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He doesn't believe anything is the word of God, does he? He doesn't believe in God.
The mystic says the word of God can be found in nature, if one were perceptive enough to discern it.

I didn't say it was true. That was your inference. I was just quoting a mystic. Funny how atheists can look all around them and not see a single miracle. Sad.

Funny how religious nutters can look all around them and "rationalize" things they don't understand as magic. What is truly sad is that a believer's brain can physically exist in this amazing, unimaginably enormous, awe-inspiring reality that it can never hope, or even try, to perceive.

The world is FAR more fascinating and awe inspiring without miracles.

Your problem is that you confuse the world with what people do. The things people do are the shields against the forces that surround us; what we do as people gives us comfort and makes us feel safe; what people do is rightfully very important, but only as a shield. We never learn that the things we do as people are only shields and we let them dominate and topple our lives. In fact I could say that for mankind, what people do is greater and more important than the world itself.

The world is all that is encased here; life, death, people, the allies, and everything else that surrounds us. The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat it as it is, a sheer mystery!

An average man doesn't do this, though. The world is never a mystery for him, and when he arrives at old age he is convinced he has nothing more to live for. An old man has not exhausted the world. He has exhausted only what people do. But in his stupid confusion he believes that the world has no more mysteries for him. What a wretched price to pay for our shields!

A warrior is aware of this confusion and learns to treat things properly. The things that people do cannot under any conditions be more important than the world. And thus a warrior treats the world as an endless mystery and what people do as an endless folly.

- castaneda

I didn't say that YOU said it was true...that was your inference.

why exactly should we care what a "mystic" says?

I think it's extremely funny how theists arbitrarily determine what is and isn't a miracle in their obsession with appeals to emotion.

every single theist has a different idea of what is and isn't a miracle. And you wonder why we dismiss the idea of miracles? As braindonut already mentioned, there are countless things out there that don't require surrendering to an imaginary sky being to have awe and wonder about.