My Personal Testimony of Not-Quite-apostasy, but Close to it

Ali Sina · Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 4607

Hi Truthseeker30

I suggest you write your story in detail telling the readers what attracted you to Islam, what was your experience in Islam, what kind of hypocrisy you experienced by Muslims and finally how you got rid of it. It is the details that make a story interesting.

I am happy you found your way finally.
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Kantipala · Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 299

I look forward to reading it. I am sorry I thought it sounded like you were looking for the deeper nature of humanity, and islam was the only thing you found. With out islam you were totaly lost. I have met a lotta spiritual people all across the globe in my travels. Some so cool that I remember like it was yesterday even after several years.

Truthseeker30 · Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 58 Location: New York

Immanuel · Joined: 30 Aug 2004 Posts: 1106 Location: Dar-El-Harb

I am curious too! And welcome your entry as the next in a long list. Welcome back!
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Ali Sina · Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 4607

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Blue · Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 482 Location: USA

Paris Bontrager · Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 311

Long story short, a combination of being completely fed up with Christianity and information from A&E and PBS.

There are many forms and interpretations of Christianity. I am curious about what your experience was with what particular form or interpretation. Also, I would be interested in what experience you had reading the New Testament; were you a believer who read it?

My experience with Christianity as a teenager was gotten from reading the scriptures and attending Church as an Episcopalian, and praying, and being a part of a youth group briefly, and studying the Bible in the group and at Sunday school. I am not a Christian now, but look back on the experience somewhat fondly. What strikes me is that I see no relationship between my experience then, and the 'Christianity' I see on TV religious programs. I would have never become a Christian if that had been my experience with it. And I can see why many Muslims have contempt for Christianity because the only 'Christianity' many of them know is the one they have seen on TV. I also would not have become a Christian if I had experienced it in some of the fundamentalist congregations I have attended with friends. The spirituality I experienced as a teenager seems lacking in many of these experiences, but perhaps it is just my attitude now as an adult non-believer. I really feel that Christian spirituality is gotten from reading the Bible (New Testament) and praying, but there is no necessary spirituality to be found in any particular church one might attend, though if you have the individual spirituality, or if you are in the 'right' church for you, then it can be experienced there, too. But I really don't see how any Christian or seeker of its deeper meaning can really experience the actual religion, or have a true, spiritual experience of the religion, without reading the New Testament periodically.

Paris

AussieIslander · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 315

Welcome, Truthseeker- great sign off quote too, go The Who!!

Truthseeker30 · Joined: 14 Jan 2005 Posts: 58 Location: New York

Ali Sina:

I won't include any links with my story because the story reveals too much information about who I am. (And it should be done sometime next week.)

Paris:

Christianity indeed has its good points, but I turned my back to it for the same reasons I turned my back to Islam: Few clear definitions of how it's supposed to be followed, and the fact that I felt like an automaton. I have good an bad things to say about both religions.

Aussie:

Anyone who doesn't like The Who has no soul!
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They call me the Seeker
I've been searching low and high
I won't get to get what I'm after
until the day I die
- The Who

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Bolding Hansen · Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 3061

There is good in most religions, but it is blended with bad and evil, it is compromised by baseness of man as much as it can be elevated by good in man. Some are more compromised by the base than others, I shall mention no names in this respect, but it´s not a billion dollar question

But no faith or religion or anything, has such level of good that it makes any other way of thinking and believing, superflous.

Funk Soul Bruvha · Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 3307 Location: Thailand

skonk4 · Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 938

How did this site contribute to your apostasy ?

Are you actively recommending this site to others, including to your local press ? Are you active in spreading the truth on Islam or are you just content and basking in your own apostasy, without trying to save others ?