Theologian for a MovementAt the age of three Shahidi Islam learned on his birthday a lesson it took the Buddha years to figure out: that life is suffering. By age five his mother Laurelle Saunders taught him that God was real and that God willingly used his power to deliver the weak , which allowed him to see God as the best escape from the sufferings of life. This was at age five.At age thirteen Islam had his first sexual experience, and as a traumatic experience, he blotted it from his memory for years. This experience drove Islam to seek for the sexual liberation of all people, particularly young people, from sex negative and anti-sex doctrines and ideas.At age seventeen Islam began writing doctrinal letters to various churches he had developed a bond with, and at the age of nineteen he expanded this to celebrities. Then, at age twenty-two he got deported to a hostel in London where he lived in poverty for eight years.At age twenty-six Islam read the Quran for the first time and his eyes were opened. From that moment he saw the Prophet Muhammad as a divine Semitic prophet. Very powerful. Then, at age thirty-two he officially joined the Godbody movement, an African American movement based on the ideas of cultural Islam, and thus developed Black pride.Finally, at age forty Islam joined the Society for the Study of Theology, from which he teaches his pro-sex godbody theology to those willing to learn a more nuanced interpretation of the Bible and the Quran.Read more about this authorRead less about this author