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As a kid I had a thought in my head that if God was truly divine then humans could not claim to speak let alone understand him because then it wouldn’t be divine.

That’s excellent reasoning. I used that in discussion with theists all the time. Every tradition has some statement about how we mere mortals can’t know the mind of God. It’s easy to get them to agree to that, because to disagree, they’d be claiming they have all the knowledge of the universe. But, they never get the implications of it.

I want to agree with you about all religions but the thing is that Buddhism has neuroscience to support it, so it’s hard for me to apply your insight to everything.

I can’t remember if we’ve covered this or not. Worth reviewing. Buddhism is not supported by neuroscience as far as I know. There was an article titled something about “The Happiest Man on Earth”, and that man was a Buddhist monk who had agreed to have some electrodes attached to his head, along with some others from other traditions. But we don’t measure happiness by brain waves. The monk himself dismissed the title, as I’m sure the people doing the study did. It’s a typical misnomer by media trying to sell some magazines and internet clicks.

If you know of some other studies, please let us know.