(May 31, 2015 at 8:05 am)Nope Wrote:(May 30, 2015 at 11:03 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: This is the same sort of thing that believers in other religions say. There are Muslims who report the same sorts of experiences as you. Do you think that proves that Islam is correct? There are Hindus who report religious connections as well. Do you think that proves that Hinduism is correct?
However it may seem and feel to you, it is no evidence at all. Pretty much every religion has the same sort of "evidence" for them, too. Since religions all contradict each other, at most, only one religion could be right (though they could all be wrong). So religions that are false have exactly this same type of "evidence" that you are putting forth. Which means that it cannot possibly prove the religions to be true.
Christians deny the religious experiences of other faiths or they attribute them to the devil.
They have nothing more than the testimony of others for believing that anyone else in their faith has such experiences, which is the exact same evidence that they have for the religious experiences of people of other faiths. Since the evidence for both is identical, they have no reason to believe the one group and not the other group regarding the genuineness of the experiences.
Also, as robvalue already pointed out, how can they be so sure that the devil has not fooled them? The devil is supposed to be clever, and what is more ingenious than the devil telling the person that he is really god?
So, again, this shows that religious experiences are not evidence of god.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
