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Religious Experience - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Hume was an empiricist, gaining knowledge from observation
      - We observe that miracles are very rare, and thus the likelihood that a law of nature has actually been violated is small
      - It is more likely that there is another explanation which doesn't involve God acting in the world
      - Directly contrasts his 'problem of induction;
    - - We still have reports today: the child in the upside down car seat
- - - - Does it fit with scripture
      - Does it leave the individual feeling at peace
  - - - Individual is dissatisfied with their current way of life
      - Search on an intellectual and emotional basis for answers
      - Moment of crisis in which God's presence is felt
      - Feel peace, joy, loss of worries
      - Broader life changes
- - - - Religious experiences are a normal empirical perception, like Perceptual Practice
      - We shouldn't privilege one kind of experience above another
    - - Experience of God is cognitive, so the burden of truth is on the atheist to prove that the perception is not true
      - Principle of credulity: things are usually as they appear to us unless there is sufficient evidence to suggest otherwise
      - Principle of testimony: things are usually as they appear to others
  - - - Religious experiences are primarily emotive
      - Everyone has a consciousness of God
      - Religious feelings should take priority and statements of belief should be formulated to fit them
      - RE is not numinous (otto) but a feeling of absolute dependence upon the divine
    - - Relgious experiences are numinous (impart knowledge about God), ineffible and cannot be expressed through logic
      - RE is 'mysterius tremendum et fascinans": felt but cannot be described, awe inspiring in the presence of a transcendent being,
  - - - Ineffible (cannot be described)
      - Noetic (direct knowledge of God is imparted
      - Transient (they pass)
      - Passive (the experiencer can't control when they happen)
- - - - God requires us to love all of humanity. Sociological theory requires us to only love the group we are associated with and so is restrictive.
      - Implies a closed/static system— innovators in society are often praised and recieve the most support from God