Religious experience

Question 1

What do you talk about when asked about William James (religious experience)

Answer 1

Ineffable, Noetic, Transient, Passive
Experiences can have little to lots of impact
Your religion doesn’t matter
What happened in the experience
What does the experience mean

Question 2

What do you talk about when asked about Swinburne (religious experience)

Answer 2

Religious experience tips the balance

PUBLIC
Normal event
Unusual event

PRIVATE
Normal language
No language
Feeling of presence

Question 3

What do you talk about when asked about Freud (religious experience)

Answer 3

Childhood experiences
Unconscious mind
Father figure

Question 4

What do you talk about when asked about Karl Marx (religious experience)

Answer 4

Religion is a social construct, religion experience must be social construct
‘Opium for the people’, people lie

Question 5

What do you talk about when asked about Swinburne (religious experience)

Answer 5

Credibility: If it feels like mother Mary is there she must be there
Testimony: If it makes sense to believe, it must be believable