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<p>This is fundamentally the reason that I can’t get behind any one organized religion.</p>
<p>Let’s say I read a religious book, I ask God if it is true, and I feel him reach into my heart and tell me that it is. But literally billions of others read/heard a different book, asked the same question, and received the same answer. I just can’t make the case that MY revelation is genuine, and all those others are fooling themselves, and the God who spoke to THEM about the truth is a figment of their imaginations.</p>
<p>It just seems like hubris to me to place such stock in the literal truth of MY faith experience while dismissing the inconsistent faith experiences of billions of others as so much mumbo jumbo.</p>
<p>To me, this points in the direction of two possible answers, both of which acknowledge that I’m no better at finding God than anyone else in the world. 1, we are ALL kidding ourselves, and imagining the gods of our choice; or 2, the powers actually in control of the universe choose to speak to their creation in a multitude of languages and forms.</p>