Hi everyone! i'm from Vietnam, a country that is mostly known from "The Vietnam war", the war that sometimes are compared to Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan war. I'm not an ex-muslim or muslim, my interests in philosophy, religion, science,...had led me to this site. There are some tiny muslim communities in my country, most of them are Cham people, a primary ethnic of the late Champa, a land we took over more than 100 years ago.
I was raised by non-believing parents, although they keep worshiping our ancestors, my late grandparents, my siblings, who died in the war for tributes rather than suppertious reasons. Because of our culture, I estimated 95% of population are believer with 40% are Buddhists, 6% are Christians (most of them are Roman Catholics, others are Protestan), some Muslim's minorities, some are Caodaism,...... the remains are Luong's people, who are similar to my parents, but they're very superstitious. Some people claim they are atheists, but they don't even know the definition of atheism, several people just adapt atheism from the commusism, socialism ideology, some people, like my parents state they are atheist because they did'nt find any reason that God exist. Although, they still believe superstitious things, even some government leaders. Because of our long historical country, some religions are mixed with others, for example, buddhists, catholics still worship their ancients or Luong's people somtimes visit church, temple to pray for happiness, money,... Muslim communities are so small in numbers, it's hard to recgonize them, they're also isolated from Islam community worldwide, Malaylasia, Indonesia, our neighbours, is the only way to interact with others, some Muslim followers must fly abroad to gain their religious degree in Malaysia, Indonsesia universities.
It's hard to find an aposate in our country because most religious people feel religion is a relief from sufferings by our tyrannical, dictatorial government.
On aspects of religion, I think i'm a atheist, i don't like any form of religion, organized or disorganized, monotheistic or polytheistec. Religions is just the effects of Evolution, humanity have to give up religion to advance in the future.
From philosophy, theology points of view, I think i'm a agnostic, the answer of the question "Do God exist?" is out of our ability, that i deduce from Godel's completeness theorem. Of couse, science can't explain everything but the more researches, the less supernatural.
Like ex-muslims, beginning i've really believed communism, socialism, but when i grew up, i found they're all lies.....................................
(I want to write something more but with my limited English, it's a great difficulty, thank for your patience with my poor English, I'll tell more in the future.)
Topic: A "hi" from Vietnam