Oops, almost forgot. If anyone is curious, the reasoning is over at my blog, http://parallelsidewalk.wordpress.com

I enjoyed reading your blog.  You are very bright, but your language is awful.  Oh well.

DA, welcome to the unbelievers club. 

Lailah
Well, thanks I guess. I try not to say ugly things, just use ugly words sometimes, if you see the distinction.

Hakim
Thank you. I gotta say, the club has shit for aesthetics so far though :-) we don’t get up at dawn and sing in classical Arabic.

Sorry to hear that DA, but I wish you all the best on your spiritual journey. And alas, no apostate artistic traditions yet. Except in certain cases (e.g. Wafa Sultan, Ayan Hirsi Ali), apostates create highly embroidered tales of how horrible Islam is. But I don’t think that’s your medium. Nah, try knitting. :)

God preserve me against becoming another  Sultan or Ali. I’m not leaving with any bitterness towards Islam. In fact, It wasn’t an easy decision and I wish I could supress certain things well enough to fake it and hang on. I can’t though.

I don’t want to encourage you DA, but what was it that drove you from Islam in the first place.  My opinion, you sound bitter overall and dissatisfied.  I mean everyone has the right to choose, and it sounds like you chose, but why?  Was it something that someone said or did, or just the overall view and feelings some have of muslims? Was it a personal dissatisfaction in one thing or many?

Well, haha, a bit late for encouraging me :-) It was just that belief is something I can’t do more than absolutely necessary. Reality is too big for it, and when I say I ‘know’ something because it’s scripturally provided, I’m lying by definition. I don’t know.  I’m not bitter at all, things just went how they went. Did you read my blog entry? I tried to explain it there and in subsequent posts.

DA

I did read your blog entry.  I also have read your posts.  I was just curious about you as a person.  It seems you spend quite a bit of time writing in a negative sense about your decision.  Are you in  a better place now that you don’t have the burden of belief on your shoulders?  Also have you tried the Sufi path?