You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!

You: Yes.

You: If I wasn’t already married.

Stranger: wouldn’t you not really have a choice?

Stranger: either, they want it, so it happens

You: Of course I would. Are your gods so cruel as to force you?

Stranger: or they don’t want it, so it doesn’t happen

Stranger: MY god wouldn’t do that

Stranger: the sex, I mean

You: A sexless god?

Stranger: as far as I know

You: You need to get to know your gods better if you don’t know.

Stranger: gods?

Stranger: I’m not polytheistic

You: Oh. So you’ve found someone so multifunctional you’ve given up on the others?

Stranger: I never HAD other gods…

You: Who then is your god?

Stranger: The Lord

Stranger: God

You: The lord God? Strange name indeed.

Stranger: he doesn’t really have a name in my religion

You: I am assuming it’s pronounced as the word “god”.

Stranger: a closely related religion calls him Allah

You: It’s a male god?

Stranger: yes

You: Oh dear you’re an abrahamite.

Stranger: well

Stranger: sort of

Stranger: Abraham was QUITE a while ago

Stranger: so I think the religion has changed a little bit

You: I have a strong wish for your kind to burn to death for your transgressions.

Stranger: that’s pleasant….

You: Let me ask you, have you been taught this worship or did you find him personally?

Stranger: I was raised with it, but I’ve always asked questions instead of blindly following

Stranger: I still have questions

Stranger: I will always have questions

Stranger: but I feel confident in my belief

You: I am sure you have heard it before, but still I feel the need to tell you: you’ve been misled. Find your own way.

Stranger: “my own way”?

Stranger: you make it sound a LOT like YOUR way

You: Can you not imagine a god greater than yours?

Stranger: not really…

Stranger: It doesn’t get much more powerful than ALL POWERFUL

You: No, my ways are my own and I have no wish to even inform you of the details of my religion.

Stranger: all right then…

You: So if you told your god to turn my computer off, he would?

Stranger: I doubt it

You: I honestly think you should reevaluate your worship.

Stranger: why? My God doesn’t take order from me

You: And I mean that as friendly advice. I have nothing against abrahamites on the individual level.

Stranger: what flaw do you see with my worship?

Stranger: I’m genuinely curious

You: Your god doesn’t take your word into consideration?

Stranger: perhaps he does, but why would he obey my every whim?

You: The obvious flaw is that you don’t control your own religiousity.

Stranger: so you are all powerful through your god?

You: No, nor do I wish to be.

Stranger: he does whatever you ask him/her/it to?

Stranger: then I don’t see your point

You: No, but I always get a chance to influence anything between us.

Stranger: explain?

You: My gods will always take my wishes into account, but their actions are mostly their own.

You: I lack a few words to explain, english isn’t my mother tongue.

Stranger: and how do you know your gods take your wishes into account?

You: Also, it might be of importance to point out that I know little of your personal worship and my views are based on abrahamism as a whole.

You: Because I can see that I affect their choises and doings, and they will let me know if I ask what made them come to any particular conclusion.

You: My gods aren’t almighty and schematically perfected, they are persons just like us.

Stranger: and what is your religion called?

You: I don’t know that it has a name. It’s just the way it has always been so there hasn’t been any need to name it to differ it from other religions.

Stranger: I see

You: If you need an almighty god, why not worship your own conscience?

Stranger: My conscience didn’t make the universe

You: But it tells you that there is a universe.

Stranger: it is indeed an impressive thing, but not the root.

You: Is it not a filter between your one god and yourself?

Stranger: it is indeed.

Stranger: but why would I worship a filter over a god?

You: Because you can’t judge from beyond the filter what is beyond the filter.

Stranger: I don’t know what you mean by that..

You: What you experience, is what is painted on the glass window.

You: But you cannot see who painted it.

Stranger: Plato’s glass window?

You: And so cannot judge whether the painting is true or false or done by yourself.

You: I wouldn’t know, I have never studied philosophy.

Stranger: me neither, but I know the basic idea of Plato’s cave

You: I think I might recognise a fragment of such an idea.

You: Aren’t gods beyond philosophy though, it being human theory?

Stranger: yes, that’s why I was sort of surprised by your glass window comment

You: I was trying to explain but I think I made myself confused.

Stranger: that’s alright :)

Stranger: listen, this has been a VERY interesting conversation, but I’m afraid I must go

Stranger: I have unfinished homework

You: Consider being your own god!

You: And good luck with school.

Stranger: thanks!

Stranger: have a nice life!

Your conversational partner has disconnected.