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Originally Posted by Sliver
I understand how people believe in religion. There was never any question there. What has me baffled is how normal some posters are pretending it is to have two-way conversations with god and demons.
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Let me explain then:
If you believe in the typical Christian's God, you probably believe that he is an all powerful, omnipotent being.
As a result of this, you believe that he can see/hear/etc you at all times.
You also believe that because he is all powerful that he can talk to you- I don't think talk is the right word, but strong feelings, visions, voice hearing and such claims are common for all types of religions, so I assume that is what the person perceives as happening. I think there is an explanation for what they are experiencing, that I touched on in my previous post, that I won't go into further.
So if he can hear you when you speak and you can 'hear' him, then that is a conversation, although probably not in the most commonly accepted form.
Now the demon thing is a different story. I assume most Christian denominations think that demons are evil entities of some type that influence people to do 'bad things', someone will correct me if I am drastically wrong, but I think it is a safe assumption. So if there is a tangible something that is doing the influencing, you could 'talk' to it and if it is able to influence you, obviously it can 'hear' you. Now I think that if God answering your prayers is a 'good' vision, feeling, small voice in your head, then it would stand to reason that the bad versions of those things could be seen to be demons.
Bottom line is, everyone has walked into a room and got a chill down their spine or felt something strange at some point in time. Everyone has felt some type of overwhelming good feeling, exhilaration etc. A religious person simply views these things through the lens by which they are conditioned, that God is a power that has influence in our lives, rather than a non-religious person who looks at them from another perspective because they really don't understand, or have disregarded that as a possibility.
This is how people are, they use their experiences to shape their understanding of the world around them. If you are raised in a rural home, you have a different perspective that someone who was raised on the streets vs someone who was raised in war-torn Bosnia, vs someone who grew up to hippie parents. No one questions how these people have different perspectives on life, so is it really that big of a stretch to understand why someone might have a religious (or non-religious) perspective?