To be very honest, I am not a deeply religious person. I have been here a long time and my previous posts and record will show I have butted heads with extremely religious people here. I am not the pray five times a day type of guy. But I believe in God and I believe in the guidance we have.
I have defended liberal causes such as BLM/LGBTQ movements probably more than your average Pakistani here.
The reason I participate in these discussions is not to enforce my view, or to express my “religiousness” on others. Because quite honestly I am not religious.
I participate here because I feel the flexibility and openness of this forum is being taken for a ride by some Indian posters here, perhaps as a backlash for our opposition to the rising hindutva and anti-Muslim sentiment in India.
In the name of debate, I have seen some posters continue to attack just the idea of belief and God, try to portray our faith as some sort of a menace, and other such nonsense from the likes of other so-called “Hindu atheists” asking for proof of the existence of God, totally false and contorted claims about shariat, etc.
I don’t think most folks here have done a decent enough job to provide responses to such garbage. But now I get involved I realize that these people are just trolls and really we won’t achieve anything substantial by co tinting this charade. It will probably be best if their posts get reported or these people get ignored on the whole. They seem to have time on their hands and unfortunately I don’t have the luxury of wasting mine here.