In existographies, Armin Navabi (1984-) (FA:157) is an Iranian-born Canadian ex-Muslim atheist noted for []

Overview
Navabi was born into an upper-class non-practicing Muslim family.

In 1996, Navabi, aged 12, attempted suicide by jumping off the top floor of his middle school. The attempt was unsuccessful. He fractured his back, broke both legs, one hand, was in a wheel chair for seven months, missing an entire year of school.

Navabi did this because he reasoned, with sheer logic, that he could escape, according to Islamic doctrine, the possibility of burning in hell for eternity, according to which if a boy dies before age 15, he goes straight to heaven, because before that age, as Muslim boys are taught there’s no way one could be responsible for anything they do, in this age range. Navabi, retrospectively, explains this as follows: [1]

“You’re pure until you’re 15, because there’s no way you could be responsible for anything you do [before then]. So that means that if you die before age 15, you die pure and you go to heaven. For me, this was a loophole in the system. Why would anybody stick around and gamble potentially burning for eternity? The most logical decision is to quit this game that I never chose to play, early, and just go directly to heaven.”


A photo of Navabi and his brother going to their first day of school, shown being given a Quran, kissed by his mother, a ritualistic way of blessing the school year. [1]

A photo of Navabi and his brother going to their first day of school, shown being given a Quran, kissed by his mother, a ritualistic way of blessing the school year. [1]

In the years to follow, Navabi tried to become more religious, but within a few years, began to lose faith. He then went hunting for evidence, reading voraciously in his own religion, other religions, and history, eventually coming to the conclusion that all religious are manmade.

In 2002, at age 18, he became an atheist.

In 2011, Navabi launched Iranian Atheists on a social networking site called Orkut, out of loneliness he says; shortly thereafter, he transferred the site to Facebook, under the moniker Atheist Republic, which has 1M+ likes, sometime therein launching WhyThereIsNoGod.com.

In 2014, Navabi published Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God. In the first chapter, he puts William Paley, and his watch analogy, against John Conway, and his game of life program. The second chapter points our Biblical errors, e.g. that god told Moses that created plants before the sun (Genesis 1:1-19), which is physically impossible, being that plants cannot form from seeds unless sunlight is present first, and Quranic errors, god told Muhammad, via an angel, that the earth is flat with the sun rising and setting in particular parts of the earth (Surah 18:86). [2]

References
1. Hovet, Kristen. (2015). “Armin Navabi: Ex-Muslim Turned Global Atheist Activist” (Ѻ), Patheos.com, Nov 5.
2. Navabi, Armin. (2014). Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God (eB). Atheist Republic.

External links
● Home – WhyThereIsNoGod.com.