(November 17, 2014 at 12:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Spiritual experiences of the divine are a common and normal part of the human experience.Unexplained phenomena are part of the human experience... Often, the human experiencing those phenomena simply doesn't have enough information to properly understand them. Extrapolation and pattern seeking then takes over the reasoning... but, with lacking data, the result can only the woeful.
(November 17, 2014 at 12:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Fitting those into our model of how the world works depends on how people tag those experiences. The atheist, acting in accordance with disbelief, rejects attributing these extraordinary states to divine influence.It's more like... I don't even consider that as an option! Unless I'm joking!
(November 17, 2014 at 12:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What I am saying is that within Western culture there is no conceptual vacuum in which atheism is the default position; atheism will always be a positive act of rejection of spiritual experiences as divine.
Speak for yourself... the western culture is quite broad. I'm not sure that notion would stick in Norway, where the majority of the population is non-believing.
