catsaregods,
I’m afraid you’re going to continue to be disappointed in the response from most members of this site. You are essentially arguing mysticism-the notion that personal experiences of the supernatural are self-evident, they are themselves the proof that they are real and no objective evidence is required. This is an idea most of us here consider false and very dangerous. Doug’s comments about other gods was intended to point out that anyone can say anything they like about their own internal emotional experiences and claim it is proof of something supernatural being real. If we accept this as legitimate, then there is no way to judge anything as objectively true or false. I can claim my dogs communicated psychically with me and told me cats are actually demons who rebelled against the dog god, and that is just as likely to be true, by this standard, as your claims about cats. Then we just fall to fighting about whose visions or voices or revelations are real and whose aren’t with no way to decide.
You clearly prefer mysticism to a skeptical, evidence-based way of determining truth, as shown by what you claim, how you “prove” it, and by your disdainful scare quotes around “modern science.” I am personally tired of futile arguments about why somebody’s personal emotional experiences prove nothing about the real world, only about what that person believes. You’ll never believe that anything is needed to demonstrate your beliefs are true beyond the fact that they feel true and real to you, so anything we can say here will fall on deaf ears. But I did feel obliged to respond to your accusation that you had been mocked or treated unfairly. If you can at least understand how most of us, as epistemelogical naturalists who believe science is the best way to establish the truth about the world and that personal revelation is just another kind of fairy tale making, see the world, you’ll understand why you will not be able to convince us by using the sort of “proofs” that you rely on-namely your own personal experiences and the fact that other people feel the same way. No one intends to be disrespectful or unkind, but your claims seem farfetched and the depth of your belief in them doesn’t make them any more likely. People believe all kinds of things passionately, in large numbers, for centuries which aren’t actually true. I see no difference between any of these beliefs and how they have been justified, including those of the religions you suggest have been harmful, and your own.
