Hello everyone,
This is my first post and I really wanted to share my experience with everyone.
I am an ex-Muslim man who was born and raised in Egypt and came to finish my college education in the United States. I have lived in USA for the past four years and I can't really put a date on when exactly I started identifying myself as an Atheist but it was a slow process.
I come from a religious family that put a lot on emphasis on religion. I haven't been praying regularly except for a very small period of my life but I always considered this as a "fault" and i should be working towards praying five times a day. My mom is more religious than my dad and she believes in establishing the "Muslim Ummah" and all of that stuff. My sister is about twenty years old and doesn't wear the scarf and my Mom is giving her a lot of hard times.
About two years ago, I took a college class called "Logic & Critical Thinking" which really made me think differently about everything I see in front of me. I couldn't even listen to a song without counting the logic fallacies anymore (Logicians will relate!). You can imagine how that started affecting my ability to just passively listen to the Qur’an. I usually just let it recite in the background when I am in my room (Mishary Alafasy; he does have a good voice!). I didn’t like a lot of what I heard anymore and I started having a lot of issues in the Text. The false miracles of the creation of an embryo, the two seas that never mix, the galaxies and the orbits, and many more seemed to me like just people trying to fit science into religion which is really just like trying to fit a square into a circle then claim that it works!
That was in the Qur’an itself…. don’t even get me started on the Haddith. I think there’s no such thing as moderate Islam, it is just people finding a way to label themselves as Muslim and yet ignore all the faults in their Religion.
This is my first post and I really wanted to share my experience with everyone.
I am an ex-Muslim man who was born and raised in Egypt and came to finish my college education in the United States. I have lived in USA for the past four years and I can't really put a date on when exactly I started identifying myself as an Atheist but it was a slow process.
I come from a religious family that put a lot on emphasis on religion. I haven't been praying regularly except for a very small period of my life but I always considered this as a "fault" and i should be working towards praying five times a day. My mom is more religious than my dad and she believes in establishing the "Muslim Ummah" and all of that stuff. My sister is about twenty years old and doesn't wear the scarf and my Mom is giving her a lot of hard times.
About two years ago, I took a college class called "Logic & Critical Thinking" which really made me think differently about everything I see in front of me. I couldn't even listen to a song without counting the logic fallacies anymore (Logicians will relate!). You can imagine how that started affecting my ability to just passively listen to the Qur’an. I usually just let it recite in the background when I am in my room (Mishary Alafasy; he does have a good voice!). I didn’t like a lot of what I heard anymore and I started having a lot of issues in the Text. The false miracles of the creation of an embryo, the two seas that never mix, the galaxies and the orbits, and many more seemed to me like just people trying to fit science into religion which is really just like trying to fit a square into a circle then claim that it works!
That was in the Qur’an itself…. don’t even get me started on the Haddith. I think there’s no such thing as moderate Islam, it is just people finding a way to label themselves as Muslim and yet ignore all the faults in their Religion.
