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The thing is, I completely understand where you're coming from, where you say faith is illogical. If you look at faith at a superficial level, it looks ridiculous and completely illogical. But, the thing is, it would be even more illogical for me to deny that the experiences that I've experienced deep within the faith... mainly because those experiences are absolutely not repeatable, no matter how much I've tried.

If it were mere chemical reactions that were brought on by stress, if the experiences were merely based on strong feelings, if I had a history of seeing things where there wasn't, if what happened were mainly confined to my senses, then I can understand why I might seriously doubt that something that I perceived to happen actually did happen. But, I don't have a history of this at all. I do have strong feelings, but not every strong feeling is accompanied by this kind of conviction. Stress, even extreme stress, doesn't cause this conviction. It is only an utter abandonment of self into the hands of God that really causes these weird experiences. That is the common denominator. And, if this is so... then logically, there must be something to abandoning yourself to God. And that is why I am a follower.

Again, I don't expect you to really get this. After all, from what I've understand, you've never had this happen to you at all. And that's okay! But, for me (and for a lot of the Christians there!) saying that faith is illogical is kind of like saying that depression doesn't exist. I mean, there are people who claim that there is no such thing as depression and that it's just an excuse for people to be sad. But, then you have the insistence of those that are depressed who insist that there is something wrong with them and the psychological findings that there is something wrong with these people. Faith is kind of like that... except, I would argue that it's not wrong, but absolutely right and pretty awesome too. For the faithful, the faith changes our lives in ways that we wouldn't have even guessed.

Anyway, so hopefully that explains the exasperation that you're encountering, lol. To the Christian, saying that the faith isn't real is like trying to saying to a clinically depressed person that they aren't depressed. It's a bit frustrating, if you're not used to defending yourself. XD