Atheist, never have been a Muslim. Can I watch?

OP - August 03, 2010, 08:31 PM

I'm a Romanian man, I live in Romania and I was baptized Christian Orthodox.
Since they didn't ask me to be a Christian I didn't tell them I left.
I'm 25, so I have some memory of the end of the Ceausescu regime. My family never followed the rituals, as far as I know my male grandparents are both agnostic at the very least. However there were religious cartoons(yes, really) and I had religion classes all the way from first grade to the last year of high school, so I know a thing or two about the dogma and things like that.
I was about fifteen when I realized that there is no way i can believe that. I wasn't the only one in my class and from the people I know in my generation it was quite common. However everybody does the ceremonies, to sort of fit in although nobody really cares as far as I can tell. That's to say I believe we are as tolerant as can be left to our own.

Of course it's just my experience, for instance I hear a lot about immigrants causing trouble over there, I'm sure that's true (in fact I know) but the people I know who left for the UK work there using their university degrees.

The reason why I'm reading your forum is I'm curious about Islam, and more importantly the political movement(s).
Some things you can find out only from the people who lived through them.

I have the highest respect for those of you from countries or families where atheism is still so harshly condemned. I can only deplore that it's the case for that. Like in the case of Iran, it seems to me the only thing you can do is to run or hide. Take care atheist.pk ...
Let us organize and tomorrow the International will be the human race.

Other then that, I've always liked the English language, and apart from that I read a lot of their (your) literature. My bed time stories were writings of Kipling. I grew up with Walter Scott, Dickens, Fenimore Cooper etc. There are others, but I'm just talking about the ones from the UK.
So I know what Shakespeare wrote and I understand references to The charge of the light brigade and things like that. By the way, we were still part of the Ottoman Empire back then.

I apologize for being erratic, fact is I've been drinking. So I'll be reading. Good night everybody.

Re: Atheist, never have been a Muslim. Can I watch?

Reply #2 - August 03, 2010, 08:42 PM

You're quite an intriguing person, you rational skeptic, you.

You'll fit in great here. Tongue

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Re: Atheist, never have been a Muslim. Can I watch?

Reply #4 - August 03, 2010, 09:04 PM

Welcome.

I like adrian mutu so I guess I'll get on with you

Re: Atheist, never have been a Muslim. Can I watch?

Reply #6 - August 03, 2010, 09:09 PM

Another European. Welcome from Melita.. My background's somewhat similar to yours.

"Modern man's great illusion has been to convince himself that of all that has gone before he represents the zenith of human accomplishment, but can't summon the mental powers to read anything more demanding than emoticons. Fascinating. "

One very horny Turk I met on the net.