The rise in extremism goes hand in hand with America's fear of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. They funded extremist groups all over the Middle East and Africa because they saw how friendly the secular socialist governments were with the Soviet Union and saw it as a threat.
Pakistani...
Is Allah that great if he gets so upset when his creation marries someone who doesn't worship him? You religious people just make Allah sound jealous and childish.
How would you feel if white nationalist replaced Somalis for Whites in your reply and the government actually shipped you off back to Somalia? This is another level of hypocrisy, most of you are living in the West and speaking like this. It makes no sense.
How are you claiming not to be racist but then wish for "ethic purity".
If you want Somalia to be ethnically pure why don't you respect the wishes of the white nationalists who want an ethnically pure Europe .
I left for several reasons, not just one, and it took a couple of years to finally admit to myself I didn't believe.
According to Islam this life is a test for the next life. The whole point of our existence is to test whether we would believe in something based on weak evidence. Those that...
Secularisation improves a country's future economic prosperity.
Using data from 109 countries over the span of 100 years, a new study confirms secularisation precedes economic prosperity. Although this does not demonstrate a causal pathway, it does rule out the reverse.
However, this is only...
Why would I lie to myself and replace one fantasy with another? The truth is no one knows what happens when you die and I'm okay with that, I don't need to make something up to sleep at night.
Our brain is what gives rise to consciousness and all its made of is atoms which interact in different ways. Once we die the energy in those atoms won't be destroyed, it would be transferred to the bacteria consuming our bodies. I guess you could call that changing forms.
There are varying levels of consciousness. A tree is a living thing that reproduces and reacts to its environment, would that have a consciousness? Yes animals are more conscious but that's because of the brains they have developed.
I wouldn't say consciousness is something separate from our...
We're made out of the same atoms that everything in the universe is made out of. The same atoms in you were made in stars billions of years ago and once you die those atoms will carry on to be part of something else. Unless you're saying our consciousness is made out of something metaphysical.
There are bad people who live amazing lives and good people who live terrible lives. It seems unfair to me too but that doesn't mean there will be a punishment waiting for them when they die because you want there to be one.
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