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Only some religions make that presupposition. They are called theistic religions, and there are plenty of others.

While spirituality is widely experienced in one way or another, but not universally recognized, it is not the case that God is as widely directly experienced. I suspect, likewise, that many people run into their own spirituality and have been so long estranged from it that they call it God as it is surprising enough to strike them that way. These are just my own speculations. There's more than enough such to go around, to be sure!

The kind of evidence that WOULD support such an encounter is surely not evidence that would belong in the class of what people can experience in common, anyway. This assumption--that the rules of "objective" evidence must be the rules of spiritual evidence, which is not an objective phenomenology--is the mistake that makes Bill Day so frustrated (not to say occasionally tiresome). :>) Explaining the difference in the vocabulary we developed from heuristic science is what makes me so frustrated and tiresome.


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