RE: On Hell and Forgiveness
August 30, 2018 at 1:26 pm
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2018 at 1:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 30, 2018 at 1:24 pm)Kit Wrote:(August 30, 2018 at 1:23 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I'm not limiting their evidence to personal evidence or religious experience alone. I think their evidence is crap, but to say they have none is a distortion, in my opinion.
Convolution, got it.
Anecdote =/= evidence. It's easy to see why a person offering the anecdote would think it does, and it's just as clear why the person listening would be justified in accepting it as anecdote, and disregarding it as evidence.
For what it's worth, I don't think that personal experiences of god are all that common - so much as the language of personal experiences (and personal relationships) is churchspeak for piety.
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