he said, no. And
I said, well, what's the difference as long
as we're picking and choosing?
Details matter. Definitions matter.