Apostasy ( /əˈpɒstəsi/; Greek: ἀποστασία (apostasia), 'a defection or revolt', from ἀπό, apo, 'away, apart', στάσις, stasis, 'stand, 'standing') is the formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion by a person. One who commits apostasy (or who apostatises) is known as an apostate. These terms have a pejorative implication in everyday use. The term apostasy is used by sociologists to mean renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, a person's former religion, in a technical sense and without pejorative connotation.
The term is sometimes also used metaphorically to refer to renunciation of a non-religious belief or cause, such as a political party, brain trust, or, facetiously, a sports team.
Apostasy is generally not a self-definition[citation needed]: very few former believers call themselves apostates because of the pejorative implications of the term.
Many religious groups and some states punish apostates. Apostates may be shunned by the members of their former religious group or subjected to formal or informal punishment. This may be the official policy of the religious group or may be the action of its members. Certain types of churches may in certain circumstances excommunicate the apostate, while some religious scriptures demand the death penalty for apostates.
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982 he introduced an influential concept into evolutionary biology, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms.
Dawkins is an atheist, a vice president of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—"a fixed false belief." As of January 2010 the English-language version has sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages.
David Ray Wilkerson (May 19, 1931 – April 27, 2011) was an American Christian evangelist, best known for his book The Cross and the Switchblade. He was the founder of the addiction recovery program Teen Challenge, and founding pastor of the non-denominational Times Square Church in New York.
Wilkerson's widely distributed sermons, such as "A Call to Anguish," are known for being direct and frank. He emphasized such Christian beliefs as God's holiness and righteousness, God's love toward humans and especially Christian views of Jesus. Wilkerson tried to avoid categorizing Christians into distinct groups according to the denomination to which they belong.[citation needed]
Wilkerson was killed in a car crash in Texas on April 27, 2011.
Wilkerson served as a pastor in small churches in Scottdale and Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, until he saw a photograph in Life Magazine in 1958 of seven New York City teenagers charged with murder. He later wrote that as he felt the Holy Spirit move him with compassion, he was drawn to go to New York in February 1958. It was then that he began a street ministry to young drug addicts and gang members, which he continued into the 1960s. Later in 1958, he founded Teen Challenge, an evangelical Christian addiction recovery program affiliated with the Assemblies of God, with a network of Christian social and evangelizing work centers.
Tariq Ramadan (Arabic: طارق رمضان; born 26 August 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss academic and writer. He is also a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. He advocates the study and re-interpretation of Islamic texts, and emphasizes the heterogeneous nature of Western Muslims.
Tariq Ramadan is the son of Said Ramadan and Wafa Al-Bana, who was the eldest daughter of Hassan al Banna, who in 1928 founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Gamal al-Banna, the liberal Muslim reformer is his great-uncle. His father was a prominent figure in the Muslim Brotherhood and was exiled by Gamal Abdul Nasser from Egypt to Switzerland, where Tariq was born.
Tariq Ramadan studied Philosophy and French literature at the Masters level and holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic studies from the University of Geneva. He also wrote a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, entitled Nietzsche as a Historian of Philosophy.
Hamza Yusuf Hanson is an American Islamic scholar, and (with Zaid Shakir and Hatem Bazian) is co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, United States. He is a convert to Islam, and is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding. He has described the 9/11 attacks as "an act of 'mass murder, pure and simple'". Condemning the attacks, he has also stated "Islam was hijacked ... on that plane as an innocent victim".The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom reported that he "is arguably the west's most influential Islamic scholar" and added that "many Muslims find his views hard to stomach."
