Definition of Apatheist
Wednesday, September 10
In the Atlantic magazine, Jonathan Rauch describes apatheism as "a disinclination to care all that much about one's own religion and even a stronger disinclination to care about other people's" (Rauch, Jonathan, Atlantic May, 2000).
Lucky for non-Muslims, many Muslims are apatheists. They may be afraid to leave their religion for fear of the death penalty for apostates. But they don't care about its teachings, particularly the Qur'an's instructions to fight in jihad. Or any of its other terrifying ideas.
4 comments:
That would be all well and good, if jihadists couldn't convince the apatheists to become jihadists by appealing to the Quran, Hadith, and Sira. We know that all too often they can, because Muslim apatheists have no theological foundation on which to defend themselves from the call to jihad, or to convince others to resist it.
I believe that many Moslems are nominal only. Of course, the danger is that they could be "revived" by Wahhabists, who are well funded.
You're absolutely right, Randian. The better choice, the braver choice, is to renounce Islam. You have probably already read the book, Leaving Islam, but I recommend it for those who haven't.
That is a danger, Always On Watch. That's true. If we had a choice between an Islamic apatheist or an apostate, the safer choice for us non-Muslims would be the apostate.
But if you had the choice between a dedicated Muslim following all the instructions in the Qur'an and an Islamic apatheist, you know which I would choose.
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