Hello, guys, and girls. I'd like to introduce myself. My real name is Fauzy. I'm from Indonesia. My ethnicity and my native language is Sundanese. I was born and raised in a strict sunni muslim family. Both of my parents have conducted the 'holy' pilgrimage to Mecca. Since I was a kid, I always told to do the daily prayers, fasting, attend religious congregation at masjid (mosque), stuff like that. And as a result, I became a fundamentalist muslim who always thought that Islam was the real religion, all kafirs will go to hell, and it was OK to hurt non muslims. But then, when I was in college, I started to learn about other religions, especially abrahamic religions. I became interested in studying the history of christianity and judaism. And I found that there were so many striking similarities among them and islam. Later I found that islam was just basically copy pasted their teachings, so Islam was not the original religion. At the same time, I also had a great fascination toward science and history, especially astronomy. And I found that this universe is unbelievably vast, with billions of galaxies that contain stars and planets within it. I felt that human existence in this universe is insignificant, and I thought it didn't make any sense if there was a personal god who watches us 24/7 and punishes us for petty stuff, such as kissing a girl for example And also, i like to read stuff about history of religions, and after awhile, I concluded that religions are just products of human civilization, not from god. Long story short, last year I became an atheis, basically its not decision, but a result after spending so much time studying religions, science, history, etc. To be frank, the internet has really helped me a lot in my process of becoming an atheist, if there was no internet, perhaps I'd still be a moozie now, LOL.
Anyways, thanks for reading my thread. And please let me know if there are other ex muslims for south east asia like me
Sorry if my english sucks

You're very welcome .

I too was a muslim, I relate very much with your story, the internet also did play a great part of me becoming an atheist .

Internet is probably also the reason i'm an atheist. But you also have to give yourself a credit for critical thinking. So kudos for you

Welcome to the AF

(April 10, 2014 at 4:33 am)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: You're very welcome .

I too was a muslim, I relate very much with your story, the internet also did play a great part of me becoming an atheist .

wow, really? u're an ex muslim too? Glad to know I'm not alone, hehee.
Yup, as I have already explained, internet plays a big role in my life too. Hail internet!

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(April 10, 2014 at 4:36 am)tommynba Wrote: Internet is probably also the reason i'm an atheist. But you also have to give yourself a credit for critical thinking. So kudos for you

Welcome to the AF

Wow, thanks a lot, Bro. That means alot to me. Kudos to you too

(April 10, 2014 at 4:39 am)Murtaddin Wrote: Wow, thanks a lot, Bro. That means alot to me. Kudos to you too

click the thumb button on the left bottom, if you want to kudo someone.

(April 10, 2014 at 4:42 am)Marsellus Wallace Wrote:

(April 10, 2014 at 4:39 am)Murtaddin Wrote: Wow, thanks a lot, Bro. That means alot to me. Kudos to you too

click the thumb button on the left bottom, if you want to kudo someone.

okay, thanks for the tip

(April 10, 2014 at 4:46 am)Murtaddin Wrote:

(April 10, 2014 at 4:42 am)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: click the thumb button on the left bottom, if you want to kudo someone.

okay, thanks for the tip

you're welcome

Congratulations, you woke up

(April 10, 2014 at 7:47 am)KichigaiNeko Wrote:

Congratulations, you woke up

Thanks . Yea, I guess I have been asleep for quite a long time. Lol

Congratulations and welcome