God seldom communicate in literal ways, every person may have different take.
Yes, and that was the evidence that people claiming to see a god are not. Remember the the red and green socks? It was the uniformity of the responses that revealed that the socks appeared red or green to people with normal color vision. If every person had a different take, as you worded it, he would know that the respondents weren't seeing what they claimed to see. That's how I know that people claiming to experience an objectively existing god are only experiencing their own minds, mistaking part of it for a god, and projecting that god onto external reality.
How would you know what I got?
From your posting. It reveals more about you than you seem to know. Also, many here understand the limits of human understanding. No human being alive can justifiably claim to know that gods do or do not exist, including you. The fact that you are unaware of this is irrelevant.
I have an issue atheists stating that my experiences are just belief, how would they know.
Because you can't support your claims.
the last several hundred years, I'd say starting beginning of industrial era, atheism increased. I partially attribute it to industrial pollutions that kill perception functions.
Skeptics reject unsupported claims. There's a good reason for that. Wrong ideas are useless or worse.
it is fixable if one wants to improve self, it may take years or it is easier just to be an atheist.
Atheism requires intelligence and courage. What is easy is to accept the first holy book thrown into your playpen, and just believe that.
To the believer, the secular humanist says rise from your knees, cease groveling and calling yourself an unworthy worm in the eyes of an angry god, shed your magical thinking, and stand up with pride like the bipedal ape you were born to be and take your proper place in the cosmos..
Shed the comforting but disabling swaddling of religious belief, and look out into the universe, which may be almost empty, and which may contain no gods at all.
That may be terrifying to the person who has never tried it, but if you're still young and adaptable enough, the existential crisis will pass, and a new and enabling sense of self and ones place in the scheme of things will emerge.
Face and accept the very real possibility that we may be all there is for light years, and that things don't get better if we don't make them better.
Accept that you may be vulnerable and not watched over.
Accept the likelihood of your own mortality and finititude.
Accept the reality of your insignificance everywhere but earth, and that you might be unloved except by some of those around you.
Because as far as we know, that's how it is.
Lack of God or anything spiritual, materialism. That what was said to me since I was born.
In my opinion, authentic spirituality is a combination of a sense of mystery, awe, gratitude, and connection. It has nothing to do with ghosts, spirits, gods, angels, spiritualists, Ouija boards, or seances. Christianity detaches one from the world. It teaches that matter is base, our bodies vile flesh entrapping a pure soul, mankind is a failed and sin-infected species, that the world is a place to separate yourself from, and to divert your attention and your respect from our common and only known world to an imagined god and heaven - like somebody waiting at a celestial bus stop for life to end and to be whisked away to somewhere better. Even your mind is your enemy - don't listen to it, it's really Satan trying to harm you.
Now you tell me what is spiritual about that? Could you psychologically wrench a person out of reality any more than that? Death to connectivity to reality.
This is from an anonymous Internet source describing authentic spirituality:
"When I looked at the galaxy that night, I knew the faintest twinkle of starlight was a real connection between my comprehending eye along a narrow beam of light to the surface of another sun. The photons my eyes detect (the light I see, the energy with which my nerves interact) came from that star. I thought I could never touch it, yet something from it crosses the void and touches me. I might never have known. My eyes saw only a tiny point of light, but my mind saw so much more.
"If God exists, God made this [photo of a galaxy]. Look at it. Face it. Accept it. Adjust to it, because this is ... how God works. God would probably want you to look at it. To learn about it. To try to understand it. But if you can’t look — if you won’t even try to understand — what does that say about your religion?"
[snip]
"To even partially comprehend the scale of a single galaxy is to almost disappear. And when you remember all the other galaxies, you shrink 100 billion times smaller still. But then you remember what you are. The same facts that made you feel so insignificant also tell you how you got here. It’s like you become more real, or maybe the universe becomes more real. You suddenly fit. You suddenly belong. You do not have to bow down. You do not have to look away. In such moments, all you have to do is remember to keep breathing."
[snip]
"The body of a newborn baby is as old as the cosmos. The form is new and unique, but the materials are 13.7 billion years old, processed by nuclear fusion in stars, fashioned by electromagnetism. Cold words for amazing processes. And that baby was you. Is you. You’re amazing. Not only alive, but with a mind ... When I compare what scientific knowledge has done for me and what religion tried to do to me, I sometimes literally shiver."
See. This man is connected to his world, and it thrills him. No spirits involved in spirituality.
But it is default position, so, one needs dance around it, just because 7 out of 100 say that default position is not right does not put those 7 in a position to ask for a proof.
You have no evidence for your religious beliefs. The default position is to not accept them. If the default position was to believe, you'd have to believe everything ever told you.
