Benevolent Creator God?

[LadyForCamus]

They simply dismiss prophets as delusional (at best), or charlatans (at worst).

According to you, we're supposed to immediately assign all such grandiose claims to psychopathology.

No, no, no, no, fucking no. You make the claim of divine revelation as the cause of an experience. In the absence of any evidence to support the notion that such a thing is even possible, let alone probable as a candidate explanation for that experience, we are left to make a rational assessment based on what we already know of reality. We know that the brain can produce experiences that don’t comport with the external world. We have mountains of evidence demonstrating that fact. So much evidence, in fact, that we can predict and even induce these experiences under certain manufactured conditions. We have zero evidence of divine revelation. What other choice is the rational skeptic left with other than to err on the side of what appears to be the most likely explanation based on the available evidence? Stop trying to shift the burden of proof. Your inability to make a properly evidenced case for your claim is no one’s failure but your own.