He needs to be honest. He cannot be both a Muslim and a Christian while being faithful to those religions. They are fundamentally antithetical to each other.
Dr Azad seems to me like a sort of a frequent type within humanities in academia. Has a lot of ideas, but fails to formulate them properly. Talks a lot of particular writings, religions, philosophers etc. but remains surprisingly ignorant about them. When pressed against concrete stuff runs away into very vague philosofical problems, dodging hard questions altogether. Has very original, incoherent, unorthodox set of beliefs and falsely asserts that they are somehow relevant by appeal to authority, as there is some professor who shares his belief. The list could go on. And of course doesn't fail to mention that HAS A PHD, visited BEST UNIVERSITIES etc, which is cringe AF. I listened to the first hour, but at some point his word salad (pun not intended) felt annoying. Props for you guys to manage this looong conversation.
Perhaps. But it does signify that a person has tremendous knowledge regarding a subject, has prepared original research, progressed human knowledge, was thorughly examined by even more knowledgeable people in the field.... so perhaps not a sign of intelligence, but you are very very unlikley to achieve that if your intelligence is no more than average. I have a PhD in engineering, i suspect that i know waaaaaaay more than you in my (and adjacent) fields AND am wayyyyyy more adept than you at making sense of data/information and arrive at cogent conclusions.
@@tariq_sharifpeople have to be highly intelligent to have PhD’s. Bro, don’t listen to these people who say things like “a college degree doesn’t equal intelligence”.
He is a seeker of spiritual feelings. But he has no grounding of what he believes. That is why he becomes slippery whenever you try to pin him down. He accepts what aligns with his ambiguous positions and offers equivocations for what he doesn't. I suspect he got some pushback for his friends, family and colleagues and it embarrassed him. That is why he lashed out in reaction. It shows his conflicted nature about what he actually believes.
@chrisazure1624 Although speculations into people's personal lives are to be avoided, yes you might be right: He is lashing out due to deep frustration with squaring his beliefs with what he knows to be true: that organised religions get it so, so, so wrong, but he has to keep up appearances for others.
@ Yep. Nor do the high figures in the religions he sticks to. He does study Buddhism and Yoga, however. That I will happily acknowledge, and I'll give him credit for that.
@@chrisazure1624 I agree. But it is still often studied with similar angles that we apply to the broader study of other religions. There are limits however. Buddhism is not about the enforcement of dogmas and doctrines. I still don't understand how people in 2025 stick to Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity or Islam. It's sickening actually given all the bullshit involved. Yoga too is a philosophy. Yoga is something that I would argue does not neatly fit at all in Religious Studies departments.
Gave up after an hour. The part where he refused to say whether religious texts are the literal word or inspired by god was painful to watch. Weasel words. Complete mumbo jumbo
Thank you for posting this video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Sorry that you are subject to yet another silly accusation: that you are spreading .. Islamophobia.
I love this conversation. There is something awesome about being so broad minded about religion that you annoy the Christians, the Muslims, and the atheists. The world would be a better place if humans considered religion as inspiration rather than law or salvation.
👏🙂 Oh shii. This shows that being a phd doesn't mean they have intellectual honesty. Much respect to all the people having intellictual honesty. 40:00 omg. Dr Azad is just not answering Abdullah Sameer and Gondal 2:28:16 omg did this phd professor actually say islam wasn't spread by the sword 2:44:44 omg did he say teen preg is at an all time high? I'm pretty sure it's backwards since the availability of contraception and education to teens.
I wish you had enabled closed captions for this video. Being elderly I am a little deaf and I could have followed this much better, especially as moustaches and beards interfere with lip-reading!
@@brennadickinson2920 they meant "them" Also, subtitles work fine for me. I think it takes a while for a video to have automatic subtitles and you were too early.
Ummm I’m 13 min in, and can tell where this is going. He is a narcissist through and through, hence all the: “I’m special / I’m different / I’m complicated”. He’s actually a confused mess, pretending to be deep.
