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Argument from religious experience

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2512: 3543: 2502: 182:, for example, considered God to be simply a psychological "illusion" created by the mind, instead of an actual existing entity. This argument can be based upon the fact that since we know about some believers for whom this argument is correct (their reports for religious experiences are nothing more than illusions), we assume that perhaps all such reports may be illusions. 160:: Different people have had, or believed to have had, religious experiences pointing to the truth of different religions. Not all of these can be correct. Kraemer highlighted a link between arguments of religious experience and self-righteousness (perception of superiority over those who do not receive providence). In 126:
suggests that, as two basic principles of rationality, we ought to believe that things are as they seem unless and until we have evidence that they are mistaken (principle of credulity), and that those who do not have an experience of a certain type ought to believe others who say that they do in the
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Alston argues that if sets of practices used to form beliefs produce conclusions that are coherent over time both internally and with other belief-forming practices, they should be accepted. He argues this is the only way our ordinary beliefs are justified, and that by the same criteria belief based
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These experiences often seem very real to the people involved, and are quite often reported as being shared by a number of people. Although mass delusions are not inconceivable, one needs compelling reasons for invoking this as an
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assigns great value to religious experiences, but denies that facts about the cosmos can rationally be inferred from them, highlighting how different religions would give incompatible interpretations of the
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Very substantial numbers of ordinary people report having had such experiences, though this isn't to say that religious believers aren't ordinary. Such experiences are reported in almost all known cultures.
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These experiences often have very significant effects on people's lives, frequently inducing in them acts of extreme self-sacrifice well beyond what could be expected from evolutionary arguments.
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is that they constitute genuine experience or perception of a divine reality. Various reasons have been offered for and against accepting this contention.
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reason to disbelieve in the existence of God you will discount these experiences, in other cases such evidence should count towards the existence of God.
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It has been argued that religious experiences are hallucinations aimed at fulfilling basic psychological desires of immortality, purpose, etc.
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speaks of Jesus, after his resurrection, appearing to 10 or more people at once (see e.g. 1 Corinthians 15:6, Luke 24, Mt 28, Jn 16, Acts 1).
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developed arguments for accepting knowledge gained from religious experience based on drawing analogies with knowledge gained from
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As statements 2 to 4 are generally treated as uncontroversial, discussion has tended to focus on the status of the first.
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It is conceivable that some claimed religious experiences are lies, possibly done for attention or acceptance.
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Religious experiences might be mis-firings of evolved mechanisms selected for very different reasons.
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absence of evidence of deceit or delusion (principle of testimony) and thus, although if you have a
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Plantinga argues that just as the knowledge gained from sense experience is regarded as
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On the other hand, the following reasons have been offered for rejecting the premise:
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Some religious experiences are believed to have occurred only on the basis of
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Some principal arguments that have been made in favor of the premise include:
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such as the Bible, but these texts are of disputable historical accuracy.
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Kai-man Kwan, "The Argument from Religious Experience" in
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There are compelling reasons for believing that claims of
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To the extent that premise 1 is accepted, therefore,
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In essence, the argument's structure is as follows:
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Index

existence of God
religious experiences
Richard Swinburne
William Alston
Alvin Plantinga
Alister Hardy
religious experience
spiritual realities
transcends
materialism
classical theism
theism
Swinburne
religious texts
Argument from inconsistent revelations
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
New Atheist
Sam Harris
Sigmund Freud
Alvin Plantinga
William Alston
sense experience
properly basic
foundationalism
Descartes
Rational mysticism
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James
Rudolf Otto
Alister Hardy

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