Posted: Mar 16, 2016 10:21 pm
I'm not ready to accept that Christians can bring the value of their personal experience to the table. The big stumbling block is that there's nothing they can point to that makes their personal experience more valuable than that of, say, Raelians or Scientologists, to give a couple of examples. Let's face it; most Christians consider those two cults to be either delusional, fraudulent or both every bit as much as most atheists would. And in both cases, the basis is largely not believing their claims of personal experience.
And no, that doesn't mean I consider Christians on a par with UFO cultists. They're generally a much more reasonable bunch of people; it's just the claims of supernatural personal experience that I have to hold to the same standard, as I can't see any other consistent way of doing it.
And no, that doesn't mean I consider Christians on a par with UFO cultists. They're generally a much more reasonable bunch of people; it's just the claims of supernatural personal experience that I have to hold to the same standard, as I can't see any other consistent way of doing it.