How do you respond to religous people?

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Originally Posted by August

What does an omnipotent being have need for funding? To the thread topic in general: I am a believer in a Supreme Being but I am not a religious person (as in I belong to none of them). I believe that organized religion is mans attempt to explain the unfathomable, like little children trying to explain quantum mechanics.

... having handled a collection plate in my parents' Congregationalist chuch when being an acolyte; been a YMCA councelor the summer of my 18th year; had morning chapel in prep-school; and attended a Lutheran college with missionary kid-zealots(the zeal generally wore off after a semester of Hamms and 'Minnesota Green") )https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_...ain%20climbers. My general view is:

The third man factor or third man syndrome refers to the reported situations where an unseen presence, such as a spirit, provides comfort or support during traumatic experiences. Sir Ernest Shackleton, in his 1919 book South, described his belief that an incorporeal companion joined him and his men during the final leg of his 1914–1917 Antarctic expedition, which became stranded in pack ice for more than two years and endured immense hardships in the attempt to reach safety. Shackleton wrote, "during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia, it seemed to me often that we were four, not three". His admission resulted in other survivors of extreme hardship coming forward and sharing similar experiences.
In recent years, well-known adventurers like climber Reinhold Messner and polar explorers Peter Hillary and Ann Bancroft have reported experiencing the phenomenon. One study of cases involving adventurers reported that the largest group involved climbers, with solo sailors and shipwreck survivors being the second most common group, followed by polar explorers.