Very well written piece Harry, and your words will not shake my belief in God, but you may talk someone who is on the fence into not believing, and I completely understand why you don't believe, as the way the Abrahamic religions describe God is one reason that atheism exists. "Religions have been designed to be believed and thus construct God as a deliverer of human wants if we do as we are told, which God is not. So people either blindly believe in God because the lie of what God is is believable, or reject God because the God defined by religions cannot co-exist with the reality that most people do not get what they want, or are not actually happy, and a world full of seemingly senseless tragedy and really bad things happening to good people." That's from my https://medium.com/illumination/why-is-it-so-easy-for-people-to-believe-the-most-obvious-lies-yet-require-proof-of-god-339a2a07cc4f the subtitle of which is "Conversely, Why Does this Walking BS Detector not Believe 90% of Peoples’ Claims Yet Firmly Believe in Eternal Souls and God(s)?" and contains this paragraph: "The fact is no one dies. We return to Heaven and the cycle of soul, to soul with body and back to soul repeats as many times as soul wants. The each successive cycle is designed to challenge us with harder and harder human experiences with the goal of learning how to meet these challenges while remaining true to spiritual principles such as patience, humility, compassion, empathy and above all else, Love."