I find the following quote very true. This is from a book written by Sam Harris “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”

We have names for people who have many beliefs for which there is no rational justification. When their beliefs are extremely common we call them “religious”; otherwise, they are likely to be called “mad,” “psychotic,” or “delusional.” Most people of faith are perfectly sane, of course, even those who commit atrocities on account of their beliefs. But what is the difference between a man who believes that God will reward him with seventy-two virgins if he kills a score of Jewish teenagers, and one who believes that creatures from Alpha Centauri are beaming him messages of world peace through his hair dryer? There is a difference, to be sure, but it is not one that places religious faith in a flattering light.
It takes a certain kind of person to believe what no one else believes. To be ruled by ideas for which you have no evidence (and which therefore cannot be justified in conversation with other human beings) is generally a sign that something is seriously wrong with your mind. Clearly, there is sanity in numbers. And yet, it is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts, while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window. And so, while religious people are not generally mad, their core beliefs absolutely are. This is not surprising, since most religions have merely canonized a few products of ancient ignorance and derangement and passed them down to us as though they were primordial truths. This leaves billions of us believing what no sane person could believe on his own. In fact, it is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

I always thought the same thing, just didn’t put into the correct wording, but good thing Sam Harris did that for me.
I find it true that people who experienced these “PERSONAL EXPERIENCE”…such as God showing them a sign, actually seeing angels, and/or God speaking directly to them in their heads.

See if they didn’t say it was God, any normal people would think that person is delusional/psychotic and needs medical assistance.
but when they say its God, its OH MY GOODNESS…..sighhh…people don’t think you got problems

heres another quote from Richard Dawkins

You say you have experienced God directly? Well, some people have experienced a pink elephant, but that probably doesn’t impress you. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq…

Now just because those people did “bad” things, they get laughed on or saying hes crazy..yes Bush is crazy and stupid…
But Peter Sutcliffe claimed that he heard Jesus to tell him to kill women, why is he getting locked up? I believe the court of justice stands by God. “One Nation Under God”??? He is using Jesus/Holy Spirit/God as his defense, why is he locked up?
I hate it when the same religious people who believes in the same God won’t back them up when they say Jesus/God told them to do something (to the norm its bad). What if he is telling the truth?

Now don’t get me wrong, he deserves to be locked up, because thats wrong.
but what im pointing out which relates to everything to above the quote…Peter Sutcliffe is considered psychotic, right? he heard voices…so why doesn’t that apply to everybody that hear/heard God/Jesus?
What I can’t stand is that people who believe in the same thing chooses if that person is qualify to be consider as one of them.

Religious group would exclude Peter, because he did something bad and is supposely giving a bad name to their God.
To me, thats pure bullshit…

thats like saying…a football team…one player is gay…and then the rest of the team considers him not in the team, but yet he still plays for them.