Hello everyone.
Finally I seem to find a good community for ex-muslims.
After an honest decision to become a better muslim, and stabilize my inner tremors
I have become an atheist...
My wife is on the verge of being an atheist herself, but no one else in our families or friends know about this.I don't know if I should tell, but it's keeping me from being myself not only because I have to fake lots of things,
but because it will be hard for me to raise my children as rational individuals in this environment.
Jazakallah for creating this forum.
Welcome BOB, you are in the same situation as I was few years ago. However, my wife is full blown atheist right now and it is always a pleasure having able to discuss religion, evolution and other related stuff at home. However, till now I find it hard to tell my immediate family. Several of my good friends know that I am skeptic, but they don't know just yet that I have never had faith to begin with. Since I can remember I always found it difficult to believe in a blind and deaf superbieng that is non-existing, at least by evidence.
It's ok to pretend since you are obviously in a strict Muslim environment. For fear of yours and your family's safety.
I think you should concentrate now on discussing religion in general with your wife. Ask her simple questions that will make her think even harder. Like, why would god send few old men to tell us about him. If he is as powerful and as mightier as he says, I am sure he could have found a better way of communicating with us all. We could all have dreamt of him at night. At least once in a life time. Yes, I think it would have been much better if we all have a dream about the man in the sky, with the same shape and the same cloths and we have the dream exactly at the same age. That would have been a simple miracle.
Or, why didn't god postpone sending old grumpy men until video cameras are made, or the Internet? We could have seen the prophets and their action as they happened.
Well, enough ranting now, and welcome BOB to the forums once again.
Topic: Apostate from Turkey