To expand on what I said earlier, the religion/relationship/faith is formed from and can really only survive based on one's experience.

Introduced by teachers and parents, yes, but if one's faith grows rather than withers in light of experience and examination, I can say you may have come to a different conclusion based on the same examination, but I can't say you had the same experience.

And your experience, or lack of one, does not invalidate or disprove mine.

I have no trouble admitting the basis for my faith is experiential, not scientific. I also have no trouble recognizing that scientific explanation is lacking in many aspects of our existence.



I actually agree with that.

There is a being or a thing or a force floating around somewhere and you can't escape it, because it reads your thoughts too?



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I was right.

The basis for my "faith" is entirely experiential.
The basis for my understanding of reality is entirely scientific.
No conflict.

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

Your faith is.......faith.

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I was right.

So you have experienced something you attribute to a higher power. I never have despite years of being faithful. 

A scientist's study on the probability that Jesus is the Messiah ReadIfYouReallyWantToKnow

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Matthew 14:22-33

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