First off I'd just like to say that I don't intend to offend or demean anyone or any religion.
I don't believe in God, but I believe God exists. I believe that God exists in those that believe in God, that he isn't a tangible entity in the sky and that he is in fact a part of everyone. I believe that God is really ourselves. When we ask God something, we are really asking ourselves; and when God answers, it is really ourselves answering our own questions. I believe that faith in God is faith in yourself.
I believe that when you listen to yourself, you and yourself are two separate people and you can often have a conversation with yourself. Now that isn't to say that everyone is schizophrenic, that everyone has two different personalities. I'm saying that each single personality has two parts, and those two parts work together to create you. Often you'll get the idea of saying or doing something, and that idea comes from the first part of you, which I will call Rigot. Rigot creates the idea and passes it onto Simto, the other part of you, the outer shell if you will, who then decides whether to go through with it or not. Most times Simto won't give any thought to an idea and simply enact it out. Direct one-to-one conversation is usually when Simto is in automatic mode as often conversations aren't as clear or precise as they would be if someone wrote them out before hand. This is why, when conducting an interview for a written media, the conversation cannot be printed unedited because it will make little sense to the reader. However sometimes, and this is mostly when it comes to relationships (in my experience), Simto will contemplate heavily over Rigot's idea and decide if it needs adjusting or if it should even be listened to in the first place. Sometimes Simto will decline and insult Rigot's idea saying "No, that's a stupid thing to say (or do)" and then Rigot will try to think of a new idea to present to Simto.
Rigot and Simto are simply placeholder names here. You may call them whatever you wish: Wyky and Koky, Ligmo and Harco, Toejam and Earl, you get the idea. I just thought it would be better, and easier to understand, if I referred to them as named participants than just 'first part' and 'second part'. Now back to the main point.
In those that are religious, God is part of their Rigot. When they are asking God for guidance, Simto is asking Rigot for an idea. Now the only difference I see between religious and non-religious people is that in religious people Simto doesn't take as active a role because it usually listens to and enacts any idea presented by the part of their Rigot they refer to as God. I haven't had the pleasure of living the life of a religious person, so I don't know if they would ever ignore their God, but I doubt that they would. However, God is only their Rigot when they ask God something. All the rest of the time they have a normal Rigot just like everyone else, thinking of ideas to present to Simto, like "Does this scarf go with the shirt I'm wearing?"
Remember these are simply my thoughts and ideas on the human brain and the way we think and go about doing and saying things. These have recently come to fruition because I've been doing lots of thinking and consequently lots of contemplating on whether to go through with what I thought and that accentuated both Rigot and Simto to the point where I conciouscly took notice.
If you have any thoughts or ideas on what I've said, please post them. I'll make sure that Simto will have a good hard look over my replies to your posts to ensure that I don't rabble and give out wrong messages.
Henrah