I'm a former Christian who is now Muslim, how should I tell my parents?

[al-Idrisi]

I'm asking on this forum because this is a Christian forum, and my parents are Christian so maybe you'll be able to give better insight into how I should best tell them.


I officially reverted to Islam 6 months ago after about a year of study. I'm a college student and became involved with a circle of other Muslim students who profoundly inspired my interest in Islam which led me to convert after I figured out that it was the religion I believed in (I can explain that if you'd like but I don't know if it's relevant).


I don't like to use the term moderate, because that implies that the people who moderate Muslims are being compared too are properly Muslim but the mosque I go to is definitely not an extremist place and we believe in love and respect for all humanity and especially for Christians and Jews who follow the same God we do, the God of Abraham.


My parents are Roman Catholics and quite religious, and I was raised in a strongly Catholic environment. My dad always posts anti-Islam stuff on Facebook and I'm very afraid to tell them, but I can't live a lie. I'm going home for the holiday weekend, and I need to tell them before Easter Sunday mass because (for obvious reasons) I cannot attend with them.


Christian parents, give me advice on how to break the news and may God bless you!

 

[SolomonVII]

You should tell your parents that you reject their world view with the delight that you obviously feel.

 

[al-Idrisi]

You should tell your parents that you reject their world view with the delight that you obviously feel.

I feel delight that I found a religion that I have no qualms about believing in, and feel much better spiritually than I ever have. I don't reject their entire worldview, I'm still their same son and I love them very much, we worship the same God who created Adam and spoke to the prophets from Abraham and King David all the way down to Mohammed (peace be upon them all). I don't know exactly what you're implying with your comment my friend and I don't really want to debate about Islam because that's not my intention on this forum. I wanted legitimate advice on how to tell them in a way that helps them understand and doesn't hurt them.

Easter is a bad time for this, I totally agree but it's been worked out this way because I'm going home and obviously they're going to church.

 

[SolomonVII]

Go home and break their hearts.

 

[al-Idrisi]

Go home and break their hearts.

You seem to be working through your own issues, and you're projecting that on to me. Stop acting like a passive aggressive little girl my friend. If you have nothing of substance to add, why did you reply?

 

[SolomonVII]

I have offered the only recourse for you.
Deal with it.
I am not offering you absolution.

Maybe your parents will, through their broken hearts.
Maybe they won't.

Either way, recognize that their are consequences to the choices that you make, and breaking your parents hearts is the consequences for the choice you have made.

 

[al-Idrisi]

I have the only recourse for you.
Deal with it.

Brother, the only one who seems to need help dealing with things is you. I'm not the one making a passive aggressive farce of myself.


You seem to have some real problems that you need to deal with, going by that long screed you have on your profile it seems that you're obsessed with Muslims and can't deal with the fact that we exist.


So how about you get off my thread?

 

[SolomonVII]

I don't have to deal with things. This is your thing, not mine. You asked, and I answered.

I am lonly aying out the stark reality of your choice that you are already aware of.

 

[SolomonVII]

Now if you want someone to lay that stark reality out with sugar and spice and everything nice, You'll have to wait for someone who isn't such a little girl like me.

 

[miknik5]

I'm asking on this forum because this is a Christian forum, and my parents are Christian so maybe you'll be able to give better insight into how I should best tell them.


I officially reverted to Islam 6 months ago after about a year of study. I'm a college student and became involved with a circle of other Muslim students who profoundly inspired my interest in Islam which led me to convert after I figured out that it was the religion I believed in (I can explain that if you'd like but I don't know if it's relevant).


I don't like to use the term moderate, because that implies that the people who moderate Muslims are being compared too are properly Muslim but the mosque I go to is definitely not an extremist place and we believe in love and respect for all humanity and especially for Christians and Jews who follow the same God we do, the God of Abraham.


My parents are Roman Catholics and quite religious, and I was raised in a strongly Catholic environment. My dad always posts anti-Islam stuff on Facebook and I'm very afraid to tell them, but I can't live a lie. I'm going home for the holiday weekend, and I need to tell them before Easter Sunday mass because (for obvious reasons) I cannot attend with them.


Christian parents, give me advice on how to break the news and may God bless you!

