Hi everyone, I was never a Muslim, I am actually an ex-Christian atheist I hope thats okay. A little bit about me, I was raised as a born-again evangelical fundamentalist Christian and I began to lose my faith about 2 years ago and became an agnostic but its only this year in 2012 that I have begun to call myself an atheist.
There are several reasons that I chose to join this forum. First, I saw the CEMB Youtube videos and loved them. Even though they are told from a primarily Islamic point of view these videos largely also apply to Christianity as well in terms of their questions they pose about god and religion. But it is not really surprising, I have said for a long time that Yahweh, Allah, Jehovah, Elohim, etc are just different names for the exact same creature and even though Christians will emphatically deny this I think many Muslims do not (correct me if I'm wrong) and with my knowledge of the Bible I have recently begun reading the Quran and it seems to confirm this idea.
The other reason I have chosen to join is because I am interested in learning about Islam, but I am not interested in learning about it from a theological perspective or some devout Muslim or Imam giving me their interpretations of what the religion teaches and telling me about it as if it is true, I'd rather have the cold hard facts without a spin attached to it and I think that is something ex-Muslims can do. I can also provide a view point on evangelical Christianity if anyone here is interested in knowing what they believe, I'm pretty familiar with it (though I won't claim I'm an ex-ministry expert or something, I'm just a regular person who has a devout family). I'm pretty interested in religions in general as a historical subject, I also believe that to have a discussion with believers you should be able to provide examples outside of their religion as well as inside their religion to put the belief under scrutiny.
Other than that I enjoy science in all its forms (I'm majoring in physics), music; I am a music producer and play guitar, I also like beer a really big fan, video games, history, stand up comedy, BMW cars, and movies (especially science fiction and period pieces). Sorry if this is really long to read, I just felt like I should adequately introduce myself, my entire family are devout Christians and I don't feel comfortable revealing to them that I'm an atheist (I'm sure some people here can relate) so I don't have a lot of people to talk with about these things, so I just felt it was necessary to properly introduce myself
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