Some of my best friends are theists...

Just a smidgen of clarification: I have nothing against anyone's religion or god; and just to be even more clear: I'm not an atheist. The point that I am making is  manifold.

• I question whether people would interpret unexplained, mysterious events and coincidences as evidence of the action of the god of the bible if they hadn't first been inculcated with information in the general culture about this specific subset of theism first.
• The dominant cultural representation of religion in a nation tends to be the default position for spirituality for most people. I suspect that identical experiences in diverse cultures would yield diverse, not identical interpretations. 
• Even within the dominant culture, independent thought still tends to conform to some extent to the cultural framework. 

What I'm against is the belief that one interpretation of experience is necessarily the correct one, much less the only one. 

What If Nobody Told You?

What if nobody told you that the "feeling" you got was supposed to be God? Would you decide on your own that you were "supposed to" beseech a deity to save you from the tornado, the flood, cancer, or the mass layoffs? Would you make the intuitive leap that the heart-stopping, white knuckle, razor's edge escape from a fatal car wreck was the result of an omnipotent being having "a plan" for you? And if you somehow came to the conclusion that there was a spirit or god looking out for your clumsy ass, would there be any reason to suppose that it was the tribal god of a group of bronze age sheep herders who were convinced that they needed to cut off part of their penises in order to prove they were godly? Or would you just come to your own conclusions about life and living, making judgments that might be scientific, might be theistic, might be both?