Apostate Prophet left Islam and now atheism

By Sean Toomey –

As a young man in Turkey, he was a committed radical Muslim. But when he became disillusioned with Islam, Ridvan Aydemir became an atheist and a critic of his former religion.

Living in the United States, under the moniker “Apostate Prophet,” he sniped at his former religion on a YouTube channel and debated the foremost promoters of Islam, who vowed that if sharia ever came to America, they would carry out on him the Koran’s mandate to kill apostates. AP, for short, thumbed his nose at them.

“For the last 10 years I only pursued facts, and only went for something if I knew that it was 100% true,” Ridvan says.

Well, today Ridvan is Christian. His journey to Christ is a strange one.

It’s strange because he teamed up with David Wood, also a former atheist who had converted to Christianity. David, on his Apologetics Roadshow YouTube channel, also exposed the flaws of Islam. An atheist and a Christian critiqued Islam together.

Then he got invited to Israel, along with David. The experience introduced him to something undefinably supernatural.

“I have been a little bit different since I went to Israel and came back,” he said at the time. “Right now, I feel like it would be more accurate for me to say that I am agnostic. After I went there and came back, something happened in my head and in my heart. I can no longer have this conviction that there definitely is no god.

“With going to Israel, I feel weirdly attached to that place. It didn’t feel like a strange place,” he added. “It felt like home.”

Then in June 2024, AP’s wife got saved. She had been an atheist like her husband.

But AP didn’t immediately follow suit. He just continued on with what he was doing, posting videos blasting Islam.

In February of this year, he decided to accompany his wife, who was attending an Orthodox church. He was received warmly by the priest and members of the congregation. He decided to return. He announced his progress towards faith on his channel.

“I will continue on my path,” AP said at the time. “I am less arrogant and more open to humility for most exploring. At this point I’m not entirely sure what will happen and where I will go and what I will do. But I would say the only reason that I don’t outright come out and say I am a Christian now is that I’m waiting for a final confirmation.”

Apparently, going to church and talking to Christians have worn off on him. In March, he initiated the process of becoming full-fledged Orthodox Christian with baptism. He became a catechumen.

Why did he leave atheism? It was bleak, hopeless, meaningless, he said. You live your life for nothing and die amid nothing.

“Christianity is actually a better way to look at the world than believing there is no god,” AP says. “I made a leap of faith.”

Unsurprisingly, there are naysayers. One Redditor said AP’s audience on YouTube was mostly Christians. “He went where the money was coming from,” he sniped.

For every convert, there’s a cynic who denies his authentic encounter with God.

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