Was this a good idea?

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I am in high school, and I have a muslim friend. One day, I asked him about his religion, and I researched it when I got home. after a few weeks of research, I finally converted by saying "la ilaha ilallahu muhammadur rasul allah". Now, I am wondering what I should do, Because:


First of all, I was wondering if this would be a big change for someone with Aspergers?


Second, I did not tell my parents.


Was this a good idea?

I think the only person that can make that decision for you is yourself. However, if you become heavily involved in the religion it will be a hard thing to keep secret from your parents. Hopefully, you will be supported if it is the choice you stay with.

Change is hard for some people with Aspergers, but I don't think a choice of one religion over another, specifically, has anything to do with Aspergers. There are people with autism spread throughout the world with many different religions.

Good luck to you in your future with what ever decision you come to.

I nearly converted to Mormonism just so I could attend their very cheap (for members) university that offers a lot of different language courses.

I was thinking about it quite seriously.

Anyway, you can always unconvert, can't you, if you feel you've made a decision incompatible with your life.

When it comes to religion or love, if you have to ask if it was a bad idea, then it was. You should have no doubt about the way you choose to worship God and what you believe the universe to be. Really think about why Islam, of all religions, appeals to you.

I don't have doubt, I am just afraid of what my parents would think. I will never switch back.

Just tell your parents that Islam spoke to you more than whatever your previous religion was.

They may disagree with your beliefs, but they will adjust to them in time if they love you. =)

Second. Btw, I'm more with agnosticism. I'm unsure.

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I recommend that you check this out. http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/New ... le&id=7421

It absolutely is a big change.

Can you unconvert by saying the same thing backwards?

I love Craig's take on God as "all-loving," because he presents this in the proper sense--God loves all people, including sinners (we are all, after all, sinners in need of God's grace). What I do NOT buy into, though, is the concept of an all-loving God in the sense that God loves EVERYTHING, to include sinful behavior, for example. No conception of God as all-loving that ignores absolute perfect morality, as in universalism, can really be consistent with the nature and character of God.

I do agree wholeheartedly that Islam's characterization of God as loving and yet unconcerned with imperfect, sinful human beings is at odds with reality.

I can sympathize with the motivation - all of my univdersity choices were based on availability of languages.

I have BIG problems with joining anything for that kind of reason. My sister's short term Mormonism hoping from friends was bad enough. Signing on to a party because it gets you a job, or the Masons because the mayor and all his cronies are there, or a club because you like a girl there, or a religion becausde there are perks - that has never been worthwhile in my experience.

Don't worry, no one heard you. Allah isn't real.

Apart from the theological discussion you are REALLY asking for here, there is this from the Buddhists, remebered [almoast the only thing in its book] from my childhood as important:

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Once upon a time on the outskirts of a big city in Japan there stood an old temple. From a young age boys who wanted to study Buddhism would come to live in the temple and to learn from the master teacher, a Buddhist monk.
One day the Buddhist monk who ran this small temple decided to teach his young students a lesson. He gathered them around him, and spoke," My dear students, as you can see, I am growing old, and slow. I can no longer provide for the needs of the temple as I once did. I know I have not yet taught you to work for money, and so I can only think of one thing that can keep our school from closing." The students drew close with eyes wide.
"Our nearby city is full of wealthy people with more money in their purses than they could ever need. I want you to go into the city and follow those rich people as they walk through the crowded streets, or when they walk down the deserted alleyways. When no one is looking, and only when no one is looking, you must steal their purses from them. That way we will have enough money to keep our school alive."
"But Master," the boys chorused in disbelief, "you have taught us that it is wrong to take anything that does not belong to us."
"Yes, indeed I have," the old monk replied. "It would be wrong to steal if it were not absolutely necessary. And remember, you must not be seen! If anyone can see you, you must steal! Do you understand?"
The boys looked nervously from one to the other. Had their beloved teacher gone mad? His eyes shone with intensity such as they had never seen before. "Yes, Master," they said quietly.
"Good," he said. "Now go, and remember, you must not be seen!"
The boys got up and quietly began to file out of the temple building. The old monk rose slowly and watched them go.
When he turned back inside, he saw that one student was still standing quietly in the corner of the room. "Why did you not go with the others?" he asked the boy. "Do you not want to help save our temple?"
"I do, Master," said the boy quietly. "But you said that we had to steal without being seen. I know that there is no place on Earth that I would not be seen, for I would always see myself."
"Excellent!" exclaimed the teacher. "That is just the lesson that I hoped my students would learn, but you were the only one to see it. Run and tell your friends to return to the temple before they get us into trouble."
The boy ran and got his friends who were nervously gathered just out of sight of the temple, trying to decide what to do. When they returned, the Master told them the words the boy had spoken and they all understood the lesson.

It was an excellent idea. When you die and get to Paradise, 72 dark eyed virgins will sit on your face.

ruveyn

Note :

ruveyn was forced to watch Bambi and it warped his psyche.