mandelson wrote:Islam is a religion everybody is born into. Every baby is a muslim when he or she is born.
It is the parents and society that turn them away from the natural religion and leads them astray.
Does that include people born before Islam was invented? In my experience, infants behave like a cross between atheist, since they're incapable of understanding the concept of a god just yet, and animist, since everything is alive. And becoming more animist as they approach toddlerhood, and their awareness of the world becomes more sophisticated. After that, they become enculturated into whatever religion their parents want to r
push on them. But I'll try a little experiment: I'm not going to raise my son with any religion, so he won't have the opportunity to stop being Muslim. When he's old enough, I'll check and see of how he turned out.
But that is a complete derail, and trollish though it may be, it does highlight the clinginess of Islam. To the original poster, best of luck, however things turn out.
Daniel Sutton.