Chapter One

Intro Theme: Charlotte AMV - Dear Agony

Holly joined the Discord call. Video call. Her Christian friend Sam short for Samantha was already in it.

"You ready?" Samantha asked her.

"Yes, shoot," Holly replied.

Sam began, "Have you read-"

"The Bible? Yes," Holiday said.

"The entire-"

"The entire thing? Yes. I saw a post on Facebook once about the Bible. It went like this. Buy a Bible, don't read it, and you'll be Catholic. Buy a Bible, read-only what suits you and you will be an Evangelical. Buy a Bible, read it fully, analyze it, reason it, and you will be an atheist." Since she was done talking, for now, she moved the mouse and clicked the mute button. Without taking her eyes from the call she grabbed her water bottle from the standing near her bed. Taking off the cap. Taking a gulp of water. She put the cap on and put it back.

Sam was one of Holly's friends. Sam had short braided blonde hair, blue eyes, freckles covering most of her face, white skin tone, and a lithe body. Sam decided to ask another question about Holly's unbelief. "Do you hate God?

Holly smiled confidently at hearing the question. I can answer this easily. She unmuted herself. "There are no real gods. Therefore, I can't hate what doesn't exist. I do hate religion. But let me answer your question again but differently. If he was real would I hate your god? Yes. He is a bully and unjust. He orders his people the Jews, right? To commit genocide against multiple people. He supposedly controls everything so he started World War II. For an 'all-loving' god, he seems rather hateful."

"But he does exist," Sam replied.

"Can I see him? No, I can't therefore doesn't exist."

"Can you see air? But air does exist it's all around us. You and me are alive because of it."

"I think that's a terrible argument, Sam. Let me! One second!" She got up running out of the camera from her laptop. Out of her room. Down the stairs into the kitchen. She looked through several wooden draws pulling them open. "Finally!" She exclaimed running back two zip lock bags.

She got back in front of her camera, in the video holding up the bags so Sam could see them. "Time for I think the word is empirical test example." Reached for her nightstand for the pen holder sitting on it. It was near her water bottle she was careful enough not to knock her water down. She grabbed a marker from it. Writing on one of the bags air and the other one Jesus.

"Now for the airbag, I'm going to open it up to see if it will have air I'll try to make it inflate." She opened it up and then did her best soon she resealed it and the bag was inflated. Air inside. Good! She thought.

"Now for the second bag, I'll try to fill it only with your diety and no air."

Sam began to shake her head knowing where this was going. "You know what I know where this is going let me ask you something else or do you want to ask me something?"

Holly nodded thinking for a second. "I have a question. You believe that God exists correct?"

"Yeah, I do!"

"How did you come to that conclusion?"

Sam had a puzzled look on her face. She even shifted around a bit. Holly looked at her blankly waiting for her to answer.

"I kind of just grew up in the church I guess."

"That's it? You just grew up in the church?

"I guess my parents and the pastor have always said he existed so. . .I say. . .He exists."

"So you never had an original thought in your entire life? Would you say you were indoctrinated?"

"Well, no! I got baptized at a young age."

"How young do you even remember?"

"No, well, I remember the story now! Do you want to know how did I come to the conclusion that he exists?"

"Sure tell me!" Holly said smirking.

"My mother had or was infertility. Confusing I don't know the whole story. Only heard it once. She couldn't get pregnant so eventually, my mom and dad prayed. Then several months after that prayer, they said I came into their lives. It was a miracle pregnancy. I had a lot of problems too. I'm a miracle child."

"Okay, you win this round, Sam. But next online discussion we have you're going down."

"I guess we will see next time."

Ending Theme: Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry AMV - Here and Now