Hamza Yusuf was born to two academics in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. Hamza Yusuf spent four years studying in the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere in the Middle East. Later he traveled to West Africa and studied in Mauritania, Medina, Algeria, and Morocco under such scholars as Murabit al Haaj; Baya bin Salik, head of the Islamic court in Al-'Ain, United Arab Emirates; Muhammad Shaybani, Mufti of Abu Dhabi; Hamad al-Wali; and Muhammad al-Fatrati of Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.[citation needed] After more than a decade abroad, he returned to the United States and earned degrees in nursing from Imperial Valley College and religious studies at San José State University.[citation needed]
You have a new way Is it a better way?
Once I saw you proclaim Now there's slight disdain
Why keep that title, what has changed? Is God so
different?
Why keep that title, what has changed? Is He not the
same?
Love is present, grace abounds
What happened here? Was the world so enticing?
Denial is treachery hard to reconcile
Call it for what it really is Don't make excuses
Call it for what it really is Go ahead apostasy
Tepid waters do not run Stagnation breeds disease
Flies surround Multiply maggot parasites
Why keep that title? Why redefine?
Lord of the flies Apostasy, Apostasy
Love is present, grace abounds
What happened here? Was the world so enticing?
Denial is treachery hard to reconcile
Call it for what it really is Don't make excuses
Call it for what it really is Go ahead apostasy
Do not conform to one man God is clear on who you are
Drink from my tempting chalice and you shall awake
Darkest hatred fills your soul
Rigid father, haunted one
Withering goddess truth am I
Dark desires fill the emptiness
Cleansing your infected flesh
Wear the armor, a hidden truth
Erasing former ethic rules
Millennium kingdom has to come
Enthroned by many but not by me
I'll be the one to set you free
Listen to your inner voice
There's a bran new world: to see
Rigid father, haunted one
Withering goddess truth am I
Dark desire fill the emptiness
Cleansing your infected flesh
Wear the armor, a hidden truth
Erasing former ethic rules
Darkest hatred fills your soul
Millennium kingdom has to come
Enthroned by many but not by me
Listen to your inner voice
There's a bran new world: to see
Downward spiral of never-ending lies
Fool the one who's blind that no one ever dies
Trust is his faith and deceiving is the game
I'll be the one to guide you through cosmic domains
Let me inside you to flow in your veins
Let me inside you to flow in your veins
I'll be the one to guide you through cosmic domains
I am many we are one
Give into your dark desires and release your chains
In the name of Satan I lead you into dimensions
Drink from my tempting chalice and you shall awake
Now you are mine forever caught in the cradle of night
There is no such thing as God
His son and the holy whore
Release the blindfold before my eyes
I've witnessed the cosmic aeon carnage
Passengers on the awakening course
Confessing their sulfur stinking existence
Masses for the tempted beast
Embracing black shepherds with human harvest
The sun shall never capture my face
Cause I'm born in the shadows of unhallowed grace
Teach me father
Reveal me father
Mark me Satan
Cause you have not betrayed your son
To secure thy own existence
Disguised in fame fooling the mankind
To read between the lines
Engulfed by the sickest of minds
I'm dragged into voids of darkness
Cause I have lived in a world of lies
Until you showed me where my soul descent
Beneath the lies of this prophecy
There's a world I have not recognized
Ohhh ghastly son of the mourning
Teach me how to comprehend
Hellfire wrath has been brought upon us
Crimson skies of sinners blood
No longer trapped by a mental disguidance
A seed of evil growing
Within my tortured soul
Becoming disillusioned
Raised with a saving cross
A blurry sight
Intoxicated flesh
The past is haunting me
Unvarnished nature
Emotional depths unite
Starring eyes reflecting disbelief
Loosing faith a messiah no more
A mind infected feeling hatred so strong
Avenging the past, practice sins by the book
My former faith is fading
Belief within me dies
Betraying Jesus Christ
A poor misguided kind
Beings of flesh and blood
Salvation can be yours
Thoughts of a world so pure
Exists on earth no more
Behold the blasphemy
Holding your banner high under sky
Thrust the nails of evil deeper inside
Starring eyes reflecting disbelief
Loosing faith a messiah no more
A mind infected feeling hatred so strong
Avenging the past, practice sins by the book
Come to me and I shall help you escape death
And show you all the ways to pure infinity
Desperately you accept and inject the virus of truth
The masses seek and swallows lies and saviours
Drowning and dissolving in absolutions
This is our cause of devolution, always working to burn to deform this world
This is our cause and death solution we are praising guns pointed at our heads
Rise above the disease and it's mass, or would you rather crawl in the ashes of time
Do you blindly accept the crown of thorns and your illusions that you call divine
A blessing in the form of a menace injection
Yet whores of this kind they will always thirst for more
A blessing in the form of a menace injection
Yet whores of those kind they will always thirst for more
This world will bless us with the suffering!
