RE: The real religion?
August 10, 2016 at 6:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2016 at 6:29 pm by Simon Moon.)
(August 10, 2016 at 3:47 pm)SteveII Wrote: Billions of people have entered into a relationship with God. Their experience/testimony would be empirical evidence for everything we are discussing.
Billions of people have CLAIMED to have entered a relationship with 'God', many gods actually.
If 1.5 billion Muslims clam to have a personal relationship with their god, is that 'empirical evidence' that Allah exists?
You are guilty of the fallacy of special pleading. Not too impressive.
I doubt whether you know what the term 'empirical evidence' means.
Do you believe that every Christian that claims to have entered a 'personal relationship with God' has actually done so, or is there some percentage of Christians that are delusional, or fooling themselves, or misinterpreting some other feeling as a 'personal relationship with God'?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
