Posted: Nov 03, 2018 6:27 pm
Rumraket wrote:
Right. But stating that you don't believe that God exists is to terminally butthurt religionists tantamount to saying "The prophet Muhammad/Jesus/Moses was wrong/delusional/a liar", so even just declaring your nonbelief to another person can be taken as disrespectful to the prophet(s), and those who wish to make an issue of it can easily do so.
Not believing in God could be seen as a lack of understanding or perception. It doesn't have to mean that you think the prophet Muhammad was a liar or delusional. There are some liberal Muslims who don't think Muhammad received a special revelation from God, as his followers would later claim, but rather than he was a special person who reformed Arabian society for the better.
You're confusing what takes place in the privacy of people's own head, and what happens in conversation and the consequences thereof. Some people really take deep offence that their pet mythology is being questioned or denied even if it is stated in mild or neutral fashion. Of course, to some people even the mere act of not believing, and stating that much if and only ever if directly questioned about it, is an act of sin and blasphemy.
There is a difference between admitting in public your atheism and engading in Islamophobic vitriol.