Re: Truth in Theology and Philosophy

"Robert" <robert45@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You have adopted a new tactic: when bested in argument resort to a
sceptical philosophical discussion of the terms. ...
There is nothing "slick" about the word "truth;" it is basic to the
concept of discussion or argument; anyone who has no concept of it or
regard for it is thereby debarred from participation. ...
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Comment:-
This puerile retort typifies the whole cavalier approach to the truth about
Muslims and Islam by its so-called "critics" in this forum. They
emphatically make unsubstantiated declarations, as if no supporting evidence
were necessary, and then unscrupulously try and pass it off as the truth
about Muslims and Islam.

Why does anyone think that unsupported assertions are supposed to be the
theological or the philosophical truth? Isn't the foregoing 'critique" more
of a slick boast, that's being assertively declared in a domineeringly loud
manner? They say that mendacity makes its own volume. Perhaps, the usual
"critics" can rationally demonstrate the truth value of this claim to other
subscribers or will they still remain silent giving its implicit untruth an
ideologically partisan veneer of acceptance? If they can't (and I don't
believe that they can) doesn't the foregoing equivocal assertion then
demolish its own "truth" argument completely? One might then legitimately
arrive at the conclusion that the "concept of it" (the truth that is) is in
fact a lie. Wouldn't that automatically debar bellicose, closed-minded
"critics" from SRI participation because they intrinsically lack
intellectual honesty? Or does this "participation" ploy only apply to
Muslims and open-minded commentators in this forum, as dishonest
double-think gambit, to avoid the theological and philosophical truth about
Muslims and Islam?

As a parallel, wouldn't discerning subscribers then attribute this equivocal
"truth-value" idea to the Roman Catholic "Doctrine of Mental Reservation or
Equivocation" of its author? Then wouldn't this institutionalized 'lying and
equivocation' then be theological? Hasn't it been clearly established,
elsewhere in this forum, that "lying and dissimulation" in Roman Catholicism
is an irrefutable fact, confirmed by its own divine theologians? Have the
silent "critics" of Islam, in fact, conveniently forgotten what Cardinal
Newman wrote on lying and equivocation : "Casuistry is a noble science ... I
am very unwilling to say a word here on the subject of Lying and
Equivocation. But I consider myself bound to speak; ... "If a man has used a
reservation ... without a grave cause, he has sinned gravely." ... " Under
the name of mental reservation theologians authorise many lies, when there
is for them a grave reason and proportionate."? Are the usual closed-minded
"critics", in their silence and denial, tacitly condoning Newman's correct
(central-Christian <G>) exegesis "that lying is permissible to obtain a
desirable end if truth telling will not obtain it", against Muslims and
Islam?

Isn't this dissimulative propaganda and casuistry, that's continually being
unscrupulously passed off as Islamic "criticism", an irrefutable fact? Is
this the clear and unambiguous truth in "theology and philosophy" that
subscribers are truly seeking to discover in this forum? As some people say,
"propaganda" is a technique meant to influence opinions and to avoid the
truth about Muslims and Islam?

--
Peace
--
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive
themselves. [Eric Hoffer]

Zuiko Azumazi

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