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I had a chat with a muslim friend of mine (I have expressed interest in converting) and she said something I found amusing
>For people in biblical times, it was easy to believe, because miracles were happening all the time. It’s much harder to believe these days
I disagree with her statement, but she’s a mother and older than me, so I didn’t argue. However, her statement helps provide foundation for my answer to you, OP.
If you grow up, like just about any child, having your natural curiosity repeatedly stunted by the very obviously contradictory or impoverished version of reality presented by ignorant adults and the fair-weather faithful, you come to despise religion when you finally find the simple answers you were looking for in the history of scientific discovery. If your curiosity travels beyond what prior research can readily answer, if it takes you deep into the dark and gloomy caves of the unknown, you realize that all of what we have proved still leaves so much unexplored and unanswered. Staring inwardly at that abyss, you recognize how miraculous even the most mundane things are. That you and everything on Earth, and the Earth itself, hang in the very manifestation of that unknowable darkness, as unlikely as the wildest miracle, but as real as anything you’ll ever know. And what a blessing it is to know anything at all.
