For those who want to "discuss" Christianity with 3sigma, here is a translation of his rhetoric. Reasonable absolutely means rejecting any belief in God or a divine being. Single shred of evidence absolutely means it must be able to be recreated in a laboratory using test tubes.
Yes, you stopped asking the "questions" and mysteriously disappeared for a while. I take it you again wanted to satiate your appetite for the denigration of Christians? Back to conduct more laboratory experiments?
Take 50 cc of substance "Communicating with God" and add 50 cc of substance "Christian privilege." Shake. Warm over Bunsen burner for ten minutes. Resulting substance is Special Privilege of Christians to Communicate with God.
See above directions. Repeat.
I don't think test tubes and bunsen burners is what 3sigma has been asking for.
You have to understand that many non believers began as sincere and even passionate Christians, yet failed (sometimes after many years) to have any of the mysterious experiences many Christians claim - main one being communication with God, such that the individual recognises that it is in fact God communicating with them, and not their imagination.
3sigma reasons that to facilitate this factual communication, Christians must develop a new kind of sense, a sixth sense, and since we are physical creatures, such a change should leave identifiable physical traces, probably in the brain, which are not replicated by known neurological phenomena.
It's a perfectly logical reponse, a request for some kind of evidence supporting Christian claims.
Failing that, consider that there are sects of Christianity which do recognise a difference, although they are no better at explaining it or proving it than you and razeontherock. Calvinism addresses this in a roundabout way by postulating most humans, including most Christians, however passionate their belief, are essentially chaff, debris intended by God from the beginning to be fuel to the fire.
Now consider that if that is true, it is and always will be impossible for most of us to have the experience you claim because God is not interested in providing it.
Now don't you feel mean?
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