its honestly very funny because for a large part of my adult life so far i'd probably have described myself as an atheist (or as I sometimes put it, an 'apatheist', apathetic atheist bc i don't especially care one way or the other)

but me leaning back towards seeing myself as simply another way of being muslim has been largely motivated by seeing how fucking embarrassing atheists are

i've always felt that the idea that spirituality and rationality are at odds is a deeply flawed logic that is propped up by both the fundamentalist religious and the fundamentalist atheist. in their fundamentalism they are more closely aligned with each other than to any of us.

tbh this is why I've always felt comfortable with Islam even when I don't feel especially 'religious', and don't struggle particularly with that

it professes that understanding and embrace of the world and rationality is essential to the love of god, and vice versa. That the dichotomy between emotion and spirituality, and logic and rationality, is a false one.