Benjamin Cain
1 min readApr 28, 2022

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Having a religious experience is very different from having the best interpretation of it. Claiming that you've had a direct experience of the universe's Creator is extremely dubious. You're quite mistaken if you think that that kind of experience just has to be trusted rather than interpreted or questioned. There are many grounds for questioning that kind of experience.

For instance, what were the sensory modes that were involved? If you used your eyes, what colour was God (and why would light have bounced off of him)? If you used your ears, was God's voice male or female? If God is neither gender, yet you perceived God in such anthropomorphic terms, your experience couldn't have been direct. (Similarly, Moses saw God as a burning bush, but that was just a symbol, not the essence of God.)

Experiencing God wouldn't be like experiencing the wind because the wind is a natural phenomenon, and our sense organs are adapted to deal with nature. What sense organs do we have for perceiving supernatural entities?

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

Written by Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://benjamincain.substack.com / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom

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