[Christian Scholars]

For example, Christian scholars who have taken on the leadership of the Church are among those who do not believe in the authority of the intellect and do not consider it the criterion for knowing. Since the fourth century AD, these people who have come to believe that Christ is both Allah and, at the same time, the son of Allah have bid farewell to the authority of the intellect[1]; because the belief in the divinity of Christ alongside his sonship to Allah is a clear contradiction that is not acceptable to the intellect in any way, and those who have held such a belief could not have paid any attention to the intellect. From long ago to the present, they have insisted on the principle that Allah the One is three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit[2], and this is exactly like saying that one equals three! There is no doubt that such a belief is among the most impossible of impossibilities, and the intellect cannot comprehend the Oneness of Allah despite the divinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Furthermore, the belief in Allah’s origination from Himself, Allah’s transformation into a human, Christ’s pre-existence despite being born of Mary, Christ’s sacrifice for the forgiveness of others’ sins, and other similar beliefs have turned Christianity into a contradictory and anti-rational religion. Therefore, church leaders have come to believe that rationality is not necessary for belief; because faith is a matter of the heart, and there is no need for it to be in accordance with the intellect. In fact, from their perspective, the criterion for knowing is not the intellect but religious texts, and since religious texts affirm such contradictions, then it is necessary to believe in them[3].

[Muslim Ahl al-Hadith]

The prevalence of this contradictory and anti-rational approach in materialistic and experience-oriented Western societies is strange, but even stranger is the prevalence of a similar approach among Muslims who reproach Christians for having this approach!