Ceteloguing the Tricks Theists Play

[Rhondazvous]

Oh, you mean like the Relationship we can build with God.. I don't use the word faith to describe that aspect of the relationship. The only faith needed is the faith it takes to just A/S/K. The rest as you say is built on " built upon actual experience and probability."

If you really had a relationship with god, you wouldn't be so dependent on the Bible. We read books about people we don't know.  No one can write a book about my father and tell me he told them what to write so I  should  forget everything I think I know about him from my experience with him. Who is my father? My father is the universe. Who is my mother? My mother is the Earth. I have a personal relationship with them. I can stand on the beach and see the curve of the horizon where the water meats the sky, so I don't need Christopher Columbus to tell me the planet is round.

 I cannot have a relationship with something no one has ever seen or heard, not even you. If you say you have heard god speak to you, the men in the long white coats will come and put you away in a locked room with padded walls.