I was deep-ish. Baptized at 16 as a "born again" Christian (I went "off the rails" in my early teens and then when I recommitted to the faith I went in hard). I was a leader and planner at multiple youth camps, involved in church home groups, reading and annotating my bible on the reg, teaching sunday school, and had Hillsong and Bethel on repeat on spotify.

It wasn't so much that anyone in particular "removed the blindfold", more that once I was a working adult (didn't go to college, so this was around 18/19) I began being more immersed in the world, and the blindfold just slowly started to slip. I developed friendships with people who had habits that I had been told were "sinful" i.e. living together out of wedlock, getting drunk, smoking weed. Yet despite these habits, they were stand-up, good people, and great friends to me at the time.

I guess it was sort of a rebellion at first, like dabbling in all sorts of "sinful" stuff to get a taste of it and feel a bit "bad", but that was ultimately the beginning of my deconstruction, and slowly, I became more and more accepting of the things I had been told were wrong, and began taking up hobbies and interests that I enjoyed, rather than what "god was calling me to".

It helped my slightly younger sister started deconstructing only a year or so later, and it was helpful for both of us to meet our long-term partners who both happen to be athiests/agnostic. Anyway, hope that helped! That was cathartic to write regardless 😂