My doctor asked me to pray.

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I don't deny that theists have a very personal relationship with "God", it's just that "God" lives entirely in their imagination. They project it so as to appear to be a separate entity.

Whether they literally see it, I couldn't say. I imagine probably not, most of the time. Maybe the odd hallucination, which can happen to anyone. But the mind is powerful, they may really convince themselves they see and hear things that aren't there. No doubt there are a lot of emotions involved, which act as reassurance and even "communication". They no doubt see patterns everywhere which they assign meaning to.

It hears them, it answers them however they want it to, and it always agrees with them. (Except the people who kill themselves because of how much they think God despises them.)

Psychology owns God.