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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Strong atheism ought to explain theism (Was: Re: Atheism is dogmatic.
- Message-ID: <77482@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 07:35:51 GMT
- References: <1jjs2kINN4n3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1993Jan22.091314.23002@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <11194@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
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- In article <11194@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobbe@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Robert Beauchaine) writes:
- > I personally know of no one who makes the claim that their
- > experience of god is on the same sensual level as their day to day
- > perception of the world around them (well, maybe one, Jarek
- > Dabrowski, but that's another topic). Most claims of believer-god
- > interaction are extraordinarily vague or mystical, with phrases
- > like "felt lead to", "had a vision", "had a feeling", etc.
-
- I have memories of experiences of beings that I think deserve to be
- called gods. Of course, maybe I don't count as I am (apparently) an
- atheist. I suppose it's because I can tell the difference between
- experiences that (for example) people on the net are going to consider
- real and ones they aren't, and because I am skeptical by temperament.
-
- > If any of the theists in this group have had encounters of this
- > kind with their god, please post them. I for one have never heard
- > of such a thing.
-
- Hmm. What about atheists who have had (mutually contradictory or ambiguous)
- experiences with other people's gods? Never mind; I don't think they
- prove anything except the malleability of human experience.
-