Reborn again Christians are reborn again Muslims. They share the same old backward testament in the Bible/Koran- with a few words lost in translation.
This article explains how an ex-Muslim does not want to use the fear of going to hell to be a good person.
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I don't need a hell to fear to be ethical, or a paradise to reward me for my good."https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jul/26/religion.theeditorpressreviewIf only more Muslims and Christians could wake up, and leave this primitive backward mentality in the past where it belongs.
How the idea of hell drove me from IslamAbu Lahab explains how he renounced Islam, the faith of his birth and upbringing
Sat 26 Jul 2003 01.22 BST
Shares5It is not uncommon to hear of recent converts to Islam changing their minds and leaving again. But to leave Islam after being born and raised into it is something entirely different. Islam is more than a religion; it is a way of life. It comes with a culture and a community ...
My devotion to Islam would have been absolute, had there not been one problem: the issue of hell. Although I believed in it, I found it hard to understand why every non-believer would end up there, irrespective of who they were and what they did. Surely hell was reserved for the wicked, I thought.
One day, after attending my ethics class, my friends and I discussed some of the atrocities committed by the Nazis. Hearing what they had done made me feel physically sick. If anyone deserved hell, I felt they did. It was about this time that I began to ask questions, which didn't cease to haunt me. I asked myself which was worse: hell or torture in a concentration camp. Or hell and then all the tortures at a concentration camp combined? Hell had to be worse. It was a place no mind could imagine, where the nerves of your teeth would each be the size of Mount Uhud, I thought. And this was to be the fate of all non-believers? I asked myself who was worse: Allah or Hitler?
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To my mind at the time, this question sounded very wrong. I knew I had to throw the question out of my mind and ask for forgiveness from Allah and protection from Satan, the outcast. I did. I tried. It kept coming back. You know how fast the human mind thinks, and a young mind quickly outruns any resolve. And however much I fought this question, doubts - the validity of which I couldn't deny - slipped past my defences ...
Eventually I allowed myself to think these thoughts, because they haunted my mind so much that I felt that, if I thought them out, they wouldn't nag at me any more. I tried to think them through as fast as possible, sometimes quitting in the middle if I found myself heading towards a result I didn't like. Since God cannot be worse than Hitler, I found myself ceasing to believe in hell. I cried. I immediately begged God for forgiveness. I felt Islam was perfect, but I wasn't. That was the day I left Islam. By dropping one of the core pillars of faith, belief in hell, I was forced out of Islam by its own rules ...