Been busy for a few days so wasnt able to keep up with the thread.
I didn't realize religion was bullshit when I played that game because I was too young to understand at the time. But I revisited that game, and saw the minor details that carried deep meaning. It's too bad they had to rush disc 2 when making the game.
Holy shit! Forgot about the whole new yevon vs al bhed thing but yeah I guess that makes sense. I was around 12-13 when I played the game so I didnt really pickup all the religious stuff. Was mainly entertained by the awesome battle system. Which I think a lot of JRPGs should get back to. Too many of them are turning into shitty action adventure games when they should be focusing on the RPG elements and the turn based combat mechanics that make them great.
The sunni/shia split first came over a disagreement on Mo's rightful heir, and expanded from there to "Shia worship saints! Shirk!"
Basically, shia = catholic, sunni = protestant. Ahmadiyya are the muslim equivalent of mormons.
Yeah I knew about the split and why it occurred but I never really understood the sub sects within the major sects i.e. salafis, wahabbis etc. and what makes those subsects different to the others.
Kaffir.
I'm a 90s baby, dont blame me, blame my parents
I loathe to call myself an ex-muslim but I guess that's what I am even though I have been on this gradual journey of rejecting faith over logic. I'm a new member myself and am glad to see to many like minded people who have also freed themselves from the shackles of Islam. All my friends and family ascribe to this twisted faith in their varying degrees. In a recent exchange with a friend I challenged him on Islam's views on slavery and slave rape, he denied that any such thing existed, then when the evidence was shown the counter argument changed to 'oh but those were different times', when I pressed him further he admitted that should that climate re-emerge he would see no problem with slavery and the subsequent rape of that slave as it is his property. This is what Islam forces good people to say so that they may avoid deviating from the supposed path of righteousness.
I will however not give up hope that maybe one day my friends and loved ones might find true liberation by ridding themselves of this inherently twisted ideology and see it for what it is, the greatest lie ever told.
This is what puzzles me the most about Islam and other religions to a degree.
If the context was meant for another time in history, then why doesn't god just release a new edition of the Quran every, say, 5 year or 10 years?
Y'know, like the Webster dictionary releases a new edition of the dictionary every year with new words and different explanations and stuff. Why can't he do the same?
Sucks that your friend is in that mindset, hopefully common sense prevails. I'm sure his views would change if he was ever to be made a slave or even worse, if his sisters or mother were used as sex slaves.
Topic: So I guess I'm officially an ex-muslim?