MonsterCrack wrote:
Feyokien, I think that might be it in part, but I think it is also because a lot of people in the Gulen movement community hate me and I have failed to get close to them, so I am trying to be different from them, kinda like how orthodox jews grow out the hair on the sides of their heads so as not to imitate the pagans... and yes, I've decided I'm not gonna be a salafi.... in part because of what I just said, and in part due to some methodological problems they have, such as taking the Quran literally (the athali school of theology says to follow the quran's "apparent meaning") as for Quranism, I don't know if I'll go that far, but I might.... because anniha brought up a good point about how they are not as reliable....
I can understand that, same reason I left Christianity for good, I never fit in with my community and a lot of people just didn't like me. There was also some political BS involved with the Methodist Church trying to use my father, who used to be an influential man in my old community, to get more people involved with the church. I can understand why you want to stay with religion, life can be hard without it, without the sense of security it gives especially when you're on your own, I know mine has been. Make whatever choice you have to make man, just do it for the right reasons.