1. First class
Aqeeda

2. Get to know one another Answer the following questions: Age Grade
Religion
What do you expect from this class?
What matters on Islam concern you?
What do you not want this class to be?

3. Class rules Raise your hand if you have a question Be polite
No electronics allowed, and they will be taken away. Yes, that includes phones!
Do not act silly
Do not talk to your neighbors.
If anyone breaks any of these rules, they will be given two notices, and then they will be asked to talk to their parent, then if it occurs again they will be asked to leave class…with NO REFUND.
If you feel you are too young for this class, you may excuse yourself.
Bring a note book to class
There will be a certificate for class

4. What to expect in this class
Dialogue
Questions
Answers
Serious talk
Laughters
Short videos
Friendship
Sad and happy stories

5. Any questions?

6. Questions to ask yourself
Why were we created?
Why do we have to have a purpose in life?
What proves that there needs to be a purpose in life?

7. The meaning of life video
Wp-ok

8.   Why were we created?
A system in creation has a specific design and purpose.
Eye to see, nose to smell. ..etc.
Purpose proceeds design.
What do you think the options for creation are:
Atheist source: theory that suggests: It just happened and that’s it
Religious source: God created it

9. Scrutinizing the atheist/postmodern theory
The story begins in Middle ages in Europe
Thought (heresy), women (accused of witchcraft), freedoms are banned.
Spanish inquisition ( )
Galileo (D.1642) condemned by Catholic Church for “vehement suspicion of heresy”

10. Scientists accused of heresy
William Sawtrey (died March 1401) was an English Roman Catholic priest who was executed for heresy
His calls was
rejection of Catholic saints/images
Accused for rejecting free will
Many other names were burnt for:
Rejecting the church understanding

11. In protestant countries
Robert Barnes († 1540), Smithfield, London, England
Thomas Gerrard († 1540), Smithfield, England
Anne Askew (1521–1546), Smithfield, England
John Lascelles († 1546), Smithfield, England
John Adams († 1546), Smithfield, England
Joan Bocher († 1550), Smithfield, England
George van Parris († 1551), Smithfield, England
Matthew Hamont († 1579), Norwich, England
John Lewes († 1583)
Peter Cole († 1587)
Francis Kett († 1589), Norwich, England
Bartholomew Legate (1575–1612), Smithfield, England
Edward Wightman (1566–1612), relapsed heretic, Lichfield, England

12. Examples of burnt for heresy In catholic countries
Ramihrdus of Cambrai (1076 or 1077) (lynched)
Peter of Bruys († 1130) (lynched)
Gerard Segarelli († 1300)
Maifreda da († 1300)
Andrea Saramiti († 1300)
Fra Dolcino († 1307) (never tried by Catholic Church), Italy
Sister Margherita († 1307), Italy
Brother Longino († 1307), Italy
Bartolomeo Coppino († 1601)
Lucilio Vanini (Giulio Cesare Vanini) (1585–1619), Toulouse, France
Kimpa Vita (1684–1706), Angola
Maria Barbara Carillo (1625–1721), Madrid, Spain
María de los Dolores López († 1781), Seville, Spain

13. Martin luther
10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk[2] and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.
strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money
Refused to renounce his writings
Translated the bible into vernacular(native dialect) instead of Latin, and made it more accessible to the laity…

14. Age of Enlightenment (1715-20th century
The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and came to advance ideals like liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state
individual liberty and religious tolerance in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church
Era of modernism

15. A study on atheism & How the thought of God is dead started
Friedrich Nietzsche Died 1900( )
Charles Darwin (D.1882)theory of evolution
The origin of species….finds a pattern in life
Philosophy of modernism and Homo-centricism begins
Freeing oneself from church impact became a political movement

16. Postmodernism is born
Postmodernism describes both an era and a broad movement that developed in the mid to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism which marked a departure from modernism.
Postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism or distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies, and various tenets of Enlightenment rationality, including the existence of objective reality and absolute truth, as well as notions of rationality, human nature, and progress
Atheism becomes a political and philosophical lobby

17. Secularism and our life
Religion banned from public
Schools
Public life

18. Richard dawkins
The God delusion
New Atheism lobby