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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Except that Dennett missed perhaps the most important one: Religious experience, or the revelatory nature of faith. I have had my fair share, and whilst I am well aware of the rational arguments leveled against religious experiences, they are meaningful enough in my own life for me to maintain a commitment to "faith."
Isn't this a form of "spirituality"? You know, a couple of weeks ago a guy in the spiritual support group from my Church that I am involved in shared an experience he had had that week. He's a contractor and has been hit hard by the economic slow down. He's in rough shape and he is running out of money. He was invited out for coffee by another friend who gave him a sizable cheque that just happened to cover his most immediate and pressing expenses because "the Lord told him he needed it." No strings attached. No thanks neccessary. Just because it is what he was convinced was the right thing to do. How does one explain that as simply putting faith in his "fellow human"? Try telling that to either of these two men who sincerely believe that God cared enough about the situation to—dare I say it—intervene.
I'm not impressed by "miracles" simply because no one has ever seen anything that is really and truly "not explicable by natural or scientific laws." But it is usually those small, inexplicable coincidences of amazing good fortune that press home the point for me: that "God" may not be knowable, but some of the time he is actually believable.
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A wonderful and kind thing done from one good person to another. Ive written cheques, given cash and helped others in dire need as well. I cant say that "God" ever directed me though. I was either told by someone in my circle about the situation, or knew it myself.
Do you think its possible that "someone" in the church knew this person in dire straights and talked to the gent who wrote the cheque? Do you then suppose that this person who wrote the cheque did it for his "God"?