RE: Time to embrace Islam!
December 2, 2019 at 12:20 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2019 at 12:29 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(November 29, 2019 at 5:50 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: I don't claim Islam being better at certain aspects makes it true, I merely say that most atheists in the West left their faith for reasons that are specific to their former religion, and they should thus think hard about the remaining major religions.
On what do you base the claim that 'most atheists in the West left their faith for reasons that are specific to their former religion'? The reasons I left my former religion (Pentecostal Protestant Christianity) left me still believing in some sort of God, the reasons I stopped believing in God (a couple of decades later) would apply to any religion that posits any kind of supernatural deity, and I find that to be common among atheists in my little part of the USA. Assuming Christianity as an 'initial religion', leaving it makes you 'not-a-Christian', not necessarily an atheist. I have reasons for not believing Christianity AND additional reasons for not believing in God.
For the record, I've read the Koran, cover-to-cover, plus the hadiths. I didn't find it particularly impressive or convincing, but I think jettisoning the hadiths in their entirety would be a good idea. They're particularly problematic, not part of the Koran, and explicitly not infallible. If you're unwilling to do that, have you considered Shia? They manage to avoid the problem of Mohammed being a pedophile by estimating Aisha's age considerably higher, maybe even 21, before he consummated their marriage. Once upon a time, Aisha being very young was considered a plus by the Sunni, since it made her transmission of the Koran seem more miraculous, or at least prodigious. Now it just seems creepy.
Welcome to the forum, btw.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.