First off I'm sorry you kept getting childish answers to your adult questions. This is a big reason a lot of people walk away from the church and few people are working towards rectifying it*** Eg “Why does God allow for people to suffer?” It doesn't actually say anywhere he doesn't and if you got told nonsense like 'Good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people' as well, well this is an outright lie as we can clearly see by observing the news!

It sounds like your heated debates with friends would be fun to sit in on. I'd love to have a metaphysical exchange about how, *if* God created the physical universe they must by definition exist outside of it and therefore space, time and all the laws of physics within that we cannot escape, similar in many ways to the programmer who exists outside of the virtual world they have coded.

I would agree with your statement about humanity being hardwired into needing to believe in something. Many people who leave the church still find themselves looking for something to fill that hole although this may be the community engagement more than a spiritual hole. However I don't think God is in the mind as much as the heart. Belief in God is inherently illogical because it requires a simultaneous sense of disbelief in the physical universe being all that there is. But we also describe God as love and love is something that makes us all do irrational, insane things.

***If you are interested in having some grown-up answers to your questions, try this podcast series: https://omny.fm/shows/your-move/who-needs-god-part-1-atheist-2-0

Disclaimer: I am not a member of this church nor even live in this guy's country. Feel free to ignore that podcast if you think I have some sort of agenda. (I don't)