Religious Experience Evidence For God

Question 1

No

Answer 1

Private experiences, unverifiable, subjective, not objective
No distinction between the man who ears little and sees heaven and the man who drinks much as see snakes
Abnormal physical condition

Question 2

William James

Answer 2

Not a single one of our minds that has not some organic process as its condition
Possess superior spiritual value is illogical
Something ideal influences and raises our center of personal energy and produces effects unattainable in other ways

Question 3

Sigmund Freud

Answer 3

Religious ideas are illusions born from psychological need and wish fulfillments
Urges, and strength of the wishes
Attempt to get control over the sensory world

Question 4

Mystical experiences are regressions

Answer 4

Defense mechanism against the dangers of the world, threatened they revert back to the feelings of unity and security and bliss to Protect themselves

Question 5

Yes

Answer 5

Immediacy and personalness of the experience, brings its own evidence
Because similar experience are described and similar conclusions usually drawn, should be treated as objective and real