I hope you don't mind a brief butt-in.
Well, the distaste comes from the inability to know how accurate a given faith-based proposition is.
Surely you have had discourse with people whose faith leads them to different conclusions than you?
What was/would be your method for determining which faith-based conclusion is correct?
Surely this is the heart of the disagreement between religious and non-religious points of view.
Until religious people come up with a convincing answer, so-called spiritual notions cannot have any validity in discussions but are merely individual quirks of personality.
Remember the story where the physicist goes to his lab to check his idea, but the the metaphysicist cannot because he has no lab?
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