RE: Personal relationships with deities
September 17, 2015 at 9:52 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2015 at 9:53 am by Captain Scarlet.)
Exactly. There are a lot of problems with this personal experience.
On a personal level I find it a bit creepy. You hear voices or have telepathic communication from a dead person! Also thinking you are important enough to receive messages from the creator of the universe implies a degree of arrogance and delusion that is beyond my comprehension. I have no right to question that they feel they had the experience, but to exptrapolate it beyond what we know about human pyschology as evidence for a god seems at best wishful thinking.
I would add:
- Accept it for one, accept it for all why is the sadists experience hearing "kill them all...signed Yahweh" any less objectively valid than the 40 year old librarian hearing "love everyone and especially be nice to cats...oh by the way this is Jesus".
- Accept other religions they all have personal experiences (so they are all valid...right)
- No one ever comes back with useful info. Apparently millions of people are in touch with the creator of the universe who only reveals that 1) where you lost your keys, 2) dont worry you will be ok, 3) you should get a new guitarist for the band, 4) the end of the world is nigh (then it isn't again when the date passes). Not very compelling.
On a personal level I find it a bit creepy. You hear voices or have telepathic communication from a dead person! Also thinking you are important enough to receive messages from the creator of the universe implies a degree of arrogance and delusion that is beyond my comprehension. I have no right to question that they feel they had the experience, but to exptrapolate it beyond what we know about human pyschology as evidence for a god seems at best wishful thinking.
I would add:
- Accept it for one, accept it for all why is the sadists experience hearing "kill them all...signed Yahweh" any less objectively valid than the 40 year old librarian hearing "love everyone and especially be nice to cats...oh by the way this is Jesus".
- Accept other religions they all have personal experiences (so they are all valid...right)
- No one ever comes back with useful info. Apparently millions of people are in touch with the creator of the universe who only reveals that 1) where you lost your keys, 2) dont worry you will be ok, 3) you should get a new guitarist for the band, 4) the end of the world is nigh (then it isn't again when the date passes). Not very compelling.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
