"It must be terrible to go through life in a literalist vacuum"
It's not literalist to ask for proof of something that is beyond all reason, especially something that has had such a profoundly damaging effect on all our lives.
The ability to question, reason and make use of what we learn stands us out from all other species - it's why chimpanzees don't drive buses.
If you are not prepared to defend your belief in the supernatural, at least tell us why we should believe you.
I've said before, if those professing to be Christians (or believers in any religion) lived up to the philosophy proclaimed by their religion, the world would possibly be a better place - all to often, they don't, which is why people are slaughtering each other today in the name of their particular deity - The Middle East, former Yugoslavia.... you name it.
God was an attempt by primitive people to explain what they saw around them - it was formalised and marketed as a product and became one of the great threats to the existence of mankind.
ow that's what I call"terrible".
Jim Carroll