A common finding when talking to Christians is that they 'feel' things as a way of knowing. They might be at a church service and after the preacher talks for 30 minutes about giving to charity, they suddenly 'feel't that God has 'spoken to their heart'--they now feel compelled to donate to a charity. Or they are speaking with a loved one on the phone, and they see that their loved one is suffering, and they 'feel that God wanted me to drive to check on this loved one.' The attributing of emotional responses to invisible beings and forces is a deep-running concept in modern Christianity and highlights one of its biggest problems: reality is subjective and highly tuned to the imaginary world that one has been taught. Next time you watch a rom-com and find yourself tearing up at the end of the movie, ask yourself: is there an outside force 'speaking to my heart' in some way? If emotional reactions can occur simply by watching a movie, than why not by listening to another person discussing an emotional topic. A non-believer might be persuaded to donate money after listening to the preacher in the first example, and she would not need to imagine an invisible cause for this. 

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