Again, I separate spiritual experiences and religion because there's no necessary relationship between them, and they aren't the same thing. We imagine that some religions may be based off of them but they need not be..and supposing they are we have absolutely no confidence that the current state of the religion accurately reflects whatever experience kickedstarted it..and this is piling atop the remote and vague possibility initially asserted.
Not that any of this matters as far as the indoctrinated are concerned. -If- they have a spiritual experience, they're likely to interpret or communicate it within the confines of their indoctrination. It's no less valid -as a spiritual experience- on account of having been manufactured...I;m merely pointing out that it isnl;t the experience which produces the religion. The relationship seems to go the other way round.
Ultimately, I could rattle off a list of trouble both get us into..but even the contents of the list would be different...given the wide disparity between the two things. Between the two..though, I don't have a problem with spiritual experience - and it wouldn't matter if I did. We have them. That doesn't account for how we organize ourselves into groups of peers and coalesce to a single divine narrative as though all had experienced the same thing.
Not that any of this matters as far as the indoctrinated are concerned. -If- they have a spiritual experience, they're likely to interpret or communicate it within the confines of their indoctrination. It's no less valid -as a spiritual experience- on account of having been manufactured...I;m merely pointing out that it isnl;t the experience which produces the religion. The relationship seems to go the other way round.
Ultimately, I could rattle off a list of trouble both get us into..but even the contents of the list would be different...given the wide disparity between the two things. Between the two..though, I don't have a problem with spiritual experience - and it wouldn't matter if I did. We have them. That doesn't account for how we organize ourselves into groups of peers and coalesce to a single divine narrative as though all had experienced the same thing.
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