text: how can we be sure anyone is really a theist? what if its all a game,  a mind control game, like the flying spaghetti monster, that isnt real, no one really believes,  what if all these god people are just playing a game with the rest of the world, a cosmic joke, where some have inflated check books,  and they do that just to keep the cosmic joke going to see if anyone else believes, and as soon as you do they say hahaha sucker,  but keep the joke going wink wink,  go out and quote the bible it's my opinion that those who claim to believe in a god are in reality placing their faith in those who told them of god, not the god itself.