1. I do not see a need for a Qur'an.Hello all,
I'm in the process of looking at different belief systems, and I've tried to summarise why I am beginning to settle on belief in God & specifically Islam.
Getting some challenge from your sharp debating minds would be immensely helpful to highlight any shortcomings in my current thinking.
2. I see a need for people to accept the finality of death.
3. Muhammad argues for an afterlife, despite the plain and obvious condition of death. This is something you should not take someone's word for no matter how much you want to believe it.
4. Muhammad makes promises that people should make sacrifices today and serve his god Allah today in exchange for things in an afterlife. This is a bad sign.
5. Muhammad cannot raise the dead, nor can any Muslim or non-Muslim. No one raises the dead.
6. People just die whether or not there is God. We are destined for death with the plain function of living and then dying. Our death is part of what we are. We do not like it, but we still die. Each of us has lost loved ones to the grave, and there they are.
7. There are billions of dead people, and their corpses have never come back to life. Despite all requests, wishes and hopes they remain dead.
8. People lie well. Muhammad is a person, therefore he has the ability to lie well.
9. People are all potential suckers. You are a person, and therefore you are a potential sucker.
10. Liars take advantage of suckers. Suckers let ourselves be taken advantage of. This happens. Accept it. That's why you shouldn't trust a man who makes promises about an afterlife in exchange for the right to tell you what to do with your life now.