(September 20, 2010 at 4:50 pm)blood_pardon Wrote: There are instances where telling people they are crazy is appropriate. You are right, I am wrong.
Alright. Now that we are agreed that crazy people are just plain crazy we get back to the original question. How do we know that the person making the claim is not just a little "crazy?" Or lying? Or merely wrong? People with a predisposition towards the supernatural will see the "hand of god" in every anomaly in much the same way as UFO fanatics see little green men in every light in the sky.
Odds are, its just a plane.
Likewise, odds are that 'god' is not talking to you. I understand the appeal of a doctrine which tells an otherwise insignificant human that the 'creator of the universe' is talking to him but really.... what would such a being want with you?