Reply #36: More likely with no reason, but merely emotion.

[Zhade]

Before you get into "metaphysical evidence" - which is not evidence at all, except perhaps in your mind (which of course could be delusional or confused about what its 'experiencing') - I wonder if you could answer the question I actually asked: how do believers, such as yourself, determine that myths of one religion occurred, but myths of other religions did not?

Do you feel something while reading one myth, and not while reading another? And how do you then know for certain that any such feelings are motivated by "recognizing the truth" (sic) and not by anything from misfiring neurons to wishful thinking?

I often wonder how people can pick and choose which myth to believe as factually true, and how such cherry-picking often occurs even within the myth a believer has chosen to believe as true. I'm asking, to better understand believers, how you are able to do it, and how you are able to set two myths side-by-side and say "this one is true, this one is not" - and why it is that a believer feels that their belief is correct, and the other believer's isn't, while the other believer thinks the same in reverse.

Personally, I would start to wonder why my particular unproven myth was real but another's wasn't. Actually, that (and the inability to believe in gods and demons without any evidence for their existence) are what led me to conclude that religions are just stories written by ancient peoples to try to make sense of the world.

So how do you choose it, and how do you justify the exclusion of all belief systems but your particular brand?