geo wrote:Sonoman, here's DWill's question again:

Animism and theism are usually considered as separate, but it must be true that theism grew out of animism. Sonoman, your language isn't always easy for me to understand, but what is it exactly about an overactive agent detection device in human brains that is so implausible in explaining the origin of animism? Do I read you correctly that human perception of such spirits or forces must mean that they really exist?

sonoman wrote:
Same answer for you too as I gave to Dwill. I can't reason for you and the issue for you is can your atheist philosophy explain how this former atheist is in error who was convinced of spiritual reality by undergoing three intense days and nights of spiritual revelatory bombardment and accompanying synchronicity events reinforcing the spiritual information coming into my mind completely unbidden, unprepared for in any way at all, seeing how I was an atheist for well over two decades before the experience happened to me. I not only underwent a religious conversion but came away with revelations that I need you atheists to explain how and where they came from, how I somehow was totally unaware of creating them in my atheist mind that hadn't ever thought in religious terms and was almost completely ignorant of the spiritual traditions my crash course in spiritual consciousness uploaded into my brain. For you to have any credibility at all as far as I'm concerned you've got to at least attempt answers for what happened to me. And by now I think you understand that cut-and-paste links to atheists "answers" won't cut it, do not address my experiences of spiritual contact with God and the Spirit of Christ.