RE: On Belief in God X
July 14, 2013 at 2:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2013 at 2:43 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
(July 10, 2013 at 11:52 pm)FallentoReason Wrote:You basically ignored my post...(July 9, 2013 at 1:21 am)MindForgedManacle Wrote: You're sort of missing the pount. As already pointed out, the actual purpose isn't to claim improbability of their religious views being correct, but to demonstrate that they're being inconsistent - and arriving no where - by claiming that their theological and soteriological views are thereby correct because of some particular experience, when it can be - and has been - claimed by believers of EVERY religion, and EVERY denomination of every religion.
In other words, if you accept the basicality of religious experience as a confirmation of said beliefs, you arrive at a contradiction and inconsistency, since said experience can be claimed by anyone just a validly and lead to mutually exclusive beliefs being true, such as there both being only one God and there being multiple gods being simultaneously true.
If you get dealt a royal flush, what do you do? It's right there in front of your eyes. Doesn't that give you justification for believing you have a royal flush?
In addition, your comparison is flawed because there is in fact an objective way to determine, to the satisfaction of all present, whether or not you actually, fairly were dealt a royal flush, which you cannot with religious experience, which can come to contradictory conclusions if it is accepted as a basis for determining the actual truth of the matter.
