Without the need to read, I recommend you watch this, it's to the point and it's worth your time..:
This is the first part divided in three parts:
The Purpose Of Life part 1
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
I was a Christian and I became Muslim. And although the media is taking every effort to demonize muslims, it is in fact women who are the majority of converts to islam. It will make things make a lot of sense. The trinity makes no sense, 'god' being a human being, dying, etc... anyone needing to die for someone else's mistakes, all that makes no sense. Islam teaches us that God is most the merciful and forgiving and does not need anyone to die for someone else to be 'forgiven'. All of us will be held accountable on our own counts, and God will understand everyone's condition and state and judge justly. Nor is god man, god ghost, god head, and all that trinity non-sense. God is one, nothing resembles Him, He is the creator, and all of us and all around us is his creation. When you become a Muslim all your past sins are forgiven and start pure as a baby. What mistakes you make forward will be on your account. Islam teaches we are all born pure unlike chrsitianity which teaches that we are born inheriting the sin of Adam (peace be upon him). We are not born evil, we are born pure, but it is our parents, peers, environment, society that corrupts us but we still inherently can differentiate between right and wrong, but only our arrogance and hardnes of heart can prevents us to recognize it otherwise.
Muslim by definition is the one who submits himself to God alone, not men, not women, not things, not objects, but submits his heart and soul to God. Through pure thought, good intention and through right action.
We worship God alone, not anything or anyone in the creation. Nor do we need 'in betweeners' between us and God. Catholics often pray to saints, Jesus, Mary, etc... for instance while others pray to Jesus because they say Jesus is God. This is wrong. According to the bible itself Jesus prayed to God and it is emphasized all over. Jesus was a human being chosen by God, created by God.
How Jesus had no father but a mother, Adam had no father or mother. Both are created by God, all of us are created by God.
And unlike Christianity, Islam spread and prospered with science and rational thought. Muslims are responsible for the majority of discoveries in medicine, architecture, mathematics, physics, mechanics, you name it, but are not given credit.
God in Islam encourages us to use our intellect that He bestowed upon us, not like Priests and pastors who want us to blindly believe in the trinity and something that makes no sense.
http://www.1001inventions.com/http://www.muslimheritage.com/