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Have you ever thought about ( this is paraphrasing a Lily Tomlin routine, but it's a valid question) the fact that in prayer, people talk to god, but, if a person claims God has spoken to them most people, even the religious, think they are crazy. Isnt this admitting, in a way, that you don't think god is really there?

Benmonk 6 Jan 3
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On the brighter side..."One ringy dingy...Is this the person to whom I am speaking?"

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People have no clue of psychological processes in their brains.

The fact that a believer can be a non-believer one day, and vice versa, just goes to show that what people experience depends on brain mentation and nothing else.

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Is it just me, or does this question assume that gawd is an actual thing?

No, though I see what you mean. It refers to the perception of the people involved that god is an actual thing.

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My standard response when someone tells me 'God told them' something is:

'Really? What did their voice sound like? Was it deep? Do they have an accent? Was it a man or a woman?'. LOL -- honest, I usually do.

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A lot of religious people would get a real education if they did watch Lily Tomlin or George Carlin or Colbert.

gearl Level 8 Jan 3, 2018
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Actually I get the impression that most religious people accept the silly notion that God speaks to them.

I'm not sure. I do hear people speaking of God telling them things in the intuitive sense, but not usually the literal sense, with a voice.

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