My Response

Stop the BS and verbal gymnastics, you hold animosity towards Islam that is why you left it

I’m sorry you wish to misrepresent my view. I do love Muslims. I am not anti-Muslim. I merely hold a distaste for Islam the theology, overall, though I love some of its teachings and values. It’s the truth claims I have issue with. This is because I do not believe its claims to be true.

That you equate disagreement with ideas the same as bigotry against people just illustrates your naivete in this dialog.

You cannot fathom that someone could sincerely disagree with the ideology you were born into, so you assume that they must be anti-Muslim. This is a fallacy. Other Ahmadi Muslims more learned than yourself will I’m sure, educate you on this point.

I don’t begrudge Ahmadiyyat for your naiveté. That, I only attribute to you on this specific point.

I don’t understand why you keep on coming here asking strange questions for which you obviously also have the same answers for as us.

You probably don’t understand, because you’ve not read my brief About page or my brief Welcome post on my blog. Just as your Jama’at does tabligh out of a desire to share what you feel is true, the rest of us share our perspective out of a love for humanity. We also believe that it is noble to propagate the truth. We just disagree on what constitutes truth.

It seems like you would like to live in an echo chamber. I’m sorry you feel that way.

Your rant that begins with:

You remind me of a delusional uncle of mine

illustrates how you still are not able to address the points in this thread. You have divulged into speculation and ad hominem. Remember the story of Muslims who killed non-Muslims on the battlefield, where the victims had recited the Shahada just before their throats were slit? Remember how Muhammad was upset at hearing this, indicating that the Muslim soldiers could not possibly know what was in the enemies’ hearts?

I don’t think you do. If you had, you would not have made the remarks that you did. Further, my family knows my views. So do the missionaries who said, “we don’t have answers for you; just pray and have faith anyways”.

I have no fear of going public. If you’ve followed my work, you’ll see that I’ve indicated several times that this is the plan. I’m simply writing content first that will save me repetitive intervention conversations from people who’ve not studied religion as much as I have. Here’s my short post, explaining:

https://reasononfaith.org/dialog-with-ahmadi-muslims/

Amazing! Why don’t you just move on and let people find out the truth for themselves?

It seems you feel your positions cannot withstand honest scrutiny and critique. I do tabligh for the same reasons you and your Jama’at do: we want to promote the ideas we feel bring humanity closer to the truth. We just disagree on what is true. Dialog helps reconcile those differences.

How about being truthful to yourself of your true agenda here?

How about you read my material from over a year ago that states my motivations simply. I have never pretended to be some confused, questioning teenager in need of a shot of indoctrination to keep me in line with a pre-defined religious conclusion. Is that the role you see for this Subreddit?