People treat Islam as one thing, and that’s how Muslims want to present themselves, but there’s huge differences in how it is practiced around the world, and even bigger differences in how it was practiced throughout history. Shah Jahan‘s Islam is pretty far from Islam in Iran in 1980, which is pretty far from Islam in the Uyghurs community today, etc. I mean, Al Queda, the Taliban and ISIS can’t even get along, and they are all fundamentalists from the same time period.


Numbers like these are hard for most people to comprehend, let alone formulate a thoughtful opinion over:

This was my issue. I went from being Christian to wanting to be Orthodox, to looking deep into Orthodox beliefs and questioning a lot, to realizing the truth.

Never in my life would I expect to start turning towards Islam. The spell was broken years ago from the typical western ideas on what Islam was, but to do deep research into Christianity vs. Islam led me to have to admit that Islam...is the truth. Christianity and the bible have a lot of beauty and so much truth and reverence, but the foundation is faulty. I had no idea Orthodoxy believe in the trinity or that most Christians believed in a triune God. I was raised on 1 God as Christian. Orthodoxy has so much truth and beauty too.

Tbh, culturally accepting Islam is a huge hang up for me to try and balance if I go through with this at some point. But hard to turn away from so much truth.

I'd say at my age now this one of the most powerful and daunting decisions I have been wrestling with in my life. The idea of accepting Christianity because it culturally makes sense and there is a lot of truth, but overlook some of the inconsistencies and false teachings....Or go against my cultural roots towards the almost undeniable truth at this point and go towards Islam. I honestly cannot believe how horribly and vehemently I was propagandized by western culture about Islam.

Inb4 miscers say I'm going towards an evil religion of peedo's, terrorists, and suppression.

I have no idea what your argument is. Christianity has 11293 sects and schisms, catholicism goes against the bible (Pope being the biggest issue) and even the Orthodox look at catholics poorly, and the bible is an amalgamation of texts.

Modern day Christianity is Paulism that worships a three headed God that sings songs like "Fill me up Jesus" and has rockbands. No one can even define Christianity. Who's right?

Islam is literally the simplest form of truth. The Quran is the word of God and actually has the evidence to back it up. It was not lost in translation, changed, etc. It's a hard pill to swallow and actually bothers me quite a bit, but the Quran is a guidebook. The Bible is a story book.

Maccabbess?

OP, why would you quote that book when there are so many verses in the other non-controversial verses. (basically books that are common in the christian, catholic, jewish bible).