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What about religious experiences? I've always thought that if nearly all religions have such experiences, they must be similar enough that they bely their true
by ksaj 5y ago
What about religious experiences?
I've always thought that if nearly all religions have such experiences, they must be similar enough that they bely their true bias in their hatred towards each other.
Either they believe those experiences come from God (or aliens) or they do not. But they always seem to find an "obvious" way to explain it away ONLY IF there is an us-or-them relationship. It's like "My experience was authentic, even though all those other ones are not."
In either case, it's hard to not notice the similarities if you are observing from the outside. Especially when people who purportedly have witnessed UFO's have typically witnessed several of them throughout their lives.
- dkersten 5y agoSince I'm a non-believer, my feelings on religion is similar to that of aliens: I'm not discounting the possibilities that its real, but I've seen no evidence for it and see people picking and choosing what they attribute to their deity of choice. For example, every time something goes right, isn't god great? But when it goes wrong, its the persons fault. > "My experience was authentic, even though all those other ones are not." Yeah, I've had this conversation with a christian before, I asked how are they so sure they're right and the answer was because of their experience. When I told them that I've had the exact same conversation with the exact same answer with a muslim before too, they didn't believe me. Seems like a lot of mental gymnastics to me. You're right, the similarities to belief in alien visitations are definitely there.