Why you should distrust all religions.

[Jehanne]

Of course it does!  If I lose my keys, do I just assume that a fairy took them?  How do you distinguish between someone who is a functional schizophrenic from someone who has a "genuine" religious experience?

Yeah, that's exactly what us religious folks think when we can't find something....

A changeling is a creature found in folklore and folk religion. A changeling child was believed to be a fairy child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the fairies. The theme of the swapped child is common in medieval literature and reflects concern over infants thought to be afflicted with unexplained diseases, disorders, or developmental disabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling

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I think that mental illness is the default assumption.  Listen to Episode #25; the good professor discusses people who dream of becoming amputees.  Mental illnesses takes a very wide form and breadth.  Why should I believe that Paul had a divine experience as opposed to some sort of epilepsy?

This to me sounds like something I find to be very common here.  That when something opposes your worldview, that it is then defaulted to either lying or crazy.

I would ask why you think epilepsy is a better explanation?  Just a guess, but I think it’s going to be begging the question.

Because there are people who have epilepsy who claim to have visions and hear voices, but once they have the proper medications, the visions and voices go away.