RE: Personal experience
August 12, 2010 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2010 at 6:29 pm by DiRNiS.)
Theists usually refer to "personal experience" as a reason they believe in a god. This is because there is no way to prove with solid and quantifiable evidence that their deity exists. They will often say, God has talked to me, or I can feel him, etc as a weak argument for their beliefs, but they are just a product of their imagination and delusion. I too used to be a believer (though not a fervently strong one) and even attributed good things that happened in my life to an imaginary being. That is until I realised that good and bad things happen to everyone regardless of their religious beliefs.
Everyone has different types of experiences, some will attribute good or bad experiences to some form of divine intervention, some won't. It largely depends on what you believe in. If you were indoctrinated with religious faith, you will most likely attribute events in your life and personal experiences as coming from a divine source. Those who can think rationally won't.
Everyone has different types of experiences, some will attribute good or bad experiences to some form of divine intervention, some won't. It largely depends on what you believe in. If you were indoctrinated with religious faith, you will most likely attribute events in your life and personal experiences as coming from a divine source. Those who can think rationally won't.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
