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Muhammad

I was a passionate, active Muslim — going to the mosque five times a day, doing jamat work, debating Christians, teaching Islam. I was arrogant, quick-tempered, and shouting. I was fatherless, growing up watching my mother cry, and I was longing for something I could not name.

Craig

I was a mean atheist who made fun of Christians. As early as age nine I didn't believe in life after death or God. I thought everything could be explained through evolution and natural causes. I wanted to be an astrophysicist or paleontologist and thought Christianity was incompatible with science.

Yesupadas

I was an Untouchable boy treated worse than an animal, a committed communist who made a blood covenant to bring revolution to India. I was drinking, in gangs, cutting people, saw dead bodies — and I was happy doing it because I thought I was taking revenge.

Ollie

I was a drug dealer, an alcoholic, a cocaine addict — sleeping with weapons by my bed, paranoid that even my own mum was working with the police. I had money, no peace, no morals, and no fear of consequences.

Dan

I was a secular Israeli Jew studying math at university. I believed in God — unlike my atheist parents — but Jesus was a foreign god, something Gentiles believed in, connected in my mind to the persecution of Jewish people.

Jade

I was a functioning alcoholic doing cocaine, sleeping around, deep in the New Age — spirit guides, crystals, Reiki, ayahuasca — telling everyone meditation was amazing while my life was an absolute mess. I hated myself and didn't care if I died.

Muhammad

I was the most zealous Muslim in my family — beating myself, cutting my head with a sword, traveling to shrines, serving in the Revolutionary Guard — doing everything to earn God's satisfaction, but feeling further from him the harder I tried.

Richard

I was a professional dancer raised in church who secretly wrestled with same-sex attraction and pornography addiction for over a decade. I felt rejected, abandoned, and too far gone — I even tried to fully come out and live the gay lifestyle because I saw no way out.

Amir

I was a proud Muslim from Dearborn, Michigan — the most Muslim community in America. I had an Islam tattoo, debated Christians, and would have died before worshipping Jesus. Nobody could have convinced me.

Daniel

I was a radical Muslim, a famous religious boy from childhood, a revolutionary who helped bring Khomeini to power. I believed Islam was the perfect religion and that Christians were unclean people polluting the world. I was on death row before I escaped Iran.