Should Psalms be taken out of the Old Testament?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The seventy some books of the Bible got into the canon, sacred collection of books to make […]
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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Obama: ‘Peace is possible,’ but see the world as Palestinians do
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=international/2013/03/21/obama-in-middle-east.cnn&contentId=international/2013/03/21/obama-in-middle-east.cnn By Tom Cohen. John King and Jessica Yellin, CNN updated 9:15 AM EDT, Thu March 21, 2013 Jerusalem (CNN) — President Barack Obama tried Thursday to invigorate the stalled […]
Richard Dawkins Stands in Awe of Nature but Cannot Seem to See Under the Surface
Epigraph: “The God of Islam is the same God Who is visible in the reflection of the laws of nature and is discernible in the book of nature. Islam has […]
US backs independent Palestinian state – Obama
Source: BBC President Barack Obama has said on a visit to the West Bank that the US is “deeply committed” to creating a sovereign state of Palestine. Speaking after talks […]
Pope Francis Talks Celibacy, Pedophilia In 2012 Interview (Report)
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
Where is the Muslim Pope?
By Haris Raja, Baltimore, MD. Pope Francis’ election made history. All eyes were on the smoke from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney where cardinals gathered to elect the Pope. It was an important election as some, such as Cardinal McCarrick were concerned about the growing threats to religious freedom and harassment of Christians around the world. There was another smoke that did […]
Quote of the Day – By Roger Sperry
Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was a neuropsychologist, neurobiologist and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research.[1][2][3][4][5] “The meaning of the message will not be found in […]
Tomas Young, Dying Iraq War Veteran, Pens ‘Last Letter’ To Bush, Cheney On War’s 10th Anniversary
Source: The Huffington Post The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 03/19/2013 1:31 pm EDT Days after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Tomas Young, then a 22-year-old from Kansas City, […]
Debate Between Leading Christians and Atheists and How Islam can Help?
Collected by Zia H. Shah MD – Twitter: @ZiahShah1 My Prologue for every recent debate, between the Trinitarian Christians and atheists: Christian apologists want to make a case for Christianity based […]
Quote of the Day: Michael Shermer on Christianity
Michael Shermer makes a fairly provocative yet a correct statement, in my opinion, in the middle of a recent debate: I have a problem with resurrection. So, you believe that […]
Three Proofs Against Trinity, from the Quran, in Ninety Words
Holy Trinity, fresco by Luca Rossetti da Orta, 1738–9 (St. Gaudenzio Church at Ivrea). By Zia H Shah MD As Jesus lay dead for three days and three nights, God the Father continued […]
Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity: The Cathars
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Whatever the details of Cathars beliefs may be, it is certain that they did not believe in Jesus as the son of God or […]
Those Who Cannot Remember the Past and the Cathars …
Collected by Zia H Shah MD Religious fanaticism and forcing of ones beliefs on others is a bad news for the whole of humanity, whether it comes from the Mullahs […]
Video: Spiritual Leadership, Is the Pope Elected by God?
Additional Reading Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity Belfast Telegraph: ‘World Muslim leader congratulates Pope Francis and the Catholic Church’ Introducing Islam to Pope Francis
Tracking Unitarian Tradition in Christianity
Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a monotheist? By Zia H Shah MD Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in […]
President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a monotheist?
By Zia H Shah MD Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson negated belief in the divinity of Jesus […]
William Lane Craig’s Confession: ‘If we Examine Trinity, through the lens of the Old Testament, It is not Believable!’
William Lane Craig is one of the leading Christian apologists and it is useful for the Unitarians to have his confession, which I have paraphrased a little, to keep it short: ‘If we Examine Trinity, through the lens of the Old Testament, it is not Believable!’ You can watch the […]
The Great Debate: Is Jesus God? ( 1 of 3 ) Sir Anthony Buzzard vs Dr. James White
God the Father is referred to as God more than 1300 times in the Bible. References to Jesus as God are a couple or very few at best and are contextual misinterpretations or later interpolations. Sir Anthony Buzzard states in the very beginning that Unity of a God is a […]
Who was Jesus? Man or God? debate – Sir Anthony Buzzard and Drew Ayers
God the Father is referred to as God more than 1300 times in the New Testament alone, which forms only 25% of the Bible. References to Jesus as God are a couple or very few at best and are contextual misinterpretations or later interpolations. Sir Anthony Buzzard has a very well […]