Nice job reaching out to academics. This is a missed part of the organizing that we need to address issues with Islam. There are apparently many atheist people in Islamic Studies within academia, so I think it would be good to speak and platform their research.
It's very simple if you want to find out if anyone, including this guy, believes Islam is true or not. Just ask him if he believes in performing all the compulsory daily prayers and compulsory dry fasting in Ramadan. That's really all there is to it. Ask ANY Muslim. Anywhere in the world. At ANY time in history. Their answer will always be YES.
The arabs translated them, that's what I have been told, while we went through the dark ages, the arabs translated all the greek texts and so on. I guess that means, it's muslim now. I am not a scholar, but i am also not uneducated, i never heard of any arab or muslim big thinkers that had impact on the west. I will look into it. Would be interesting.
@ I am Arab Christian, , and we exist for 585 before Muhammad’s birth! We did lot of things and it is us who thaught arab Muslims stuff before we never depart from the judeo Christian mind !
You know it's funny when someone leave Christianity or something else for islam they move on with life but when someone leave islam they make it their entire life and call themselves "ex muslims" and become scholars in the field of Takfir
He is full of BS. He is a master of evading questions!! He doesn’t know the doctrine of any religion that’s why he identifies with all the contradicting religions!
You are extremely kind and charitable - far more than most people! Let alone with the hatred sent online in these polemical spaces. I assume he's just equating criticism of Islam with Islamophobia?
This is a PhD scholar? he is asked if Mohammad revealed the words of God and his answer is "there are multiple levels of reality and there is a reality beyond the reality from which based on its very nature, as it were, revealed itself? not only he did not/could not answer the question, he created more problems for himself to come up with any explanations or offering philosophical and or any kind of rational insight into his thinking. The path he chose to answer the validity of Muhammad's claim being a massager of God according to him is first to believe and understand that there are multiple levels of reality and expect people just to accept without explaining that there is this nature of reality where God operates from and that there are multiple levels of that. And then it gets weirder by him saying there is reality beyond multiple levels of realities. So, from the very beginning of his answer, he creates the unfathomable statements like nature of reality and multiple levels of that AND the reality beyond that and without any paus he puts forth the idea of this reality beyond the multiple realities revealed itself by its nature. By its nature? what is its nature? and how its nature leaves this entity or reality to manifest itself in a form of another reality? so if the nature of the reality that exist beyond the multiple other realities, that begs the question, is this entity called God or the super reality that these revelations come from are a dogmatic reality, meaning there is no choice in how and to whom this super reality imposes its reality on other realities and manifest itself. Because if true then this God does not have any choice in how and what kind of a reality it creates and operates out of its unchangeable nature of itself which without God's will reveals itself/himself again because is its nature. So the takeaway from this guy's statement is that there is a pre-determined nature of God that leaves him with no choice but to follow and accept its nature to create reality and it is not his free will that determines how to create and to whom he makes his revelation. There is a lot here to unpack but i suffice to say that I don't think this guy has a slightest ideas of what he is talking about.
This guy is great at word salad. Is this what passes for a PhD? The innermost realities of each religion confirm all other religions? WTF. Did I just take drugs? This is such nonsense. He’s likely a fan of JP.
@@MsBizzyGurl I agree. The Qur'an is through and through nonsensical. It is gibberish, I mean 95% of it. Your point about the Hadiths is crucial. Islamic scholars weren't ultimately satisfied with the Qur'an either. The Hadiths became their bread and butter.
I should have read the comments first, I came to make the same comment you did. At least this guys has all of his bases crossed he's both Muslim, Christian and also has a Ganesh idol.
