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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Yes, I am. I assume that God knows better than I do what is best. I have also felt "divine intervention" and I have a sense of faith, which is a real feeling, so that is why I have assumptions that God exists when it is not obvious"

So god thought it best that 6 million Jews die in a holocaust? That  scores of children and adult Cambodians should have died brutally under pol pot? god thinks what Is happening in Sudan is what's best for us? God thinks it best that hundreds of thousands of children should starve to death each year?

Look, you have this idea of a personal god and a very insulated view about your own suffering and it's benefits. But as another poster said, it blithely and offensively discounts human suffering, ENORMOUS human suffering, because it is part of god's plan?

That is just so self righteous and self absorbed and myopic I cannot fathom your train of thought as real. [/quote]

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, people who feel they've experienced a divine intervention don't necessarily think it through, in terms of how it relates to other people or other situations.  They are focused of their own experience, and unfortunately (IMO), their perception of personal specialness is encouraged by the religious establishment that thrives on people believing that they have been singled out and protected by God.

Also, people’s stories of divine intervention are often received favorably, with some listeners believing and being inspired by it.  Meanwhile, people who find divine intervention questionable – or plain ridiculous, often remain quiet (at least in real life), or are even mildly supportive, not wanting to appear impolite or confrontational. 
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I would never discuss this issue IRL and if I heard someone else say it, I would also be highly doubtful. But if you experience it for yourself, it is undeniable. It is not about personal specialness -- it is about something greater than yourself.[/quote]

People often have different reactions to the same experience. Many may react the way you did.  Others may never think that an unusual feeling is divine intervention in which an invisible being  spared them from harm, while causing death or suffering to others.  that sounds like belief in personal specialness AND something greater than yourself.[/quote]

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