To explain knowledge of God

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Ya know, I can't speak for all of us, but I can speak for myself and a bunch of us.
The last thing I wanted to do was to abandon my personal sovereignty and lay it at God's feet.

So you and that "bunch" had to overcome stubbornness and pride to find god. I overcame them to realize that he isn't there. So we're back at square one, it seems.

No, no: now we get to sit here and watch the theists dismiss you and attack your method as insufficient, without actually knowing what it was, because you didn't come up with the answer they wanted you to.

This entire process is one enormous sharpshooter fallacy: anyone who comes away believing in god is a success, everyone who doesn't gets brushed off as doing it wrong.