Dude is confused as hell. He got attracted to Christianity, converted but still believes in Islam. To justify his conversion and still attached to Islam, he is making up weird definitions and stuff in his mind. He does not even know the definition of God, but came over as a phd guy in religion. Even an illiterate Grandma has a better grasp on the concept and clarity in definitions than this so called scholar.😂😂😂
This interview quickly became non sensical and very convoluted for 3 long hours and i had to stop listening. And you and Abdullah dragged this nonsensical conversation by playing into the hands of this guy by letting him to take the direction of the conversation way off course and focusing on abstract, confusing and convoluted explanations totally losing the key points of the conversation and question that this conversation was supposed to cover.
Why does he speak like that it’s like he having to think what he says first he can’t openly be free to even communicate properly He seems very confused who he even is
My initial.impression is that he takes himself far too seriously. TBH that's what I'd expect from someone that jumps between superstitions. Upon consideration andxafter watching the entire video, he comes across as a pompous twat.
From the time you asked him why do you have a ganesh statue if you’re Christian, and he gave that b..s..answer about being a complicated cat….I was like you’re CONFUSED! Sounds more like a polytheist than anything else….I listened to him for 5 more minutes then fast forwarded to the other guy. You all can let people play games with you, I don’t have the patience for it.
This guy reminded me of one Arabic Hare Krishna Muslim named Rasamandal Das who also believed that Islam is not what is accepted and taught to be true by Masses rather there is a Deeper meaning of Islam which is devotion and he explains with his several books and he has written a book named " Islam and Vedas " there are his UA-cam videos also available on UA-cam...So these are people who hold different beliefs from mainstream..
1:07:00 I find this belief that somehow people a thousand to 2,000 years ago knew the world world better than what we know today one of the most naive and detrimental beliefs that people can hold today. I find this common amongst Muslims.
How do we know any religion, if any, are true in reality? Professor: trust me bro, you’ve got to try it! …I’ve experienced these things! I’m advanced and understand this stuff. Nothing at all tethered to actual reality. Nothing demonstrated objectively.
At 1.14 I see the soul as awareness that transcends the self which is the ego. People with Alzheimer's may have lost their ego, but they still have their soul.
😃 cosmic Quran? Yeah right! There is a difference, christinity does not claim the Bible are eternal or cosmic Bible.. Soon they will even dethrone God from His throne to make Muhammad sit on it!!
At 1.48 . I think that both Islam and Christianity, and both the Qu'ran and the Bible, have truth and constructive and even transcendent values in them. ~At their best both have very beautiful and inspiring spiritual content, and some things that reforming would improve. Culture could have contaminated the pure and original essence, which is transcendent.
How can one be Muslim and Christian at the same time? Muslims don't believe Issa died on the cross. The two Jesus's are completely different, it just makes me laugh. You two boys, "the Abduls", have always been on your toes.
He has no actual belief other than obfuscation. Anyone who thinks Foucault is the greatest philosopher of the times is a joker in the pack. I didn't hear on sensible idea put forth. All froth and self aggrandising.
I found this very interesting from the point of view that both Christianity and Sufi are spiritualities of Love. To me it is a point of intersection between the best of both Christianity and Islam.
Yes, scammers try to speak nice soft , look different , seems intelligent to dupe you! It is better to live with the devil you know, than the angel you don’t know is actually the devil hiding! Not all ex Muslims are it, they presents as it, but not it… He’s one of them
Listening to this prof for 15 mins ..he sounds very much like a scammer...his arguments doesn't sound like a prof.. I bet he doesn't understand islam or Christianity or the Hindu faith deeply..he is good in word gymnastics.. using a lot of words.. without any sense..
Since he is a self declared PhD scholar, just recently acquiring his PhD degree, I expected him to move through the discussion in more technical way with more clarity. Next time when u get another PhD scholar, for the sake of more meaningful n conclusive discussion always ask him/her/they/them to put forth his hypothesis first...then the basic definitions of the fundamental terminologies they will be using and most importantly the methodology/procedure/epistemology/pramana system they will be using to reach the conclusion.....so that we as the audience aren't served with yet another porridge of non sensical mix of different, even contradictory, schools of thoughts. We, as the audience, do not deserve to be tricked into the high schooler level of "daily one liner quotes" from a self declared "PhD SCHOLAR" again!