From the very root of this sulphur disease
New world order that feeds, and implores death world wide
Your salvation is just lies and fucking chains!
Desperately you accept and inject the virus of truth
The masses seek and swallows lies and saviours
Drowning and dissolving in absolutions
On the brink of extinction bear the burden of my knowing
Light guides the way of our hell bound faith
Omens and signs are everywhere in front of you
The new era rising so prepare for this final battles
This world will bless us with the suffering!
From the very root of it's time
It's the proof that life and death collide
Desperately you accept and inject the virus of truth
The masses seek and swallows lies and saviours
Drowning and dissolving in absolutions
On the brink of extinction bear the burden of my knowing
Light guides the way of our hell bound faith
Determined for vengeance he was
Sold to a nation cold!
Raised out of ashes and crime
Stiff-necked and remorseless
Futility's womb bears fruit again
Burning like a cataract in those eyes
Inhaled the strength of evil prevail
A figment of the brain was what you were told
Proclaiming your insanity to carry out the surgery
No feelings left aside there's only life and death
A non existing man that kills for no reason
You makes me fucking sick!
Obtain pure terror for the greater good
Feast of human sorrow and enjoy others suffering
Pretend to be the savior, the holy masquerade, you bathe in others blood
What did you do to me? I don't know who I am and more
We didn't do nothing you were sick and needed help, some serious help
This has gone way out of our hands, we need to end this properly
You can't do like this there and law's and orders to be followed!
Determined for vengeance he was
Sold to a nation cold!
Raised out of ashes and crime
Stiff-necked and remorseless
Futility's womb bears fruit again
Burning like a cataract in those eyes
Inhaled the strength of evil prevail
A figment of the brain was what you were told
Standing in the ashes gazing out, the strength of cold blood reaches my heart
There's nothing left for me to return to my mind is totally torn apart
Indoctrined by a fake society never thought it would end up like this
Hell is everywhere death is by my side, this isn't an ordinary arcade
Stare into cubic dimensions am I alive or dead?
Die for an unknown cause, is this for pleasure or pain?
Hate keeps me alive!
You have to choose a side
Night and day will remain the same there is no one left alive
A carnal lust for killing I am chosen one
The chosen one I am
Show me the strategy to be supreme and to major goals that I need to achieve
Stare into cubic dimensions am I alive or dead?
Die for an unknown cause, is this for pleasure or pain?
Hate keeps me alive!
Hate my concubine since the beginning of time
I killed everyone like you told me to slaughtering souls for serving you
The time is mine when the stars go out!
Standing in the ashes gazing out, the strength of cold blood reaches my heart
There's nothing left for me to return to my mind is totally torn apart
Indoctrined by a fake society never thought it would end up like this
Hell is everywhere death is by my side, this isn't an ordinary arcade
Stare into cubic dimensions am I alive or dead?
Die for an unknown cause, is this for pleasure or pain?
Day after day my subconscious screams at me
You are a withering god!
A fix for the fun, a fix for the ritle, this feeling it drives me insane
Burning like fire I am empty again how can I leave this hell
How can I leave this hell!
I feed I breed my enemy, I feed I breed my enemy
Bad blood runs in my veins I'm devoted to this killer of pain
I feed I breed my enemy, I feed I breed my enemy
Bad blood runs in my veins I'm devoted to this killer of pain
Mother of malformation would you care turning the table?
