This website is the result of decades of feeling like you’re under siege. I’m surrounded by Muslims; family, friends, acquaintances – there is simply no one in my surroundings who understands the metaphysical stance I hold let alone agree with the stance.
So this website is my way of catharsis; this is where I look at Pakistan and Pakistani culture from the eyes of an Atheist insider.
December 19, 2006 at 1:05 pm |
Hi,
Dear Pakistani Atheist,
I have been looking out on the web for any Pakitani websites which are devoted to atheism and I found yours.
Apparently you are kind of alone and do not have an organizational support.
Do you know of any organization in Pakistan which is active as champions of atheism or rationalism?
Bala
June 15, 2007 at 4:49 am |
Under siege!! This might sound clichéd but I know exactly how that feels. I live in Karachi by the way.
The God of Islam had always seemed a strange character but it was when I was around 17 years of age that I positively converted to atheism.
Basically I got tired of the preaching. When my mother told me not to trim my nails at night (an old superstition), I promptly asked why and won the argument albeit grudgingly (on the part of my mother). But when I asked how come a muslim dying in battle is more courageous than his atheist counterpart even though the muslim “knows” he is going to heaven for it, they just didn’t understand what I was talking about. This was way back in 5th grade I think. I wish I had stumbled on to Russell a bit sooner, would have saved me a lot of time wasted in mindless rituals. The other thing was of course the certainty with which people “knew” things around me. These ranged from the reasons for the latest military coup to our purpose in life.
I came across your site because I have decided that I have lived in the closet too long and want to let people know so that they can stop feeling sorry for my “condition”. Though I don’t have the energy to set up a website (one of my friends attribute my “habit” of not praying to my laziness) I have set up a group at yahoo groups which only has myself as a member of course since I set it up only half an hour ago.
The decision was prompted by what I believe to be a resurgence of religious mania not just in our country but across the world. Can we do anything worthwhile about it? Probably not but just because we have lost already doesn’t mean we don’t have to try. Right?
Anyway, thanks for setting up this website. It felt nice to write this down.
Regards,
xeeshan
December 18, 2007 at 7:53 pm |
You seem to have indulged yourself so much into philosophy that your train of thoughts have forgot how to accept reasonable thinking based on rationality. Again, this is not Islam’s fault. If You think that “we get back to the state we were before we were born” then you can also explain and perhaps create humans ? or even birds and animals, the sky , moon..etc etc. Since your so called “independant thinking” have giving you this new found “Confidence”. But the reality is your rational explanation is far from any justification. At best it can only console perhaps your thought as an independant thinker. As for the “real” world lives on “God” creates more life and runs his affairs as usual. Oh an whether you accept it or not !.
Charity begins at home and must not end their similarly – Philosophy begins as a subject but should not change the subjected !.
March 1, 2008 at 5:39 pm |
same is the case with me my dear
i am also atheist but i found a friend of mine who is also an atheist
so we can discuss our feelings with each others but only when we are alone.
dont wory there are a lot of atheists ther in pk
but only thing to do is to combine them by any forum.
you can surf fithfreedom by
http://www.skurfit.com
as it is banned in pakistan.
May 14, 2008 at 2:08 pm |
why don’t you update this blog anymore?
March 23, 2009 at 8:44 pm |
Hey man I think all of us Pakistani atheists need a way of catharsis,we need to form an organization/forum where all of us can gather and speak freely.
I am glad I found your blog,keep writing,and we closet atheists will keep reading.