The Divine Reality: God and the Mirage of Atheism

In this episode of Prishtina Book Talks, Osman Çekaj presents “The Divine Reality: God, Islam and the Mirage of Atheism” by the British speaker and researcher Hamza Andreas Tzortzis — a work that grew out of nearly two decades of study and debate on Islam, atheism and secular ideologies.

Çekaj takes up the book's central ideas: why the author calls atheism an “intellectual mirage”, the burden of proof, the mistaken assumptions atheism is built on, and the arguments for the existence of God — from the fitrah and the design of the universe to the Qur'anic arguments, objective morality and the divine authorship of the Qur'an. The presentation also places the subject in the Albanian context, where atheism was spread as doctrine through the communist system.

Some of the points covered: 📌 Why the author calls atheism an “intellectual mirage” 📌 The burden of proof: who has to prove what? 📌 The Big Bang and DNA in the debate about God 📌 The fitrah, and the argument from design 📌 Can atheism ground objective morality? 📌 The legacy of communist atheism in the Albanian context

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