Disgust isn't world enough, but still I care for you!
Mother of malformation would you care turning the table?
Look at those empty shells, manufacture by evil nature
Disgust isn't word enough, but still I care for you!
Are you the one that hates yourself, who pulls down the trigger that ends your journey?
Are you the one that hates your self to pull down the trigger to end your life forever?
Forsaken your life for him and nobody wants to feel
Are you the one that hates your self to pull down the trigger that ends your life forever?
Forsaken your life for him
And nobody wants to fell
Are you the one that hates your self to pull down the trigger that ends your journey forever?
Are you the one with the sulphur rain I should have killed you a long ago!
At least you piece of shit you should have killed your self instead of fed on others life
Wanted for treason I stand by your side
Smashing the last nail right through the eye
Perplexity spreading likes a fucking disease new world order suicide breeze
You're searching for answers that cannot be found obsessed like a madman it is keeping you bound
Release the insanity and taste it is good, load up your guns and do what you should
Baptized in fire you're heading for your goal, no one will stop you you're above them all
This guiding light of yours brings mass destruction and obscurity
I see it in your eyes that you're not sane, you cannot feel compassion or pain
There's something missing inside your head you've got to major interests death and decay!
That's what you searching for, this is the swarming of the gods, forevermore!
Holy holy is your war hell is the place that you looking for
You cannot separate right from wrong in the arms of death that's were you belong!
Wanted for treason I stand by your side
Smashing the last nail right through the eye
Perplexity spreading likes a fucking disease new world order suicide breeze
You're searching for answers that cannot be found obsessed like a madman it is keeping you bound
Release the insanity and taste it is good, load up your guns and do what you should
Baptized in fire you're heading for your goal, no one will stop you you're above them all
This guiding light of yours brings mass destruction and obscurity
Blindfolded and chained to the cross
Disciples of the world disease
Here everything is nothing, collision of life and death
Beyond and here, far and near everything always ends the same
Another day, you're wishing to die
Another day, of cold inside
Another day, with you're rotten soul
Another day in this spiral down down!
Wake up and paint the gloomy face yet inside you still feel
Falling down in the abyss of pain, were life and death remains the same
Like a ghost you walk the earth and no one notice your presence
This world is dead inside, path that you walk towards lies and hate
Your darkest dream, your won existence
Born into a world of decay!
Woke up this night in sweat and tears
Alone you shall wander!
Screaming out in vain and no one could hear you
Here everything is nothing, collision of life and death
Beyond and here, far and near everything always ends the same
Another day, you're wishing to die
Another day, of cold inside
Another day, with you're rotten soul
Another day in this spiral down down!
Wake up and paint the gloomy face yet inside you still feel
Falling down in the abyss of pain, were life and death remains the same
Like a ghost you walk the earth and no one notice your presence
And no one notice your presence
Embraced my misery you are doomed to a life in the dark
Paint that scornful smile of your fucking face
We are all just numbers to be erased and rewind
An eye for an eye salvation is denied
Defrost your malignant mind and ride the wave of hate
Scatter the trails of the holocaust what a
Creed and for this you bleed
A merciless trigger finger a cosmic guillotine I am
You have never been so manipulated in your god damn life!
Salvation denied!
Acting of lies born in disguise
Hatred breeds hatred
Your first breath an asthmatic inhale of maculated air
The worlds looking glass broken for innumerable times
No bad luck for mankind just Armadeggon!
Acting of lies suck out your eyes
Bloodshed is bloodshed
In whom do you trust? Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Defrost your malignant mind eye for an eye
Salvation denied
Paint that scornful smile of your fucking face
We are all just numbers to be erased and rewind
An eye for an eye salvation is denied
Defrost your malignant mind and ride the wave of hate
Scatter the trails of the holocaust what a
Creed and for this you bleed
A merciless trigger finger a cosmic guillotine I am
You have never been so manipulated in your god damn life!
