RE: Experiencing 'proof'
November 14, 2012 at 4:07 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2012 at 4:18 pm by Simon Moon.)
(November 14, 2012 at 2:37 pm)Drich Wrote: In my last few thread their have been those who would mock experience as any type of validation of God, or they mock the idea that anyone could have experienced anything differently than what their 'efforts' have yielded.
There are 1 billion Hindus and 1.5 billion Muslims on earth. Many of them claim they have personal experiences with their god. Not to mention all the other religions and gods humanity believes in, or claims of alien abductions, encounters with ghosts, Jinn and dozens of other supernatural beings.
Do you give them any credence that their personal experiences are what they claim they are?
Unless there is a method of separating a real experience from an imagined one, there is no reason to believe you when you claim the creator of the universe communicated with you in your mind.
It is very easy to fool the human mind. Especially when intense emotion is involved,
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
