(April 2, 2009 at 6:10 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: If I didn't analyze or ridicule my own religious experiences I wouldn't be a Christian.
There's a reason why personal experience cannot be counted as "fact" or indeed taken seriously ... this is because there is no possible way (at our present technological levels) of validating that experience. Given that you are unable to verify them (or even subject some of those experiences, the supposedly predicative ones, to test) the most objective stance to take on such "experiences" is that you are either imagining them, reinterpreting them after the event or lying ... from an objective POV they simply didn't happen (or rather they are an interesting claim with absolutely no validity).
Kyu
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