Salvation denied!
Acting of lies born in disguise
Hatred breeds hatred
Your first breath an asthmatic inhale of maculated air
The worlds looking glass broken for innumerable times
No bad luck for mankind just Armadeggon!
Acting of lies suck out your eyes
Bloodshed is bloodshed
In whom do you trust? Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Defrost your malignant mind eye for an eye
Cursing the light and the flame burning bright
I descend to eternal darkness
Tearing apart what once was my heart
Entrapped in this hellish domain
Disguised in white with golden wings
An angel only by name
Summoned from a world forgotten
Servant of the dark
A constant state of nothingness
Consuming all humanity
Insinuations of a godsend gift
Has now been put to rest
Cursing the light and the flame burning bright
I descend to eternal darkness
Tearing apart what once was my heart
Entrapped in this hellish domain
Entrusted as a bringer of death
Sent to this world from below
Twisting in pain with fear in your eyes
A smile on my face as I watch you die
As tables turn and joy becomes fear
The end of life is drawing near
A reign of chaos and aeons of pain
Mere tales of this world will remain
My chalice of blood raised to the skies
As grotesquery inherits the earth...
... As grotesquery inherits the earth
I am your eyes and ears
I am your dreams and fears
Mankind scapegoat an excuse for weaken minds
A helping hand from an ignorant father, results in your misery
Born and race with saying grace, oh please god help thee!!!
Your private parts are missing skin, how sacred you are
Seeing in believing, unfortunately my friend, your digging your own grave
No matter how, no matter what, at the end all just puppets in this lifelong circus
Blindfolded eyes, with heavenly disguise
Iiiaaahhhhhh
You backstabbing son of a bitch, how can you live with who you are?
Dedicate your life to the greatest lie of all?
Judging men for thinking different!!!
Casting your shadow over human landscape
Catching every moment for a chance to destroy
Oooohhhhh it's not meant to be
To fold your hands and get down on your knees
Ooohhh help me father 'cause I have sin
Enslaved by the summoning souls
Angels falling from the crimson sky
Raped by the unholy prince of eternal night
Global perfection burned by Satan
So it has been written with fire in the sky
Unholy presence shall strike
The earth with the holy lie
The throne is crowned
For a thousand plague filled years
Embraced by demon hordes
And conquered believers faith
You are the one prince of darkness
Obscurities manifest
Driven by betrayal and divine
Prostitution
Raised by the one who killed
Their firstborn offspring
You shall rule the cosmic storms
And embrace the beastly natures
So come to me my child
And I will show you this brand new world of mine
Come sit in the knee of Satan
And I will lead you to profound victory
Through this passing gateways of heaven
Straight down to hell
I will forever be embraced
By the father himself
Teach me father fallen angel
Wicked goddess truth you are
I can be your first disciple
Vessels of wrath overflow
A smile of pity for human nature
Defenseless mass psychosis
Thorns of perfidy for your own martyrs crown
An architect of butterfly wings
Needs no storm to fall
Defenseless mass psychosis
Samaritans with poisonous wine
Makes the addiction to a profit
Revelation to some darkness to others
The burdy ground is in mankind's mind
Icon of universal lies
I am an icon of universal lies
I am the burning hate in the beholders eye
I am the mourning prognosis
I am the queen in the serpents nest
Samaritans with poisonous wine
Makes the addiction to a profit
Revelation to some darkness to others
The burdy ground is in mankind's mind
I am all that you want me to be
I am all that you never can see
I am the shadow that stalks the night
I am the star that shines so bright
Fear is spreading like a plague
The Salvatore is dead and faith with him
The flame of evil burning bright
As white turns black and day becomes night
Seduced by the words insanity speaks
Prayers unanswered but following still
Mournful sinners spill their blood
In hope to face their one true god
Charlatans fed on simple minds
Preaching the book of a madman's illusion
Religious foundation based upon lies
