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Before I explain myself, I want to clarify that: I post on the tfp late at night, and I had an urge to try my hand at being poetic. Hence, that post may not have applied quite as much to yours as it should have. It applies somewhere and somehow though!
Now, basically what I was saying is that people who look at everything as being cut-and-dried can miss out on other fun ways to play around with concepts. If one is to latch onto a particular paradigm (in your case, scientific athiest from your post), the one will severely limit one's creativity.
In your post for example, you state that the brain is just "plain messed up", et cetera, when people claim to be having religious experiences. As a pragmatist, I don't begrudge that point of view, when applying it to everyday life. There are many other possibilities however, and it can't hurt to consider them in a situation such as this (religious experiences being one of those possibilities). Now, I'm probably overdoing this whole post due to the wording of your statements. You make all of them unequivocally, as though there is no other way that this can be. This is merely an exercise in semantics, but they are the basis of communication.
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
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