Heaven seems awful 2 me-"Theist laughs at loudly & with great cruelty"

[drfuzzy]

Missing here is the idea that different people will have various and different responses to the Divine. Ironically anti-religious bigotry cannot tolerate dissent from their own rejection of the Divine.

And "the Divine" is, exactly?  Are you using this as a synonym for the "Holy Spirit"?  Is it a synonym for "Transcendence"?  People in the middle of a voodoo ceremony feel transcendence.  People fall into trances, it's group-think influencing the brain.  

GC was asserting that his interpretation of the scriptures were guided by the "Holy Spirit", and therefore HIS interpretation was correct and conflicting interpretations - from others who also believe that they are guided by the "Holy Spirit" - are wrong.  
     So, either the "Holy Spirit" is telling a whole bunch of preachers wildly different and often highly contradictory interpretations, or the preachers are pulling their interpretations out of their own imagination, and appealing to the authority of the nonexistent "Holy Spirit" to make themselves seem credible.  If the assertion is that ALL the interpretations are correct, (or even that only a few are correct and many are wrong, because of _____ ) then the your vague and contradictory "Holy Spirit" is the direct cause for all the schisms in Christianity.  


It's much more plausible that someone claiming to be guided by the "Holy Spirit" in correct interpretation of the scriptures is pulling their interpretation out of their own mind, and the claim of guidance is just another appeal to the authority of an imaginary friend. And this assertion of guidance is frequently made by someone who has not studied the original languages, the history and culture of the authors, or any other real scholarly examination of the text.  No, it's much more fun to use the bible as a ouija board.