Ontology 8 - Rejecting the last God
Channel: rozeboosje
Date: 2008-02-20

There is no good reason to accept Allah over any other God



What I find really objectionable is your insistence that "Allah" is "just the word you use for this objective reality". If that is the case, why don't we all just talk about "reality", because we can ALL agree that there is a reality.

But Allah is NOT just a synonym for "reality". Allah is a personal creator-God who is keenly interested in our human affairs. So in that light I must reject your following comments.

You reject "Zeus" because you, by all accounts, don't like the cut of his jib? That is bizarre. What you are showing us in your video is merely an artist's impression of that Deity. I would not be surprised in the least that if you were to speak to an Ancient Greek theologian, and you asked him to describe to you the True Nature of Zeus, you would get something that isn't altogether too dissimilar from your Allah.

India, too, has a long history of artistic interpretation of its concepts of Gods. Why reject them, is it just because you don't like Krishna's blue skin in the paintings representing that Deity? It makes no sense.

But you claim that your own theologians have discovered deeps inconsistencies in the teachings of Christianity and of Judaeism. Let's assume this is true. What am I saying. Of course it is true! I'll be the first to agree with you that those religions are internally deeply inconsistent. And the same probably also goes for Hinduism and any other religion you could mention. Let's imagine that your theologians were SO smart that they could prove that ALL those religions were internally inconsistent. So what then? It doesn't make YOUR religion true by default. If you investigate 999 religions and you find them all false, what hunch will you have about religion number 1000? I can tell you what mine is: it is, beyond any reasonable doubt, going to be as much of a pile of steaming horse manure as the other 999 were. But I'm still open to having that little bit of unreasonable doubt cracked open. I'm still open to persuasion. But it better be pretty damn good.