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I was talking to an ex-muslim atheist late last night and she started asking me about my Christian faith. At first she asked me how i can compromise my faith with science, which I responded by saying that the church fathers didn't take the creation story in Genesis literally over a thousand years ago, before evolution was even a scientific theory, and that cultural context is important to the story of Genesis. At which point she started asking me why God didn't just outright say how he created the world and allow it to be up to interpretation including the unscientific questioning like young earth creationism. I responded with by saying that wasn't the scope of God's message, and that God never provided man with scientific information- that was a task we are to do ourselves, and that's why things weren't corrected.
She responded by saying, "Well to me it just sounds like god didn't know. Why can people be so smart, and then turn off their brains for religion?" And accused me of performing mental gymnastics for the contradictions in the religion I was born and raised with, which I responded by saying I don't really see things as contradictions when I look closely into individual verses. She then started asking why it made any sense for Jesus to be allowed to sacrifice for all of humanity ("You'd have to have a mental disorder to want to die like that") and wouldn't accept "selfless love" as an adequate answer.

Now sure, this conversation was at 3am, but I still felt like I did a bad job defending my beliefs. idk when I'll talk to her again about religion but I think it'll happen again soonish. I think I also needed to explain to her that unlike the Quran, the Bible is not strictly divine, but divinely inspired, written by authors over thousands of years and were kept as scripture to provide a cultural context for the main thesis- the gospels.

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