Join me in reviving Imām Ibn Khaldūn’s theory of the Five Rightly Guided Caliphs.

Let us round up and consolidate your hydra of heresies into one rebuttal @muslimorthodoxy: PS. I wrote this myself, not with AI. You confuse my posts with AI because I am a professional author and I was writing essay-length Facebook comments before you knew how to use a computer. My main argument is that your Salafi Deity is a contingent being - both ontologically (where contingency = dependence) and modally (modern analytic possible worlds framework). Here is why: 1. Contingent Dimensional Limits: Your deity is spatial and can be pointed at. Since space is 3 dimensional with 6 directions, God being spatial means God is spatially extended (as @jhoover04 has rightly observed). This logically entails that your deity is a 3-dimesional entity (a body even though you won't admit that). This already is a problem because a 3D deity is arbitrarily limited in having 3 dimensions as to any other number. Therefore, your deity is modally contingent in His dimensionality. Furthermore, there must be an external cause or specifier that makes your deity 3 dimension as opposed to another number. This means your deity is dependent and ontologically contingent. 2. Contingent Spatial Boundaries: You already conceded that your deity has boundary conditions (hadd) in the upward and downward directions. That means your deity has a finite spatial extent in terms of the up-down axis. That is an arbitrary limit and means your God is modally contingent. Your reply to this was -- the lower boundary of your God is just relational to the existence of creatures - because creaturely existence spatially begins when your God's downward extension ends. That does not solve the issue -- rather, it means that your God arbitrarily limited Himself in the downward direction when he created the Throne below him. You have not replied to my claim that your God's spatial extent is a finite number and it is logically possible for that number to be different - thereby making His extent and boundaries an arbitrarily limit and rendering your God modally contingent. Again, there must be an external specifier for your God's finite spatial extent on the up-down axis. That makes your God dependent as well. 3. Composition: You already admitted your God has parts - Hands, Feet, Eyes, Fingers, etc. Your claim that God is spatial entails that His parts are also spatial and non-overlapping. This means your deity is like Megazord - he is literally composed and comprised of other entities that are ontologically discernable and distinct from the whole of God and from each other. How is this NOT composition? Once you conceded the existence of real and ontologically distinct parts within your deity, you brought the problem on yourself that your God is DEPENDENT upon these spatially and ontologically distinct items that comprise Him. This is NOT aseity; aseity means "from one-self". There is no such thing as "external aseity" or "internal aseity" - you sound like a Social Trinitarian like Chad McIntosh when you claim such a thing. In your account, each part of God is NOT identical to God and spatially "lesser" than God. So your God is literally NOT "from one-self" (a se); your God is derived from genuine "others", i.e. spatially and ontologically distinct parts or constituents. The only other move you can make here is to say -- no, the parts of God - His Hands/Feet/Eyes/Fingers - are distinct from God and dependent upon God to exist. This would not help you because it would mean God considered without His dependent parts IS simple and His so-called parts are just emanations or creations of the simple God. So once you assert God has ontologically and spatially distinct parts and once you claim God is independent (a se), you have to disclose whether God depends upon His parts (contradiction) or whether the parts of God depend upon God (which negates them being parts and affirms God being simple). So which one is it? And if you say they are ontologically co-dependent, then this is a vicious circular dependence in which there is no real a se reality at all and everything is interdependent. Sounds like you should become a Buddhist if you hold to that. 4. You accepted brute facts. Big problem here. If you have brute facts in the creation, then God cannot be the cause or explanation of such brute facts - they are unexplained and uncaused and this is polytheism. If you claim God is still the causal explanation of the brute facts, then you have brute facts internal to God. This would like, inter alia: a) God's contingent intention to create this particular creation must differ across possible worlds - this is rendered a brute contingent because you reject necessitarianism and nothing in God necessitates the contingent choice of His will; b) God's foreknowledge of the brute contingent or libertarian choices that creatures make - this will be a contingent brute fact inside God; c) God's foreknowledge of God's contingent choices - since the divine choices differ across possible worlds, God's knowledge of His choices will be contingent and brute. The upshot of the above is that your God contains brutely contingent will and brutely contingent knowledge. This makes your God a brutely contingent being. 5. Just one of the above problems with your theology seriously weakens your credibility and effectiveness in debating Christians and atheists. Here is why: - You can no longer attack Monarchic Trinitarian views of the Son being eternally dependent on the Father since your God is dependent upon His internal parts and technically lacks aseity and is, at best, as a se as the Son of God. - You cannot refute Social Trinitarians like Chad McIntosh or WL Craig @RFupdates because their Social Trinity in which the 3 divine persons are inseparable parts of the whole of God is ontologically on par with your God who has multiple parts lesser than the whole. In fact, Social Trinitarians are better than you because their God is not spatially located and 3 dimensional and made up of spatial parts whereas your God is spatially composed. - You cannot against the atheist or pantheist or monist who says the material Universe is a necessary being and self-sufficient. You can no longer just assert that the Universe has contingent parts, spatial boundaries, and be done with it. Your God ALSO has contingent features that are arbitrarily limited spatial dimensions and boundaries and you have no explanation for these. You cannot even appeal to the temporality of the Cosmos as proof of its contingency since your deity is temporal and changing within time and space. You cannot use to KCA because your God is perpetually creating the Universe. - You cannot argue the contingency argument anymore (the modal version or the medieval Avicennian version) because your God has brute contingent features (His will, His knowledge) and your allow the Cosmos to have brute features.

I have much disdain for the Christian-Muslin apologetics scene. Mainly because it's mostly an extension of streamer culture and theatrical “debates”. I don't think the video/stream format is even good for rigorous discussion. Contemplating some theological articles on my site

Strauss was spot on. Religion lost social prestige because it was subjected to ridicule, satire, mockery, and cultural pressure rather than being decisively refuted philosophically.

Is it a coincidence that all the major books from "islamicate" authorship in these fields predates the ottomans? Whilst by that point in time the Europeans caught up and surpassed us in these fields.

No this is literally me 😭😭😭😭 which is why I refuse to take the MTA

🧵 Mix-up or Miracle? Qur’an 28’s Engagement with the Biblical Jacob and Moses Narratives (with @Kashmiri_Fire)

How can an Ashari debate an Atheist on whether or not God exists when they both have the same answer anyway?

Ok, we reject God is composed of matter. We accept that God is a concrete existent that is spacial. Since we’ve now clarified, how is this metaphysically or logically problematic ?

You cannot pull what i pull

🔴 "Bu ülkede tefeciler kemalist'tir, banka patronları kemalist’tir, bar, pavyon işletenler kemalist’tir, LGBT adı altında her türlü ibnelik yapanlar kemalisttir" şeklinde paylaşımda bulunan AK Partili belediye meclis üyesi Rümeysa Eker, tepkiler sonrası görevinden ve partiden istifa etti.

Idk why women think this is a joke. It’s not. I’m almost 30 years old and have had multiple experiences w women like this. I guess it’s some form of Stockholm syndrome? Can a psychologist explain