Will crumble and fall as the son of heaven dies
Wearing thorns with pride
As stupidity dies for mankind
Wearing thorns with pride
As stupidity dies for mankind
Like a sheep prepared for slaughter
Trembling in the deepest fear
A savoir of the human race
Forsaken by his own
Abandoned by his father crucifixion carried out
Confessing his loss, impaled on the cross
Fear is spreading like a plague
The Salvatore is dead and faith with him
The flame of evil burning bright
As white turns black and day becomes night
Seduced by the words insanity speaks
Prayers unanswered but following still
Mournful sinners spill their blood
In hope to face their one true god
Charlatans fed on simple minds
Preaching the book of a madman's illusion
Religious foundation based upon lies
Will crumble and fall as the son of heaven dies
Like a sheep prepared for slaughter
Trembling in the deepest fear
Mournful sinners spill their blood
In hope to face their one true god
Voices in my head
Telling me my god is dead
This burning hate, the urge to kill
When steel meets flesh the blood will spill
Caged within these walls
Lost among these mazelike halls
I must break out, I have to flee
I'm a prisoner of insanity
The world outside's my hunting ground
The innocent my prey
A game of slaughter, fear and pain
Do you want to come and play?
Charades in blood and lunacy
Give into your desires
Like Manson, Bundy, and Albert Fish
Feast upon a human dish
Bestial desire for human flesh
I'll stab you down and beat you
I'll cut you up and eat you
No remorse for the deeds I have done
A game of slaughter, fear and pain
Do you want to come and play?
Charades in blood and lunacy
Give into your desires
Who says death isn't pleasing
Death wields it's scythe
With victorious might
No one escapes this inevitable fate
I see your portrait in the ornament of lies
With the senseless marble eyes
I am almost buried under your mortal sin
In that void deep within
I suffocate among your gospels
And abstract revelations
Avoiding your distant cold
Forlorn in distress, how can I hold you in my heart?
Belief so lucid and fragile
Leads from enslavement to exile
Your angels could fly
If I could be blind
Existence for a moment of delight...
But not for amorphous devices...
I negate you as a fact,
I reject your laws for closed eyelids
The stars so wise and old
Look at you with scorn
And your heavens bleed fallen
In a world of dead colours
And I choke with your maggots
Untouched by venomous gleams
And I watch my life through
Convulsive painful ecstasy.
Tear my soul apart
If your mercy has no edges
Stop my heart forever,
spreading love and peace
bringing hate and destruction
with falses promises
hiden behinds lies
the wait comming to the end
dreams drestroyed
from a goal not reached
the darkness
pain, aguish, destruction
the darkness will come
and the light won't exist anymore
and everybody claim for salvation
the vermim will cover you
in the deepest precipice
the promise is broken
I do love
and I know God hears
my voice
my entreaties
For He has
inclined His heart to me
throughout my days
I'll keep His word
Even the ropes of death
will encircle me
I'll hear God's voice
calling for my name
am His son
the artwork of Great Hand
I'll love Him all my time
Though
only dust
is what I really am
He'll never turn away from me
Precious
is in the eyes of God
death
of the loyal ones
(of His servants)
So Father
till I'm alive
don't let me become
Devils haunt in my life's obsessions
Living for the deadly seven
We're playing the games and betting our lives
I've hit the bottom and reached a new high
Envious of every persons pleasure
Touching base at desperate measures
We're playing the games and betting our lives
And digging holes to bury our lies
Of our evolutions remaining
And though my heart is always straining
Of our evolutions remaining undiscovered
Ice is forming and the air will leave
When you're trying to find what to believe
We're playing the games and betting our lives
And leaving hope and faith behind
I've come down to my last confession
I cannot purge this new possession
We're playing the games and betting our lives
And digging the holes to bury our lies
See what this did to me
Of our evolutions remaining
And though my heart is always straining