Of course, my pleasure. I also enjoy thinking about such matters, especially with someone as thoughtful and gracious as yourself. In the interest of gentle pushing I would return the favor by pointing out that no one knows God in the objective, detailed way they may know cars or mathematics or insects. Whatever God/gods may be, they aren’t the kind of thing we can study up close. We can confess what it is in our experience which persuades us of the truth of our belief, but the only thing we can study in detail is the history of what other people have thought and written down as theology. I anticipate you thinking but what about revelation, miracles and prophets? To that all I can say is we must all claim the truth that calls us and enriches our understanding of what we are here for. Those of us content with the truth we hold now, you and I for example, will have a hard time being persuaded by arguments in favor of what other people believe. That is as it should be since we don’t so much choose such truth for reasons as recognize it. Regardless the truth regarding what is sacred is not something we can be pushed toward by rational arguments; it is instead something that draws us or else it doesn’t.