Let me tell you something, Indo. You've got something many do not. You've got a sincere heart that is not trying to make any excuses - you own what is yours and you're not playing the hypocrite. Gods heart leaps over someone like you. In fact, He would pass by 10 million to find one as honest as you have been here tonight.
I'll be honest and direct.
I used to be a Christian, a terrible one - I smashed 9 out of ten commandments, as often as I could.
I never attended church, save being dragged to the odd wedding, but I often visited churches, but never to pray.
There was always something calming and nice about the places, more so the very old ones. I also developed a side interest in history that my history teacher would have loved to see.
However, I could never quite cope with the climax of the Jesus story, that getting worse when I started reading up on the history of the bible and how much it had been heavily edited over 1.5 thousand years.
One day, after much nagging from Chinese girlfriends (Who turned out to be Malay Chinese), I wandered over to KL, Malaysia.
I have to admit, I was a tad worried as I'd looked on the internet and seen the place was 60% Muslim. That's a lot of suicide bombers, all with AK47s and all trying to kill me.
I was assured it was generally safe, so I went.
It was bloody great but I managed a bit of an education.
Apart from one idiot, the Muslims I met were rather nice, most being so violent as to force me to join them for a coffee or a meal and, bonus, they always paid, never asking for a thing in return.
That's Malay (and Indonesian) culture for you.
However, that experience told me all I'd been told about Muslims was total bollocks, well, most of it.
There's no getting away from the truth, some Muslims are total bastards, not fit to roam the Earth. However, most are not.
That made me interested in looking up a lot more about Islam and, the more I looked, the more I saw I was already a Muslim, just one that still enjoyed pork sausages and beer.
The latter went as I was commonly driving at night and a rather terrible event where I totally failed to do the right thing because I was too drunk to think further than my kebab going cold.
The former, along with black pudding, was a loss (I still miss them), but not to the point where I would put them over the Almighty.
Again, in seriousness, I also miss the casual sex but I'd already decided to propose to a beautiful lady and, more importantly, take to Islam.
Interestingly enough, seventh day adventists (A type of Christians) follow the old testament so are very much like Muslims in many ways.
However, I decided to go with Islam and, a little less than a year later, proposed.
For me, Islam works because Christ is Isa and there was no death on the cross.
The only bit of Christianity I couldn't cope with.
In most respects, Christianity and Islam are about the same.
The rules tend to be stricter in Islam when it comes to diet and so on, but they're shockingly similar in many other respects.
Jews, whilst similar to the others, tend to have far stricter rules regarding diet.
Another thing we have in common is extremists; I'm slightly jealous of you Christians because you have far less idiots than we or the Jews do.
Most of your loonies are really about cash, whereas only some of our idiots are.
A prime example being the FPI in Indonesia; they claim to be devout Muslims but will riot for money. I really wish the bastards would either get a brain and do charity work instead, or die in a gutter.
The former would be nice, but is unlikely so I'll have to go with death in shit.
Right, this post is far too long, boring and honest so I'll press, "Submit".