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Originally Posted by Textcritic
What a horribly facile response. This completely ignores or fails to consider the highly complex phenomena of religious experience, and the social and psychological mechanisms that people instinctively employ to explain numinous encounters.
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What?
I didn't say anything about this.
Quite frankly, the bible is pretty cut and dried on this topic. You'd have to be mad to be certain of your faith.
Questioning ones faith is billed as one of the tenants of strengthening it.
Being completely assured of your position that something exists without any tangible evidence to prove or disprove is the result of a mental deficiency.
It doesn't make the person a bad person, necessarily, but that's what it is.
If I told you I was certain that 2 + 1 = 5, you'd look at me like a goof ball.
If I told you I was pretty sure that 2 + 1 = 5, but sometimes I'm just not sure, you'd probably think I was dumb rather than nuts.
"Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christanity looked terribly probable."
C.S. Lewis