RE: My story! I am an Ex-Muslim, became an Atheist. I was visited by an Angel of God.
May 12, 2015 at 3:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2015 at 3:50 pm by Hatshepsut.)
(May 11, 2015 at 4:53 pm)Prince Wrote: In fact, once i was trying to buy a beer from a local liquor store, which is the only place where you could purchase alcohol here in Dubai. Upon entering the store, the owner asked me for my liquor license...
They once did something like that in Utah, "the state liquor agency," although you didn't need a licence to buy. But you had to fill out a card and wait for your order to come through a slot in a brown paper bag. That nonsense ended a while ago when Mormons realized booze = money. But you still buy it from the state at jacked-up prices (it looks like a regular liquor store, though). But the Mormon church doesn't sent missionaries to Dubai, I don't think. (Or do they?)
So how is Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (peace be upon him) doing? He seems like a reasonable guy on TV with the BBC. Yet that may or may not be the truth. He indicated the religious climate was more severe in his youth than it is now.
But I doubt I could live where religion is mandatory. The problem isn't so much reliable text restoration (Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, bible, Quran) if you don't have original copies, but realizing the text is thousands of years old. It may be a bit out of date. Modern Jews & Christians have solved this problem by allowing interpretation to change with the times; many Prebyterian branches don't follow John Wesley (1758) or John Calvin (1558) anymore even if they trace their roots back to these fellas' readings.
But hell, it might be easier just to junk it and be an atheist. Your bookshelf gets about 3 pounds lighter that way.
