You cannot make yourself believe in God any more than you can make yourself believe in the grocery store clerk. Either they are and you interact with them, or

You cannot make yourself believe in God any more than you can make yourself believe in the grocery store clerk. Either they are and you interact with them, or they are not. Prayer is nothing more than talking with God, who is there. > Nietzsche nailed it. If God is not, Nietzsche is correct. If God is, then He is stronger than the universe, and the sight of His _back_ is enough to make you as radiant as the sun [1]. How gentle then, if He loves us, must He be with us, creatures of dust and ash as we are? > Third, a friend of mine asked me what evidence, if any, would be sufficient to convince me that the supernatural existed. This question stumped me. My philosophy at the time excluded the contemplation of the supernatural axiomatically: by definition (my definition) even the word "super-natural" was a contradiction in terms. Logic then said that, if my conclusions were definitional, they were circular. I was assuming the conclusion of the subject matter in dispute ... This meant that, logically, even if God existed, and manifested Himself to me, my philosophy would force me to reject the evidence of my senses, and dismiss any manifestations as a coincidence, hallucination, or dream. Under this hypothetical, my philosophy would force me to an exactly wrong conclusion due to structural errors of assumption. [2] [1]: Exodus 33-34 [2]: https://strangenotions.com/wright-conversion/