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.