yk what i find really funny? when i talk about my experiences of being an ex muslim and muslims say i was never muslim in the first place or i’ve been brainwashed by the west. but like before i left it, i became super religious. i studied it for two years straight. wrote papers, attended every class, dug so deep into every aspect of the religion. and all i found was rot.
i found nothing but proof it was man made. i believe in a god i think, i don’t know. it’s comforting thinking you’re not alone. but islam? that cannot be the truth.
i was muslim. i’m still surrounded by islam because my parents’ country was taken over by it. it’s deeply engrained into my culture and i can never escape it.
i know islam because i’ve lived it and learned it. and through all of that, i realized just how evil religion in general is. not just abrahamic faiths, all organized religion.
my own beliefs right now are personal. they don’t require eyes watching me perform rituals to seem like a good person. they don’t require sacrifice and the belief that i have to be miserable on earth because this life is a prison for the believer. they don’t steal from me or others. they just exist. and i can change my belief system whenever it doesn’t work for me anymore. it’s freedom.
that’s what religious beliefs should be. having belief in something or not is deeply personal.
the religions dominating the planet make the world worse.
because there is no “between you and allah” with them.
it’s between you and the community you live in.
you don’t perform well enough, you’re socially punished for it. your family’s honor rests on your shoulders.
there’s no personal aspect to organized religion. it just exists to control the masses.
i think maybe a higher being created us. but i don’t think that higher being is judge, jury, and executioner.
i kinda see it like in supernatural where god just sorta created the earth and then left.
maybe those beliefs will change later on. maybe they won’t.
but there’s no shame or fear in questioning the world around me.
once you leave the culture of religion, you learn a lot about how manipulative the environment you were in is.
find spirituality, find atheism, find antitheism, find whatever means something to you.
not your neighbor, your country, your family.
you.
a child born to christian parents in the united states will be christian.
a child born to hindu parents in nepal will be hindu.
it’s imperative to learn who and what you are outside of that context.
how much of it do you truly believe and how much are you performing?
i realized i was performing all of it. i still am.
i’m a child born to muslim parents and to everyone in the world i am muslim.
but i’m not.
religion is political. it’s a protected or oppressed class depending on where you are and what you are.
in its context in the world, it exists as a classifier, not a set of beliefs.
i’m classified as muslim even though i don’t believe in it because it’d be unsafe for me to say otherwise.
so i despise muslims who try to minimize the experience of ex muslims. you won’t be killed for existing as you are because you fit into the box.
it’s dangerous to admit your deviance from islam and to take the bravery of an outspoken ex muslim and claim they’re lying is pathetic at best, evil and cruel at worst.
you’ll do anything to defend your beliefs, even step on other people.
at what point is this a matter “between you and allah”?
at what point of the verbal harassment, physical harassment toward ex muslims and non muslims do you stop and realize what this is?
you’re angry because islam isn’t a belief set. it’s a system of control. and to see someone outside of it challenges your entire worldview. because why do you ascribe to these beliefs while others don’t have to?
it’s not fair. you justify it to yourself again and again how you’re right, how they’re wrong. and you insult them, harass them, get happy at the thought of them burning and suffering for eternity while you get paradise for being right.
where in that do you see islam as just a set of beliefs?
when will you realize it twists how you exist and how you view others?
if you need everyone on the planet to submit to your worldview to have confidence in your beliefs, well then it isn’t just a way of life “between you and allah”
it’s control.
if a primary teaching of your religion is to create more like you, what does that tell you honestly?
that it’s the truth? or that it’s easy to manipulate people if you hold their faith in your hands.
why do you think we start indoctrinating children young? it’s easy to frighten them.
fear allah. he’ll punish you. he’ll make your life miserable on earth and then throw you in hell. obey.
obey.
obey.
obedience is the most important part of faith.
why do you think that is?
