It would be interesting to have a philosophical discussion with Mohammed Hijab on Western moral philosophy with a view to challenging the efficacy of Christianity as a means of maintaining morality compared to Islam.
My view is that Christianity suffers from a corrupt priesthood and has lost its moral authority. The closest thing to a priesthood in Islam would be its judiciary.
Instead of a corrupt priesthood, Islam uses sharia to maintain morality. While it is always possible for a judiciary to be corrupted, legal decisions are subject to argument, public scrutiny and appeal. It was the corruption of the priesthood of Temple Judaism that ended up the Jews being expelled from Israel by the Romans. Jews have done better for themselves under Rabbinical Judaism in the diaspora. While a priesthood is a parasitic class, a judiciary is necessary to apply and interpret the law.
Ontology and epistemology are both important elements of the philosophy of knowledge. If they often overlap, they have clear distinction: epistemology is about the way we know things when ontology is about what things are.
AN ONTOLOGICAL QUESTION
Is the political system we live under corrupt and doomed to failure?
AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL QUESTION
How do we recognise the signs of inevitable failure and corruption?
A MORAL QUESTION
What should we do if we know for a fact that it is corrupt and doomed to failure? (Muslims have a religious obligation to enjoin good and forbid evil.)
A POLITICAL QUESTION
How do we go about replacing a failing religion and political system with one that works when the entire West is a matriarchy and its senior male politicians dare not discuss the causes of Western malaise - feminism - for fear alienating their women whom they fear?
