- Growing up and learning to question.
- Questioning God's existence and not finding the arguments for his existence very convincing.
- Realising just how nonsensical a lot of aspects of religion are, not just in Islam but in monotheism in general. Like praying even though prayer has no demonstrable effects, assuming that the creator of time and space actually cares about whether or not the meat in that burger you're eating was slaughtered a certain way, or whether or not you mutter a string of magic words every now and again, or whether or not you even believe in him. Why would a God be so petty?
- And then to hammer home my point about God being petty we have Heaven and Hell. It makes God seem like a mafia boss who, depending on whether you make him happy or mad, will either throw you a party with copious amounts of strippers and alcohol, or break your arms and then throw you in a lake with cement shoes. But at least with the mafia boss example there's a purpose behind his actions, what's the purpose in God making us spend an eternity in Heaven or Hell?