I wish I could approach his perspective in good faith, however 27 minutes into the video, the only thing I can acknowledge is there's an almost deep-seated need to be special. As though a uniqueness within his faith is what he's more interested in rather than a cohesive faith he can believe in. While it's interesting to suggest these religions can coexist alongside one another in a way in which they can be practiced. It's impractical. He himself seems to acknowledge this however discard such a perspective simply because it conflicts with his image and what he personally believes would be more interesting. That is to say. It's as though his favorite color is red, but red sounds too basic for him, so even if it is true, he'd rather identify with the idea His favorite color is a combination of burgundy and lapis lazul. Completely impossible, but interesting enough in the way it sounds for it to be worth passing off. This can be seen when you acknowledge that these religions are mutually exclusive, followed by him nodding saying yes yes over and over again without directly approaching what you're saying and only cherry picking loose ideas to fit his narrative.
He needs to be honest. He cannot be both a Muslim and a Christian while being faithful to those religions. They are fundamentally antithetical to each other.
"We can-not serve two masters"..!
Dr Azad seems to me like a sort of a frequent type within humanities in academia. Has a lot of ideas, but fails to formulate them properly. Talks a lot of particular writings, religions, philosophers etc. but remains surprisingly ignorant about them. When pressed against concrete stuff runs away into very vague philosofical problems, dodging hard questions altogether. Has very original, incoherent, unorthodox set of beliefs and falsely asserts that they are somehow relevant by appeal to authority, as there is some professor who shares his belief. The list could go on.
And of course doesn't fail to mention that HAS A PHD, visited BEST UNIVERSITIES etc, which is cringe AF.
I listened to the first hour, but at some point his word salad (pun not intended) felt annoying. Props for you guys to manage this looong conversation.
He's trying to intellectually mix oil and water 😂
PhD is not sign of intelligence
Perhaps. But it does signify that a person has tremendous knowledge regarding a subject, has prepared original research, progressed human knowledge, was thorughly examined by even more knowledgeable people in the field.... so perhaps not a sign of intelligence, but you are very very unlikley to achieve that if your intelligence is no more than average.
I have a PhD in engineering, i suspect that i know waaaaaaay more than you in my (and adjacent) fields AND am wayyyyyy more adept than you at making sense of data/information and arrive at cogent conclusions.
@@tariq_sharifpeople have to be highly intelligent to have PhD’s. Bro, don’t listen to these people who say things like “a college degree doesn’t equal intelligence”.
A sufi Christian muslim with a ganesh statue 😂😂😂😂
Hilarious 😂. What a confused guy 🤔 😅
He is creating a new religion.😀
This basically makes him a Hindu,
Especially of the pre 2014 kind.
Phd dude.. it's perfectly fine to just say "I don't know" or "I don't have the answer". He talks without saying anything
He is a seeker of spiritual feelings. But he has no grounding of what he believes. That is why he becomes slippery whenever you try to pin him down. He accepts what aligns with his ambiguous positions and offers equivocations for what he doesn't.
I suspect he got some pushback for his friends, family and colleagues and it embarrassed him. That is why he lashed out in reaction. It shows his conflicted nature about what he actually believes.
@chrisazure1624
Although speculations into people's personal lives are to be avoided, yes you might be right: He is lashing out due to deep frustration with squaring his beliefs with what he knows to be true: that organised religions get it so, so, so wrong, but he has to keep up appearances for others.
@paulthomas281 I understand your charitable position.
I don't think he knows what is true in any sense.
@ Yep. Nor do the high figures in the religions he sticks to. He does study Buddhism and Yoga, however. That I will happily acknowledge, and I'll give him credit for that.
