I actually talked about this last night while drunk with a group of friends.

Asked who was an athiest, most said yes. Told them that lately on reddit the primary argument against not believing in god was that they'd never heard him speak to him/her.

Now I wouldn't go so far as to say that god spoke to me, but there was a moment in my life where i heard a voice speak to me in my mind other than my own...

It happened on the end of a 3 week hitch-hiking-/back-packing trip through mexico. I had taken a bible w/ me and read it daily. I believed it would protect me, though i spoke fluent spanish and looked white (most everyone i encountered was taken aback by my appearance).

anyway, i'm leaning on the vestibule of a train thats takin me back to the states. goin thru the forest, full moon. I'm lookin it at, reflectin and stuff, not really thinking about anything in particular. I sigh, and in a passive, not thinking way, i say, "oh, god."

and I hear someone say, "Yes my son." It didn't have question intonation, it just said it.

My reaction is what you would expect. I stepped back, was scared a lil...waited....nothing. Asked was that you god? no response. none ever came after that.

my friends said that it could've been a bible-conditioned brain-fart, a reflexive act. I agreed, saying that anyone can believe in anything, and it would exist, but only within the believer; God, gods, FSM, anything as long as you believed in it enough...