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OP - August 06, 2013, 08:58 PM
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Reply #1 - August 06, 2013, 09:09 PM

Welcome, Zach....

tell us your story...
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Reply #2 - August 06, 2013, 09:24 PM

I like people who keep it short and positive!

Welcoming parrot is waiting anxiously to hear your story

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Reply #3 - August 06, 2013, 09:24 PM

Welcome. Fancy filling us in on how you came to this point?

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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Reply #4 - August 06, 2013, 09:26 PM

Since I was a kid, I was always thinking "praise to allah" that kind of thinking. When i reached about 14.. i started to have doubts. I met a friend freshman year who was born athiest.. and we started talking. I did extensive studying on the quran for the rest of the year, and the more i read, the more contradictions i saw.

Now my parents threaten to kick me out of the house.. haha go ahead, I'm 17 and turning 18 in feburary, I'll be glad to leave ^_^. I have plenty of friends I can stay with

As a side note, I'm an algerian who lives in the US.
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Reply #5 - August 06, 2013, 09:45 PM

Thats the spirit.

Easier said than done, but it's important not to be bogged down by emotional blackmail. For the sake of your own sanity.
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Reply #6 - August 06, 2013, 09:56 PM

Hi Zach! Good to hear that you're finally leaving It's nice meeting you as well
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Reply #7 - August 07, 2013, 01:05 AM

Hey zach ! here's your welcome parrot and bunny
I wish I could share my doubts with my parents like you did,I hope they won't kick you out by the way and that they'll open their eyes and heart to reconsideration of the whole "religion" thing.
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Reply #8 - August 07, 2013, 01:27 AM

I wonder how is your relationship to your parents? Any siblings? How serious do you think they are about throwing you out? Are they religious themselves or is it more a cultural thing and you just culturally aren't allowed to throw the "I don't believe"-card?

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Reply #9 - August 07, 2013, 08:17 AM

Hey Zach. If your parents know about your apostasy and threaten to kick you out, then you're not really a closet atheist

Anyway, welcome!

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And he's the mother of grief
There's only sorrow for tomorrow
Surely life is too brief
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Reply #10 - August 07, 2013, 09:44 AM

Quote from: zach on August 06, 2013, 09:26 PM
Now my parents threaten to kick me out of the house.. haha go ahead, I'm 17 and turning 18 in feburary, I'll be glad to leave ^_^. I have plenty of friends I can stay with

damn, i'm happy and concerned at the same time
anyway i wish you all the best my lil brother (in disbelief )

welcome aboard, here's your parrot
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Reply #11 - August 07, 2013, 07:39 PM

Well they grew up with islam so I understand the extremeism.

However they really are moderate and honestly they are very nice people.. its just when it comes to religion..
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Reply #12 - August 08, 2013, 12:36 AM

I've never got how saying that someone can be born so and so. You don't come out the womb with an extensive knowledge of centuries of theology about all different subjects, religions and philosophical frameworks and then decide. No one is born believing in this god or that god, only to parents who believe in this god or that god and tell you your entire life its true. You rarely have a choice.

`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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