This presupposes that there is only one ultimate truth, which you can't prove logically or based on facts and evidence. It's a matter of faith.

Even if there is a single, absolute truth, there's no way our minds can grasp it. So, again, there's no point in attempting to come to terms with it through reason and certainly not through adversarial debate.

I don't know what makes you think that animists and contemplative atheists find themselves under the same umbrella or even the same tent There's no reason to think they want to have anything to do with one another or that they're under the mistaken impression that they both believe the same thing.

I didn't say that truth isn't important. Maybe instead of "whatever flips your cookies" I should have said "your guess is as good as mine."

I don't know a single person of any generation who thinks that playing video games all day is more virtuous than volunteering at the inner city day school.

Countries where virtually everyone considers themselves to be spiritual but not religious, like Sweden, have much greater harmony, lower crime rates and far more concern for the vulnerable than highly religious societies like the United States.

Asking "who is God" is theology I suppose. However "Does God exist" is philosophy and it's the more honest question. Certainly, the question "Why are we here" is a philosophical question on which theology or Christian dogma have no monopoly.

You're creating a false dilemma. You incorrectly claim that if something isn't subjective, then it's necessarily objective. That doesn't follow logically

And it also doesn't follow that even if it's objective, it's necessarily a truth claim.

Ultimately, your convictions that God exists, that Jesus is His Son, and that there is no salvation other than through the teachings of Christ are all completely subjective beliefs. Your own criteria of diversity belying truth demonstrates that.

The vast majority of humans don't share any of your faith-based beliefs. I for one would rather explore what they believe and try to work toward the truth as I see it. At the same time, I try to work even harder to preserve enough intellectual humility to realize that everybody else does the same thing in their own way.

“If in the past, our differences set us at odds, nowadays we see in them the richness of different ways of coming to God and of educating young people for peaceful coexistence in mutual respect."

Pope Francis

Incidentally, why are we only concerned with "the SBNR man" or whether "dogmas inform a man's behaviour?" Are women unworthy of consideration? Or do women have all these things sorted out in their minds, unlike us men?

Or does conforming to contemporary gender pronouns feel icky?