The flip side of this is that I also don't believe them when they go so far as to say that religion is all man-made and that the stories are less than perfect.
Fair enough. But why do you not agree? Weakness of argument? In which case what aspects of the arguments put forwards do you dispute?
Or is it simply refusal to contemplate that you may be wrong?
Like I said, I don't know whether to be on one side, the other side, or no side at all. I just know that I need to pray and allow the Holy Spirit to help me sort it all out.
Well that seems like quite a lot of "knowing" to me...........
If praying is a road only to your own beliefs then how is praying going to do anything other than re-inforce your already held beliefs by confirming them?