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TIL it's haram to study philosophy and natural science (archive.is)

submitted 4 days ago by Live_Let_Live to c/atheism

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[–] steeznson 14 points 4 days ago (10 children)

8th century Islamic scholars like Al-Ghazali made huge contributions to philosophy with their cosmological arguments for the existence of God. These are still discussed to this day in philosophy classes. In the grand scheme of things it’s only relatively recently that there has been this strain of iconoclasm and anti-intellectualism emerging amongst the most hardline islamists. It’s pretty similar to modern day evangelical christians. Seems strange to single them out.

Since we’re on the atheism subreddit I’d like to say personally I’m a hard agnostic. In the sense that I think it is impossible to prove definitively whether God exists or not. At the same time I don’t act like there is one because I’ve not yet been convinced by any theological argument. I think the new atheism movement led by Dawkins et al from the noughties made a mistake focusing on individual religions. Religions are essentially an anthropological curiousity and failing to attempt to understand them is a handicap with regards to trying to understand other human societies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And the popes didn't mind the concept of astronomy until it went against what the religious dogma said had to be true.

[–] ultranaut 2 points 4 days ago

Fun fact, popes employ their own astronomers: https://www.vaticanobservatory.org/

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