I can’t help but think of Simulacra Levels. She Wants To Be A Theist (aspiring to Level 3), but this is different from Actually Being A Theist (Level 3), let alone Actually Thinking That God Exists (Level 1). She’s on Level 4, where she talks the way nobody on Level 3 would talk—Level 3′s assert they are Level 1′s; Level 4′s assert they are Level 3′s.
I can’t help but think of Simulacra Levels. She Wants To Be A Theist (aspiring to Level 3), but this is different from Actually Being A Theist (Level 3), let alone Actually Thinking That God Exists (Level 1). She’s on Level 4, where she talks the way nobody on Level 3 would talk—Level 3′s assert they are Level 1′s; Level 4′s assert they are Level 3′s.