The YouTube Channel Rational Religion recently put out a video entitled The Scientific Evidence for God. In the comments section, I read a series of comments from a detractor, that I felt were a touch harsh. Still pretty mild by YouTube standards. Nonetheless, it got me thinking and spurred me to write this post to […]
The Multiverse and Ahmadiyyat
I often come across Ahmadi Muslims in social media scoffing at the idea of a multiverse. For example: .@ReasonOnFaith If you’re agnostic anything, it means the multiverse theory could potentially appeal to you. — Bureau Francophone (@islam_et_media) April 25, 2016 Here’s another example from the July 2009 issue of the Ahmadiyya Jama’at’s publication, the Review […]
Exhausting Rational Argument with Ahmadi Muslims
This post was inspired by a few intertwined Twitter threads, such as this one. .@islam_et_media Why do you assume anyone who doesn’t share your beliefs has closed their mind? Again, this is an assumption on your part. — Reason on Faith (@ReasonOnFaith) September 5, 2016 In critiquing scripture, Islam, the claims of Ahmadiyyat, etc., I’ve […]
Men’s Superior Mental Faculties over Women
This post of mine, and the ensuing conversation thread on Twitter garnered a lot of inarticulate speech and weak rhetoric that I had somehow insulted Ahmadi Muslim women, and that I was some kind of misogynist, when it was the misogyny within Islam (yes, Ahmadiyyat too) that was one of several factors for which I left the religion.