(May 26, 2017 at 6:48 am)SteveII Wrote:(May 24, 2017 at 2:27 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:
He says, with no consciousness of irony, while dismissing the experiences of the 5 billion people who aren't Christians....
Ad populum, appeal to pity, and plain old wrong.
I am not sure that most other religions have a personal God wishing to have a one-on-one relationship with you. Setting that aside, how do you know that the experiences of a personal relationship is the same or similar between religions? Christians believe that we have the knowledge of God imprinted on our souls (Rom. 1.20; 2.14-15). Experiences in other religions would have this common denominator.
I can see how a skeptic would not be able to distinguish between different religions, but that in no way implies that a Christian can't have an authentic experience that give him/her warrant to think their belief is true (properly basic).
Christians can't claim that any other religious believer can't have an authentic experience. You're all on the same sandy footing.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
