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Originally Posted by peter12
What I meant is, an atheist, even one such as yourself, can never understand a "truly" religious experience. Nothing really wrong with it at all.
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I find it amusing how you just posed about someone supposedly lumping people together and then you go ahead and do the same thing.
As MarchHare pointed out, a great many atheists come out of organized religion, and a lot I am sure would say they've had "truly" religious experiences.
I wouldn't venture to classify myself as an atheist, deist, agnostic or whatever at this point, but I've had many experiences which at the time I would say were truly religious, but in the context of more knowledge and experience I now see they're simply experiences in a specific context.. something easily explained by the human condition. I haven't experienced anything that would be only explained by divine intervention.
On a tangent, it's funny because your qualification of a truly religious experience is one of the things that makes me question God and religion in general.. If it takes a truly religious experience to become a believer, why are some people granted this experience and others not? Seems kind of arbitrary.