(June 11, 2018 at 1:30 pm)MysticKnight Wrote:(June 11, 2018 at 1:25 pm)SaStrike Wrote: It depends on the reason as to why they left religion. Why did you leave islam?
I had logical problems I thought were unsolvable which made me believe I never was justified in believing in Islam as well.
When I solved all my problems (over 40 issues, I made a thread on shiachat with 28 of these issues), I realized I was very hasty. I then decided to give Quran another chance. Two years after I solved all my problems, I investigated and debated.
The thing that hanged me up from coming to Islam the most during that period was an emotional one, I didn't want to believe other humans would end up in hell forever.
It took me a long time to come at peace with the concept of hell. So for the two years after I solved my problems, I didn't accept Islam and left it after I briefly came to it for two weeks again, out of the notion of hell.
For me it isn't about hell or evil existing that makes me shy away from god. It's that I realized there isn't a god to shy away from in the first place. Once you see reality for what it is, it's impossible to go back to the ignorant bliss that you once believed in.
If I were to ever go back to islam it would be like a child that has grown into an adult starting to believe in santa claus. I would either be lying to myself or went insane.
Now of course if some god were to be rationally proven with clear evidence then I'd be a part of that religion but would require no FAITH. We do not need faith for reality to exist.