@paulthomas281 Bhuddism is just philosophy. It doesn't really say anything about a god.
@@chrisazure1624 I agree. But it is still often studied with similar angles that we apply to the broader study of other religions. There are limits however. Buddhism is not about the enforcement of dogmas and doctrines. I still don't understand how people in 2025 stick to Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity or Islam. It's sickening actually given all the bullshit involved.
Yoga too is a philosophy. Yoga is something that I would argue does not neatly fit at all in Religious Studies departments.
No Islam, know peace
And bhaminism
This professor was incredibly frustrating to listen to and didn't get to the point. Too much word salad.
Yep... He sounds very much like the venerable Jordan B given free range.
Gave up after an hour. The part where he refused to say whether religious texts are the literal word or inspired by god was painful to watch. Weasel words. Complete mumbo jumbo
Scam just another scam
Say hi to Gondal for us.
Thank you for posting this video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Sorry that you are subject to yet another silly accusation: that you are spreading .. Islamophobia.
This is ridiculous. It sounds that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about but what’s to come off as a deep thinker but sounds ridiculous.
I love this conversation. There is something awesome about being so broad minded about religion that you annoy the Christians, the Muslims, and the atheists. The world would be a better place if humans considered religion as inspiration rather than law or salvation.
👏🙂
Oh shii. This shows that being a phd doesn't mean they have intellectual honesty.
Much respect to all the people having intellictual honesty.
40:00 omg. Dr Azad is just not answering Abdullah Sameer and Gondal
2:28:16 omg did this phd professor actually say islam wasn't spread by the sword
2:44:44 omg did he say teen preg is at an all time high? I'm pretty sure it's backwards since the availability of contraception and education to teens.
I wish you had enabled closed captions for this video. Being elderly I am a little deaf and I could have followed this much better, especially as moustaches and beards interfere with lip-reading!
Captions are working. As a fellow hearing aid user I sometimes have to turn off captions and turn tgem on again.
Hello old man, please watch someone else, someone who actually knows what they're speaking about
@@catholicbeth2371 What is tgem?
@@brennadickinson2920 they meant "them"
Also, subtitles work fine for me. I think it takes a while for a video to have automatic subtitles and you were too early.
@@radouanemegherbi3499rude and uncalled for.
Oh boy you found Sufi Jordan Peterson
😂
..thats funny...
😂
Ummm I’m 13 min in, and can tell where this is going. He is a narcissist through and through, hence all the: “I’m special / I’m different / I’m complicated”. He’s actually a confused mess, pretending to be deep.
They could interview me in the future, I'm a confused mess too 😇
Nice job reaching out to academics. This is a missed part of the organizing that we need to address issues with Islam. There are apparently many atheist people in Islamic Studies within academia, so I think it would be good to speak and platform their research.
It's very simple if you want to find out if anyone, including this guy, believes Islam is true or not. Just ask him if he believes in performing all the compulsory daily prayers and compulsory dry fasting in Ramadan. That's really all there is to it. Ask ANY Muslim. Anywhere in the world. At ANY time in history. Their answer will always be YES.
He lied about medecine and philosophy by Islam it was Greek like Aristotle and etc who inspired them..
Come on…
The arabs translated them, that's what I have been told, while we went through the dark ages, the arabs translated all the greek texts and so on. I guess that means, it's muslim now. I am not a scholar, but i am also not uneducated, i never heard of any arab or muslim big thinkers that had impact on the west. I will look into it. Would be interesting.
@ I am Arab Christian, , and we exist for 585 before Muhammad’s birth!
We did lot of things and it is us who thaught arab Muslims stuff before we never depart from the judeo Christian mind !
What a BS professor.
Excellent job The 2 Abdullahs 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This professor sounds like Apostate Aladin 💀🤣calling people islamaphobes
He may have left Islam but Islam has not left him
No. There is alot of we can critize about islam but he is simply intellectually dishonest. And dishonesty has no religion.
