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This book is an attempt to criticize Hume's opinions about religion. You can read the following topics: Monotheism And Polytheism, The Necessity Of The Creator, Corruption Of Christianity And Judaism, Man Between Misery And Happiness, Good And Evil ........and others.
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Answering Atheism And Agnosticism Series (Answering Hume) - Wael El-Manzalawy
Answering Atheism And Agnosticism Series
(Answering Hume)
By
Wael El-Manzalawy
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Contents
About The Writer
Preface
Monotheism And Polytheism I
Monotheism And Polytheism II
The Necessity Of The Creator
Violence And Intolerance
Monotheism And Polytheism As regard Courage Or Abasement
Religion, Paganism And Absurdity
Corruption Of Christianity And Judaism
Rhamadan And Islam
Answering Skepticism
About The God
One God
The Creator And The Creation
Epicurus’s Questions
Man Between Misery And Happiness
Why Is Misery Present?
About Misery Again
Good And Evil
Worshipping The God
The Islamic Civilization And The Western Civilization
About The Writer
Wael El-Manzalawy is an Egyptian writer. He was born in 1973. He was graduated from the English Department in the Faculty of Arts. He has a Diploma from the Faculty of Education. He was graduated from an institute for preparing Islamic scholars. He writes articles and short stories in Arabic and English. His articles and short stories were published at many newspapers, magazines and websites.
Preface
I have read two books by Hume entitled: The Natural History of Religion
and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
. I was planning to write a series entitled Answering Atheism And Agnosticism Series
to answer the famous atheist and agnostic writers and thinkers. So, I have decided to start my series by answering Hume.
Was Hume an atheist or an agnostic? It’s a controversial issue. But I think that Hume is better described as irreligious.
This book is not an academic philosophical book. But it is an attempt to push the reader to rethink. I’m Egyptian. In my country, a person may change his opinions easily. But from my experience with the western persons, I know that they don’t change their opinions due to strong impressions. They change their opinions after their own deep study. As waves are created in the water by throwing a stone, I hope that this book may push the readers to rethink about religion and Islam.
Monotheism And Polytheism I
Hume says:
It appears to me, that, if we consider the improvement of human society, from rude beginnings to a state of greater perfection, polytheism or idolatry was, and necessarily must have been, the first and most ancient religion of mankind.
Hume says:
As far as writing or history reaches, mankind, in ancient times, appear universally to have been polytheists. Shall we assert, that, in more ancient times, before the knowledge of letters, or the discovery of any art or science, men entertained the principles of pure theism? That is, while they were ignorant and barbarous, they discovered truth: But fell into error, as soon as they acquired learning and politeness.
Hume says:
"It seems certain, that, according to the natural progress of human thought, the ignorant multitude must first entertain some groveling and familiar notion of superior powers, before they stretch their conception to that perfect Being, who bestowed order on the whole frame of nature. We may as reasonably imagine, that men inhabited palaces before huts and cottages, or studied geometry before agriculture; as assert that the Deity appeared to them a pure spirit, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, before he was apprehended to be a powerful, though limited being, with human passions and appetites, limbs and organs. The mind rises gradually, from inferior to superior: By abstracting from what is imperfect, it forms an idea of perfection: And slowly distinguishing the nobler parts of its own frame from the grosser, it learns to transfer only the former, much elevated and refined, to its divinity. Nothing could disturb this natural progress of thought, but some obvious and invincible argument, which might immediately lead the mind into the pure principles of