Sometimes we just have to accept God's will. Religious people aren't open to honest questions. Ellie went to Sunday school as a child, but they asked her to leave because she kept asking awkward questions. A key figure is Palmer Joss, theologian and mystic. He enters the story as a journalist and dropout theological student, studying the harmful impact of technology on third world peoples.
Religious faith is based on feelings rather than facts .
People believe in God because of spooky supernatural feelings, regardless of facts or evidence. It was God. There's a name for it in British politics. If you don't have a good argument against what someone is saying, you discredit it by making them look small or stupid as people instead. Of course there are people who are religious for dishonest reasons, just as there are people who are atheists for dishonest reasons.