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@tomcapuder

Due to your lack of response, I am unsure if you ever saw this five-parter: my highest-effort Mastodon content so far. So I'm sharing it again now with minor edits. Thanks for reading maybe a second time...

Okay, in general, there isn't anything metaphysically important which some folks believe to exist—possibly via religious or non-religious "revelations" (both of which fit the ordinary dictionary definition)—that reveals itself clearly to everyone. To use your phrase.

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@tomcapuder

Metaphysical awareness basically never occurs so widely, so effortlessly. We've learned that nature isn't so generous; whether the subtopic is theology or not. So, a believer in any metaphysically important thing (whether a deity or not) has little or no cause to expect a different situation. Most skeptics don't either. Rather, the warrant for believing that the thing exists—or its absence—tends to stem from philosophy, thought experiments, and other abstract endeavors.

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@tomcapuder

Hence, assuming I'm right about the general lack of clear and easy discoverability for things having metaphysical importance: I don't see how your question is helpful, in light of this typical situation.

To put it another way, your question looks dangerously close to you simply having fun with low-effort trolling of religious people. Right? Arguably demonstrated by your hashtag selections.

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@tomcapuder

Perhaps if you precisely define the word "God" or the word "revelations" as used in your question, I may potentially recognize how your question can avoid unhelpful pointlessness. Like, perhaps you are employing a special definition of "God" which supports some atypically easy discoverability (seemingly unlike anything else that's metaphysically important). Though, if you are, then you should probably explain why; otherwise I sense you might be risking a strawman fallacy.

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