Sorry for the repost - I wasn't able to read all your responses, and my post got buried under new ones by the time it was approved. Please resubmit your responses if you had already commented, so I can read them.
I was born and raised as a Muslim. I used to be a religious person until my late teens. But in recent years, I've been drifting apart from Islam. More importantly, in the past month, I've had serious doubts about whether I should leave my religion. I even went as far as creating an alternate account on Reddit a couple of days ago and trying to submit a post on a community of ex-Muslims about officially leaving Islam. In that draft, I also mentioned that the history of Islam has been violent and that I've been lying to myself for being a Muslim. This was due to doing "research" by looking at the actions of religious extremists such as the situation in Afghanistan right now.
However, I started doubting my action and left that draft, and logged out of the account. My heart is heavy, and I now realize that I was a fool for ever doubting the peace and beauty of Islam and have asked Allah for forgiveness. Unfortunately, I won't be able to delete that saved draft since the account was a throwaway, but I feel particularly guilty about trying to write such a post in the first place. Perhaps, that saved draft in the aforementioned account is meant to serve as a reminder for the rest of my life to never again doubt my religious beliefs.
Will God ever forgive me for my actions? I feel like I've betrayed every single value that I was raised with.
Thanks for reading - any advice will be greatly appreciated.
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