"I Hope You Come Back One Day."

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A friend wanted to talk about God and religion and spirituality with me, yesterday. Aside from my mother who is STILL working every day to show me why faith is important, this is the only other person I have really breeched the subject with. I am finding that even people who are less rigid about their beliefs don't allow themselves to really question things. Not really. Whenever I come up with a compelling argument AGAINST God being all knowing, all loving and good they can only answer with the "We can't understand God," response. When I bring up the possibility that God was created by man and not the other way around they answer with, "I have seen God do work in my life too many times. It's real." When I point out that there is no actual proof any of that was God and if it was a God there is no way they can know it is the God in the Bible and ask why God seems to them to be intervening and helping some people and others are left to suffer and die, they come back around to us not being able to understand God. Circular argument. 

I found myself in a circular argument yesterday. 

You can't have an actual discussion with someone who refuses to look at their own religion in the same critical way they look at others. 

I had to make sure to point out that I am not certain a god or something bigger exists. I am saying I am not convinced it exists, but I am pretty sure if it does, it is not the God of the Bible.

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