RE: Can multiple people hallucinate the same thing at the same time ?
August 24, 2022 at 8:12 am
From what I understand, group hallucination is not a possible thing but it's rather some other things that are at work, like mass hysteria and the power of suggestion.
Like, 18 people have claimed to have seen the golden tablets that were the original Book of Mormon.
Now, was that a mass hallucination? Were the people lying? Was someone lying that they saw it? Or maybe something else happened.
Like, 18 people have claimed to have seen the golden tablets that were the original Book of Mormon.
Now, was that a mass hallucination? Were the people lying? Was someone lying that they saw it? Or maybe something else happened.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
