tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post8536751588215690597..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: Islam 100, Post-Christianity 0Dr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-84829463856279623822014-07-22T13:28:50.536-04:002014-07-22T13:28:50.536-04:00Something many readers may not know about Islam is...Something many readers may not know about Islam is this: they don't believe in "conversion," but in what they call "reversion." <br /><br />They don't believe, as Christians or atheists or many other religions do, that people make a conscious choice to believe and to become what they are. Rather, Islam teaches that every human baby is born a Muslim, and hence if he or she becomes something else he or she has apostatized and left the faith. So they have to "revert" to what they were at birth, not "convert" to a new belief. (See http://www.islamanswering.com/subpage.php?s=article&aid=1249)<br /><br />In principle, this makes every person who is not following Islam a kind of heretic or betrayer of their "truth" even before you've entertained the idea consciously at all. And this opens up at least a potential for radical Islamists to view all non-Muslims simply as apostates, upon whom no mercy falls.Immanuel Canhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580529966007662214noreply@blogger.com