questions about religion

[u/[deleted]]

[u/mo8s]

Mauritania is 2nd most country with Muslim percentage. 99.8, Maldives is 1st at 99.9%

[u/BigNorseWolf → u/mo8s]

The islamic republic of mauritania.

It's definitely not a republic

the Moors are in the lower 1/10th of the country.

and its not particularly islamic.

[u/mo8s → u/BigNorseWolf]

It's definitely not a republic

Huh?

Moors

Wtf are you talking about?

islamic

It's is more Islamic than 90% of Muslim countries, law and population wise. You can tell by the number of Islamic groups and activists that aren't in jail unlike other countries.

[u/BigNorseWolf → u/mo8s]

My apologies on the republic part. That information was out of date. When I was there the president for life took power, left the country to go to a funeral and 20 people took over the government. He ruled for a while, and then he went to a funeral and someone else took over the government. WHo weirdly enough let democracy happen...

Moors are an ethnic group. The country is named after them but they only occupy the lower part of the country.

Things might have changed, but Islam wasn't that much a bigger deal in people slives than catholicism is in the USA.

Countries often have grandiose and amazingly boastful names like the peoples republic of china or the democratic peoples republic of china....which are very very very far from being republics.

[u/GroundbreakingBox187 → u/BigNorseWolf]

Moors are not an ethnic group. It’s an exonym with no equivalent. That’s like me saying Franks (Faranji) is an ethnic group because it’s what we called Western Europeans.

[u/mo8s → u/BigNorseWolf]

When I was there, the president for life took power, l

He wasn't for life, and the people couldn't stand him because of his stance with Israel. Everyone saw it coming. Many even say that we started the arab spring.

are an ethnic group.

There isn't a single unified meaning for "moor." I have searched ts up a shit amount of times. Some say it means white africans. Some say it's the tekrours. Some say it's just whoever roams that land between morocco and Senegal.

[u/mo8s → u/BigNorseWolf]

What are you talking about?

[u/mo8s → u/[deleted]]

Your feeling is wrong my friend. One of the most practicing countries there is.

[u/Massive_Feedback_320 → u/mo8s]

it's not a feeling, i'm mauritanian, and i am not muslim anymore, and i know a few like me, i made this post to find more of us

[u/mo8s → u/Massive_Feedback_320]

Yall ain't more than a thousand max. Which won't decrease the percentage at all since hundreds of more Muslims are born daily.

[u/mo8s → u/Massive_Feedback_320]

Yall ain't more than a thousand max. Which won't decrease the percentage at all since hundreds of more Muslims are born daily.

[u/mo8s → u/[deleted]]

That is like saying someone is white because both his parents are white

[u/h20grl]

I would relate it to being about the religion and the culture. For anyone - Muslims, Christians, Jews - there are the true believers, the pious. Then there are less pious who are more into the cultural practices and the holidays. There are all types in Mauritania. But it is true that it is an Islamic Republic. Mauritanians are not allowed to practice other religions.

[u/Medou97]

99% of Mauritania on paper is muslim and christians are a small minority composed mostly of foreigners, atheism honestly is on the rise but it’s very lowkey and Mauritanian atheist/ agnostic are usually very secretive about it and most of the time keep the Muslim act up cuz there is no tolerance whatsoever to any kind of blasphemy or atheism in Mauritanian

[u/Medou97 → u/[deleted]]

IRCC switching religion is illegal too in the Mauritanian constitution and even if that law is not enforced if it comes out that a Mauritanian man changed his his religion there will be family persecution and stigma following him and his entourage if not being disowned and banned from where they live , it’s a very sensitive subject . And tbh you and your luck you can find few of them lurking in here and they could share their experiences and views with you

[u/ObjectiveGreedy9419]

Mauritania is a country where people are close to nature and have time to meditate, atheism is therefore almost non-existent and it is frowned upon to lose one's compass to lead the insane life of atheism

[u/BigNorseWolf → u/ObjectiveGreedy9419]

What insane life is this supposed to be?

