It's hard to watch a friend close themselves to a belief you believe in. I recently had a friend who had an interest in mormon beliefs, but has become closed minded to the point where there has to be PROOF, evidence, FACTS for him to believe anything. He believes he has stepped up and become a better person because he can admit he doesn't KNOW there is a god, or anything. Because he knows that it is impossible to know any of that.
He calls people of religion arrogant in their mindless beliefs, yet he fails to see his own arrogance in his need for proof and facts. His lack of being able to open his mind, his need to fight my beliefs with 'facts'.
I tried to bare my testimony that I DO know there is a heavenly father, a god. Who watches over me, has helped me throughout all my trials. That I know this because of the feeling, a clearity I have in my mind. Because of a feeling which goes beyond feelings and emotions alone.
And yet... it only falls to deafened ears, he calls my belief arrogant because I have no proof. Yet he cannot see his own, and I being the way I am have a hard time walking away. He picked the fight, and I fell into it. I called him arrogant and tried to show him his own hypocrisy. Yet in doing so I eventually realized that I could never have helped my own case.
I should have walked away, told him simply how I felt, and walked away. I should have told him my testimony, and told him to believe as he wishes... and walked away.
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