First, I am Catholic, and so is this other guy.
I responded to him and asked, "Do you remember how you felt when the first news about Catholic priest abuses in Boston broke, a couple of decades ago?"
He replied, "I was sort of numbed with disbelief."
"Okay," I continued, "and have you ever thought about how such a scandal could exist for so long, not to mention other scandals? Have you ever thought about the power structure at the top levels of the church administration that manipulated things to keep all the scandals a secret?"
"I guess I never thought of it that way," he replied.
"Well, " I said, "do you think that the the Catholic church is the only entity in the history of the world to have a power structure, and secret scandals, etc.?"
Silence.
"And so," I added, "by simple extrapolation, I am confident that a relatively tiny number of people in the highest positions among the governments, corporations and other institutions are all busy pushing their agendas, and protecting their secrets. And if that's true, it's probably just as true that an even higher level of controllers are orchestrating things to their advantage and to further their agenda."
Deer in the headlights stare.
"Questioning everything" is radical skepticism---which is the philosophical position that knowledge is impossible. (You must question any answers you think you found.) Bertrand Russell wrote "Skepticism, while logically impeccable, is psychologically impossible, and there is an element of frivolous insincerity in any philosophy which pretends to accept it."
It is passing strange (if not amusing) that many adherents of this position adopt completely dogmatic views on the subjects of "chemtrails", a Flat Earth, a Moon landing hoax, and other zany paranoid delusions. No questions for them, once they have obtained their "answers."
Interesting quotes. Yes, you can't reason with the person i talked about. I even showed him an hour long video of the police body cam footage where they are talking to Gabbie and her BF on the side of the road in Utah and I said "why would they release this video if it's supposedly some famous actress you're referring to... plus look at her height and weight, she's not even a close resemblance"
He just ignores all dissenting opinions.