(August 12, 2014 at 9:22 am)Drich Wrote: you guys all act as if I made this stuff up. Read luke 11. This is what Christ Himself says it takes. All I am adding is that what it took for me.
We know you didn't make it up.
It was made up for you a long time ago.
And Luke (or whoever wrote that) understood it as a nice mechanism to get those who already believe in something to convince themselves that that something is for real.
All the objections we can make today, were probably already made way back then, except that now we have psychology and neurology to aid us in understanding what is actually happening.
It is a clear self-deluding mechanism. A mechanism so powerful it can work for almost anything, but it's far easier to make it work for something that has no physical manifestation, for that would immediately falsify the belief and lay bare the delusion for what it is.