@@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen Hating muslims with a passion is morally correct now?
You know it's funny when someone leave Christianity or something else for islam they move on with life but when someone leave islam they make it their entire life and call themselves "ex muslims" and become scholars in the field of Takfir
@@radouanemegherbi3499 you might not know this but there are many ex-christians who have become scholars of the bible (i.e Bart Ehrman).
He actually did not leave Islam, he just converted to Christianity and maintained sufi teachings. So no, he never disliked Islam
He is full of BS. He is a master of evading questions!! He doesn’t know the doctrine of any religion that’s why he identifies with all the contradicting religions!
You are extremely kind and charitable - far more than most people! Let alone with the hatred sent online in these polemical spaces. I assume he's just equating criticism of Islam with Islamophobia?
Hmm. A 'theologian'.
In other words, 'Professor of magic'.
Lol 😂. Thats funny. I'll use that in the future.
A professor of human tradition.
@@stevenmitchell1 Hmmm. Maybe. Like being a leprechaun-ologist?
@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen I charge royalties every time you use it though 🤣
@@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen Preachers and imams sell make-believe. Their business is make-believe.
If he mentioned the term ‘metaphysical substrate’ six or seven more times, he would probably have a show on Daily Wire.
This is a PhD scholar? he is asked if Mohammad revealed the words of God and his answer is "there are multiple levels of reality and there is a reality beyond the reality from which based on its very nature, as it were, revealed itself? not only he did not/could not answer the question, he created more problems for himself to come up with any explanations or offering philosophical and or any kind of rational insight into his thinking. The path he chose to answer the validity of Muhammad's claim being a massager of God according to him is first to believe and understand that there are multiple levels of reality and expect people just to accept without explaining that there is this nature of reality where God operates from and that there are multiple levels of that. And then it gets weirder by him saying there is reality beyond multiple levels of realities. So, from the very beginning of his answer, he creates the unfathomable statements like nature of reality and multiple levels of that AND the reality beyond that and without any paus he puts forth the idea of this reality beyond the multiple realities revealed itself by its nature. By its nature? what is its nature? and how its nature leaves this entity or reality to manifest itself in a form of another reality? so if the nature of the reality that exist beyond the multiple other realities, that begs the question, is this entity called God or the super reality that these revelations come from are a dogmatic reality, meaning there is no choice in how and to whom this super reality imposes its reality on other realities and manifest itself. Because if true then this God does not have any choice in how and what kind of a reality it creates and operates out of its unchangeable nature of itself which without God's will reveals itself/himself again because is its nature. So the takeaway from this guy's statement is that there is a pre-determined nature of God that leaves him with no choice but to follow and accept its nature to create reality and it is not his free will that determines how to create and to whom he makes his revelation. There is a lot here to unpack but i suffice to say that I don't think this guy has a slightest ideas of what he is talking about.
This guy is very likely to be Indian bcos we are told the same lie from childhood that all religions are different paths to god
This guy is great at word salad. Is this what passes for a PhD?
The innermost realities of each religion confirm all other religions?
WTF. Did I just take drugs?
This is such nonsense. He’s likely a fan of JP.
The Qur'an does not mean to say conclusively that Jesus did not die on the cross. That is one reading of it, and sadly the dominant reading.
The Qur'an is nonsensical - without the hadiths, who would know what this ideological practices should be?
@@MsBizzyGurl I agree. The Qur'an is through and through nonsensical. It is gibberish, I mean 95% of it. Your point about the Hadiths is crucial. Islamic scholars weren't ultimately satisfied with the Qur'an either. The Hadiths became their bread and butter.
I should have read the comments first, I came to make the same comment you did. At least this guys has all of his bases crossed he's both Muslim, Christian and also has a Ganesh idol.
@ He has two other idols as well: the Bible and the Qur'an. Those are idols via ink.
