Evidence for God

The typical religious person elevates Faith to a level where it occupies the same place as Reason, where it is equally appropriate, if not moreso, to believe something "on faith" than to have good reasons. This is the main reason that religious beliefs are relatively immune to logic and debate, they are not working off the same premises. They are fundamentally opposed philosophies for determining truth value.

Belief based on emotion instead of information is not philosophically sound. That said, it's your life and you can believe how you like, but with the caviat that anyone can criticize it for being baseless. Don't flatter yourself by saying that you have rigourously tested your convictions.

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By the way, there's very little mention of anything that qualifies as "emotion" in my previous post.

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Quite the contrary, this entire passage is pure emotional reactions:

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I was moved by the fact that few prisoners of war lost their faith in God in prison. I took into account that the apostles were somehow so convinced of the divinity of a man they basically lived with that they gave their lives for that belief. I was impacted by the description of crucifixion in Psalm 22, hundreds of years before crucifixion, and how similar it was to a description I heard a priest repeat of Nazi tests on how people die on a cross. Finally, I had a very strange spiritual experience involving voices and shadows when a church I visited was praying.

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These are your own words, that you were "moved", "impacted" and had "very strange spiritual experiance"s. This is not how objective information is gained.You shouldn't be astounded by rational skepticism: it is an infinitely more practical philosophy than being deluded by emotions.