Argument From Religious Experience:Answering "Arguments for atheism" attack on religious experience argument
Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa* on the blog arguments for atheism. ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD - ARGUMENT FROM RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE The Argument | The Refutation They begin by asserting: The Religious Experience Argument posits that one can only perceive that which exists, and so God must exist because there are those that have experienced him. My arguments do not proceed from this premise. I make two arguments in the trace of God. The first proceeds from the reasonable assertion that we are warranted to trust our experiences, thus we are justified in believing on that basis. The second argument is based upon the premise that our only rational epistemic assumption must of necessity be based upon the results of experiences. Since religious experiences are proven scientifically to correlate with positive outcomes we are warranted in assuming their reality. argument 1 Co-determinate: The co-determinate is like the Derridian trace, or like a f...