29 October 2009

People who've experienced God KNOW that God exists

Selected comment from Richard Dawkin's Foundation:
People have EXPERIENCED being abducted by aliens. People have EXPERIENCED rising up out of their body and looking down on it from the ceiling. It doesn't make it real.

One person's personal experience will never match another's. As real as it may feel, it cannot be used to empirically determine the existence or non-existence of God. That's where evidence comes in.


Most Christians have "experienced" God.
Most Muslims have "experienced" Alah.
Many different people have "experienced" many different Gods.

Does this mean all gods exist? Does that mean they are all crazy and you are not? Or is it simply easy for most people to mistakenly believe that they have experienced God?


So God singled you out as 'special' and gave you a direct experience. Are you certain it wasn't Allah or Vishnu, as Wiggy points out? Perhaps it was Satan. He's suppose to be really good a deception, you know. Perhaps you were temporarily ill or have been drugged. Considering these possibilities, how can you expect anyone else to trust your experience as genuine or that you've interpreted your experience correctly?


What exactly did you experience and how do you know you experienced it?


So God singled you out as 'special' and gave you a direct experience. Are you certain it wasn't Allah or Vishnu, as Wiggy points out? Perhaps it was Satan. He's suppose to be really good a deception, you know. Perhaps you were temporarily ill or have been drugged. Considering these possibilities, how can you expect anyone else to trust your experience as genuine or that you've interpreted your experience correctly?


I have experienced no god and so I know no god exists.


How many people here have seen a skilled magician? They can do magic, so magic is real right?

The basic functioning of the brain and an overview of how concious percepion is different than reality should be required in all education programs around the world.

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