To have faith in God with no physical evidence justifying this belief, one must have total faith in one's own judgement and cognition. If you see what you call a revelation from God, you are making an assumption of insane arrogance : I know this is not my brain playing tricks on me. How can one actually know this, when it is so easy and so common an experience, you could call it ubiquitous?
Do you know why we place such value on empiricism? Because we know better than to place complete trust in anything that comes out of our minds. This isn't ignorance. It is accepting the eminently fallible nature of subjective experience. I don't have faith in my own perception to the point that I would trust anything I perceive without being able to verify it with others.
Do you know why we place such value on empiricism? Because we know better than to place complete trust in anything that comes out of our minds. This isn't ignorance. It is accepting the eminently fallible nature of subjective experience. I don't have faith in my own perception to the point that I would trust anything I perceive without being able to verify it with others.