@@bunjijumper5345 LOL !! - You think that will get him into heaven... 🙂
Good morning.
Old is gold
Dude is confused as hell. He got attracted to Christianity, converted but still believes in Islam.
To justify his conversion and still attached to Islam, he is making up weird definitions and stuff in his mind.
He does not even know the definition of God, but came over as a phd guy in religion. Even an illiterate Grandma has a better grasp on the concept and clarity in definitions than this so called scholar.😂😂😂
Thank you Abdullah for this very unique conversation
This interview quickly became non sensical and very convoluted for 3 long hours and i had to stop listening. And you and Abdullah dragged this nonsensical conversation by playing into the hands of this guy by letting him to take the direction of the conversation way off course and focusing on abstract, confusing and convoluted explanations totally losing the key points of the conversation and question that this conversation was supposed to cover.
Why does he speak like that it’s like he having to think what he says first he can’t openly be free to even communicate properly
He seems very confused who he even is
He comes across as insincere and apologetic, for sure not a scientist or philosopher!
Why not bring him again and have another discussion?
Religions have already ruined his brain - he seems all confused
The guy is delusional
Dr. Azad presents as pompous & extremely unrelatable. It’s this sort of self-involved, academic 💩 that is repelling for so many.
Did he just make up a click bait title to get the interview and promote himself on your channel..
My initial.impression is that he takes himself far too seriously. TBH that's what I'd expect from someone that jumps between superstitions.
Upon consideration andxafter watching the entire video, he comes across as a pompous twat.
From the time you asked him why do you have a ganesh statue if you’re Christian, and he gave that b..s..answer about being a complicated cat….I was like you’re CONFUSED! Sounds more like a polytheist than anything else….I listened to him for 5 more minutes then fast forwarded to the other guy. You all can let people play games with you, I don’t have the patience for it.
That's chrislam, fusion/mixed, still Islam still within
The fusion/ mixing is to cover who is
A Muslim !
😂😂
This guy reminded me of one Arabic Hare Krishna Muslim named Rasamandal Das who also believed that Islam is not what is accepted and taught to be true by Masses rather there is a Deeper meaning of Islam which is devotion and he explains with his several books and he has written a book named " Islam and Vedas " there are his UA-cam videos also available on UA-cam...So these are people who hold different beliefs from mainstream..
1:07:00 I find this belief that somehow people a thousand to 2,000 years ago knew the world world better than what we know today one of the most naive and detrimental beliefs that people can hold today. I find this common amongst Muslims.
I find this central to all religions that I have heard of, without exception, including Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity.
This is what happens when people try to sound interesting rather than doing the work of actually being interesting.
How do we know any religion, if any, are true in reality?
Professor: trust me bro, you’ve got to try it! …I’ve experienced these things! I’m advanced and understand this stuff.
Nothing at all tethered to actual reality. Nothing demonstrated objectively.
His PHD is not even worth the toilet paper in my bathroom!
Theology is but conceited navel gazing. The sad part is, the conceit kills the non believer.
A person who is muslim AND christian with a Hindu god statue? Now I've seen it all.
I don't even believe qoran is real and moh was a prophet.
For that muslim to reference koran in his argument is like arguing based on falsehood.
I may dislike some of his points, but I gotta he's such an interesting person
At 1.14 I see the soul as awareness that transcends the self which is the ego. People with Alzheimer's may have lost their ego, but they still have their soul.
Doctor is a triple agent.
LOL !!
It is a self deception man! And thinking!
The man is scared within such people who used such way are scarred, terrified of…
He is not honest
😃 cosmic Quran?
Yeah right!
There is a difference, christinity does not claim the Bible are eternal or cosmic Bible..
Soon they will even dethrone God from
His throne to make Muhammad sit on it!!
