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?