Why materialists are predominantly materialists

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EVEN IF I had ideas about reality, and they were 100% bang-on correct. . . how would I know this to be the case?  How would I know there were not some additional layer, inscrutable to me, supporting all of that?

You cannot, which is probably why you are not a true atheist. Agnostic, maybe.

Reality is precisely what we experience through our senses, the same senses that can be verified by others when they experience the same thing within the vicinity.

After all, one person make an outrageous claim as another thousands of miles apart, but there is no way to verify that the experiences are connected.

Time matters as much as distance.

There is no veritable, nor historical, way for the bible to make itself known as fact. The nonsensical themes non-withstanding, the logic is missing to the point of absolute disbelief.