Defending Pantheism

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I'm only telling you how, why, and when, I feel that sense of the numinous.  It's your problem, entirely, if you don't get that from any of those things. You do realize that you don't actually get to characterize -my experience-, yes?  If you feel that your ridiculous beliefs are threatened in any way by non theists having this sense..well...tough titties.  We do, and commonly so.

I'm telling you  that I experienced exactly what you describing when it comes to my family, that the feeling you described one that I feel as well, daily just like you do, a form of gratitude of the fortune lives you and I have. 

But this experience of gratitude, is not the same as an experience of the numinous. That nice feeling you get from the wonderful life you have, is not the feeling/experience of what's referred as the numinous. 

I'm not discounting your feelings, I'm just indicating that the experience of numinous, as described by Otto, Lewis, even Hitchens is distinct from it. 

Now maybe you've experienced something like this too, but conflating with the gratitude you feel for the good life your a part of, is not suggestive of this. And this has nothing to do with you being an atheists either, as if atheists are excluded from such an experience.