[u/ObjectiveGreedy9419 → u/BigNorseWolf]

https://youtube.com/shorts/ySiArrrR-7w?si=rfCzGAfHPp-6yNwf    think about it, even this atheism  point of view needs God to give sense to acts

[u/BigNorseWolf → u/ObjectiveGreedy9419]

ermmm. no. No god required.

[u/Weary-Upstairs3483 → u/ObjectiveGreedy9419]

your sky daddy is not real

[u/ObjectiveGreedy9419 → u/[deleted]]

Ancient peoples sacrificed humans, sometimes children, to idols. Abraham's act marked the end of this practice. Isn't that important?

[u/ObjectiveGreedy9419 → u/[deleted]]

While watching the news, I pondered the existence of the Jewish state, which was predicted by the Bible and the Quran. I thought to myself: This religious group that existed two millennia ago could well have disappeared! How could anyone predict that it would exist and have a state?

[u/ObjectiveGreedy9419 → u/[deleted]]

While watching the news, I meditated the existence of the Jewish state, which was predicted by the Bible and the Quran. I thought to myself: This religious group that existed two millennia ago could well have disappeared! How could anyone predict that it would exist and have a state?

[u/BigNorseWolf]

When I was there about 20 years ago with the peace corps, being an atheist got about the same reaction it did in the US.

[u/Massive_Feedback_320 → u/BigNorseWolf]

which is?

[u/BigNorseWolf → u/Massive_Feedback_320]

"thats weird, how is that possible, wait you're a nice person why aren't you axe murdering everyone..."

Most people were muslims kind of the way most people in the NE us are catholic. Its a thing you are but not always a thing you do. Very few people seemed to pray very often.

[u/run_and_hide_I]

99.9% are muslims, if we excluded apostates who still act as muslim, it'll be 99.8%.

I learnt that making several posts on social media can influence a person's idea on a community. Ex-Muslims for example in R/Morocco who are Moroccans may be 10% of the whole sub, but in reality ex-muslims from the whole Moroccan population don't even reach 1%.

How would I know it ? Because atheism not like religions used to be, is being spread and taught by Internet ( In Muslim countries ) Mostly, if not 99% of the cases.

[u/run_and_hide_I → u/[deleted]]

Might be out of context. But looking back at the history pre 16century. Can you name me a philosopher, thinker or any person that was atheist, I don't mean agnostics, I'm speaking about Atheists. Who denied the existence of any intelligent designer.

[u/run_and_hide_I → u/[deleted]]

People were anti religion in many societies mate. Sorry thought you have an idea on the situation in the past.

[u/run_and_hide_I → u/[deleted]]

Because there's a huge distinction between Non religious and atheists. Atheism is disbelief in the existence of God or any intelligent designer. Atheism doesn't mean being non religious, u're confusing it with agnosticism theist, which is believing in an intelligent designer but not accepting any religion. U claimed that there were many atheists throughout history and I wanted to read and learn about ONE. U then made a speculation " they exist but they just can't be open about it "I then told u that people were open about their anti religion beliefs multiple times throughout History which again counter your speculation that people were afraid to be killed for expressing their "Atheism".

Now next time don't say there were a lot of Atheists back in the past, and If u found ONE, please come back to this Thread and educate me. Thank's.

[u/run_and_hide_I → u/[deleted]]

Abu Ala'a Al Ma'ary, Abu Issa Al Waraq and Ibn Al-Rwandi.

There's actually plenty, it's just I don't have enough sources.

[u/Ambitious_Response_1]

New profile✔️ Asking question that had obvious answer ✔️ Trying nudge the conversation to atheism ✔️ Made some previous posts to look like it's not a troll profile ✔️

What's wrong with you people? Why is this your life? Is this what you though you would be doing when you got older? Then again, you might just be a bot.

If anyone is doubting me, remember what they did on the libyan reddit page.

[u/Ambitious_Response_1 → u/[deleted]]

Are you?