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It rather sounds like the Islamic motto "There's no god but Allah" is trying to lead people away from their polytheistic fitrah. | It rather sounds like the Islamic motto "There's no god but Allah" is trying to lead people away from their polytheistic fitrah. | ||
=="Scientific proof" of fitrah== | |||
According to some Islamic apologists, a Christian scientist Justin L. Barrett proved that Islam is fitrah. | |||
Justin L. Barrett wrote on his blog (notice that the word gods is plural): | |||
{{Quote|[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/nov/29/religion-children]| | |||
I do not say that religion is "hardwired" or "innate" – rather that children have propensities to believe '''in gods''' because of how their minds naturally work. | |||
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He found that children tend to see agency behind events. For example, when children are asked "What caused the first flood?", many children guess "someone". And that could have been anyone. There's no research proving that the children believe in the Islamic god specifically, let alone in Muhammad being his messenger. | |||
It's also worth noticing that the book "Born believers" by this Christian author has on its cover picture of a child raising its hand to symbols of different religions with the symbol of Christianity being the closest. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||