Ali Ataie – My Encounter With an ExMuslim Pastor Wanting to Capitalize On Debates About Islam
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A former Muslim man talks about a recent debate with a guest, who is a former Muslim man. The guest suggests engaging in debate with the guest, using the Quran to make a positive statement about one's character. The guest and the guest discuss topics like the guest's political status and the guest's desire to make money. The guest also talks about a former Muslim man who was clueless and clueless about the topic of the debate.
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Anyway, I said to him after I said,
do you wanna do, like, a debate?
I think it'd be interesting because you're you're
a former Muslim,
and, you know, I'm Muslim.
And, maybe we can have, like, a debate.
Let people know what happened. Let people judge.
You know, the Quran tells us to engage
in.
Right?
To engage in debate with
with,
with
with Hikma, with wisdom, which Ihorlamah say means
here, with academic rigor, sophistication.
And and with beautiful exhortation or preaching, where
they say you're with good character.
Right? This is the Sunnah way of making.
Right, is to have a good,
logos, as Aristotle would say, good logic, right,
to have to be intelligent, to use reason,
but also good ethos or ethos,
which means to have good character.
So so he said,
yeah. Let's let's discuss that.
So okay. So we I I didn't think
I'd ever hear from him again. I mean,
I hear this all the time. But lo
and behold, you know, he called me and
he said, let's meet at this restaurant that
we can talk about the debate and the
parameters and whatnot.
I said, great.
So we go there and,
so I'll never forget. He he looked at
me, you know, this Christian pastor, former Muslim,
apparently, and he said
and he started speaking Farsi to me to,
you know, to get on my even though
I don't speak Farsi very well.
But he said,
John,
First and foremost,
I'm a businessman.
Okay.
He said we can make
a lot of money doing this. So
alright. I I guess so. I'm sitting there
and I'm I'm clueless. Right? It's like, I'm
not hip to the game apparently.
I'm uninitiated.
And he said and I said, oh, so
he said, what topics do we think about?
I give all these. Oh, slow it off.
Slow it off. We we could do this
topic this day. You'll say this. I'll say
this. We'll go back and forth.
We won't reveal too much.
And then the sec second debate, you know,
will get more people. We'll charge prices.
This is not
so, okay.
And then he kinda looked at me and
said, you know, sometimes they still recite the
Quran.
So, okay.
And then suddenly it clicked in my mind.
I said to
him, are you Muslim?
Has anyone liked it?
I said, so how?
Wow.
So this is a very good job. That's
basically he's a I and he had, like,
a Hummer outside,
you know,
and he lives in, like, Ruby Hills or
something like that
wearing a Armani suit.