The Bible-Boooooring

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You didn't even address the argument. Typical. An honest person would just say "I have no way of knowing whether this is true". But you have no problem ascribing a psychiatric cause to something with no evidence.

You're right, I have no evidence except the vast preponderance of scientific and real world experience telling me that the thing you have claimed is most likely impossible. Don't pretend that I'm just making an assertion out of nowhere.

I realize that to make a significant claim, such as to have experience God directly is a serious claim. It need not be accepted as absolute truth, it is not wrong to believe that, perhaps the person had a psychiatric issue. That is different from intentionally maligning someone with psychiatric terminology, mocking, coming from "liberals" who are so compassionate they use condescending labels designed for the mentally ill and tactics reminscent of Stalinism.

Interesting. You claim we're intentionally maligning you and then in the next sentence you link us to Stalin.

I want to be very clear, here: I'm not mocking you. I just don't believe you. And I have my reasons for doing so, that have nothing to do with wanting freedom from religion or free reign to sin, and everything to do with the fact that typically, claims such as yours are borne out false, or at least never confirmed to be true. If everything in my life up until now has shown me that when people claim to be in touch with god they're either lying or unbalanced, am I really that unjustified in thinking the next person in line to make exactly the same claims is the same?

I sometimes have a hard time deciding which side of the lying/ill divide you're on, because you often say very ridiculous things and that makes me think you're trolling, but if you're serious about the things you claim then I genuinely believe there's something up in your mind.

But you're right: I don't know for sure. How can I possibly, given that your personal experiences aren't transferable to me and I've never had any of my own?

No one has produced a single piece of evidence that I am crazy, other than the fact that I have posted a supernatural form of evidence.

Just claiming that something is supernatural doesn't shield it from being criticized or from having connotations. If I'd come to you claiming that I'd met an all powerful supernatural being who told me, in a manner that I find to be absolutely certain, that the god jstrodel believes in doesn't exist, you would think there's something wrong, either with my story or with me personally, right?

I am not saying this because I am so defensive that I need to vent my anger, I am saying this because I am genuinely concerned for your salvation and want you to realize how far you have tilted your falsely called "critical thinking methods" against religion to prove what your heart wants, which is freedom from religion.

Come on now, don't do that. If there's one thing that pisses me off on these forums, it's people getting it into their heads that they can tell me what I believe, and have that stick. Don't tell me what my thought processes are, strodel. Especially coming off of a post where you chastised me for saying things with certainty when I have no conclusive evidence.