What I find amusing and sad at the same time is that the personal revelation stories never invoke 'God talked to me'. They are always an emotional retelling of an unlikely coincidence (most are so mundane that the word serendipity couldn't be invoked); or invoke supernatural significance to a rare, but purely natural, event.
What I have always found effective is immediately challenging the person with this, "you have had what you consider a divine experience, but exactly why does that require my fealty to the dictums of barbarians codified in an ancient text enforced by an asshole that reads to me from a raised platform once a week while asking for 10% of my labor?".
What I have always found effective is immediately challenging the person with this, "you have had what you consider a divine experience, but exactly why does that require my fealty to the dictums of barbarians codified in an ancient text enforced by an asshole that reads to me from a raised platform once a week while asking for 10% of my labor?".
