That's the way it is for most people, at least from all the ones I've talked with who have left Christianity. It's a slow, ongoing process. For most people, it's not something instantaneous, although that does happen. It's just not the norm. As far as books go, I've been reading Thomas...
No, I think I get it. Qadar is what happens to you, outside circumstances, things that are beyond our control. Kaza is how we act and react to those things that happen to us. We don't choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we react to what happens to us.
There's many reasons why I left Christianity. But there are two main reasons:
1. The Bible is too contradictory to be taken as the supposed "word of God"
2. God was not something akin to a friend, but something distant, cold, and uncaring, therefore going against the Christian concept of...
When I left Christianity, I decided to study other religions from their own point of view instead of what Christians think about them. One of the main religions I study alot is Islam, so I actually have quite a bit of knowledge about Islam, moreso than most non-Muslims. I do have a question...
Hi to everybody. New guy here. A little about me. I was a Christian most of my life, and, over about the past four years, have slowly been going toward agnosticism, which is where I find myself today. I have Asperger's, which lends well to my obsessions of religion and philosophy. I spend...