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Exactly, individual people choose what to believe. And that's what I'm talking about. If it doesn't affect you, why should you care what they choose?
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If it didn't affect me, I would never have become aware of it. Besides, that's not the point. The point is I should be able to say so and not get a hard time because I'm talking about someone's "beliefs". I invite them to challenge what I say. They may prove me wrong, and I would never have grown if I just sat down and shut up like a good little faitheist. And that goes for the rest of you as well. The discourse I propose goes both ways, but when it's just me it generates the illusion of arrogance, which is most unfair.
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And what about people who firmly believe, and would swear on the Bible, that God has talked to them?
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Mad or mistaken. Quite simpley. Voices in your head are not something to take joy in, and those examples where it is not voices are wishful thinking. Painfully obviously so. Francis Collins, a geneticist, physician, head of the NIH and a brilliant man, believed god was speaking to him through the sight of a frozen waterfall that reminded him of the trinity. Seriously! That thought process is utterly foreign to me, and I am only glad (and hopeful) that it doesn't manifest itself in his work.