Can I continue believing in God after I leave Islam?

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Here are a couple of questions asked by a new apostate:

Can I continue believing in God after I leave Islam?



Absolutely! There is no reason to give up the belief in God once you discover that Muhammad was a charlatan. This is like a follower of David Koresh or Warren Jeffs decides to disbelieve in God after realizing that his false prophet was a liar. What those conmen had to do with God? Muhammad had nothing to do with God either. Yes, it is perfectly okay to believe in God after you leave Islam.

As a mater of fact you can start believing in God only if you leave Islam. Allah is not God. Allah is the figment of Muhammad’s imagination. He was an Arab idol who had three daughters. Muhammad used this Pagan deity to advance his goal of domination. It was easier for him to use a known Pagan god than introduce a completely new one. So he said this big idol is the creator and the same god spoken by Jesus and Moses. Nothing is farther from the truth. Allah and Jehovah are not one and the same. The god of Jesus is the god of love. Allah is the god of hate.

We humans do not know what is God. Muhammad, that pervert criminal, was the last person and the least qualified to know it. Whatever he said about God were lies. He had no understanding of God. God to him was just an omnipotent despot, a fearsome Hitler, a mighty Saddam Hussein - one who does whatever he desires and responds to no authority. "Allah blots out and establishes what He pleases." (3:39). He is whimsical, wanton and capricious. He can punish anyone he wishes and reward anyone he pleases disregarding their merits and demerits. Tabari writes: “Then Allah rubbed Adam's back and brought forth his progeny. And every living being to be created by Allah to the Day of Resurrection came forth at Na'm.n. He scattered them in front of him like tiny ants. He made covenants with them.... He took two handfuls and said to those on the right, ‘Enter Paradise! And He said to the others, ‘Enter the Fire! I do not care.'” [Tabari I:305]

You can’t earn your salvation with Allah through your good work. It is all up to him to decide whether he accepts your good work or not. And it all depends whether his prophet is on your side or not. It all boils down to appeasing Muhammad so he can intercede on your behalf and gain you God's forgiveness. You can do all the good works in the world but if Muhammad is not pleased with you, you won't go to heaven and vice versa, you can commit all the crimes but if he advocates on your behalf, Allah will make exceptions and forgives your sins. "On that day, the intercession will not avail, except for whom The Gracious permits, and whose request is acceptable to Him". [20:109] This is awesome power in the hands of Muhammad. With this, he basically claimed the status of Allah's partner and counselor.

This is foolish. God must be constant or he is not God. Perfection requires constancy and predictability. Only imperfect things are unpredictable. Is God so corrupt that he would bend the rules for some people only because they have gotten on the right side with Muhammad? Do influence peddling and wheeling and dealing work even in Heaven? Isn't this enough to see Muhammad was a cuckoo? This is how Islamic countries are run. In Islamic countries you can go through any door and bypass all red-tapes, if you know the right person. Your merits and qualifications are secondary. It is who you know that determines where you go in life. If you know the right people at the top you can get away even with murder. Take the example of Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. In a democratic and fair society this joker would not be able to become anything more than a clerk. But in an Islamic Iran, he is the president because he knows the Supreme Leader. Allah's court is just like that. How much one must be stupid to believe in these ridiculous charades of Muhammad? This man made his foolhardy followers believe that Heaven is hanky panky and that he has the power to pull some strings with the maker of this universe. Isn't this stupid? If this is true, is such an unethical and unprincipled deity worthy of worship?

God is nothing like what that fiend mad man described. God can't be corrupted. Deuteronomy 10:17 says "For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. Paul said God does not show favoritism. Romans 2:11 Peter said he same in Acts 10:34. If Allah is the same god of the Bible, why is he partial and plays favoritism?

As our minds expand and we understand the mysteries of the Universe, we gradually start to give up our primitive idea of God as a vengeful loony, who sits up there watching our actions to see whom he should send to hell and whom he should reward, as if he has nothing better to do. This is infantile. And when it is believed by grownups, it is pathetic. How can one worship this stupid god as described by Muhammad? Muhammad is describing his own self. That narcissist is telling us about his own wet dream. Allah is what Muhammad wanted to be.


Can you tell me how to find God?

You want me to tell you how to find God? I am afraid you have to find it on your own. No one can lead you to God. This is an entirely personal journey. You must choose your own path.

