Reply To: Especially good at clarifying "How do we know Hashem exists?" to a young adult

MOC, If your guy thinks he’s smarter than rambam, rashi, r’ Yonoson Eibeshutz, the Vilna Gaon and innumerous other incredibly smart people, he has a lack of midos. He should be able to realize that if he thinks differently than so many of those who are older and smarter than him, it’s probably (at least possibly) his problem and he has to look for a solution, or cure. In my experience, chances are his problem is anxiety.

Gimme a break. You think the Pope and most leaders of different faiths, or atheists, or agnostics, are slow or idiots, suffering from anxiety or have bad “Midos”? LOL

Can we agree that if those you mentioned above had grown up in non-Jewish homes, most would have kept the religion practiced in their home? There are Gerim, but there are equal amounts of those who choose to leave Orthodox Judaism, or dont actively practice it, and are by no means slow or suffering from anxiety, etc.