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Challenges to Religious Experience, may be logical inconsistencies in the…
Challenges to Religious Experience
Logical : Positivism
meaningless as not analytic or synthetic
Hume’s fork
religious experiences are subjective so can’t be verified
no method of falsification so they’re meaningless
Anthony Flew
can be challenged through psychology, sociology and anthropology
e.g. Marx - religion is the “opium of the masses”
can reinterpret Teresa's vision as Freudian imagery
description-related challenges
may be inconsistencies in the behaviour you’d expect from someone having a religious experience and how they actually behave e.g. charging other people to hear about it
history of making untrue, fantastical claims
memory is unreliable
subject related
dreams, visions and hallucinations are generally regarded as unreliable
conflicting claims between different religious experiences
doubtful state of the person at the time of the religious experience
object related
the entities in the experience are improbable
may be logical inconsistencies in the account