Because the bible tells you so?

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3) It feels like it must be true

5) It makes me feel good inside to believe in it

What if these two are the same thing, that we determine whether something is true by how thinking about it makes us feel? ("I felt sure this was the right path." "I feel confident about my answer." "It just felt right.") How do we distinguish a 'right' thought from a 'wrong' thought? It isn't that a light bulb goes off in our head, we get a feeling about the right thought, a positive feeling, and a negative feeling about the wrong thought.

Robert Burton in his book On Being Certain gives the example of returning to one's home town for a reunion after having been away for 20 years. We have plans to meet up with an old friend at his house before the reunion. Going on memory, we drive to his house. We get to the door and it opens and a complete stranger appears. You ask about your friend, but the stranger explains that your friend has never lived here, not now or ever. What went wrong? You were sure that this was his house. How could that feeling have been wrong?

Burton suggests that we differentiate right from wrong thoughts by how our brain makes us feel about that thought -- it's a feeling that guides us when we think we've hit upon the correct answer. But that feeling can be generated even when we're not right.

If that is the case, is it so wrong for a person to depend on such feelings to tell them what thoughts about religion are right and which ones are not?