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[x_autnihil]

*If you enter the chapel today you might notice the young man seated quietly in the pews. If you take a seat next to him, he may after a few minutes, unless you are clearly lost in your own thoughts, turn to you and pose this question

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[a_holy_oak]

[tilts his head] That's a fairly loaded question.

[x_autnihil]

Perhaps. It certainly has been, at times. I assure you, I'm not looking for a particular answer.

[a_holy_oak]

May I ask why the curiousity?

[x_autnihil]

Maybe the setting has influenced me.

[a_holy_oak]

I suppose that's fair. It's not one I've heard often.

[x_autnihil]

I had not heard it discussed here, either. Perhaps if I had I would not have felt the urge to ask myself.

[a_holy_oak]

Faith is a personal thing--and there are enough people from different worlds here that evangelizing for one particular religion could get you quite a bit of discontent.

[x_autnihil]

Do I look like a preacher? I wasn't planning on attempting any sort of conversion.

[a_holy_oak]

I meant in general--why people don't speak of these things often.

[x_autnihil]

Is it no longer acceptable to ask these things simply for the sake of debate or for the comparison of ideas?

[a_holy_oak]

There are some people who'd get upset regardless.

[glancing briefly at the stranger with the long hair hanging around him :|a]

[x_autnihil]

It sounds like they would be particular interesting to speak to, in that case.

[a_holy_oak]

For certain definitions of interesting ...

[x_autnihil]

Regardless, you never told me what you thought.

[a_holy_oak]

I think God is ultimately benevolent--but that it's not within our ability to completely grasp why things happen the way they do. If you work hard for your goals, then He will reward you.

[x_autnihil]

So even when seemingly bad things happen, they happen for a greater reason, and humanity has the ability to work to its own ends.