Evidence for Believing

[Anomalocaris]

But Lek, don't you see that as an issue?

Wouldn't you be skeptical of a product that only had positive reviews from people who worked for the company that made the product?

Do you understand how bias works?

And no, interestingly enough, plenty of people who are already religious have "experiences with god." It's not as if everyone who has had a revelation of some sort was a non-believer, but through their experience became a believer.

What I'm saying is that a religious person is going to have spiritual experiences with God because they commune with God.  An atheist isn't likely to have one because he doesn't commune with God. I just was qualifying when I made the statement about some non-believers having these experiences, but it's going to happen more with those who are truly searching.

 

We heard you and your ilk before.  What you are saying is as wrong now as it was everything it was spoken before, and as wrong as it will be every time when you repeat it.

A religious person is going to have a spiritual experience with god not because they managed to actually commune with a figment of their imagination, but because they imagined they communed with a figment of their imagination.