(May 3, 2014 at 4:09 pm)Confused Ape Wrote:(May 3, 2014 at 3:48 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: I think this reasoning could be used to argue that the religions that have had believers are more likely to be true than hypothetical religions that nobody ever believed.
If people occasionally serve as channels for the divine, then the world's religions were not random, and there is an increased probability that the pagan gods really exist. Okay, you think, but we have no reason to think people ever serve as channels of the divine. However, if it's possible (however improbable) that they occasionally do, then the existence of pagans gods has a higher probability of existence than that of the globoprasaurus that I just invented two seconds ago.
How can you be certain that you invented the globoprasaurus? Maybe you channelled a god who has never been worshipped before and he/she/it wants you to start a religion for him/her/it
TBH, I don't think I can argue against that. It would have worked better if I used "witnessing divine intervention" instead of "channeling the divine", but the former makes for messier sentences.
