RE: Personal experience
August 23, 2010 at 10:48 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2010 at 10:53 pm by RachelSkates.)
Personal experience can eclipse any and all reason and rationality about the whole matter.
It is like a little boy abused by a priest. Never EVER will he give a rat's ass if God is proven. He will go down fighting and gladly go to hell to be away from the monster.
This is, of course, as absurd as the one who sees a flash and light and hears a voice and is SURE God is there.
However, the burden of proof is not on the little boy's experience because it is common sense that God is not there. He is in line with what is seen to be true.
The Flash of Light recipient has to prove to himself and everyone else that it was not just a stray bolt of lightening or a psychotic episode. If he told his Dr he heard voices, well......whereas if the little boy said God is not there, no one would consider him crazy.
I think there are a lot of people who are way beyond the fear and way beyond caring if he exists or not. I think there would be many martyrs for the NONFAITH -perhaps as many as the "faithful."
Christopher Hitchens has showed to world how to live without a god and now he is showing the world how to die without one. He is braving paving the way.
Wouldn't that be nice if there was a god and we could all tell him we could care less?
It is like a little boy abused by a priest. Never EVER will he give a rat's ass if God is proven. He will go down fighting and gladly go to hell to be away from the monster.
This is, of course, as absurd as the one who sees a flash and light and hears a voice and is SURE God is there.
However, the burden of proof is not on the little boy's experience because it is common sense that God is not there. He is in line with what is seen to be true.
The Flash of Light recipient has to prove to himself and everyone else that it was not just a stray bolt of lightening or a psychotic episode. If he told his Dr he heard voices, well......whereas if the little boy said God is not there, no one would consider him crazy.
I think there are a lot of people who are way beyond the fear and way beyond caring if he exists or not. I think there would be many martyrs for the NONFAITH -perhaps as many as the "faithful."
Christopher Hitchens has showed to world how to live without a god and now he is showing the world how to die without one. He is braving paving the way.
Wouldn't that be nice if there was a god and we could all tell him we could care less?
