Ali Ataie – Is Faith Blind or is Faith Confidence in the Evidence of God

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.