(July 3, 2018 at 8:52 am)SteveII Wrote:(July 3, 2018 at 8:50 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Perhaps you are interacting with a Mathilda in an alternate universe. That doesn't describe the Mathilda I know at all.
Go ahead, summarize her argument about why Christian experiences are not real.
No one is maintaining that the experiences aren't real. They're real experiences. It's their nature that we're disputing. Because religious experiences differ depending on culture, different people interpret similar experiences differently, and the experiences can be simulated with drugs and/or electronics, religious experiences fit the profile of a neuro-cultural phenomenon. Evidence that there is more going on would be advisable before concluding that there's more going on. That is, the null hypothesis has not been defeated.
And if religious experiences are an argument for Christianity being true, they are equally an argument for Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism being true. That is incoherent.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.