(October 20, 2015 at 4:32 pm)Stimbo Wrote:(October 20, 2015 at 4:13 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: Second, I also have no qualms with any personal revelations from anyone and their experience with their God. I've read stories of people saying Krishna came to them, stories of Allah coming, stories of Jesus, etc. They are everywhere, but those anecdotes are personal and nothing more. Who am I to claim them false? Those experience have no bearing on my own beliefs.
This is the misunderstanding, or close to it, of the atheist position. You don't have to claim these personal anecdotes to be false; indeed, you don't have that right. On the other hand, if you automatically swallow every personal anecdote uncritically, you're swimming out into very dangerous water full of confidence hucksters and similar bottom-feeders.
Most certainly Stimbo, which is why personal anecdotes should have no bearing on anyone else's personal beliefs. They are unfalsifiable and you could end up believing anything. Take them at face value and for what they are. Personal anecdotes, something that cannot be corroborated.
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