Trying to understand God is a futile exercise. All I know is that if God exists he must be Love. Therefore all we should care is love each other. We must see each other as members of one human family and do not fight over whose religion or understanding of God is better. If you love, you are experiencing God - you are becoming one with God.

God does not give a hoot if we pray to him or not. He is not a narcissist. He is not a needy psychopath as Muhammad portrayed him. All he cares is that we love each other. So help someone who needs you. Do something good for your fellow humans. This is how you serve God, not by waging wars and killing people. If God wanted to make people believe in him by force, he could easily have done it on his own, why would he need to hire henchmen and Jihadis to do it?

Islam is blasphemy. It is an insult to God. It implies that God is irrational. He can't convince people with logics but he wants to make them submit by force. It also implies that God is impotent. He depends on his believers to do what he can't do on his own, i.e. kill the unbelievers. What blasphemy can be bigger than this?

No one knows God so no one can tell you how to find him, what he is or what he wants. If anyone tells you "God said" he is lying. He wants to use you. God does not speak and no one can hear him. No one can know what is in the mind of God. Read what others say about God but take everything you read with a grain of salt. Trust your own intelligence. Accept what makes sense to you and reject what does not. Particularly be wary of those who are convinced. Those who claim to know, know the least. No one can understand the entire truth. Truth is bigger than all of us. We all understand a piece of it. Listen to others to enhance your understanding but always evaluate what they say with your own commonsense. Reason is above everything; let it be your guide. God has given all of us enough of it to find our way on our own. We fail to use it. We follow impostors who lead us to our perdition. This is our own shortcoming. We have betrayed the greatest gift of God which is our intellect.

Jesus said God is love. This is the best definition of God in my opinion. If God is love the only way you can experience God is through love. Love the Universe. Love this Earth and all things therein. Love the sky, the sea, the mountains. Let the air fill your lungs. Follow it with your mind and love the life that it breaths in you. Love the trees and the animals. Love your fellow beings. You can show your love for humanity by serving it, by doing something that benefits mankind. If you can't volunteer to go to Africa to help the victims of AIDS do your daily work in the spirit of service. Love your parents and meet their needs. Love your spouse - be loyal to her, be faithful to him. Love your children and be committed to their growth, progress and well-being. But above all love yourself. If you don't love yourself you can't love anyone and anything. It is by loving yourself that you can love others and love God. Love yourself unconditionally. No one can or should love you unconditionally unless you are an infant or a toddler. Learn to love yourself unconditionally always. Learn to forgive yourself every time. Acknowledge your mistakes and forgive yourself. As you forgive yourself, forgive others too. Let go. This is the essence of love. This is how you experience God.

When love fills your heart, it becomes the seat of God and you become a temple where God descends. God will not descend in a heart that is filled with hate. No Muslim can experience God if he loves Muhammad and hates mankind. You can't love mankind when you believe that unbelievers are najis (impure), or that Jews are monkeys and pigs and that those who do not share your asinine creed will be burned in hell. The farthest people from God are Muslims. They have shun themselves from God and his love by a veil. Look at them! Look how they live and how they are constantly waging war with others and with each other. look how miserable they are. They are worshipping Satan. They are filled with hate and this is what they get as the result. Jesus said "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves." (Matthew 7: 15) Then he added, "By their fruit you will recognize them." Look at the fruit of Islam. A cursory look at the Muslim world is enough to know Muslims are misguided.

Hate and love do not mix. A heart that is filled with hate has no room for love and therefore no room for God. Muslims, to the extent that they follow Muhammad, have distanced themselves from God. They are incapable of loving and as such have deprived themselves from God's love. In hate they come, in hate they live and in hate they die.

I will direct you to a few articles I have written about God and what I understand of it. This is my understanding and my understanding changes, so don't take my words as facts. They only represent my thinking. Evaluate them with your own understanding and if you come up with a better definition share it with others. If God is the maker of reason, he must be rational. If a definition of God is irrational, it is not true.

Soul and Immortality
The Origin of God
Chance or Intelligence?
Life Beyond and the Single Principle.
The Purpose of Creation
The Evolution of Monotheism
God: Some Logical Difficulties

Also you may want to take a look at this debate:

If you want to get more philosophical you can read this longer article.