I don't even know how to untangle this. Partially because I don't believe, in previous conversations, that I've ever given the impression that didn't actually believe my religion is a true (not the only true, but *A* true) depiction of the world. I can offer evidence that religious experiences are measurable and are different from other kinds of experiences; there's actually quite a bit of evidence of that. I have some theories about what is actually going on, but I don't feel like I need to provide a comprehensive answer to the whole universe because that was never my thing in the first place.

But the conversation always seems to go the same way: people start talking about "religion" when they actually mean "the forms of religion I am most familiar with" which actually means "Western monotheism" and expect me to defend that when I have no interest in doing so because I don't agree with those worldviews. Atheists have a tendency to hold views of religion which I consider incorrect and when I say I don't plan to prove their wrong assumptions, tell me that because I'm not "proving" ideas I never espoused that means Religion is Wrong. You can't solve the problem of evil with science, either.