On non-belief and the existence of God

[Neo-Scholastic]

I don't think NTS applies in this particular case, when the issue about discerning character. People can make all kinds of character judgments without falling into logical fallacy: "A truly humble person is..."; "A truly loving spouse is one that..."; etc.

Didn't NTS begin out of a place of judging people? "No true Scotsman would ever do ____".

Perhaps. But I don't think of NTS as a truly logical fallacy. If anything it points out to an ambiguity with one of the terms.

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...I suspect that the type of experience at the root of most spiritual traditions is similar rather than dissimilar, and that it is intrinsic to the human experience.

Agreed. I consider myself a theist after rational reflection on personal experience, which is how all knowledge, even scientific, is acquired. However, I am a Christian by culture, meaning my mindset and understand has been framed by the Western tradition and I cannot help but see through that lens.

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F2R. I don't know if we'll ever know anything for certain.

I believe in absolutes without which knowledge is not possible. In the absence of these absolutes, "like the idea that a proposition cannot be both true and not truth," the world quickly devolves into indefensible absurdity.