(March 4, 2016 at 12:55 pm)Lek Wrote:(March 4, 2016 at 2:53 am)Cato Wrote: Majority? The vast majority of people I know (and have ever known) are Christian. The only one I have ever known to admit to hearing voices was my schizophrenic uncle (I'm absolutely sincere here). None of us, believers or not, attributed his condition to religion. You wear as a badge of honor what I watched someone desperately try to overcome his entire adult life. My uncle was legitimately nuts; doesn't say much for you.
I didn't say I heard "voices". In fact I said I didn't hear any words. I said that God has spoken to me, the same as he has to countless others. You can't have a "personal" relationship with Christ if he doesn't speak to you.
Did it ever occur to you that this presence of god is right there in your skull with you? You don't know how your brain/mind gives rise to what you to take to be your 'self'. How do you know it isn't also giving rise to what you experience as 'god'? Doesn't mean your brain/mind is tricking you. The only error creeps in when you make empirical claims about the world 'out there' based on the what a tradition tells you the 'presence of god' means. If you just stuck to what you experience directly and didn't make wild ass claims about an entity out there which creates everything there is and then hands out moral laws, no one would laugh at you. But then xtians were never modest in their ambitions.
