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Host, cleric attack non-believer for rejecting god, with the former apologizing to viewers for bringing in 'confused, destructive' guest
By TOI staff
2 March 2018, 7:31 pm
An Egyptian atheist who was invited on privately owned TV network Alhadath Alyoum to present his ideas was summarily kicked off the show by its host earlier this month, with both the anchor and a second guest a cleric suggesting that the young man should see a psychiatrist.
In the February 11 segment, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, atheist Mohammad Hashem was barely allowed to explain his positions. He managed to say that there is no scientific evidence for the existence of God and that he did not need religion to have moral values or to be a productive member of society, before he was assailed by host Mahmoud Abd Al-Halim.
How can you say that? Who created you? Who made you exist as a human being?
How come you exist in this universe? Abd Al-Halim asked.
Hashem then tried to raise the Big Bang theory as one possible origin of existence, but was once again cut off by the host, who dismissed him as confused and unreliable.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/atheist-kicked-of-egyptian-tv-advised-to-see-psychiatrist/
You don't have to know Arabic to read Mohammad's face.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Imagine that. Well, it is not really necessary to imagine that.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Relevance.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)I bribed the Judge.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Again.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)He seemed a man of great academic integrity. When Pope Pius XII declared the Big Bang scientific proof of Catholic cosmology, an annoyed Lemaitre had a long talk with the pontiff, during which he explained his theory proved nothing supernatural, and humbly requested that the Pope never discuss cosmology again. Pius XII agreed.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Father Georges Lemaitre well understood and separated his faith from his science. And this speaks well of the Pope also.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Fortunately he didn't let his religious beliefs interfere with his science. Jesuits do good science.
newcriminal
(2,190 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)But if you had explained that, you would have looked pedantic.
Well... more so than usual.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)Over history I mean.
newcriminal
(2,190 posts)Reasons to kill are always found.
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)RKP5637
(67,104 posts)sadistic punishment. ... and oneupmanship.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)How many lives would have been spared?
Or would humans have found another way to divide and fight?
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)are we in.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)That young man is extremely courageous, because being murdered for apostasy is a real risk in Islamic societies.