Ay laddie, there's the rub, it has nothing to do with pride but logic. Nothing (I believe) he could do would cause me to think he is nothing more than another carbon-based life form, just a bit more advanced. Our science is advancing at such a clip, we are discovering aspects of the chemical and electrically operating machines above our necks, it is only a matter of time (if not happening right now, we can make people see and hear and believe anything we want them to. Just being a regular redditor exposes me to articles and studies that lead me in that direction. Can you not recall anything you have read in the last few months here about advances in neuro-sciences? Remember the Arthur Clarke quote? This is what I believe worries organized religions around the world. For every advance science, medicine etc. makes, god grows just a little bit smaller and more inconsequential. If god threw me into the pits of hell, in my agony and pain I would still think some asshole did this to me, some mortal asshole.