How to discuss religion with believers?

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I agree with OP. Once you start asking the hard questions many believers get angry.

As someone who once believed, I can assure you that you will never understand their logic, because there is none.

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In order to believe in God and in a religion, you need to ignore many contradictions, which most of the time means " I do not know the answer, but I know there is one because God exists, so its okay".

I only discuss about religion with a few believers who are close to me and I know wont get angry. Otherwise, I never do.

"In order to believe in God"  - There never has been an atheist, or ever will be. In Romans 1, Apostle Paul stated there are no atheists --- 18  “who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19  For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them".   There are those who say there is no God or show me the evidence (creation itself is one of the pieces of evidence). Did anyone think that the 'old nature' which is at enmity with God, would go away quietly?  They resist God's moral authority by suppressing the truth. It's a mistake, to try to convince anyone in the existence of God since they already know that. 

Like the poet said: truth is like dust, just can’t get rid of that stuff; it just keeps hanging around.