With the benefit of hindsight, it is always tempting to judge. The awareness you have now can make your past involvement in fundamentalism seem very strange. Therefore, it is vital for you to realize that you are not the same person now. The choices and commitments you made in the past were ones that made the most sense to you at the time — just as you may have chosen a spouse or a career that you later outgrew. The point is you are human. You try to do the best you can; no one deliberately plans to create unhappiness.
