If I asked you to furnish me with the reasons why Islam has the ultimate answer (rather than Buddhism, or Christianity, or ultimately Philosophy) you would immediately find yourself in the terrain of the philosopher. Sorry.

The only way in which religious thought survives the 21st century is a set of once sacred truths rendered palatable for the secular world. The past belonged to you, the present and future belongs to us.

> The only way in which religious thought survives the 21st century is a set of once sacred truths rendered palatable for the secular world.

The irony is that you've internalized the revealed truths of your worldview to the point that you don't realize you have any. You don't believe that your philosophy and ethics make any assumptions (but they do). And when confronted the only response is that they're not assumptions, they're self-evident truths.

You're no better than a medieval European peasant in that regard.

What?

I'm just saying, if you can't quantify it, anything goes.

Ultimately anything does indeed "go" intellectually speaking. You can draw an arbitrary line and say "it is fruitless to step over this boundary" but that is just a matter of shrinking the universe down to what you can manage. Which is fine. It does not invalidate the desire some people have to have internal intellectual experiences that do not have to be validated by you.

Philosophy is not "This is true" but rather, "What do you mean when you say, this is true".