I used to be an atheist because I was fed up with the nonsense that many of our religious folk talk about who, despite, the glint in their eyes saying that 'we know something you don't know', are really 'stupid as hell'; however when I started investigating Islam on my own and I started reading Philosophy; I realized that Islam makes a lot of sense...a lot ! However it is a shame that our so-called religious scholars of today aren't anything close to the intellectual juggernauts of the Muslim, of ages past. And its also sad to see that many of 'us' are very gullible and we'd accept anything without thinking critically and independently about it - I'd throw in both Muslims and Atheists in this !