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Old 05-05-2008, 07:38 PM
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There are somethings that cannot be easily taken away from a person. Knowledge and experience. Another can belittle that experience, explain it away, or disagree with it, but that does little to convince the person that their experience is not real. I should think a militant atheist would have to find a way to take away a person's experience of God in order to convince that person there is no God. It' not as simple as a case of goosebumps. Goosebumps are a side effect, a symptom, not the experience itself.
Unfortunately, experience is something you cannot give to another. Just about anything we experience can be explained to another, but unless they had a similar experience, they can only imagine how it felt, how it effected them, and how profound it may be.
Instead, all we have is poor attempts to explain them away. It's not gonna work. The fact that it can't be allowed to prove the existence of a higher being is irrelevant. It's proved to the person that really matters, the one that had it. I can't help you if you never had it. That's not my problem, it's yours.

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