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<blockquote data-quote="GrowingSmaller" data-source="post: 72053418" data-attributes="member: 261066"><p>Sounds like you had a religious experience, and have been overwhelmed by the goodness of faith and its difficult to see how you missed it. That way my experience too. So now youre looking at non-Christians, with sympathy but also disbelief? Your "mental model" for them is based on your past experience, maybe?</p><p></p><p>I know that people are diverse, and so will you, but I can also relate to "finding God" which I think uproots so much old neurology that the change is nothing short of profound for many people. Its one of those things which cant be communicated. The atheist Sam Harris cant relate to how Francis Collins (iirc) found God in an experience looking at a waterfall. But for one who has experienced a "transformation" then youll more likely have insight?</p><p><a href="https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-strange-case-of-francis-collins" target="_blank">The Strange Case of Francis Collins</a></p><p></p><p>Pascal had a religious experience too, and wrote:</p><p></p><p>"GOD of Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob</p><p>not of the philosophers and of the learned.</p><p>Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace.</p><p>GOD of Jesus Christ.</p><p>My God and your God.</p><p>Your GOD will be my God...."</p><p></p><p><a href="https://churchpop.com/2016/04/19/night-fire-blaise-pascals/" target="_blank">A Night of Fire: The Mystical Vision that Converted Scientist Blaise Pascal | ChurchPOP</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrowingSmaller, post: 72053418, member: 261066"] Sounds like you had a religious experience, and have been overwhelmed by the goodness of faith and its difficult to see how you missed it. That way my experience too. So now youre looking at non-Christians, with sympathy but also disbelief? Your "mental model" for them is based on your past experience, maybe? I know that people are diverse, and so will you, but I can also relate to "finding God" which I think uproots so much old neurology that the change is nothing short of profound for many people. Its one of those things which cant be communicated. The atheist Sam Harris cant relate to how Francis Collins (iirc) found God in an experience looking at a waterfall. But for one who has experienced a "transformation" then youll more likely have insight? [URL='https://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-strange-case-of-francis-collins']The Strange Case of Francis Collins[/URL] Pascal had a religious experience too, and wrote: "GOD of Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob not of the philosophers and of the learned. Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace. GOD of Jesus Christ. My God and your God. Your GOD will be my God...." [URL="https://churchpop.com/2016/04/19/night-fire-blaise-pascals/"]A Night of Fire: The Mystical Vision that Converted Scientist Blaise Pascal | ChurchPOP[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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