Thanks for this, Ben. I get into debates about these ideas also, but it is tiring, and you seem to have much more energy than I do to take them all on one by one. Thanks for doing a lot of our work for us.

The argument for knowledge vs. certainty is the one that always galls me, particularly because unexamined it may make sense. None of us can say anything with 100% certainty. If I see no evidence that you are here, and I see you on an interview on TV in DC, I know pretty damn well that you are not here. 100%? No, there could be a tape delay and maybe you are hiding behind the couch. But I take the evidence, or lack thereof, and apply it to all the likely possibilities, and make a determination that I know you are not here. It is a matter of applying logic and probabilities and assigning weights, to existing information. And this is not the same thing as being agnostic.

What I always wonder is, if God exists, what reason does he have to hide from us? If he is the malignant narcissist that some claim he is, then he should be out there every day showing us how wondrous he is. tRump is a perfect model of how a narcissistic God would behave. But we see none of it.