(August 20, 2014 at 4:56 pm)StealthySkeptic Wrote:(August 20, 2014 at 4:49 pm)PhiloTech Wrote: I was interested in Islam for quite some time and explored it. I learned a lot about it and stayed on various Islamic forums for quite some time. I thought I converted but I doubted it from the get go. I was a Muslim for like a week and just quit because I found it to be shit.
But I retained my interest in Islamic art, culture and philosophy.
Islam made me an atheist I would say
The Baha'i Faith did that for me. It was my last attempt to stay a theist after the bad experience of Catholicism, and it wasn't for me.
I considered the Baha'i Faith for like 2 hours, sent an email for some questions on their site and that was it. Baha'i came from Shi'iyyah and I just wanted something close to Islam. Last religious affiliation I tried was paganism and that was not to bad.
I am actually very fond of paganism and it's ability to not kill every fucker in a 4,000 mile radius.
Being religious has just never clicked with me since I was young. I have no issues with religious ritualism or any of that.
I am perhaps one of the few people who can pray to a god and sincerely know that such a being does not exist
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