In late July 2020, the apologist outfit of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community known as Rational Religion published a series of 15 articles in response to various topics I’ve covered in my material. The feature image of that article was an unflattering mid-speech still frame from my coming-out video. A mean-spirited and childish move that has lots of value if catering to an immature audience of fellow believers exhibiting an unabashed tribalism. This post is an open letter to Tahir Nasser, with additional context for readers who many not be familiar with the events.
Evolution and Speciation: An Ahmadi Muslim Khalifa (Mirza Masroor Ahmad) Explains
This post is for discussing the claims in the 2-minute video linked to this tweet of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s 5th Khalifa, Mirza Masroor Ahmad (MMA, for short). In the video, MMA discusses aspects of evolution that reveal a very simplistic understanding, if it can be so called, of the topic. Umar Nasser had responded to my tweet, and in order to provide some non-trivial responses, I’ve created this blog post to explore some concepts that arise out of Umar’s comments. This blog post mirrors the responses first provided on Reddit.
On Spiritual but not Religious
The charismatic Ahmadi Muslim duo at Rational Religion recently published a dialogue on the prevalence of the espoused position, “spiritual but not religious”. My brief thoughts on their statements and this topic, follow. Here’s the original video, in full, from the Rational Religion channel. I’ve posted a comment on YouTube, which I’m re-stating here and […]
Changing Species: On Dogs and Wolves
This post explores an exchange about Ahmadi Muslim claims regarding speciation and evolution, as gleaned from the Q&A section of the Rational Religion website’s page on Evolution. Twitter user @hasanahmad80 (Hasan Ahmad) responded to my tweet, correcting me on my supposition that dogs evolved from wolves. This post is my more detailed response to Hasan. […]
Critiquing with Compassion and Levity
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 […]