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OP - October 16, 2013, 12:44 PM

I'm from a very large Muslim family, most of them mean well (our family had to leave Iran after the revolution due to my Grandfather being a prominent Islamic scholar who campaigned for equal rights for the Kurds and Women). Unknown to me as he did not speak about religion much my dad was a liberal and didn't believe in organised religion (only found this out when I was 18).

Anyway to cut a potentially TLDR story short I've always been very perceptive and even at the age of 5 I couldn't understand the concept of religion. I would always ask questions such as 'Why would someone who isn't Muslim go to hell if they are still a good person?' 'What about the people who were born before Islam, do they still go to hell?' ''Why would God let bad people hurt good people?' amongst other things (I'm not too sure if I was that articulate in my questioning at that time but it was along those lines).

Growing up I still believed in God and the aspects of Islam that include things like treat people well, don't do crime etc but I wasn't a practising Muslim. The homosexuality thing still baffled me (I had a few gay mates through my teens) and I couldn't understand why it was a sin if that's just how they were. I officially discarded religion in my late teens and have been an atheist ever since. My three brothers are all similar and it's probably down to us inheriting a stronger version of our Dad's skepticism.

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Reply #1 - October 16, 2013, 01:07 PM

Hi, welcome

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Reply #2 - October 16, 2013, 04:11 PM

Hello, Rash

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Reply #3 - October 16, 2013, 04:24 PM

Good to have you here mate. Welcome to the fourm

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Reply #4 - October 16, 2013, 06:33 PM

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Reply #5 - October 16, 2013, 07:13 PM

Welcome! It's nice to hear someone else describe themselves as being perceptive when they were young. How did you handle it? It must have been hard having such different thoughts from the children around you. I should know - I sank into childhood depression after pondering these same things. Nice to have you here

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Reply #6 - October 16, 2013, 09:12 PM

Hi.. good for you.. I can relate to your story in some ways. I was born and raised in Pakistan. For a long time I was very religious and practising. I was always sceptical though. However, I bent over backwards to make excuses for the stupid, barbaric shit that runs rampant in Islamic scriptures.
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Reply #7 - October 16, 2013, 09:14 PM

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Reply #8 - October 16, 2013, 09:27 PM

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Reply #9 - October 16, 2013, 09:58 PM

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At 6 years old or so I too asked religious questions (to my relaxed atheist parents). After that phase I became interested in Communism (well, technically Socialism) so I guess I must have concluded religion was just bullocks and the occasional amusing myth in my grand parents' giant old picture bible

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