That's called placing bets

There are two realities: your internal reality, and an external reality

The only one that you can prove exists, prove to yourself I mean, is your internal one.

Because guess what even if my emotions told me germs exist there are probably thousands of other claims that other things exist from faith and emotions

You have a point. Emotions cannot make empirical claims. I have made a categorical error.

How do I know who's correct? At this point let's say no one knows if germs exist

You see the problem

You're assuming that you're the right one

You're assuming you're the guy who gambled and found out about the existence of germs

Right now you have no clue

Neither did the germ guy

You can see a bacterium in a microscope, but you can't prove that it's not in illusion or that you're not just in the Matrix

I have to abandon that God is an empirical claim.

You assume you're the correct one, the miraculous germ guy, when in actuality *you have no clue if you're not just one of the millions of people who are wrong*

That's called bias

God is a phenomenon. A psychological reality that actually affects the outcome of history.
Therefore, God as an idea has power to influence the external world.

any idea can influence the external world

Are ideas real?

Yes.

They exist.

Where?

In your mind and the minds of others.

Sure god exists in minds of people

Just like Superman exists in comic books

That doesn't mean either exist in the external world

If people worshipped Superman, he would have power.

They're not sentient beings

They're just ideas

Myths

It depends on what you view as God

You can say that God is just The Great Design

Or you can say that God is Time

Some people used to worship Kronos, right?

All of those claims are based on nothing

They're just claims

They're based on feelings

You can experience God

I can claim the universe is a giant animal cell in an alien creature

You can experience many gods

Your faith makes it a reality

*a reality in your mind*