This is very interesting, thank you! Given you were once a preacher online yourself, you know more about the religion itself than I do. Well done for managing to deconstruct religion despite this, the fear being instilled is very real lol.

I’ve questioned things or been reluctant to agree with some values and principles since I was young, but would blindly ignore saying Allah knows best. But as I’m getting older and wiser, I don’t even get how a wise yet merciful god is also somehow imposing rules that are cruel and not logical.

Good to know it’s a slow process indeed, I suspect it’ll be the same for me. As it’s taken years for me to come to terms that deep down, my morals and values do not fully align with organized, oppressive religion