Lets take a little break from politics and have us a real atheist conversation.
Personally, I’m open to the idea of the existence of supernatural phenomena, and I believe mainstream religions are actually complicated incomplete stories full of misinterpretations, misunderstandings, and half-truths.
Basically, I think that these stories are not as simple and straightforward as they seem to be to religious people. I feel like there is a lot more to them. Concluding that all these stories are just made up or came out of nowhere is kind of hard for me.
That doesn’t make them worthless. Have you ever listened to stories that may involve potential supernatural forces?
Yes, I don’t believe any of them to be true. Most cultures got incompatible explanations to them, without a way to tell which is actually correct - my take is that each explanation is made up. And because people believe those explanations, they are not interested in digging into natural explanations.
Examples: seizures, schizophrenia, natural disasters, weather, infectious diseases
Yeah, some stories can be rationally explained. Can I interest you in some legit YouTube channels that specialize is such stories? Hearing some strange unexplained ones might change your perspective.