Hi
Reply #11 - July 01, 2014, 06:34 PM
Well okay Nikolaj, but this will be pretty long. I am a 16 year old male, born in England, London. (I know it's quite young.) I started having my doubts about Islam 2 months after my 15th birthday, when my Mullah, told the story of Muhammad ordering a stoning on a woman, who committed adultery, after hearing this I was shocked (Islam is the religion of peace; best sarcastic comment ever.) I didn't care the reasons behind it, but I was shocked at the fact he killed a woman who was clearly sorry. After this seed of doubt, grounded itself in me I started questioning a lot of things about Islam, i started reading the English translation of the Qur'an and realized the amount of hate, violence and misogyny in the words I once held holy. I looked at the Qur'an and the hadiths critically asking my Mullahs questions and no answer was sufficient enough.
For the next six months, I worked hard to discover more about the religion I believed in, and the more I learn't the more disheartened I became. I decided to leave Islam, for good and became a spiritual person but even that felt hollow and empty (Not enough evidence), so I began to look at videos about atheism, and I found myself agreeing with a lot of their points. So I finally became an atheist and it feels right.
However it is also lonely, I have no friends, and I hate living a lie. So I came to this Forum to talk to like minded people.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett