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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I'm pretty sure this random act of kindness was performed simply because he likes his friend. "God" may provide the impetus without necessarily being the purpose.
Of course it is possible, and am not about to get into a silly debate about whether or not human morality is a result of some "Divine spark" or whatnot, because clearly this is not the case. And this is not really what I am getting at in my story. Maybe the best way to explain what I'm trying to convey about what I perceive to be the most basic (and probably the "purest[?]) forms of religious experience is to equate it with my "gut". We all make decisions with incomplete knowledge, and most of us probably depend upon our gut-feeling in making choices perhaps more than we would like to admit. Sometimes our "guts" react in strange and peculiar ways. Is it just the pepperoni pizza we had the night before? Is it a para-sympathetic sort of instinct? Is it something else altogether? Who knows? And are these sorts of experiences something that we can ever test empirically in the first place? I doubt it.
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LOL...in my case its likely...there isnt a good pizza in 2000kM from here!
Your right...nothing that comes from the gut can be tested.