(June 13, 2014 at 9:31 pm)Lek Wrote:(June 13, 2014 at 9:13 pm)Kitanetos Wrote: Granted, healthy minds tend to not believe in that which has no evidence to support it.This is what I mean. You think that by saying- smart sounding things you can invalidate mine and countless others' experiences. The fact that the huge majority of people throughout history to the present time believed in a deity just means to you that they weren't very smart or educated. Now you and all the other enlightened atheists have finally become smart enough to know that there isn't be a God, even though you don't have any idea how the universe came about. You also have no idea what others and myself have experienced.
You have merely deluded yourself into thinking that god has revealed himself to you. You get all tingly inside, have good little feelings when thinking of the concept referred to as god, but the harsh truth is that you have fallen for the trick your mind is playing on you.
Tell us about your religious experiences. Then tell us they are substantially different from those who believed in Odin or Zeus or Ra or whatever. You can't, because the markers are all the same: special dreams, feelings that a calming presence is watching over you, the belief that some events are so improbable that they couldn't happen without a divine hand, etc.
So if varying mythologies are found among those who have had religious experiences, it's logical to conclude that the experiences do come not from a real God or Zeus, but from the process of looking at the eyes through mythological eyes. So the religious experience is very real as an experience, but your experiences mean a total of nothing with regard to positively establishing the truth of your divine entity of choice.
