(February 12, 2015 at 2:14 am)EccentricAlien Wrote: The question is: When arguing with a religious person, how does a non-religious person respond with something "supernatural" like that??In 1518 in the then Holy Roman Empire a load of people went out into the street one day and danced until they died.
No, I'm not joking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518. This is perhaps one of the earliest recordings of a case of mass delusional psychosis in the common era.
The power of suggestion is an incredibly powerful thing, some people who want something bad enough will eventually create it in their own mind or if it's repeatedly suggested to them.
That's how I usually handle appeals to supernatural experience, usually with a quote from Freud if the discussion is happening online.