May I suggest that you "converted" to an experience that appealed to your flesh

 

[al-Idrisi]

Now if you want someone to lay that stark reality out with sugar and spice and everything nice, You'll have to wait for someone who isn't such a little girl like me.

I was more looking for advice from Christians on how to break the news to them in a way that is sensitive to their Christianity. Instead you came and decided to take out your own issues with Muslims and whine and moan. You've offered nothing constructive but a look into the brain of someone with severe resentment problems and a bad case of bigotry. Get off my thread, don't reply again. May Allah SWT cure the anger and hatred in your heart, may he make you less passive aggressive and mean spirited. Good bye.

 

[al-Idrisi]

May I suggest that you "converted" to an experience that appealed to your flesh

May I ask what you mean by that?

May I also ask what that has to do with the topic at hand, which isn't "do the Christians on ChristianForums agree with Islam" but is "how do I tell my Christian parents that I'm now Muslim"?


Islam is much less "appealing" to the flesh than Christianity in the sense that one must sacrifice a lot more physical pleasure and comfort to live a lifestyle as Allah SWT intends. I converted because Islamic monotheism, the Islamic narrative of Jesus (peace be upon him) and the relationship between Allah SWT and man in Islam makes much more sense to me. I see it as a much more logical religion. I always found the Trinity to contradict monotheism, I never truly believed that a man could be God, and the way that Islam has a specific way to live as prescribed by Allah SWT makes a lot more sense to me. Christianity relies too much on mystery and gives its followers no real framework for living their lives, Islam is an entire lifestyle that governs everything from how I go to the bathroom to how I eat to how I interact with people I walk by at the supermarket.

 

[SolomonVII]

I was more looking for advice from Christians on how to break the news to them in a way that is sensitive to their Christianity. Instead you came and decided to take out your own issues with Muslims and whine and moan. You've offered nothing constructive but a look into the brain of someone with severe resentment problems and a bad case of bigotry. Get off my thread, don't reply again. May Allah SWT cure the anger and hatred in your heart, may he make you less passive aggressive and mean spirited. Good bye.

Oh, aren't you the persecuted one!

There is no sensitive way to break your parents heart with this news, and you know it.
Good bye and Good Friday.
Happy Easter too.

 

[miknik5]

May I ask what you mean by that?


May I also ask what that has to do with the topic at hand, which isn't "do the Christians on ChristianForums agree with Islam" but is "how do I tell my Christian parents that I'm now Muslim"?


Islam is much less "appealing" to the flesh than Christianity in the sense that one must sacrifice a lot more physical pleasure and comfort to live a lifestyle as Allah SWT intends. I converted because Islamic monotheism, the Islamic narrative of Jesus (peace be upon him) and the relationship between Allah SWT and man in Islam makes much more sense to me. I see it as a much more logical religion. I always found the Trinity to contradict monotheism, I never truly believed that a man could be God, and the way that Islam has a specific way to live as prescribed by Allah SWT makes a lot more sense to me. Christianity relies too much on mystery and gives its followers no real framework for living their lives, Islam is an entire lifestyle that governs everything from how I go to the bathroom to how I eat to how I interact with people I walk by at the supermarket.

Exactly what I said. You are serving flesh rather than serving GOD who doesn't change. You are young, you met friends, and you changed your belief to fit in with friends

 

[al-Idrisi]

Oh, aren't you the persecuted one!

There is no sensitive way to break your parents heart with this news, and you know it.
Good bye and Good Friday.
Happy Easter too.

What did I tell you about staying off my thread

 

[Kenny'sID]

I was more looking for advice from Christians on how to break the news to them in a way that is sensitive to their Christianity.

That was probably a bad idea from the get go.

 

[miknik5]

And your following the bread of men

That is men's suggestions of what GOD meant and said

Rather than trusting in THE BREAD of GOD and what HE said

 

[miknik5]

What did I tell you about staying off my thread

This response is also flesh

 

[SolomonVII]

What did I tell you about staying off my thread

It is not your thread. You dont own it. This is a public forum. CF has the rights to the posts here, not you or I.
It is not your decision to make who has posting privileges here. It is theirs.
Now, unless you have something more to say to me, Good bye and Good Friday, and have a very Happy Easter with your mom and dad.

 

[miknik5]

Young man, go back to your parents and trust that what they have taught you (though right now you are measuring "truth" by your father's imperfect fleshly response to Islamic extremity)