Astrophysics claim that in its first second, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles zinged around at the speed of light, creating a “quark-gluon plasma” that lasted for only a few millionths of a second. The primordial goo then quickly cooled, and its individual quarks and gluons fused to form the protons, neutrons, and other fundamental particles that exist to this day. IF GOD CAN DO THAT IN A SPLIT SECOND, ALLAH CAN CARE ABOUT ALL LIVING LIFEFORMS IN THE UNIVERSE.

The greatest sin that Greek philosophy tried to inflict upon all three Abrahamic religions is the erroneous idea that God does not need or desire our prayers or our moral activities. In the western world this idea is associated with Aristotle who taught a concept of God as a perfect “unmoved mover”. All of creation is dependent on God, but God is totally independent of everything; and thus cannot really be in any kind of mutual relationship with the natural universe, or with the heart and soul of any intelligent beings anywhere in the natural universe. 

The Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible and the Qur’an teach exactly the opposite. The foundation of all three monotheistic religions is that personal relationships are the essence of human life with other humans; as well as with the one God who created us all. Without committed interpersonal relationships human life lacks meaning and purpose.

Naturally, it sounds totally self-centered to say that an individual person, who is one of almost eight billion........

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