When I first left Islam, I thought naively that if people know the truth they will leave Islam. That the simple facts that I have will be enough to sway people to leave Islam. That that's all it will take. Little did I know, that religion holds such a powerful sway on people.
I didn't realize that more than simple truth, or the facts, religion and god has been evolved into our very minds. We are biased towards superstitious beliefs and groupthink. To sway people away from this is a very difficult process.
It takes a lot of energy, introspection and a lot of tenacity, to leave behind the comfort of faith. It’s far more difficult, I think, than leaving a marriage.
Even after people see the facts, they still have a visceral and emotional fear of being wrong. Undoing the childhood mental programming can be incredibly difficult, and so many people who leave Islam end up going right back to it.
The other ones who manage to leave it cleanly suffer from massive challenges when their family stops supporting them, cuts them off, or even physically threatens them. They are on their own to face the whole world for the first time with no support structure in place.
For this reason, support groups like @ExmuslimsOrg are badly needed to help people through this difficult time. EXMNA has supported those who have been kidnapped and sent overseas to be beaten back into submission. It is a group that is there to lobby for the rights of apostates
@ExmuslimsOrg is there to create resources such as WikiIslam.net (which actually helped me leave Islam)
Please consider supporting @ExmuslimsOrg. The money goes to a good cause.
