The Paradox of Faith
God descends and offers you an envelope that divulges his true religion. You take one look and with hesitation think if you should dare to open it. Perhaps all this time you've been deeply misled by tradition and superstition. Perhaps all this time you only believed because you wanted to believe.
But then you take a second and think if it's a test. Does God want you to read its contents? Perhaps there is a deeper meaning to this divine gesture, and His motives are not what they seem.
Perhaps this is a test of faith. You don't need that envelope; you already know you're right. You puff your chest outward and politely decline the request.
Then He stares downward, with sadness in His eyes. "I never meant for you to be a minion, but this is what you have become. Faith has made you blind; it has stopped you from seeking truth. If I ever had one single intention in my making of you, it'd be that you had come to the conclusion that you should rightly tear this from my hands. You'd shred the envelope irreverently and read its contents with bated breath. Because you would be a truth-seeker, not some common dolt."
You, struck to the heart, His words pierce the soul. Both because they are true, but because of the essence He imbues. You shed a tear and look at Him, "So what would you have me do?"
"I'd rather you live a life in the dark seeking the truth, than rubbing rocks together, merely making sparks. I'd rather you leave the light, only to see if there is a brighter one to behold. And if it brings you back to your place now, a truth-seeker you'd become. You see, I would rather you die, having left the true faith of your youth, than be a poor gambler, hanging off a roof."
I would ignore both because:
a) i have more than sufficient reason to believe that if i'm talking to god, i'm insane and what matters most is to eliminate the delusion, and
b) all versions of what's typically understood as religion rely on dogma, which is an instance of faith ( belief without appeal to evidence ), and therefore inherently intellectually regressive and no legitimate truth seeker will acquiesce to take seriously that which is cannot be shown by evidence, and
c) if a god worth taking seriously wishes me to take seriously an exception to all known actual evidence, he will present it without tricks, bc Wisdom clarifies, it does not obfuscate, and
d) i've already developed the true religion, in-so-far as that's possible, and i have no doubts that what's in that envelope can only be a reference to what i already know or some variety of bullshit suitable only to be ignored.
The Inner Journey accepts all psychologically beneficial aspects and ignores explicitly all arcane or dogmatic aspects of all religions. It's the only thing that can exist and be called true or best religion.