Curious to know

[Cecelia]

I'd consider many things. First I'd wonder if they were really theist all along. Perhaps someone like athrock who thought they could gain brownie points by claiming not to be a theist, and then slams us with their 'conversion'. I imagine the atheists here would consider the experience hallucinations themselves. My husband once told me when he was young, he thought he saw a ghost. At the time he was susceptible to believe that what he saw was in fact a ghost, and was absolutely real. He's a fairly reliable person, so he wouldn't make up such an experience. Now he believes that it was probably his imagination getting the best of him. He's not quick to believe that it was a ghost as much as he used to. He said that his belief was backed by his parents who told him that the ghost he saw was his great grandfather (he supposedly described what he looked like, despite never having seen him. This reinforced his belief that he saw a ghost. The problem is--as he later realized--his description was pretty non-descript. "Tall man with a beard" describes someone most people actually know. There's many tall men with beards)

I mean let's be honest here. If your priest had an NDE and said that he met with Vishnu, would you convert to Hinduism?