Written and collected by by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times

There are no atheists in the foxholes. Atheism is a delusion arising out of prosperity in peaceful times.

Put yourself in the shoes of Palestinian children, more than 3000 of them have been bombed into extinction since the start of Israel versus Hamas war, starting on October 9, after a terrorist attack by Hamas that killed more than a thousand Israelis civilians.

Can a Palestinian youth or his or her parents be comfortable with a simplistic thought that their is no escape, no reckoning, no final justice? They are just vulnerable and mortal and collateral damage and this is just a brute fact there is nothing else to believe. Rationality demands that there is no wishful God, who would hold all of us accountable at the end of days and make everything fair and just in the final analysis. Is this the highest rationality or merely, a confabulation or delusion of the comfortable in time of ease and prosperity?

There are 2.2 million Palestinians living in Gaza strip and according to Wikipedia the total force of Hamas is around 25,000. Put yourself today in the shoes of these 2.2 million and see what theology is most rational and practical for them. With this in mind, I present a collection of articles below.

For starters, watch a holocaust movie, first see it from the perspective of WWII Jewish victims and then the perspective of present day Palestinians. Only equivalence I am drawing here is the hopelessness of the situation and personal theology:

A Holocaust Movie: God on Trial. What meaning it has today for the innocent Jews, Muslim civilians and others?

Why Did Muhammad Fly to Jerusalem? How can we build the Third Temple together? I am a Jew, a Catholic, a Christian and a Muslim; I am Zia H Shah […]

A new Study confirming: There are no atheists in the foxholes

Study Asks If War Makes A Person More … Or Less … Religious Source: NPR By Diana Cole What’s the link between war and religion? Does living through the traumas […]

Christopher Hitchens, an atheist in a foxhole

By Tom Chivers in Telegraph There are no atheists in foxholes, goes the old saw. Well, it’s not true, as Christopher Hitchens – a man of principle to the last […]

Man is in Constant Search for the Divine!

By Zia H Shah MD The distinguished psychiatrist, Dr. Carl Jung, who was a contemporary of Freud and is well known for several contributions in the field, says in the […]

If the Atheists and the Christians Debate, Islam Wins!

Epigraph: And you (Muhammad) shall assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are […]

Wars not needed any more — If the Atheists and the Christians Debate, Islam Wins!

Epigraph: And you (Muhammad) shall assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants and monks and because they are not arrogant. (Al Quran 5:82/83) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor […]

A Cordial invitation to Sir David Attenborough to be a Theist

Epigraph Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things;Who has created death and life that He might try you — which of […]