Do you feel the presence of God ever?

[MellowDem]

61. It's a completely meaningless, nonsensical question

It's like asking whether a person ever feels the presence of Orange. Or Blue. Or Bookshelf.

"God" on its own can be defined in any way. "God" is "nonsensical, intangible idea". So one saying that they feel the presence of a "nonsensical, intangible idea" means nothing to me on its own.

Further, how a person intereprets the source various feelings they have is not proof of that source. If I have a stomach ache after eating a bunch of ice cream, I may truly believe some devil is causing it, sent to me by my mean neighbor. That is, what I feel is the source isn't much proof of anything. And if a person is raised, indeed indoctrinated, in a belief system that tells them that these are the sources of the feelings humans have, based on no evidence, then it brings their interpretations even more into question.

Funny how those who believe in religion and many times are indoctrinated in religion all interpret feelings all humans have as being from their specific god or gods exclusively, right in line with what they've been indoctrinated with.

When I was a Christian, I swore I had moments of the divine. I had feelings of awe, feelings of wonder, feelings of emotional empowerment or exhaustion, many of these brought on by religious ceremonies meant to do just that. I attributed them all to god. Now that I'm an atheist, I still get all those feelings, but they aren't part of some manipulation to make me attribute them to some unverifiable, unknowable source.