You can't argue with a religious person. Because they can always use the response above.

But what's never made any sense to me is the whole issue of "faith." No one can adequately explain to me why faith - belief in something without proof - is in any way a moral virtue. Why would the creator of the universe exalt faith so highly? It makes no sense at all.

Quite simply, faith is a quintessential case of making a virtue out of a necessity. God clearly doesn't exist, and has never shown any proof of himself at all (no, the bible doesn't count nor does "intelligent design" count as proof). So the religious turn and make "faith" a virtue, because it's the only thing they have.

Oh, and "working in mysterious ways." I love how God intervenes in human affairs when someone is healed or people survive some disaster. Yet when a church collapses on hundreds of worshippers in Peru, for example, that's just one of those mysterious ways.

It's all so amazingly silly.