Mass hallucination
April 7, 2021 at 6:47 am
(This post was last modified: April 7, 2021 at 6:48 am by Fake Messiah.)
So this topic is about the claim in "Case For Crist" movie in which a psychologist claims that mass hallucinations are impossible, or more precisely that it is impossible for 500 people to have the same hallucination (of seeing resurrected Jesus). The 500 people come from supposedly Paul's claim.
Now aside from the shaky credibility of that particular line in Paul's letters, and aside from the problems with the historicity of Jesus as well as his tomb, and aside from that the movie "CFC" is full of other lies, let's just concentrate on this claim that this doctor says how mass hallucinations are impossible.
That claim seems far from the truth. For instance, in my recent topic, I mentioned how in the year 1291 many people claimed to have seen a flying house come down in their village. Or take the so-called miracle of Fatima where hundreds of people claimed to have seen the sun dance in the sky while hundreds (majority) didn't see anything.
It doesn't even have to be a mass hallucination because people like to claim that they have seen something that other people claim to have seen - one of my favorite examples to that is an experiment James Randi did which he described in his book "Flim-Flam" when he went on a radio show and said falsely to have seen a UFO at such and such place, and people immediately started calling in the show and claimed to have seen the same thing and in 30 minutes they had exact location of the object, the exact number of them, and time and direction of moving across the sky.
Anyway, here's the clip
Now aside from the shaky credibility of that particular line in Paul's letters, and aside from the problems with the historicity of Jesus as well as his tomb, and aside from that the movie "CFC" is full of other lies, let's just concentrate on this claim that this doctor says how mass hallucinations are impossible.
That claim seems far from the truth. For instance, in my recent topic, I mentioned how in the year 1291 many people claimed to have seen a flying house come down in their village. Or take the so-called miracle of Fatima where hundreds of people claimed to have seen the sun dance in the sky while hundreds (majority) didn't see anything.
It doesn't even have to be a mass hallucination because people like to claim that they have seen something that other people claim to have seen - one of my favorite examples to that is an experiment James Randi did which he described in his book "Flim-Flam" when he went on a radio show and said falsely to have seen a UFO at such and such place, and people immediately started calling in the show and claimed to have seen the same thing and in 30 minutes they had exact location of the object, the exact number of them, and time and direction of moving across the sky.
Anyway, here's the clip
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
