Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.

[Drich]

@All:

Right. If someone told you to keep doing X until you saw Allah, and if you don't see him you're doing it wrong, is that evidence? Or is it utter bollocks?

Or if someone produces a book of anecdotes and tells you it's all true because some part of it vaguely resembles something true, would you join that religion? Would you join if they told you about their "personal experiences" with Allah?

Of course you wouldn't. So you use different standards than those you expect people to use for your own.

Here's the problem with that 'chainsaw.'

Allah does not offer Himself to his followers. In order for your little proposition to work the deity has to be on board. As it is Allah is reserved for the 'holiest of holy' men of that religion. (less than 5/arguably since Mo-hamms)

I don't suspect you know this but that is what makes Christianity unique. It is the only Religion that places a follower directly before it's God without some intermediary to interpret.

Now having made a wild claim like that how long would an empty religion last? Or rather, if you can't seem to think past the obvious zinger, Why doesn't/Hasn't any other major religion EVER given it's followers direct access to it's God?