You weren't "born muslim", your parents and their religion made you into one: you can unmake that if you really want to, not easy I know, but it's not inevitable that you remain in a religion you didn't choose and which make so unhappy.
I'll bet there are websites and support networks for former muslims: I hope you can find them and free yourself
I know I wasn't ''born'' a muslim, nobody is born a muslim, a christian or anything. Every human being is born with a blank slate, so to speak. I just meant to say that guys like are unfortunate enough to be born into a muslim family while others are not. Such is the lottery of life.
The question was about jealousy, though, but thanks for the advice nonetheless.
Maybe I didn't made my point clearly enough: given that you were taught to be muslim, you can unteach yourself. I'm speaking as someone who was raised as a fundamentalist christian and is now atheist.
I don't see how you could not be envious of people with more freedom when yours is so severely curtailed by your own upbringing, but you can change that, admittedly with some difficulty and family and community disharmony.
It's not the unteaching myself part that's hard. I've never been religious, so there was no transition into atheism. I wonder what your story is? However, I am coerced into observing the many rituals that are part of islam. As long as you are in the presence of fellow ''muslims'', you are kind of silently pressured into carrying these out.
My story is that for some reason I was the questioning one out of three children of rigid fundamentalist christians and their answers to my many (probably annoying but challenging) questions didn't convince me to continue to follow their beliefs. By the time I was in my mid-teens I'd decided I was an agnostic and was totally opposed to any form of spirituality for many decades, then dabbled in wicca and goddess spirituality for a while, now regard myself as atheist while still conceding there are a lot of unexplained things in the universe which may have some sort of spiritual explanation.
I guess your choices are clear: continue as you are, which is a decision to do nothing or work out how to get out from under ..... neither easy, I know. Good luck to you, it can't be easy for you but I'll bet you're far from alone
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You weren't "born muslim", your parents and their religion made you into one: you can unmake that if you really want to, not easy I know, but it's not inevitable that you remain in a religion you didn't choose and which make so unhappy.
I'll bet there are websites and support networks for former muslims: I hope you can find them and free yourself
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I know I wasn't ''born'' a muslim, nobody is born a muslim, a christian or anything. Every human being is born with a blank slate, so to speak. I just meant to say that guys like are unfortunate enough to be born into a muslim family while others are not. Such is the lottery of life.
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Maybe I didn't made my point clearly enough: given that you were taught to be muslim, you can unteach yourself. I'm speaking as someone who was raised as a fundamentalist christian and is now atheist.
I don't see how you could not be envious of people with more freedom when yours is so severely curtailed by your own upbringing, but you can change that, admittedly with some difficulty and family and community disharmony.
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It's not the unteaching myself part that's hard. I've never been religious, so there was no transition into atheism. I wonder what your story is? However, I am coerced into observing the many rituals that are part of islam. As long as you are in the presence of fellow ''muslims'', you are kind of silently pressured into carrying these out.
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Fuck peer pressure, man.
My story is that for some reason I was the questioning one out of three children of rigid fundamentalist christians and their answers to my many (probably annoying but challenging) questions didn't convince me to continue to follow their beliefs. By the time I was in my mid-teens I'd decided I was an agnostic and was totally opposed to any form of spirituality for many decades, then dabbled in wicca and goddess spirituality for a while, now regard myself as atheist while still conceding there are a lot of unexplained things in the universe which may have some sort of spiritual explanation.
I guess your choices are clear: continue as you are, which is a decision to do nothing or work out how to get out from under ..... neither easy, I know. Good luck to you, it can't be easy for you but I'll bet you're far from alone