At 1.48 . I think that both Islam and Christianity, and both the Qu'ran and the Bible, have truth and constructive and even transcendent values in them. ~At their best both have very beautiful and inspiring spiritual content, and some things that reforming would improve. Culture could have contaminated the pure and original essence, which is transcendent.
What does Sufi Christian even mean ??
Fruit salad, vegetable salad, word salad and now new religion salad
If he's a sufi shouldn't he go debate the salafis and other more aggressive sects then .... these people are weird 🤨 !
every time i see this man's face i was like yo?? creep
He is not an academic! I don’t know where he’s got his PHD from :)))))
He is a scam.
You either all iIN or all OUT
Hassan is more Muslim than the Muslims and more Christian than the Christians 😂
Friendly ex muslims 😅 they have have show their friendship
How can one be Muslim and Christian at the same time? Muslims don't believe Issa died on the cross. The two Jesus's are completely different, it just makes me laugh.
You two boys, "the Abduls", have always been on your toes.
That's why he is struggling to call wrong as wrong
He has no actual belief other than obfuscation.
Anyone who thinks Foucault is the greatest philosopher of the times is a joker in the pack.
I didn't hear on sensible idea put forth.
All froth and self aggrandising.
I found this very interesting from the point of view that both Christianity and Sufi are spiritualities of Love. To me it is a point of intersection between the best of both Christianity and Islam.
Christianity doesn't need islam to add anything tho
Yes, scammers try to speak nice soft , look different , seems intelligent to dupe you!
It is better to live with the devil you know, than the angel you don’t know is actually the devil hiding!
Not all ex Muslims are it, they presents as it, but not it…
He’s one of them
Listening to this prof for 15 mins ..he sounds very much like a scammer...his arguments doesn't sound like a prof.. I bet he doesn't understand islam or Christianity or the Hindu faith deeply..he is good in word gymnastics.. using a lot of words.. without any sense..
Good work. This guy is blah blah blah
They have friendship with GOD less west
Always ging left and right
His intro in short- a sufi plagiarist talking non sense!
Since he is a self declared PhD scholar, just recently acquiring his PhD degree, I expected him to move through the discussion in more technical way with more clarity. Next time when u get another PhD scholar, for the sake of more meaningful n conclusive discussion always ask him/her/they/them to put forth his hypothesis first...then the basic definitions of the fundamental terminologies they will be using and most importantly the methodology/procedure/epistemology/pramana system they will be using to reach the conclusion.....so that we as the audience aren't served with yet another porridge of non sensical mix of different, even contradictory, schools of thoughts.
We, as the audience, do not deserve to be tricked into the high schooler level of "daily one liner quotes" from a self declared "PhD SCHOLAR" again!
How did he even complete his PhD thesis??? I think that would've been a better topic of discussion than whatever this discussion was about!
Japan-Akbar!!
I wish I could approach his perspective in good faith, however 27 minutes into the video, the only thing I can acknowledge is there's an almost deep-seated need to be special. As though a uniqueness within his faith is what he's more interested in rather than a cohesive faith he can believe in. While it's interesting to suggest these religions can coexist alongside one another in a way in which they can be practiced. It's impractical. He himself seems to acknowledge this however discard such a perspective simply because it conflicts with his image and what he personally believes would be more interesting. That is to say. It's as though his favorite color is red, but red sounds too basic for him, so even if it is true, he'd rather identify with the idea His favorite color is a combination of burgundy and lapis lazul. Completely impossible, but interesting enough in the way it sounds for it to be worth passing off.
This can be seen when you acknowledge that these religions are mutually exclusive, followed by him nodding saying yes yes over and over again without directly approaching what you're saying and only cherry picking loose ideas to fit his narrative.
I have got no words for this professor , but who are we to judge . Christ blatantly had said you cannot worship too masters .
Dude, you just don't age x)
Haha thanks
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Was the eurcharist.t leavened or un-leavened bread?
In Catholicism they do it without yeast/fermentation, the Orthodox with or without