Silly Uncle Wayne
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I do doubt such claims, but if I had had such an experience, my doubts would be much less and they would be virtually non-existent if I'd had the experience with other people who also saw/felt the same thing. It could be possible that we are ALL wrong, but the chances of that become tiny especially if some of those who had the experiences attempted to find alternative explanations.A personal experience just cannot be objective evidence. The world is full of claims that people strongly insist are real experiences, but in fact are not. People claim to have experienced ghosts, aliens, and Scottish aquatic lake dwellers. Maybe you doubt these claims like I do.
What about the miraculous claims of other religions or the pseudo spiritual claims of New Age adherents. Are their personal experiences less reliable than yours. By what criteria do you consider your experience more credible than another's?
I don't think they are less reliable. Personally, I think that the source of such experiences is wrong, but I don't doubt the experiences out of hand.
I'm using the example of the shared experience in church to counter the argument that church is all about emotionalism. It is not.
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