Religious Experience

Question 1

RE criticisms:

Answer 1

Russell - some drink too much and see snakes, others fast too much and see god
Hobbes - when someone says god spoke to them in a dream, it just means they dreamt god spoke to them

Question 2

Direct and indirect:

Answer 2

Otto

Question 3

Big Toronto blessing people:

Answer 3

Clark (started it), Howard-Browne (recorded as abusive, brought it to the USA)

Question 4

Private and public experiences:

Answer 4

Swinburne - public is ordinary (interpreting a normal thing as religious), extraordinary (defies nature), private is describable (dreams), indescribable (where god is revealed like Teresa of Avila), non specific (religious view of the world)

Question 5

Experience as a way of seeing the world:

Answer 5

Hick, based on Wittgenstein and his duck rabbit

Question 6

Criticism of re as a way of seeing the world:

Answer 6

Brummer - actually the duck rabbit is lines on a page, and religious people claim to be seeing it the True Way

Question 7

Mystical experience expert:

Answer 7

James

Question 8

After death experiences:

Answer 8

Ayer said it was pasta cause he had one and didn’t convert - did make him question his opinions on the afterlife tho